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Brian Frick is the Associate for Camp and Conferences Ministries with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has been involved in camp and conference ministry since high school. For the past ten years, Brian has served as program director of Johnsonburg Center in New Jersey, Westminster Woods in California, and Heartland Center in Missouri.
Camp and conference ministry compliments and partners with other ministry aspects of our church to foster faith development and reflection. As our communities and our church changes, our ministries need to grow and adapt with creative and emergent programming and leadership to meet new realities.
These blogs entries, though varied, are intended to spur thought and conversation around the opportunities and challenges before us.
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Of Bee stings and the environment
Most bees at camp are not honey bees responsible for the pollination of our food but I wonder if any of our sites have bees or in their teachings about food and its impact on our lives, or how to grow organically, or having gardens to provide food for the kitchen etc - have honey bees.
There is a HUGE and growing problem in our country with the collapse of the honey bee populations. This will impact our food supply if it is not addressed.
Below is a portion of a blog from Andrew Kang Bartlett, the Director of the Presbyterian Hunger Program. I found it enlightening.
After reading some of this - what should we as faithful teachers of children, as those on the front line helping kids and youth touch the earth and understand better how to care for it as God has commanded us - do? How do we respond? On such national issues, do we have a voice that matters? Should justice issues like these be a part of our camping programs or are they a distraction?
Here's his blog and a link to it - you can follow the Presbyterian Hunger Program Blog at presbyterian.typepad.com/foodandfaith.
New evidence for 'chemical cocktail' effect in bee deaths
You might feel differently if you've been stung by one, but there are few things I find sadder than honey bees dying in mass numbers. So why are they dying? Pesticides Action Network provided this explanation.
Finding an average of 8 different pesticides -- at times up to 31 -- in honeybee hives, a new study illuminates the "unprecedented" pesticide load place on bees and other pollinators, according to ScienceNews. Noting that the mix, or synergistic effects, of the pesticide burden borne by bees may be much more harmful than any one chemical exposure alone, scientists from the American Chemical Society called "for emergency funding to address the myriad holes in our scientific understanding of pesticide consequences for pollinators."
Past Food and Faith posts on bee deaths (most recent at top):
- Why are the bees dying? They call it Colony Collapse Disorder
- Bee deaths linked to Bayer pesticides
- Got food? Check for bees
And here is the video from that latest post:
- Posted at 12:20 p.m.
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