Highlights of Accomplishments

Evangelical Declaration for the Care of Creation

The Evangelical Declaration is 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.

Healthy Families, Healthy Environment

On December 1, 2001 EEN launched the www.healthyfamiliesnow.org web site of it's major educational initiative Healthy Families, Healthy Environment. From a biblical perspective the site offers practical information to help families protect their loved ones from health concerns in the environment. It is the only web site of its kind.

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
• and the 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 `96 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 & EEN's Award-winning Web Site

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. EEN's award-winning web site, www.creationcare.org, contains past issues of Creation Care and many of EEN's resources.

EEN Partner Organizations

• World Vision
• World Relief
• International Bible Society
• Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
• Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations (AERDO)
• Mission Training International; MAP International
• Mission Society for United Methodists
• Floresta
• Christian Camping International
• Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
• Target Earth
• Youth with a Mission
• Habitat for Humanity
• American Scientific Affiliation
• Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies
• Christian Environmental Council
• Kingdom Works
• Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches
• Baptist General Convention of Texas
• Marah International
• The Zahneiser Institute