You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care. It is a pastoral voice shepherding Christian people in Christian churches towards discipleship that is all the way down to the dirt. In it you will find a pastor with time to talk with you and walk with you so that the fruit of the redemption earned by Jesus' life, death, and resurrection will make a real and substantial difference in your very own backyard. This book is not actually about you; it's about us as local churches. Each local church should care about its place because the church is where God uses the gospel to restore people, and God's restored people restore both people and places. This is what we mean by creation care. You, church, are a gathering of people defined by your faith in Jesus and the dirt you walk on. You are a people sent to that place. This is why it is good news that you are there. "This is one of those books that must delightfully confound publishers looking to pigeonhole its market. You Are There is part travelogue and part theologue. This book is full of warmhearted stories that remind you what the church could be if it was ever able to set aside its industrial-sized aspirations. Robert Campbell puts the 'pastoral' back into pastoring, and the 'local' back into the local church. But don't overlook it for a lack of scale. This book has as much ambition and challenge as anything that I have read in recent years. Campbell offers a theology of place, surprising with insight relevant to the millennial church, even as it leads us back toward our roots." --Kenton C. Anderson, President, Northwest Baptist Seminary in Langley, British Columbia, and author of Choosing to Preach "You Are There is a necessary conversation about a big-time issue, packaged in small-town practicality and warm, pastoral insight. Creation care, with all of its political and theological overtones, is too important to leave to the pundits and politicians. Christ-followers must take up the challenge of representing God in caring for both souls and soil, and you'll find no better guide than Robert Campbell. Read it once, and then read it again." --David W. Hegg, Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Santa Clarita, CA "This book is an encouraging and pastoral gift to the church today. Many of us, and many of our churches, are struggling to reconnect with and recover our calling to the people and places around us. Robert Campbell invites us into a life-changing part of his story, which is really the story of his humble but remarkable congregation, and how they are learning to live out the fullness of the gospel right where God has planted them. . . . I am often asked what it practically looks like for a local church to care for creation and love their neighbors--this book is one very good and hopeful answer. Read it and start applying its timely and valuable lessons." --Ben Lowe, activist, author of Doing Good Without Giving Up and The Future of Our Faith You Are There is the story of God putting people and place back together in my life and ministry. It is my hope that He use it to put the broken pieces back together in your life. God has given a place to you, you can enjoy where you are once again. - God has given you to a place, you can do measurable and demonstrable good where you are, that's why you are there. - God will use your gospel message to restore the broken people in your place and He will use those restored people to restore your place as well. Come and see what God has been doing in my place, I pray that He does that same and better in yours. It is good news that You Are There. About 10 years ago, my family and I made a big decision for a smaller life. We left a large church that we loved and a people that we loved in order to pastor a church in a small town. The population of our new town could fit in our old church - could actually fit in our old church. This small place has restored our souls in a big way. The place and the people have put us back together and I hope, in some small way, we have done the same for them. This is my place, this is my people, I am their pastor. I have gone to seed here in Santa Margarita. I wrote  You Are There: Restoring Churches, People and Places  as the next best way to saying,  "Come and see" to every Christian everywhere. Come and see the mess that we call grace. Come and see, feel, touch and taste what it is like when God puts people and place back together. You Are There  is a pastoral conversation inspiring Christian people in Christian churches to follow Jesus, all the way down to the dirt.