By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director While hosting a group of college interns this summer at Young Life’s Washington Family Ranch in Oregon where A Rocha is helping restore the land, my friend Rick Gerhardt and I took a walk to give our middle-aged eardrums a break from all the “joyful …
Archives for November 2014
Landscape Walk: The Art and Science of Paying Attention
By Flo Paris-Oakes, intern and member of Nashville A Rocha Recently, Nashville A Rocha hosted a landscape walk on property in Whites Creek, which is a rural community about twelve minutes north of downtown Nashville. Our special guest was Daniel Ballard, landscaper and owner of Green Thumbs Up …
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There is no Drought of Living Water
By Robert Campbell, Pastor of Santa Margarita Community Church and A Rocha USA Board Member The front lawn died sometime in November. We hold a small memorial in its honor every Monday and Thursday when we have permission to run the sprinklers, but choose not to. It is dead, all of it, from that …
All Things Reconciled Remarks
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director The following are excerpts from opening remarks at "All Things Reconciled: Considering Christ and Creation” a select gathering co-hosted by A Rocha and Kilns College in Bend, Oregon, October 21-13, 2014. This summer my family and I had the great …