Get Involved

To participate with JoinTrees, you can. . .

 Devote land for planting trees

 Help with planting and caring for trees

 Provide financial support:  Make a contribution

 Receive a grant for tree planting

For assisting with any of these, contact Steve Thomas.

Resource Links

JoinTrees brochure 

JoinTrees brochure for businesses

Worship Resources for Trees of Life: Hope for God's Earth

10 Steps to Success When Planting Forest Trees

Caring for Trees

Pruning Trees

Tree Owners Manual (U.S. Forest Service)

Article: God Save the Earth by Steve Thomas

Responding together

We are responding to the climate crisis with a large-scale tree-planting campaign. Mennonite Men is locating land, forming a network of partners, assisting with tree planting, and facilitating contributions to fund projects.

We invite men's groups, youth groups, congregations, universities, nonprofits, and other groups to participate in this campaign.

We invite all genders and ages to join the campaign.

A Critical Problem

Nothing threatens our global village more than climate change. Deforestation is a major cause of this crisis as tree and forest loss continue, dramatically reducing the earth's most important means to sequester carbon and cool the planet. Global tree cover loss continues at an alarming rate of nearly 12 million acres each year.

The impacts of global warming are severe: extinction of animal and plant species, soil erosion, desertification, food loss, forest fires, droughts, and floods.

While poor and vulnerable populations already suffer, problems will worsen as environmental degradation and desertification dramatically decrease food production, access to clean water, and sustainable environments. According to the United Nations, "the health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever, affecting the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide." These distressed living conditions will cause mass migrations and other acts of desperation.

Essential Solutions

Planting and protecting trees are critical climate actions. The United Nations lists these as top natural solutions as trees are among the best and most cost-efficient means for sequestering climate-warming carbon dioxide. Trees not only sequester carbon but are critical for ecological restoration, biodiversity, and sustaining human life. 

God's Call

The importance of trees in God's design for the earth is seen in the fact that they are featured in the very first and last chapters of the Bible.

The woodland garden of Eden represents what our Creator intended on Earth: beauty, biodiversity, and abundance where trees give life for all. And in the final vision of Revelation, we see trees of life for the healing of the nations. 

God's call for us to serve and protect the Earth (Genesis 2:15) includes tending trees so they may play their important role in the community of creation.

Projects:

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