Gardens of Eden: Ethiopia's Church Forests

‘The church is within the forest, the forest is inside the church.’

Ethiopia’s northern highlands were once covered by trees. But over the past century, development and exponential population growth have all but wiped out the region’s forests, transforming the landscape into an expanse of brown fields, given over to cattle grazing and agriculture.

First, review this lexis:

• Sunday mass
• give mercy
• to be hooked
• young sprouts
• the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• a blueprint

Next, watch THIS video [more than once is better] and prepare some questions for discussion in our next class.