Care of Creation - Kenya

Care of Creation's first project is located in Limuru, Kenya. It operates out of the well-known Brackenhurst International Conference Center which is itself a ministry of the Baptist Mission of Kenya.

Care of Creation-Kenya is staffed by Director Craig Sorley, Tracy Sorley and Frances Githaigah and a team of local workers. Care of Creation-Kenya is registered with the Kenyan government as a local NGO (non-governmental organization).

Operating since 2002, the program seeks to mobilize the church in Kenya to respond to the serious environmental challenges facing that country. Our efforts to mobilize the church fall under these program categories:

• Promoting God's vision. for his land and his people. God made his creation and his people to glorify himself - a beautiful, productive land in which people, plants and animals exist in harmony pleases God;
  
  
• Planting God's Trees. Much of the degradation in Kenya comes from rampant deforestation, leading to droughts, floods, soil erosion and increased human poverty and hardship, as well as loss of habitat for animals and birds. We're working to encourage a "tree-planting culture" among Kenya's Christians.
  
  
• Harvesting God's Water. As a result of deforestation, water supplies become erratic. There is often enough water, but with trees and forests gone, it simply evaporates or runs to the sea, taking valuable topsoil with it. "Water-harvesting" simply means adding gutters and cisterns to churches, school buildings and homes to collect water when the rains some, so that it can be used during long dry periods.
  

• Farming God's Way. This is a program we're adapting that was originally developed in Zimbabwe that uses scientifically sound, no-till agricultural techniques combined with strong biblical teaching to radically transform farming practices. In other areas, Farming God's Way has produced 700% increases in yield - and more importantly, has resulted in farm land that actually increases its fertility year by year with little or no chemical fertilizer or pesticide application.