Eco Church 2022 update: Wild Flower Alert!
Thanks to all our efforts, this year, Carey has moved a bit closer to gaining a Silver Eco Church Award. This is thanks to:
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Carey doing a combined Christmas card last year
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Encouraging members to calculate their individual carbon footprint
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Sowing wild flower seeds in 2022 to encourage bees in both the manse and church gardens (see photo)
One of the five categories, Worship & Teaching, is already at gold. Two categories, Lifestyle and Global & Community Engagement are at silver. Two categories remain at bronze level: Land and Buildings, although the latter of these is very close to turning silver, thanks partly to Carey now only using electricity from renewable sources. If we are able to make further specific steps with both Land and Buildings, it should not be long before we can rightly apply for a Silver Eco Church Award. There are now early plans, thanks to advice from a free energy audit just completed, to replace our heating systems for the Memorial Hall with a sustainable source of heating.
Previously, Carey followed a preaching series, entitled ‘Trees of Life’. This year, in June and July, we will follow another series called ‘Birds and Beasties of the Bible’. Jesus told his followers to ‘consider carefully the birds of the air and the flowers of the fields’. The numerous references in the Bible to the flora and fauna of planet earth, demonstrate that we can each learn something important about ourselves and about our Creator God, from every other species we share God’s creation with.
