We are getting excited about the Kinder Living Home Show, it will be so good to meet in person again, as it was held online last year. Horsham Eco Churches has a stand on both days, Saturday 5 March 10 - 4 & Sunday 6 March 10 - 3, if you could spare an hour to help me chat to people and hand out information, please let me know.
I’ll be leading an interactive presentation at The Kinder Living Home Show How Churches are Responding to the Climate Crisis with Resources to Inspire Action Sunday 6 March 1pm - 1.30pm Booking required viaEventbrite, details to follow soon, see our web and Facebook pages for the latest information.
The Eco Churches display will be at Sussex Green Hub, at the United Reformed Church in Horsham on Saturday 26 February and 26 March 10am - 4pm, I'll be there in March to answer any questions and would love to meet you.
Scroll down for colour coded information to help you start or continue your Eco Church or Creation Care journey: Local News, Resources & Grants, Webinars & Conferences and Petitions.
Saturday 5 March 10am - 4pm & Sunday 6 March 10am - 3pm
County Hall North (Parkside), Chart Way, Horsham RH12 1XH
Kinder Living is all about encouraging people to live more sustainably, whether you are getting started or wondering what to do next, the show provides a friendly, inspirational space to find information, ask questions and meet people who can help. FREE Entry.
What’s On at Kinder Living Home Show includes:
Advice - on saving energy, water, plastic & preventing waste.
Kinder Gardening - grow your own, composting, gardening for wildlife & Transition Horsham Seed Swap.
Daily Life - from sustainability in the kitchen to electric vehicles & prolonging the life of your IT.
New Kinder Wellbeing section - with taster sessions.
Horsham Eco Churches - Eco Church & Creation Care information.
A variety of talks & activities bookable via Eventbrite – details to follow soon.
Interactive Presentation with Q & A
How Churches are Responding to the Climate Crisis with Resources to Inspire Action
Sunday 6 March 1pm - 1.30pm at Kinder Living Home Show
Book via Eventbrite, details available soon. Led by Karen Park, Horsham Eco Churches Co-ordinator and Eco Champion at Silver Eco Church Award winning St. Mark's Church, Holbrook.
Horsham Community Fridge Saturday Pop-Ups 10 - 11am
Lots of good free food rescued from incineration or landfill, everyone is welcome.
Many thanks to all the churches and volunteers who have made these Pop-Ups possible.
Saturday 26 February - United Reformed Church, Horsham with Sussex Green Hub
Saturday 5 March - St Andrew's, Roffey
Saturday 12 March - Holy Innocents Church Hall with Connect Church Southwater
Saturday 19 March - St John's Church Hall, Horsham
Saturday 26 March - United Reformed Church, Horsham with Sussex Green Hub
Newsletter includes: Sussex Green Hub, Horsham Repair Café, Horsham District Council’s Ambition for Zero Emissions, Recycling – take plastic back to the Supermarket, Youth Eco Forum, Small Green Steps - grow your own cress and Community Energy Horsham.
Sussex Green Hub & Horsham Repair Café - Sat 26 February & 26 March 10 - 4 at United Reformed Church, Horsham (behind Wilko) with Horsham Community Fridge (free food), Community Energy Horsham, Horsham Eco Churches, Bottle Refills, Refreshments, Recycling, Renewable Energy and Gardening Inspiration.
The Climate Coalition's annual #ShowTheLove campaign is helping everyone to keep up the pressure on our MPs post-COP26. Join in by creating and crafting green hearts to wear and share with your local MP, demonstrating your hope and desire for change. Ask your MP to write to the Prime Minister and Chancellor calling for leadership and action on climate and nature.
