Rise to the Moment relay – Same storm, different boats. Christian Aid.
As I write this piece it is still October, with the leaves just changing colour in all their glory, and the evenings getting shorter and cooler. It is a time of year when we think of harvest with it’s all its abundance of fruits and vegetable for us all to enjoy.
When I give children’s harvest talks and assemblies at this time of year, I often mention how we can cultivate the soil, plant the seeds, and water them, but we rely on the sunshine and the rain to be provided. For this we need to be grateful and thankful. We need to be mindful of how we can do our part in caring for this wonderful planet that has been entrusted to us to care for.
When I last wrote for the magazine, I mentioned the Waves of Hope that children all across the UK had produced with conjunction with Christian Aid. This was intended to draw attention to the climate summits to be held in the UK with year, with the Cop 26 due this November.
This month I was again drawn to what young people and children were doing to care for our beautiful world, and I discovered that a group of young people were carrying a boat in relay, between Cornwall and Glasgow, the places of the two UK summits this year. The aim is to highlight the climate crisis as part of the Rise to the Moment relay, in collaboration with the YCCN (Young Christian Climate Network).
https://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/big-moment-events-yccn-relay.
Locally, we created some boats out of windfall apples, and discovered a little more about the small changes that we can all make to care for our planet.
We do need to be grateful and thankful for all we have and look to the example of some of these young people and children, as we strive to care for our world.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Psalm 19 v 1
Best wishes
Linda Joy – Children & Families Worker – Holyford Mission Community
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