The carbon offset touch-screen proved a success with 1,101 people taking part across the weekend, meaning 40,102kg of carbon was offset, and over £500 donated for Climate Stewards’ tree-planting and renewable energy initiatives in places such as Ghana.
This action led to discussions and conversations between delegates and those leading this initiative, and many were keen to take the ideas back to their churches after the Assembly.
To find out more about Climate Stewards, click here.
And click here to use their carbon calculator, similar to that seen at the Assembly.
Among the seminars and special interest groups that BMS World Mission arranged was one entitled, ‘Can we afford creation care?’ In it, Gareth Wilde, BMS mission education co-ordinator, presented the great need to be better stewards of God’s earth – with the Bible as the crucial starting point.
This seminar linked with the new resource
FutureShape? developed by BMS, in association with the Baptist Unions and BMS partner, A Rocha. Click
here to find out more about it.