About | C3

WHAT WE DO

Provide Inspirational Information.
Extend Creative Challenges.
Promote Best Practices.
Give Hope to Millennial Christians.

C3 provides a platform to address the critical environmental issues of our day. We challenge Christians to act boldly in loving God and neighbor by loving all God’s creation. We highlight best practices among persons, churches and organizations which are impacting creation in positive ways. We speak, act and lead from a multi-generational perspective, recognizing the problems we face will only be solved when every generation joins the effort.

C3 does not engage in partisan politics though we bear witness to issues that have environmental consequences. We do not pretend caring for creation is the sum total of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but we affirm that being a disciple of Jesus includes loving everything God made.

OUR

CURRENT

NEEDS

We are a young organization with many needs. You can help us move C3 in the right direction and have a global impact on the care of creation by helping us with any of the following needs:

Volunteer accountant
Recommendations for board members
Recommendations for consulting scientists and theologians
Contributing writers
Recommendations of churches, businesses and organization who practice faithful stewardship
Grant writers
Financial contributors

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Our Team

DON GORDON, FOUNDER AND CEO

Don Gordon is the founder and CEO of C3 - Christians Caring for Creation. After 35 years of teaching and preaching in churches, Christian colleges and seminaries he has made a decision to devote the next season of his life to the care of creation. His decision was driven by recognizing that climate change is the existential challenge of our generation. Preparation for this calling began working in his mother's garden as a young boy and then earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics at Campbell University. He did further graduate work in Mathematics at N.C. State University. He later earned a doctorate of Ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary (PCUSA), focusing on gospel and culture.

The author of three books on the subjects of church history, prayer and children's devotional life, Don has spent a career reading and writing about God's revelation and humankind's response. Currently he writes and gives lectures as a professor of religion at Lenoir-Rhyne University and writes curriculum for healthcare professionals on subjects of ethics and leadership at Healthcare Academy in Minnesota.

Don has served on numerous boards including Board of Directors for the Clemmons YMCA and the Board of Trustees for Campbell University. He continues to serve as a founding board member for Good Faith Media (merger of Ethics Daily and Nurturing Faith). He is the father to three daughters and grandfather of one grandson.

ROBERT DAVIES, CONSULTING SCIENTIST

Robert Davies is the Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Physics at Utah State University. His work focuses on global environmental change, sustainable human systems, and scientific storytelling ― for critically important stories. As a physicist his training has been in atmospheric physics, surface physics, and quantum optics. His published scientific works are in the fields of spacecraft interactions with the space environment; the fundamental nature of light and information; and Earth’s climate system.

He is a leader in the Crossroads Project which fuses original music with art, imagery, and science to create live performance experiences that address global sustainability and provide a path toward meaningful response.

NORMAN WIRZBA, CONSULTING THEOLOGIAN

Dr. Wirzba is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School and the Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. He is a sought-after speaker throughout the U.S, Canada and Europe at the intersection of theology, philosophy and ecology. Most recently, he served as C3's keynote speaker for its inaugural all conference. He is working with an international team of scholars to rethink several academic disciplines in light of challenges like climate change, food insecurity, biotechnology and genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, species extinction, and the built environment.

You can gain access to his books, articles and podcasts by going to normanwirzba.com.

LYNN ODOM, NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Lynn Odom is one of those rare souls who actually likes to put together newsletters. She has a B.A. in Chemistry from Wake Forst University and a M.Div. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She volunteers through her church, Yates Baptist, Durham, NC, and civic clubs, such as the Durham Woman's Club. Over the past 30, Lynn has worked on newsletters for schools, band boosters, garden clubs, woman's clubs, NC Baptist Women in Ministry and her church. She and her husband Dave have 3 sons and one special granddaughter.

CLARK HILL, PODCAST ENGINEER

Clark Hill has worked with sound professionally since 1970 when, as a college student, he worked at WSB Radio in Atlanta as a newsroom assistant. After graduating from Georgia State University in 1972, he worked briefly as a radio news reporter. In 1977 he started an audio, graphics, and video production business. Now semi-retired, Clark focuses on audio storytelling for nonprofit organizations.

