Links

Here is a list of websites and online resources that we want to share with you as you seek to embody a more sustainably-minded whole-life devotion to JESUS and His kingdom of shalom.
 

Building and Housing

  • Habitat For Humanity
    is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide…

Creation Care

  • A Rocha
    A Rocha is a Christian nature conservation organisation, our name coming from the Portuguese for “the Rock,”…
  • Creation Hope
    “…Our purpose is to educate and mobilize Christians to fulfill their call to care for God’s creation and bring hope to a broken world…”
  • Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN)
    is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate, inspire, and mobilize Christians in their effort to care for God’s creation, to be faithful stewards of God’s provision, and to advocate…
  • Flourish
    Flourish inspires and equips churches to better love God by reviving human lives and the landscapes on which they depend.
  • Plant With Purpose
    “…Plant With Purpose helps the poor restore productivity to their land to create economic opportunity out of environmental restoration…”

Friends and Kindred Spirits

  • Catapult Magazine
    Catapult magazine is an online publication that releases biweekly thematic issues on the implications of following Christ in and through all aspects of culture. A project of Culture Is Not Optional.
  • Conspire Magazine
    is a magazine committed to building relationships and nurturing those trying to follow the way of Jesus …Each issue explores the questions of faith that arise from living for justice and as part of the body…
  • Englewood Review of Books
    The Englewood Review of Books is a weekly book review published by Englewood Christian Church, Indianapolis.
  • Mustard Seed Associates
    (Our friends Tom and Christine Sine in Seattle, Washington)- Mustard Seed Associates (MSA) is a community of Jesus’ followers all over the world striving to create the future one mustard seed at a time.
  • The Wonder of Creation
    Dean Ohlman’s brilliant blog “that seeks to explore the majesty of God’s creation and celebrate its beauty and wonder.” Highly recommended!

Gardening

  • Ample Harvest
    The AmpleHarvest.org campaign diminishes hunger in America by enabling backyard gardeners to share their excess garden produce with neighborhood food pantries.

Intentional Christian Community

  • Christian Community Directory (from Fellowship for Intentional Community)
    Directory listings under the term ‘Christian’ from Fellowship of Intentional Community.
  • Community of Communities
    “This website is designed to give exposure to the growing number of intentional Christian communities scattered across the land…”
  • Jesus People USA
    “Jesus People USA is a Christian community in Chicago. We operate both as an intentional Christian community and as a worshipping church…”
  • L'Abri Fellowship
    “L’Abri is a French word that means shelter. The first L’Abri community was founded in Switzerland in 1955 by Dr. Francis Schaeffer and his wife, Edith…”
  • The Simple Way
    “The Simple Way is a web of subversive friends conspiring to spread the vision of ‘Loving God, Loving People, and Following Jesus’…”

Justice

  • Ample Harvest
    The AmpleHarvest.org campaign diminishes hunger in America by enabling backyard gardeners to share their excess garden produce with neighborhood food pantries.
  • Exodus Cry
    Exodus Cry is an international anti-trafficking organization committed to abolishing modern day slavery. Calling all abolitionists and intercessors…
  • Habitat For Humanity
    is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide…
  • Plant With Purpose
    “…Plant With Purpose helps the poor restore productivity to their land to create economic opportunity out of environmental restoration…”

Ministry Organizations

  • International House of Prayer (KC)
    “…IHOP–KC is an evangelical missions organization that is committed to praying for the release of the fullness of God’s power and purpose…”
  • Plant With Purpose
    “…Plant With Purpose helps the poor restore productivity to their land to create economic opportunity out of environmental restoration…”

Missional Church

  • The Ecclesia Network
    “Ecclesia is a relational network of churches, leaders and movements that seek to equip, partner and multiply missional churches and movements…”

Money & Economics

  • Relational Tithe
    The beginning of Relational Tithe can be boiled down to a question: “What would happen if we all set aside a tenth of our incomes to meet the needs of people we know?”…
  • Sabbath Economics Collaborative
    “…economics for Jews and Christians must be understood in the light of the central biblical tradition of keeping Sabbath…”

New Monasticism

  • NewMonasticism.org (USA)
    ‘We “New Monastics” are a bunch of Jesus followers who have committed ourselves to a new way of life in community…”
  • The Simple Way
    “The Simple Way is a web of subversive friends conspiring to spread the vision of ‘Loving God, Loving People, and Following Jesus’…”

Prayer

  • 24-7 Prayer
    24-7 Prayer is an international, interdenominational movement of prayer, mission and justice that began with a single, student-led prayer vigil in Chichester, England in 1999 and has spread, by word-of-mouth, into 100+ nations.
  • Exodus Cry
    Exodus Cry is an international anti-trafficking organization committed to abolishing modern day slavery. Calling all abolitionists and intercessors…
  • International House of Prayer (KC)
    “…IHOP–KC is an evangelical missions organization that is committed to praying for the release of the fullness of God’s power and purpose…”