2024-07-12 10.06.27

My Roots Will Reach to the Water

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By Rev. David Schoenknecht.

There’s nothing quite like the twilight crescendo of a million humming mosquitos to make you forget the roaring of urban traffic. The morning mist that rises silently between rocky islets stills the soul. The clarity of water that’s potable without treatment refreshes the spirit. The sudden appearance of a summer squall—with no apps to predict its coming—and then the swift parting of its ragged clouds like a curtain to reveal the Milky Way restores our wonder. 

A Rocha Interns (Michaela Stenerson, Madeline Padgett, and Noah Guthrie) at Trailhead of Stenis Tract_April 2024_Taken by Veronica Godoy

An Axe Laid to the Roots

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Beside the coiling whip of Bull Creek, three A Rocha interns waded through thorns, making war against the Glossy Privet. As we heaved our shoulders against vines and viper-green barbs, we brandished our weapons: a red flip-saw for hacking, a hawkbill knife for slitting trunks, and a weed-wrench for dragging saplings headfirst from the soil…

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Wild Wonder with Flo Paris Oakes

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Do you need permission to sit and wonder at the intricacies of God’s creation? The child within you is created to wild and wonder.

In this episode, host Caleb Cray Haynes takes a seat with Rev. Flo Oakes as they explore together the intersections between childlikeness and creation, and chat about the Wild Wonder Camp!