On Sunday, 14 September 2025, young people from the Parish of St Anne’s Anglican Church, Pigg Peak, in the Diocese of Eswatini celebrated Provincial Youth Sunday, under the Season of Creation theme: “Peace with Creation.” The gathering brought together young people and the wider congregation to reflect on God’s call for harmony between humanity and the environment, and to affirm the role of youth in championing climate justice and ecological reconciliation.
As people of God, we are urged to restore and live peaceably with God’s Creation. In the Garden of Eden, God created everything to be good and peaceful. There was no indiscriminate burning, no killing and no enmity amongst man and Creation, yet now it’s directly opposite. Creation lives in fear of man; the beauty of nature is deteriorating in the hands of man. Man is urged to be reconciled with God so that peace can be achieved.
Man must stop burning and destroying vegetation, man must stop killing animals and microorganisms, as they are all players in the ecosystem.
Let’s advocate for peace.
Colossians 1:20 says, “and through God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
We planted a peach tree as a symbol of commemoration. Each time it bears fruit, the message of peace with Creation must be remembered. Although it was a youth event, everyone participated, especially the young people, to ensure that the message of climate justice never leaves our minds, even when we have grown older.
By : Mhlobiso Vilakati
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