Please pardon the lack of activity on the WOC site for the past few days.  Marge and I were back in Canada over the Easter weekend to assist my sister-in-law Shirley, who recently lost her husband, Don, to cancer.  Those who have been reading the posts will likely recall the circumstances.  [You can read about it in these posts:  http://www.wonderofcreation.org/2009/03/11/ http://www.wonderofcreation.org/2009/03/17/ ]

High Falls in mid-March

I took the opportunity also to experiment with the new camcorder that we hope to use to perk up the WOC site when we make the change over to a “resource center.”  [You can read about the plans for a resource center here: http://www.wonderofcreation.org/2009/03/26/ ]

So in a few days I hope to be able to place video clips on the site.  The clip I am preparing will include the “sugarbush” activities from the maple syrup festival held on the Wikwemikong First Nation’s Reserve on Manitoulin Island at the top of Lake Huron.

High Falls in mid-April

There will be a few gaps in activity on the site as we make preparations for the switch-over that we are planning for the first of June.  Daily posts will be fewer for a while as I concentrate my work on the new format and begin to add more material to the other pages.  So please keep checking in to see what’s new.  I will post blurbs calling attention to new features and new material.

In the meanwhile, be sure take a look at all the present features—some of which could be helpful for your church, Sunday School class, or small group as we approach Earth Day 2009.

Other materials for Earth Day can be accessed via this post: http://www.wonderofcreation.org/2009/03/06/

Let me also recommend that you check out the Bible-based creation care articles and materials available on the Sustainlane site:

http://www.sustainlane.com/creation-care

There is a great deal of material there and good cross-section of articles from several colleagues of mine in the creation care community.

See you outdoors!

Dean

Looking ahead:

Ojibwa (Anishnabik) word for sugar shack

Sugar shack