RENEWAL

ANNUAL REPORT 2025/2026

Thank you for journeying with us to renew our Father’s world.

Our Year in Photos

March 2025 | Contemplative Beach Cleanup with Hinghwa Methodist Church Children’s Ministry

April 2025 | Fundraising Nature Photography Masterclass with award-winning photographer Jayaprakash Bojan

July 2025 | Speaking on creation care at a Missions Conference by Faith Methodist Church

August 2025 | Tree planting with the Methodist Church in Singapore for their 140th anniversary

September 2025 | Creation Care Conference 2025 saw over 400 participants from 10 countries, including our Guest-of-Honour Mr Desmond Lee, Minister for Education

September 2025 | Received the Creation Care Award at Salt&Light’s Inspiration Awards 2025

November 2025 | Launched the Church Garden Network

February 2026 | Appreciating and building relationships with our volunteers at our annual Volunteers’ Lunch

March 2026 | The first RENEW Gathering with creation care advocates under our RENEW discipleship journey for churches

A word from our Chairman & Executive Director

God’s intended primary agent of creation care is His Church, made up of disciples of Jesus like you and I. We must seize this moment to renew our relationship with His World for right stewardship. This is why, at OFW, we continue striving to journey with churches and communities to be a signpost to the renewed cosmos, where God will dwell with His creatures.

Leow Wen Pin, Chairperson

This has been a season of renewal – for OFW, and for me personally. At the end of 2024, I left my career to step into full-time ministry as Executive Director. It was a costly decision, but one I am entirely certain was God’s call. His goodness has been richly evident in what we have seen this past year. Thank you for journeying with us in this new season.

Dennis Tan, Executive Director

Equipping Churches for Creation Care Integration

new participating churches since launch

RENEW is OFW’s flagship programme for churches. Launched in September 2025, RENEW is a discipleship journey that provides a framework for churches in Singapore to integrate creation care into individual and church life, with the aim to renew their relationship with creation for right stewardship.

At the core of this journey is the RENEW Roadmap, a structured discipleship journey for churches. To support participating churches along this roadmap, we create and provide a range of resources and programmes, and convene a Community of Practice for church advocates.

"It was an encouragement when our cluster leader organised a beach cleanup with OFW. This was more than just an activity – it became a meaningful opportunity for the church community to learn about creation care and to understand God’s heart for His creation in a practical way. Seeing different generations participate together showed that there is growing awareness and willingness within the church to take action.”

Ken Chung

RENEW Advocate, Paya Lebar Methodist Church

Setting the Stage for Regional Impact

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churches

countries

expressed interest in future creation care events

Creation Care Conference 2025, “On Earth As It is In Heaven” was held in September 2025, where we explored the integrality of creation care to discipleship and mission and connected like-minded believers to effect change together.

Through a combination of worship, teaching and panel sessions, participants were challenged to steward God’s creation and equipped with practical knowledge to implement within their own lives and communities, supplemented with the launch of the RENEW journey for churches.

We also modelled how a sustainable church event could be run. We worked with Muuse to provide reusables for our plant-based meals, and purchased rescued fruits from UglyFood for tea break. Orange peels and coffee grounds were collected for upcycling by The Sustainability Project.

"The conference was timely, as I had been struggling with deepening despair and resignation due to the never-ending bad news regarding our planet’s health. I was reminded that creation care is fundamentally a call to obedience, and hence a surrender to God’s leading. It is also in recognising the vast injustices of the climate crisis, and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities, that strengthens the church’s desire to be salt and light in caring for creation.”

Toh Wen Shien

Conference Participant

Engaging Believers to Care for Creation

participant-hours of meaningful creation care education

churches & organisations engaged, of which 23 had partnered us for the first time

nature walk participants from 26 churches

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marine litter cleared over 3 cleanups

Talks & Engagements

We experimented with new and creative ways to awaken hearts and minds to creation care. Through the arts—film screenings, a photography masterclass, and immersive installations—we created meaningful entry points for engagement and met people where they were.

Reflective Nature Walks

Our regular nature walks invite Christians to experience creation first-hand and contemplate on its Creator. Expanding beyond our existing adult-focused walks, we ran a pilot for children at Singapore Botanic Gardens that is now a regular on-demand programme.

Contemplative Beach Cleanups

Through the practical act of removing litter from our coasts, participants are invited to reflect on what it means to reconcile with creation and renew God’s earth.

"Creation care begins with knowing and loving what God has made. When children and families spend time outdoors and develop a deeper connection with the natural world, they are more likely to value it and steward it well. My hope is that these nature-based experiences help participants not only grow in their appreciation of creation, but also in their awareness of the Creator behind it all.”

Pamela pang-koh

Nature Walk Volunteer Guide

Developing the Next Generation

To prepare young people for full-time ministry in creation care, we started offering paid internships this year. Interns are given opportunities to experience the workings of a small charity and parachurch organisation, and are involved in every facet of our work.

"I gained insight into the nature of ministry work. Observing the dedication of OFW staff and volunteers taught me that ministry often requires patience, perseverance, and faithfulness in small tasks that may not yield immediate results. I learnt to trust in God’s plans and timing, recognising that meaningful change often happens gradually through consistent effort and faithful service.”

Veron Yeo

Intern from 3:16 Church

"The most eye-opening experience during my time here was seeing creation care lived out at a church level through sustainability consulting – how the environmental expertise of the world is used by churches in their discipleship. I had never really thought about how the church, as an organisation, could care for creation. As I supported one of the consulting projects, I saw the concern for the ethos of creation care rather than blindly following worldly standards of sustainability.”

Shenn Tan

Intern from St.John’s-St.Margaret’s Church

What’s Next

Our Vision for

OFW2030

By 2030, we want to foster a self-sustaining ecosystem enabling the Church in Singapore to care for creation, driven by:

These goals will allow Singapore to be a strong base for our long-term goal: partnering with regional champions to disciple the 148 million Christians across Southeast Asia. To that end, OFW’s focus in the coming year will be turning theory into action through building deeper communities and empowering advocates with more tools.

Formed end-2025, our existing COPs of RENEW advocates and church gardening groups will continue to build community, momentum, and catalyse creation care in their respective realms of knowledge.

A third COP bringing together Sustainability Professionals will also meet before the end of 2026 to cultivate a community for the exchange of ideas, and leverage on these professionals’ technical skills and networks to catalyse systemic, faith-informed change in churches and wider society.

OFW’s inaugural Creation Care Forum will be held on 12 September 2026 to explore creation care as part of holistic discipleship. Unlike previous awareness-focused conferences, the aim is to help participants take concrete steps toward integrating creation care into their ministries through a mix of teaching, topical workshops, and hands-on activities.

This year, we are publishing and launching a few resources:

A Children’s Teaching Toolkit with lesson plans, digital materials and a craft kit for children’s ministry teachers, staff and parents to teach creation care.
A FAQ Repository of answers, vetted by experts, empowering advocates to answer questions on creation care.
On Earth as in Heaven: Proceedings from CCC25, an e-book that brings together key insights from Creation Care Conference 2025 with fresh theological reflections on why we care for creation.

Our Upcoming Plans This Year

A Heartfelt Thank You

Every achievement is a reflection of our donors’ and partners’ belief that the Church must live out God’s heart for creation. Their partnership fuels our work to inspire, equip and empower the body of Christ to love and care for God’s creation.

By sowing into our ministry, you can also become a crucial part of our journey as we work towards serving Southeast Asia in the decades to come.