Hello, you lovely individual!
I'm Alex Haney of Millboro, Virginia.
At the end of August 2014 I will begin a year of service with the Presbyterian Church's Young Adult Volunteer Program at Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. I don't fully know all the work and projects I'll have yet, but they all will involve ministry, some also with solar energy, camp food, straw bale buildings, farm animals, and sustainability.
On this blog you can read about my adventures at Ferncliff for sustainability in a Christian context. I hope to further understand the relationship between Jesus Christ and sustainability and share my insights here. I welcome your thoughts in the conversation. Feel free to post questions, comments, notes of support or whatever here on this site.
I am currently (before August 2014) serving as a Young Adult Volunteer in Boston working on food justice with the Presbyterian Church in Burlington and the Boston Faith & Justice Network. I'm learning a lot, connecting local farms to churches, and helping Christians understand the impacts of their economic choices on our neighbors and the environment. I teach church kids about local food and simple living for the sake of generosity. Please read about this work and adventures in Boston on my Boston blog.
In college I studied Energy, Environmental Management, and Mathematics, with a side love affair with Botany/Plantcraft and ever since a mission trip to Mexico when I was 16 I've been trying to connect my love of math, science, and nature with my faith. My time in Boston has really shown me through the discipline of simplicity, economic discipleship, and food justice, these things easily fit with God's desire for justice in the world. God wants us to care about the earth and the people on it. I'm surprised I didn't see it before.
Please pray for me and my other YAV companions. If you feel so inclined, I need to raise over $3,000 to feed myself this year at Ferncliff and I'd appreciate your support. If you send a donation I will send you a personal thank you note, and either a homemade bar of soap or I'll teach you a soapmaking lesson.
Make checks payable to Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center with "Alex Haney YAV" in the memo line (or you could send it for Molly or David my fellow Ferncliff-ers) and mail to
Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center
1720 Ferncliff Road
Little Rock Arkansas 72223
You may also give to the Little Rock YAV program online at http://www.presbyterianmission.org/donate/E051479/.
I look forward to another year of partnership with you in God's mission. Thanks for your support! Thanks for reading--that's a world of support already!
Blessings,
Alex
