Richard Faw
Richard Faw is the Interim President of A Rocha. Rick combines academic backgrounds in science (BSc) and theology (MCS) with a love for the outdoors. His desire is for people to integrate their spiritual life with their experience of the created world. Rick, along with his wife Crista and children Jared and Zoë, lives and plays at Kingfisher Farm in Surrey, BC.
Bio last updated June 6th, 2018.
Articles by Richard Faw
A Rocha’s Conservation of Creation
By Hannah Marazzi with Richard Faw
June 6, 2018
Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi talks to Richard Faw, interim president of the Christian conservation organization A Rocha, about God’s love guiding the sustenance of Creation.
People are watching – do they see within us a faith that prompts us to care about things that matter in the world? Creation care can also help us to reach out and share Christ's love, to testify to His work to our lives and in the world Convivium: A Rocha’s work is organized into three broad categories: conservation, environmental education, and sustainable agriculture All these aspects of our organization, the time spent on the farm together, the education, the internships are ways of trying to close the circle and help people ask: What does conservation and the care of species have to do with my life and how I live? It refers to the worship of God, the love of people and the care for Creation C: I have followed your organization for years and I find your articulation of faith and the work that you do with the earth to be inextricable from your theology of community