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You are invited to Horsham Eco Churches Get Together to share information and ideas, on Saturday 26 March 2pm at Sussex Green Hub, United Reformed Church, Horsham, RH12 1PT.
Congratulations St Mary's Storrington on your Eco Church Bronze Award, we look forward to hearing news of other churches Eco Church journey.
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.
It was so good to see our MP Jeremy Quin at the Kinder Living Home Show, he saw these hearts being made which we have now sent him. Our Government made big promises in 2021. The government’s independent climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), recently published advice on how the Government must deliver in 2022 and continue to use our global leadership role as COP26 President. Amongst other things, the report calls for the Government to put forward plans for a Net Zero Test to ensure that all decisions are consistent with the path to Net Zero. https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/independent-assessment-the-uks-net-zero-strategy/
The scale of this crisis means this is a task for all Ministers in every Government department - not just the Prime Minister, as stated by the COP President, Alok Sharma “delivering this ambitious programme will only be possible with a whole-of-Government and all-of-UK approach”.So we asked Jeremy to please write and ask the Prime Minister to lead, the Chancellor to fund, and every Minister to take responsibility and deliver net-zero fairly and rapidly. We emailed copies to some District and County Councillors.
Muddy Church A place for people to gather together, outside and to connect with the space and God. Great free resources to download or use online and pre-printed copies available to buy.
Muddy Church is an intergenerational idea, offering spaces to 'wander and wonder' together. https://www.muddychurch.co.uk/
Eco Church & Creation Care See our webpage for Horsham Eco Churches presentations, hyperlinks in the slides take you to more information. 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.
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. https://creationcare.org.uk/members/
The Justice Conference on Tour and Online - presented by Tearfund 28th - 31st March
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.
