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Sustainable Faith: How one church inspires members to be good to God’s earth
By Jennifer Colosimo
It happened in the fall of 2020. Things were bleak during the pandemic and people were contemplating life. Mike Massar, associate pastor for faith development at Woodland Baptist Church in San Antonio, was thinking about his granddaughter. She was born with a heart condition, one that required environmental changes to enhance her quality of life. That led to his thinking about the world we live in and how we haven’t done enough to take care of it for the next generation. That just didn’t sit right with him. He made an appointment with his senior pastor the next day, and the beginnings of a new initiative started to form.
Read the full story here: https://cbfblog.com/2023/04/19/sustainable-faith-how-one-church-inspires-members-to-be-good-to-gods-earth/
Resources
| Name of Commission Member | Country | |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Lau – CHAIR | Canada | jlau@cbmin.org |
| Katherine Smith – VICE CHAIR | USA | baptistcreationcare@gmail.com |
| Don Ferreira | Brazil | doneivan@gmail.com |
| Danny Franke | USA | frankedl@ab.edu |
| Gayan Goonesekera | Sri Lanka | g.guskr@gmail.com |
| Polisi Kivava | Democratic Republic of the Congo | pkivava@cbmin.org |
| Lily Lane | USA | lgplprl@gmail.com |
| Helle Liht | Estonia | helle@ebf.org |
| Mike Massar | USA | mikem@woodlandbc.org |
| Elecia Myers | Jamaica | eleciae@yahoo.com |
| Kari Nøtland Saethre | Norway | konsaeth@online.no |
| Job Santiago | Philippines | job.angsantiago@gmail.com |
| Lina Sawan | Lebanon | sawan.lina@hotmail.com |
| Michel Sawan | Lebanon | michelsawan@hotmail.com |
| Michael Taylor | Jamaica | rolyatm@gmail.com |