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Greetings, brothers and sisters. May the joy and peace of Christ find you all well and with loved ones in this season of hope.

This is the time of year when we at Blessed Earth look back on the past year and celebrate the doors that God has opened and look forward to our work in the year ahead. This is also the time that we make our one and only yearly request for your financial support. Last year, we had a matching grant opportunity, which, thanks to your generosity, we met. We are pleased that once again this year we have a matching gift—this time to double contributions made to the Blessed Earth film project.

While this has been an unprecedented year of growth and opportunity for Blessed Earth, the project we are most excited about is our twelve-film creation care series. The first six films, titled Blessed Earth: Hope for Creation, focus on the elements that God created—light, water, earth, the heavens, animals and finally man—and the biblical for us to steward them wisely. The second DVD, Blessed Earth: Hope for Humanity, focuses on actions—beginning with Rest and ending with Hope. The series, along with action-focused individual and group curricula, will be released this spring in time for the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day. Partnering with the creative geniuses who made the NOOMA films (viewed by an estimated 45 million people), this project brings the highest quality production values that have ever been used to educate and inspire viewers to honor the Creator and his creation.

I had two “ah hah” moments during the weeks of filming. The first happened at the Los Angeles film site, where the previous 24 hours of set-up had been compressed on a film lasting 120 second. I watched in awe as dozens of workers, artists, grips, and electricians constructed a set that would allow us to communicate to millions of people rather than thousands. What seemed a far-fetched prayer a few years ago was coming to be: the church leading the way to heed the Genesis 2:15 call to protect and care for God’s creation!  

The second moment came a month later when the crew assembled in an ancient redwood grove to film Hope for Humanity. Beneath the 360-foot-tall, thousand-year-old trees, I was struck by the miracle of so many friends like you around the country praying for the rain to hold off (and it did hold off, despite dire predictions).

Our hopes are now focused on developing a new 50-minute condensed version of the 12 films, which will be shown in hundreds of theaters and churches across the country. Already major churches, denominations, universities, and theology schools have agreed to partner in this project, and we will be launching a powerful new web-based social network to support the effort. We have been offered matching funds for getting this film to churches—but we need your help. Please give generously! Every fifty dollars contributed helps us get the film and the creation care message to one more church, campus, or youth group.

None of this would be possible without the Holy Spirit working through you who are praying for us, volunteering your time and talents, and supporting this project through your generous gifts. For this, and for all of God’s gifts, we are grateful.

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