Action packs and postcards: https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/show-the-love
Community Energy Horsham
Watch the video from Sussex Green Ideas Zoom monthly event for more information. Help us find roof tops for this brilliant opportunity to get more clean renewable energy in Horsham District. Come along to Sussex Green Hub on Sat 26 February 10 – 4 at United Reformed Church, Horsham, for chats in the morning and a team meeting at 2pm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVnevOJO4JQ
Eco Church & Creation Care
Here’s an image of one of the slides from a 19 minute audio-visual presentation by Horsham Eco Churches, the hyperlinks in the slides take you to more information. Download the presentation and select slide show, from beginning. You can edit the slides for use by your church. http://horshamct.org.uk/eco-churches/
Climate Emergency Toolkit
An excellent resource by Tearfund alongside Christian Aid, Church of England, Green Christian, Operation Noah, Hope for the Future, Eco Church, A Rocha UK and other organisations. Step by step, the Climate Emergency Toolkit guides your church or Christian organisation through simple but powerful actions that have an impact far beyond your own walls or community.
Updated with new resources for 2022, inspiring stories, and ways to get your church involved. The core steps are still the same: Prepare, Declare, and Impact. So even if you’ve started using the Toolkit in your church or organisation, you can download this new version and dive back in. Or, if you’re yet to take the first steps, this is a great opportunity to kickstart your plans for journeying deeper into climate action.
Eco Church Connect - February Edition
At the end of 2021 4,400 churches were registered as Eco Churches, and 1,660 awarded Eco Churches, read news about:
Eco Church webinars
The first Eco Church prayer forum on 24 February 2022
Climate Sunday
Website still available with free resources and information for anyone to use. www.climatesunday.org
Lent Church Resources from Tearfund
Help beat poverty and change lives of people all around the world. Download FREE prayer pointers, bookmarks, posters, social media, PowerPoint and a short film about how people in Rwanda are working together to see their futures transformed. https://www.tearfund.org/campaigns/church-lent-appeal
Caring for God's Acre - New Burial Ground Discovery Pack
Download FREE activities for exploring burial ground nature through the seasons, aimed at primary aged children, with information and links suitable for anyone curious about nature. Perfect for Cubs, Brownies, home educators and anyone looking for outdoor activities with children throughout the year. Why not try some of the activities this weekend? https://www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/resources/burial-ground-discovery-pack/
Creation Care
Find out how your household is doing at caring for creation - use the Creation Care survey to find if you're at Bronze, Silver or Gold award level, and how to reach the next level. St Mark's Church, Holbrook, has now presented 9 Bronze and 2 Silver Creation Care Awards. https://creationcare.org.uk/members/
The Justice Conference on Tour and Online - presented by Tearfund
Creating spaces to gather, discuss, listen and learn about biblical justice and what this means for us as disciples of Jesus today. Encouraging stories of God’s justice breaking through, to inspire you to consider what seeking and doing justice in your neighbourhood could look like. https://thejusticeconference.co.uk/on-tour/
Our common home and common family are suffering. The climate emergency is causing rising seas, a warmer planet, and more extreme weather, all of which are devastating God’s creation. At the same time, biologists estimate that we’re driving species to extinction at a rate of 100 to 1,000 times their usual rate. “We have no such right” (Laudato Si’ 33).
Last year, more than 120,000 people and 420 organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of people, signed the petition ahead of the UN’s Climate Change Conference. Now the petition is being relaunched to call on world governments to protect God’s creation and lift up the voices of the most vulnerable at the upcoming UN biodiversity conference 25 April - 8 May 2022 in China. https://healthyplanetandpeople.org/
Plastic pollution is everywhere: in the rain, our food, even in the human placenta! But now more than 100 countries are calling for a new global treaty to end plastic pollution!
The United Nations is considering a new ambitious global treaty to end plastic pollution. If countries agree to it, we have a real chance of cleaning up our planet! But big polluters are already trying to water down the proposal. It’s up to all of us to show them that the whole world supports the strongest possible treaty to end the plastic crisis!
Sussex Green Living volunteers collect and hand sort many types of specific single use plastics and other resources for recycling, to avoid landfill or incineration and raise funds for local good causes.
Trafalgar Infant School, Greenway (Junior) Academy and the Holy Trinity Church Community in Horsham together save specific plastics and rubbish from landfill and incineration, while raising money for those communities.
Join the discussion, as we encourage and inspire churches and communities on their Eco journey, to share ideas and find out more about caring for God’s wonderful world.
