“We don't want Idaho to have a bad reputation. This is our home state. We love our home state. It's beautiful. We pride ourselves on our nature. We pride ourselves on our wildlife. And instead, we are continuing to do things that are… that are sickening.” - Ella Driever In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho, and in 2003 a Boise High school called Timberline officially adopted a local wolf pack. Throughout the 2000, students went on wolf tracking trips and in their wolf packs range. But in 2021, Idaho's legislature passed Senate Bill 1211, 1211 allows Idaho hunters to obtain an unlimited number of wolf tags, and it also allows Idaho's Department of Fish and Game to use taxpayer dollars to pay private contractors to kill wolves. That means bounties on wolves, including on public lands. And in 2021, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission expanded the wolf hunting season and hunting and trapping methods. So it's not too surprising to learn that also in 2021, the Timberline pack disappeared. The students, the ones that cared about wolves, at least, were devastated. Last summer I went to D.C. with some of the Species Unite team for a wolf rally on Capitol Hill. While I was there, two young women gave a talk about what happened at Timberline in 2021. Their names are Ella Driver and Sneha Sharma. They both graduated from Timberline High School and were there when their wolf pack disappeared. Please, listen and share.…
Welcome to the International Church Podcast. We hope to be a resource for international churches who seek to be faithful to God's mission through International ministry.
Welcome to the International Church Podcast. We hope to be a resource for international churches who seek to be faithful to God's mission through International ministry.
In this episode Tim Faulkner, the new General Secretary of the International Baptist Convention, joins me as we discuss the importance, joys, and challenges of being a pastor to pastors.
In this episode we discuss the dynamic of doing church services on Zoom as we have had to adapt to Covid restrictions. This is an interesting subject that brings positives and negatives that we are just beginning to think through.
This week my predecessors and former International Church Pastors Brian Kirby and Norman Ellis join me to discuss what it like to be an alumni of EIC and the phenomenon of being part of the global family that international churches create.