Environmental Missions defines an emerging category in missions, one that takes seriously both the mandate to evangelize the world and the responsibility of caring for God s good earth.
Lowell Bliss was a traditional church planting missionary in India when his best Hindu friend there died of malaria.
This was just one of the events that led him to reexamine the politically charged term environment, understanding it now as simply that which surrounds those we love, those for whom Jesus died.
William Carey Library Publishers Environmental missions: planting churches and trees/lowell bliss