TAYLOR HARRIS, ACCOUNTANT

Taylor is a recent graduate with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Accounting from the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Over the past year, she has dedicated herself to
studying for her CPA license and has successfully passed all four parts of the CPA exam. Taylor,
born in Newton, NC, is a member of Trinity Baptist Church. Starting in the fall, she will be
practicing taxation in Uptown Charlotte. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her
family, friends, and her three Labrador Retrievers.

LARA HOWELL, SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST

Lara is a rising senior at the University of Virginia, where she studies global sustainability and religion. Her background in studio art translated into a eye for graphic design, which she has used with several leadership, non-profit, and sustainability-focused roles. Lara plans to work in policy post-grad, focusing on the intersection of sustainable agricultural practices and food security. For now, she is excited to work with C3's social media!

C3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lea Slaton

Since 2005, Dr. Lea Slation has served as pastor of Wilson's Mills Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Clayton, NC. She is a graduate of Mars Hill University (BA), East Carolina University, Shaw University Divinity School (M.Div.) and Drew University (D. Min.). Lea's congregation is a certified Green Chalice congregation, meaning that stewardshiip of God's creation is part of their mission. Lea and her husband, Joe have been married for 29 years and have two cats. Lea enjoys being an adult student of the piano, reading, taking long walks, and painting peace poles. As a side note, Lea's dad, Dan Pardue, was youth minister to C3 founder Don Gordon. She has stories...

Kim Shaw

Kim has been the Executive Director for The Triangle Nonprofit and Volunteer Leadership Center in Durham, NC since 2010. There she coordinates work with 1100 nonprofits and has the largest volunteer database in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel area. She received a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from the University of North Carolina and is a member of Yates Baptist Church in Durham. Kim is the mother of two adult children and the grandmother of three. She has a passion for living out the call of Jesus to care for the poor and the earth that is their home.

Matthew Bissette

Matthew is an attorney practicing law in Raleigh, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his J.D. from Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, graduating in 2018. Since then, he has practiced with the Whitley Law Firm, representing individual plaintiffs. Born in Winston-Salem, Matthew grew up at Ardmore Baptist Church.

Rich Goodier

Rich was born in Puerto Rico and spent much of his childhood in Texas and Maryland. He earned a B.A. in Biology from Harvard University and an M.Div from Duke Divinity School. While there, he served as a ministerial intern at Yates Baptist Church, where Don Gordon was pastor. He has served as a missionary to Kazakhstan and as the pastor of Mount Hermon Baptist Church in Durham for 12 years. He and his wife Elizabeth currently live in Boston where he has embarked on a new career in Data Science.

Christian McIvor

Dr. Christian McIvor serves as the Minister of Worship, Music, and the Arts at Greystone Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC, and as an Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Campbell University. Christian is passionate about continually growing as an agent of compassion, justice, and reconciliation in the Way of Christ and helping others toward the same. McIvor holds a B.A. in music from the State University of New York, a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Trumpet Performance from the UNC-G and a Master of Divinity degree from the Wake Forest Divinity School. In his free time, Christian likes to spend time with his family and their pets, as well as cheer for all teams from Boston.

Marise Robertson

Marise has supported environmental issues ever since the first Earth Day back in April 1970 when she was just a kid in school. Care for the earth and all its creatures were family values passed on to each of her three children. Marise helped to organize the first recycling efforts in her county in Maryland back in the early 1990s. Now, living in Monroe, NC, she has joined forces with members of the St Peter Catholic Church’s Care for Creation Ministry. The encyclical, Laudato Si, and the apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, continue to spur Marise on to keep up the faith, hope, and fight for our common home.

Lance Mayes

Lance has served as an associate pastor at Woodland Church for over fifteen years. He received a BBA from Baylor University and an MA(RE) from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Lance has been married for 30 years and has two adult children. Lance loves to help people match their passion, gifts, and talents with meaningful service to God and people. He loves working with immigrants and advocating for marginalized people, public education, and other areas of justice and compassion.