Why EBCLA Matters: Humility

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Why Evergreen Matters! Humble Creation Care Stewards

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it in hope that creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Romans 8:18-22)

Humble Creation Care Stewards

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Humble Creation Care Stewards

“The Lord God took the human and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of (steward) it. (Genesis 2:15)

Madagascar - 2007 - Before

Madagascar - 2014 - After

Humble Creation Care Stewards

For creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice

Not So Humble Creation Care Stewards

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule (take dominion) over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Madagascar - 2007

Ethiopia - 2005

Humble Creation Care Stewards

But by the will of the one who subjected it in hope that creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

Employ To Plant!

Employ To Plant!

Hope In Ethiopia - 2005 - Before

Hope In Ethiopia - 2007 - Before

Hope In Ethiopia - 2014 - After

Humble Creation Care Stewards

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Humble Creation Care Stewards

“The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small-- and for destroying those who destroy the earth."” (Rev.11:18)

Humble Creation Care Stewards

Jesus is Coming Back!

So …….

- Plant a lot of trees!- Give the poor a job.- Restore water tables- Restore animal habitat, stop flooding & erosion- Alleviate extreme poverty and break the power of oppression.

Evergreen Baptist Church - L.A. &

Eden Reforestation Projects

Plant Trees - Save Lives!