Reaching out and growing together in God's love
Here at St Paul’s Church we actively participate in the A Rocha Eco Church Award scheme to show that we care for God’s earth. We work to improve the sustainability of the church building and land. Greatly increase environmental awareness in our community.
An award is obtained by answering a series of survey questions divided into five categories:
1. Worship and Teaching.
2. Buildings (this concerns double-glazing, insulation and they type of lightbulbs used etc)
3. Land
4. Community and Global Engagement
5. Lifestyle
We started our journey in May 2023 and in September 2023 and we achieved the Bronze Award.
This achievement we are very proud of!
Great news to share as in August 2024 Jill and the team have now achieved the Silver Award :
What has St Pauls actively helped with and completed so far?
Twinned our church loos with one in Kenya and one in DR Congo
The architectural genius design and creation of our Bug Hotel in our Church grounds:
We had our top builders on the job
As you can see it now fully open and taking`buggings.com`
Also in our church garden our Messy church activity joined in to be encouraging and inspiring the children through fun and play to plant wild garden seeds.
We held a plant sale to raise money to twin our church garden with one in Migori Kenya.
If you haven’t had a chance to calculate your carbon footprint why not have a go? There is absolutely no obligation to commit to any of the suggestions of ‘offsetting’, but it is an opportunity to remind us of the everyday things we can do like reusing and recycling and putting on an extra jumper instead of the heating (tempting though that option has been this summer!).
Why not see for your self and complete the simple survey below** to find out were you are?
See if your a Climate Villain, Friend or Hero?
**to open survey simple have your smart phone open ready to take a picture with your camera mode on. Then hover over the image above (QR code) and the link will appear (often in yellow) on your phone screen - simple click this on your smart phone screen and it will automatically appear for you to complete**
06/08/2024