GOD DOESNT DO WASTE PB

Meet 'the Bookless bunch', a very ordinary family who went green.

When God challenged him over his attitude to the environment, Dave Bookless did a total rethink. This led to major changes, not only in his family's lifestyle but also eventually in his career: full-time involvement in the global A Rocha movement that aims to care for God's fragile world.

But in one sense this book isn't about going green at all. It's a personal account of a life lived in relationship. It's about roots and belonging, suffering and healing, identity and meaning, faith and doubt. It's about how in God's economy nothing need be wasted.

This is a story about the messiness that each human being wades through in every area of their lives, and about a God who can take all that seems most wasteful and useless, and recycle it into something of infinite worth.

Commendations
'This story, both of A Rocha UK and of the 'Bookless Bunch', is wonderfully and movingly told. It brought tears to my eyes and inspired me in my desire to love God and look after all that he has made. Dave has been one of the pioneers in calling the Church to pick up its mandate to take care of God's world and it has been my privilege to work with him and learn from him. I have no hesitation in encouraging you to read this book - you won't regret it!'
- Ruth Valerio, author of 'L is for lifestyle'

'It's like finding a Martian who speaks English. Dave Bookless wakes us up to an appreciation and sense of responsibility for God's creation in such an engaging way. It's a great read by a fine storyteller.'
- Adrian Plass

'In this book you are invited to sit with a man who cares for the world we live in and the people we share the world with. He tells the story of his love of Jesus, his journey in faith and his journey of love with his wonderful Anne. Dave invites us in and shares with us both the glory and pain in life. We loved this book and would encourage anyone to buy it because it's a book not just about A Rocha but about life and how to live it richly day by day.'
- Mark and Lindsay Melluish

'For nearly two decades we have watched with admiration as Dave and Anne Bookless have applied their determined faith to the challenges of living in God's world in God's ways. Overcoming many painful obstacles with great courage, their commitments have led to an extraordinary transformation in Southall and a growing movement for the care of creation throughout the UK. This honest and inspiring story of God's transformation within their own family and wider community encourages us all towards a deeper discipleship and an unshakeable hope.'
- Peter and Miranda Harris

'A moving and highly personal account of success and suffering that will be particularly helpful to any Christian going through a dark period. This is both the story of the Bookless family and of the Christian environmental organisation A Rocha and it challenges us that part of Christian living is an environmentally sound lifestyle. Are you depressed about the environmental crisis or about the trials of your personalfamily life. Then you will want to read this and see how God can intervene and use suffering and success to heal both people and the environment.'
- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS, Chairman of A Rocha International

'God may not do waste, but he does answer prayer. The Bookless saga told in this book is a procession of unlikely choices and frustrating barriers, repeatedly over-ridden by a prayer-answering God, often in unexpected ways.' Professor Sam Berry