EEN Campaigns

In 2001, the Health Families, Healthy Environment campaign was launched. The resource contains information on making your living environment more healthy so that your family is more healthy. It contains topics for your home, your garden, your church, your school and your neighborhood. Every week, there is a new healthy tip and a devotional for encouragement. News about the environment and how it affects your health are also updated each week. More than 500 people are now signed up for important email alerts.

http://healthyfamiliesnow.org

The What Would Jesus Drive (WWJDrive) discussion was launched in Novemeber 2002. This campaign is primarily aimed at getting Christians to think and talk about their transportation choices, and to see that this decision is a moral one. Jesus care about what we drive!

http://whatwouldjesusdrive.org

Other accomplishments

Evangelical Declaration for the Care of Creation
- the premier Christian statement on creation-care from an evangelical perspective, it has been signed by nearly 500 leaders, including Robert Sieple, former President of World Vision, Steve Hayner, former President, Intervarsity, Bishop Kevin Mannoia, former President, National Association of Evangelicals, President of Evangelicals for Social Action Ron Sider, David Neff, Executive Editor of Christianity Today, and Fuller Seminary President Richard Mouw.

Creation Festival Recycling Program
The "Creation Festival" in Mount Union, PA is the largest Christian rock festival in the U.S., with over 50,000 people attending every year. However, there was no recycling at the Festival because the local municipality doesn't recycle. At Creation Fest 2001 on June 27-30 EEN inaugurated its "Creation Fest Recycling Program" with the recycling of aluminum cans. With the help of 8 volunteers EEN collected 422 pounds of aluminum. Our name recognition grew significantly due to twice daily announcements from the main stage and EEN's name and website being prominently displayed on the receptacles.

Resources
EEN, together with it's Partner organizations, has produced a range of helpful resources that have been widely distributed. Over 35,000 churches have received materials from EEN. Such materials include:

• the Creation Sunday Packet
• Heaven & Earth, a devotional booklet of creation-care scripture verses from the International Bible Society
• the AERDO manual for missionaries, Down-to-Earth Christianity
• a highly acclaimed book of sermons, The Best Preaching on Earth, with a forward by Gordon MacDonald
• the Let the Earth be Glad resource kit produced in conjunction with World Vision
• translation of Cal DeWitt's book Earthwise into Spanish by MAP International
• Your Church Outdoors packet mailed to 900 Christian camps with the help of Christian Camping International; CCI annually serves 5 million people through its camps

Partnership Projects
Leadership Development. EEN has helped to sponsor and organize initiatives at evangelical seminaries and universities that seek to train the next generation of leaders.

• Three of EEN's Partners, Inter-Varsity, World Vision, and Target Earth cooperated in a program entitled the Global Education Initiative where annually over 40 college student leaders are chosen to attend 6-week training sessions in urban (e.g., Detroit, Atlanta, Washington DC) and international (e.g., Belize, South Africa) settings.
• In 1995 and 1996 the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities brought together representatives from 24 colleges to discuss how to create or enhance environmental programs with a stewardship emphasis.
• In 1996 EEN assembled prominent seminary representatives from Gordon-Conwell, Fuller, Southern Baptist (Louisville), Asbury, New York, Eastern Mennonite, and United to discuss how evangelical seminaries can train their students about creation-care.

Local Projects

• 16,000 poor people of the Inapera colonia just outside of Juarez, Mexico, (and about three miles from El Paso) now have clean water thanks to the construction of a deep water well supported by EEN and overseen by the Baptist General Convention of Texas' Christian Life Commission. Until recently this poor community lacked clean water because of water pollution.
• Supported by EEN, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches, a coalition of 30 African American churches, is working to address toxic pollution in their communities. They have recently been awarded a $2 million grant from the state of California to turn brownfields into greenfields.

Major Conferences
EEN has helped to sponsor and organize numerous conferences such as:

• the National Association of Evangelical's first ever conference on creation-care in March 1999
• the Christian Environmental Council's annual meeting where many leaders from evangelical institutions gather to discuss important creation-care issues, pass resolutions, and discover ways to work together
• a 1998 conference by the American Scientific Affiliation attended by over 65 evangelical scientists focused on how to relate evangelical faith to current environmental issues

Creation Care Magazine
As the first quarterly magazine to focus on the creation-care dimension of Christian discipleship, Creation Care continues to provide our 10,000 readers with inspirational and useful articles to aide them in reflecting and acting upon the joy of caring for Christ's creation.