Change Makers Design Shop- Green Anglicans

The Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s Environmental Network addresses environmental issues in the province by supporting churches and Dioceses with the goal of becoming eco-friendly and fulfilling Gods call to Earth Keeping, however this is not possible if we do not have a strategy to bring this vision to the churches.

Jonathan Hobosch and I attended the Change Makers Design shop, a week long workshop designing campaigns that will tackle all subjects that are undermining peace and environmental justice at the root in the context of Southern Africa.  One of the issues that we find as a challenge in ACSA is trailing down sustainable ways of living in our churches which include use of water and electricity as well as worship.

 The challenge of earth keeping within scripture and the reality of environmental factors is about understanding the injustice of depletion of natural resources in the country recognising the impact caused by churches.

Change Makers equipped us with skills and resources we can use to find solutions to our issues in the church. We were then able to draw up a diagram that will give us a guideline towards our goal, what needs aid as well as finding out why we need to bring change. 

Theory of change is a long process which includes outlining building blocks required to reach our goal and evaluate our mandate. At the end we realised all of this can be achieved if we are rooted in faith and shaped in scripture which specifies how we need to take care of creation.