CONTENTS

• Martin Palmer and Lorna Gold to lead BBC Sunday Worship – January 10
• Closing date for applications for our new CEO – January 8
• Conference: 'Faith-driven investing: Walk the talk' – January 15
• Faith Long-term Plan webinars:
  • Managing assets: Land, forests, water, wildlife & habitats – January 13
  • Lifestyles – January 19

FaithInvest's Martin Palmer and Lorna Gold to lead the
BBC's Sunday Worship service on January 10

'If you believe in God…then you should feel a responsibility to
care for His Creation' – Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh

FaithInvest's Martin Palmer and Lorna Gold will lead BBC Sunday Worship's service this Sunday January 10.

The service has been inspired by Prince Philip's words above in 1986, when as the International President of the World Wide Fund for Nature, he invited Martin to help bring together five of the world’s major religions to explore how the faiths could become partners with the conservation movements in protecting what Pope Francis calls “our Common Home”. 

That initiative laid the foundations for a transformation in attitudes and action on the environment among faith comunities globally over the last 25 years. However, the ecological crisis is even more critical than it was in 1986.

Martin will put the horrifying statistic of the death of 160 species across the last ten years into a spiritual perspective when he leads the BBC's Sunday Worship programme on Sunday. 

He will be joined in the 4th century church of St Martin's, North Stoke, Somerset, UK by Indian writer, poet and opera writer Sangita Lakhanpaul and by Lorna Gold, FaithInvest's Director of Movement Building, Lorna, who is also Chair of the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) and (like Martin) is a member of the Pope’s Covid Commission, will be preaching. 

The programme will draw on insights from major world faiths, but is grounded in the Christian hope of renewal and regeneration with readings from Exodus 3, Psalm 148, and Colossians Chapter 1. 

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 on Sunday January 10 at 8:10 GMT, or visit the Sunday Worship page on the BBC website to listen to the service afterwards.

Closing date for applications for our new CEO 

The deadline for applications for our new Chief Executive is this Friday. This is a unique opportunity for someone with a rare and special combination of talents – a highly influential strategic thinker who is as comfortable in the faith world as in the investment world, and who shares our passion for growing the movement of faith-consistent investing globally.

• Closing Date: Midnight, 8 January 2021
• More information
• Apply via NFP People

WEBINARS AND EVENTS

Friday 15 January 2021, 9am-5pm CET

4th Faith-based Investment Conference

Following three successful conferences, this fourth faith-based investment conference, which is normally held in Geneva, Switzerland, has moved online due to covid restrictions. Entitled 'Faith-driven Investing: Walk the talk', it is organised by Geneva Agape Foundation, FaithInvest, the World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance's Business coalition.

The focus of the conference will be Africa-Europe due to time zones; subsequent conferences will focus on Asia (Friday 5 March 2021) and America (later in 2021). Find out more.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 12noon GMT

Developing your Faith Long-term Plan: Managing Assets –
Land & Forests; Water; Wildlife & Habitats

Globally, faiths own around 8% of all habitable land on earth, and more than
5% of commercial forests. Join us to discuss sustainable use, management
and protection of land assets, with a particular focus on biodiversity. 

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 2pm GMT

Developing your Faith Long-term Plan: Lifestyles

This webinar will engage key thinkers in a conversation on self-assessment, pilgrimage, tourism, family life, purchasing power, and the art of simple living.

For more details of the Faith Long-term Plans webinar series, visit our website.

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