Download PDF by Leah Kostamo,Eugene H. Peterson: Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community

Planted isn't really a “how to” ebook, yet a “how so” booklet during which the reader is invited to trip with Leah Kostamo at the wild trip of salmon saving, stranger welcoming, and God worshiping as she and her husband support identify the 1st Christian environmental heart in Canada. keeping off simplistic prescriptions or clichéd platitudes, Leah wrestles with problems with poverty, justice, and the surroundings throughout the narrative of her personal existence event. The lived-theology and humility of voice conveyed in those pages attracts readers to new and artistic how you can honor the writer as they're encouraged to take care of creation.

“Grace, attractiveness, humor, and truth-telling mix in Leah Kostamo’s tale of the expansion of A Rocha, a grassroots association within which she and her husband Markku were world-changers for sturdy. it is a interesting narrative within which dedicated environmentalists reply to God’s name to resume our planet and our souls.”
—Luci Shaw, writer of The Crime of residing carefully: listening to God’s name to Adventure

“Planted is among the such a lot desirable and encouraging books i've got learn in decades. It bargains wealthy and intimate glimpses into what sacrificial deal with all God’s construction can seem like within the lives of normal Christians. without doubt God wishes for this to turn into a part of our tale as well.”
—Ben Lowe, activist and writer of Green Revolution: Coming jointly to deal with Creation

“Leah Kostamo’s dependent memoir stocks the tale of A Rocha, a company that lives out the rules of Christian stewardship and neighborhood. With humility, grace, and candor, Leah takes her readers alongside the creation-care trip, sharing what number small acts can and do make a distinction. most galvanizing of all, Leah and her husband, Markku, supply a dwelling instance of being the switch they want to work out within the world.”
—Matthew and Nancy Sleeth, co-founders of Blessed Earth

“The righteous individual, says the psalmist, is sort of a tree planted by way of the waters. during this pleasant publication Leah Kostamo describes what it sounds like to be (sometimes reluctantly) a type of bushes, planted by way of the waters of God’s stable construction. With humor, irony, knowledge, and a refreshingly iconoclastic voice, Planted blooms and flourishes—with fruit each considerate Christian must enjoy.”
—Loren Wilkinson, Professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary reviews, Regent College

An American transplant to Canada, Leah Kostamo has a history in campus ministry and schooling. For the earlier twelve years, Leah has labored along her husband, Markku, to teach God’s love for all of production throughout the ministry of A Rocha. She lives and prospers on Kingfisher Farm close to Vancouver, BC.