Churches in the Orlando area will begin the new year with a special “green” cleaning day when congregants can get rid of their unwanted belongings in an environmentally friendly way.
Congregants of the megachurch Northland, a Church Distributed and other churches in the area will join together on Jan. 11 for a “great day of recycling.” Church members are asked to bring old items with them to church, where they will be donated to charity or properly recycled.
“This is an opportunity for congregants to clean out their closets and bless others in the community at the same time,” says Raymond Randall, the volunteer leader of Northland Church’s Creation Care Task Force, and a consultant for R.W. Beck, Inc. who has problem solved in the area of waste management for Wal-Mart.
Randall added, “It will also provide opportunities to educate people on proper disposal methods for various items.”
The green cleaning event will target three categories for donated items: computers and accessories such as keyboards, mouse, monitors, power strips, printer cartridges, and speakers; handheld electronics and accessories including cell phones, PDAs, blackberries, rechargeable batteries, chargers, handheld game devices; and clothing.
Northland’s senior pastor, Dr. Joel C. Hunter, highlighted that a growing number of evangelical Christians are working to address creation care issues using diverse methods.
“All of us are just following God’s first command to man when He said to take care of the earth [Genesis 2:15],” Hunter said in a statement. “Ultimately, it’s our spiritual responsibility.”
Northland Church is no stranger to environmental protection activities. It hosted the first-ever Creation Care Conference earlier this year. The event had drawn more than 100 people, evangelical pastors and lay leaders, to the Florida church to learn the biblical importance of environmental stewardship and how to care for God’s creation.
During the summit, Pastor Hunter said although evangelicals are latecomers to the green movement, they are determined to make up for the lost time and rise up as a strong voice for environmental protection.
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While we are there why not plant a TREE.
Therefore the land mourns, and everything that dwells in it languishes: The beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and even the fish of the sea perish. hosea4v3.
Its time for JACOB to love ESAU.
LOVE our neighbours even if they are not CHRISTIANS
Though there is a place for Christian advocacy on environmental issues, i'd like to take this opportunity to warn believers that this issue is one of many that are paving the way for a false unity among believers and non believers that will usher in the antichrist religion of the end times.
The spirit of the age is all over this movement - take heed.
I'm not sure why this pastor thinks evangelicals are "latecomers to the green movement," unless he means the leftist political part of the movement. The Christians I've known all my life have always been about caring for God's Creation.