Recommended Reading
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A Rocha Authors
Keeping Faith in Fundraising
Peter Harris & Rod J.K. Wilson
Peter Harris (A Rocha Co-founder) and Rod Wilson (Former President of Regent College), bring fundraising within the scope of normal Christian life and work. They consider fundraising in light of the relationships that lie at its heart—with God, with creation, and with ourselves.
You Are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places
Robert W. Campbell, pastor and A Rocha USA board member
You Are There is a conversation and invitation for the local church to be apart of the good work of connecting to and restoring both their people and place.
“You Are There is a necessary conversation about a big-time issue, packaged in small-town practicality and warm, pastoral insight. Creation care, with all of its political and theological overtones, is too important to leave to the pundits and politicians. Christ-followers must take up the challenge of representing God in caring for both souls and soil, and you’ll find no better guide than Robert Campbell. Read it once, and then read it again.” – David W. Hegg, Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist Church,
Kingfisher’s Fire: A Story of Hope for God’s Earth
Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha
In this book, Harris describes the story of the remarkable growth of A Rocha over the last ten years; from one field study center in Portugal to a family of wonderfully varied community conservation projects in eighteen countries.
“I highly recommend this book for the conservation professional and for the practising Christian alike.” – Stella Simiyu: Programme Officer, Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, Kenya
Under the Bright Wings
Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha
Under the Bright Wings tells the story of Peter and Miranda Harris and how they founded A Rocha in the Algarve, Portugal in 1983.
“In the developing ministry of A Rocha an exciting, contemporary form of Christian mission has come alive.” – The Rev Dr John Stott
Postcards from the Middle East: How Our Family Fell in Love with the Arab World
Chris Naylor, Executive Director for A Rocha International
“The environmental condition of the Middle East is easily forgotten amidst the maelstrom of politics and conflict. This rich and inspiring account of the Naylor family’s adventures in Lebanon, and the setting up of A Rocha’s project to help protect the priceless Aammiq wetlands in the Bekaa Valley, will help put many a conservation battle into perspective.” — Dominic Couzens, bestselling natural history writer and author of Secret Lives of Garden Birds
Planted Leah Kostamo, co-founder of A Rocha Canada
Planted is not a “how to” book, but a “how so” book in which the reader is invited to travel with Leah Kostamo on the wild ride of salmon saving, stranger welcoming, and God worshiping as she and her husband help establish the first Christian environmental center in Canada.
Planetwise
Dave Bookless, director for Theology Churches & Sustainable Communities
I was in the act of throwing away my family’s rubbish while holidaying on a beautiful island when I heard God speak: “How do you think I feel about what you are doing to my world?”
Since that day, Dave Bookless has been on a mission to share with others the compelling biblical case for caring for the planet God made for his glory and his people’s enjoyment.
This is not another book on green issues to make you feel guilty. There is hope. God can take your small and insignificant efforts and multiply them in his great plan. Besides honoring him, living simply can be an exciting adventure.
God Doesn’t Do Waste
Dave Bookless, director for Theology Churches & Sustainable Communities
“This honest and inspiring story of God’s transformation within their own family and wider community encourages us all towards a deeper discipleship and an unshakeable hope.” – Peter & Miranda Harris, Founders of A Rocha
Theological Perspectives
Conservation
Articles & Interviews
Creation Care and Frontier Missiology: Robert Sluka, International Journal of Frontier Missiology, Spring 2020
How to Do Kids’ Discipleship in the Woods: Flo Oakes, Christianity Today, Interview by Kelli B. Trujillo, Dec 2018.
Why Conservation Is a Gospel Issue: Peter Harris, Christianity Today, September 2016
Reconciliation Ecology: A New Paradigm for Advancing Creation Care: David Warners, Michael Ryskamp, and Randall Van Dragt, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, Dec 2014
The Joyful Environmentalists: Eugene Peterson and Peter Harris, Christianity Today, Interview by Andy Crouch, June 2011
Former A Rocha USA Executive Director, Tom Rowley, speaks with Relevant Magazine on “Why Earth Care Matters to the Gospel”
Audio & Video
A Rocha Audio
“Redeeming Creation: God’s Whole Story”
A Rocha founders, Peter and Miranda Harris examine the causes and practical consequences of a renewed relationship to all that God has made. They review some of the essential biblical foundations, and look at the significance, distinctives and challenges of the growing, world-wide, Christian involvement in the care of creation.
“Christian View of Ecology – A Three Part Conversation”
Pastor Robert Campbell of Santa Margarita Community Church and A Rocha USA board member focuses on three topics that cover these conversations: 1) all ecological action is religious; 2) our call to stewardship and how we live in God’s economy; 3) redemption and how we live in God’s economy.
The Bible & Ecology with Dr. Richard Bauckham
Dr. Richard Bauckham explores what the Bible teaches about our relationship as human beings to the rest of God’s creation.
“Climate, Mind, and Behavior” with Katharine Hayhoe
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe speaks with the Garrison Institute about connecting her scientific work on climate change with her evangelical Christian faith.
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