WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE LIVE FOR

At its core CCSP is about giving students the opportunity to learn about shalom. This is not simply thinking about peace but thinking broadly about what the word shalom entails. Shalom means peace but it also conveys a sense of wholeness and balance. The Creation Care Study Program wants to help students to celebrate the presence of shalom, mourn its absence, and struggle to restore it in a broken world. This is a relational process that includes our relationship with God, with ourselves, with each other, and with creation. These “right relationships” are how Nicholas Wolterstorff suggests we begin to view shalom.

Today is October 16, 2007. It marks the seven-week mark that our community has been together. Living, eating, sleeping, playing, and learning alongside each other has been wonderful and challenging for each of us. Living at Nabitunich gives us an incredible opportunity to explore and practice the concept of Christian community. We have not been perfect in this experience but it has been good. We have had a lot of fun together, we have worshipped together, and we have learned from one another throughout the first seven weeks of this semester. We trust in God that there are more great moments to come and that in living with one another the presence of God would be felt by the members of the community and those who visit us this semester.