What your church can do for a Healthy Earth! with Jessica Morthorpe - PDF document

12/02/2018 Welcome to Country What your church can do for a Healthy Earth! with Jessica Morthorpe Uniting Earth Ministry Consultant (UCA NSW/ACT) & Five Leaf Eco-Awards Founder and Director Opening Prayer God of 70,000, million million million stars and countless planets. Why Should We give thanks for your interest in ours. Churches God of all the millions of species here around us, We give thanks for your interest Care for in ours. Creation? Spirit of Life. Living Water. You are welcome here. We pray for a sense of your presence here amongst us, and an openness to what you have to say to us today. By Jason John 1

12/02/2018 • Group 1: God created the Universe What does the Bible Say? • Group 2: God Owns the Creation • God loves the Creation • God values the Creation • Activity • Group 3: God sustains the Creation • Group 4: God redeems the Creation • Group 5: God’s Covenant with animals • God’s concern for animals • God’s promise to animals • Group 6: Command to care for Creation • Group 7: Humans have defiled the land • Consequences of defiling the land • Group 8: Creation Testifies of the Creator • Creation praises the Creator What does the Uniting Church say? 2

12/02/2018 What are Australian churches doing for God’s Creation? What does a green church look like? with Jessica Morthorpe Uniting Earth Ministry Consultant (UCA NSW/ACT) & Five Leaf Eco-Awards Founder and Director Templestowe UC – GRAND STAND ENVIRONMENT-THEMED WORSHIP for the environment SERVICES AND SPEAKERS 3

12/02/2018 Rev. Rod Pattenden, Adamstown Uniting Church - World Environment Day Stole Young Adult Eco-Retreat and Worship Service: Canberra City Uniting Church, ACT Outdoor Chapels Burung Bush Chapel (Terrigal UC, NSW) Blessing of the Animals Service: All Saints Floreat Uniting Church WA 4

12/02/2018 ‘Walk and Wonder’ Bellingen Eco-Faith Community Lane Cove UC and Grace UC’s Outdoor Adventure Church ‘Delilah’, the Water Tank who serves the church Maroubra Junction Uniting Church, NSW SAVING WATER 5

12/02/2018 Festival of Living Water Greywater Springvale Uniting recycling Church, VIC Maroubra Junction Uniting Church, NSW Experimental technologies – rainwater bladder tanks COMMUNITY GARDENING AND FOOD Charlestown Anglican Parish, NSW 6

12/02/2018 St George’s Uniting Church, Eden St Luke’s Anglican Parish Castlemaine Uniting Church, VIC Mosman Park WA Nightcliffe Uniting Church, NT Hope Uniting Church, Port Phillip Uniting Church, VIC NSW “ We started with enormous faith – and no garden tools or money to buy them. On the first day it rained and only one person turned up, Roger. As it happened he was an artist and designed our sign. And everything happened from there…” St Matthew’s Long Gully, VIC 7

12/02/2018 The Old Church on the Hill, VIC Neutral Bay Uniting Church, NSW Neutral Bay UC Children’s Garden: Adamstown Uniting Church, NSW 8

12/02/2018 Peace wall and garden Warrandyte Uniting Church, VIC Sophia’s Spring: an eco -feminist community of the Uniting Church Sophia’s Spring, an eco -feminist community of the Uniting Church Adamstown Uniting Church, NSW 9

12/02/2018 SOLAR Indooroopilly UC UCIC – Wesley Church, Perth WA Solar Crosses Caloundra Uniting Church, QLD Castlemaine Uniting Church, VIC Bentleigh Uniting Church, VIC O’Connor Uniting Church, ACT All Saints Catholic Church, WA St Anselm of Canterbury Anglican Parish Kingsley- North Woodvale WA 10

12/02/2018 Tecoma Uniting Church, VIC Infant Jesus Catholic Parish - Morley – Powered by the Sun/Son! Solar Hot Water ADVOCACY 11

12/02/2018 Crossroads Uniting Church, Werribee VIC GETTING TO CHURCH SUSTAINABLY REDUCING WASTE 12

12/02/2018 SAVING ENERGY 13

12/02/2018 Greening Synods/Church Offices Uniting Church Centre - Perth Tree Planting TAKING ACTION Metro West First Third Churches (UCA WA) 14

12/02/2018 EDUCATION Schoolies For a Cause (UCA VIC/TAS) – volunteering with CVA in the Grampians Green DVD Maroubra Junction Uniting Church, NSW Spring Garden Festival – St Saviour’s Anglican Church, WA 15

12/02/2018 Food Co-Op: Brunswick Uniting Church, VIC LEADING THE WAY Brisbane, QLD St Phillip’s Church, QLD 16

12/02/2018 Protecting Biodiversity Brunswick Uniting Church, VIC Abbotsford Convent, VIC St Matthew’s Church Long Gully, VIC Amegilla cingulata , commonly known as The Old Church on the Hill, VIC the blue-banded bee Swan View Uniting Church, WA 17

12/02/2018 Spider named after church • Habronestes diocesegrafton Kids Animal Club A Rocha Australia Charlestown Anglican Parish, Newcastle NSW RESTORING LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS 18

12/02/2018 Before After Greening the Church Booklet Other Great Ideas: • Men’s Sheds • Skills-Fest • Citizen Science • Partnerships with local conservation groups • Ecumenical/Interfaith revegetation • Youth Earthwatch Scholarships • Beeswax Wrap making workshops • Boomerang bags • Partnerships with wildlife rescue 19

12/02/2018 Photo: Nearly half of the items stocked at the Darwin Toy Library are rescued from landfill. The Five Leaf Eco-Awards An Ecumenical Environmental Change Program for Churches and religious organisations. Supported by: Associate member of the Council of Churches of WA 20

12/02/2018 Five Leaves/Areas: Caring for Creation • Buildings • Worship • Congregation • Outreach • Community Leadership Can be very Rewarding! Award presentations 21

12/02/2018 http://fiveleafecoawards.org/ Earning An Award! How Green is your church? The first award: Basic Certificate 1. Energy audit • Please get into church groups and go to: 2. 3 actions to reduce your resource use • Fiveleafecoawards.org and click on ‘Survey’ 3. 2 behaviour change campaigns 4. Provide 2 resources for members of your church to take action in their own lives 5. Conduct a worship service around the environment 6. Conduct a green outreach event 7. Complete a special project to show your dedication 22

12/02/2018 1. Has your church conducted a casual How did your church go? walk through energy audit of the church building? • Energy Audit Handbook – PDF • Fiveleafecoawards@gmail.com What is your first next step? What else could your church be doing? • Individual Brainstorm • Group brainstorm • Share with your group 23

12/02/2018 What resources do you need for that next step? • Group Brainstorm • Report back How do we make sure that Creation Care becomes central to our life, witness and service? A Dream and a Challenge www.unitingearth.org.au • Leading the way into a new way of life – for the sake of God’s world 24

12/02/2018 http://fiveleafecoawards.org/ Unitingearthweb.org.au Zero Waste Christmas Gift Making Uniting Earth Events Coming Up: Sydney: • 3pm, Saturday 16 th of December • At UTC • Cost: $10 Canberra: • 2pm, Sunday 17 th of December • Location tba • Cost: $10 25

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