Sunday 24 September 2023 - Creation Season week 4

This week, Alex Evans from Larger.us came to share with us his thoughts on Jubilee.

If you want to follow up on the topic of Jubilee covered by Alex you might like to look at:

  • a Guardian article Alex co-wrote with Rich Gower in 2015 on the need for a new jubilee movement: this covers a lot of the same ground as the talk

  • a report that Alex and Rich wrote for Tearfund at around the same time, on the idea of a restorative economy. This goes deeper into these ideas, and especially into the movement building aspects of a new jubilee campaign and what it might demand specifically in policy terms.

  • a project on enabling people to have great climate conversations in this article and also on the larger.us website here.

Plastic Free July

Plastics can be very useful and are an almost essential part of our life today but they come with loads of problems. One of the good things about plastics is that last a long time but one of the bad things about plastics is that they last a long time! Once you have finished with most plastic items and you throw them away they could still be around for centuries to come.

I have been looking at the Seven Rs of sustainability. When it comes to plastics we need to Rethink how and when we use them, Refuse to use them when there are safer alternatives, Reduce the amount of plastic we use, any plastics we do use we need to Reuse as many times as we can Repairing any plastic items that get broken as often as we can, Re-purposing them at the end of their useful life if at all possible before Recycling them into something else that we can use. If we did this with all plastics (and with all our goods) we would end up with a circular economy, a way in which as little of possible actually becomes waste. A way that better looks after this beautiful world that God created.

Plastic Free July aims to help us reduce plastic waste by following the steps above. If you would like to know more then explore the Plastic Free July website

Sunday Service 2 July 2023

Bits of the service this morning were pretty rubbish but Richard got a round of applause for his sermon! You’ll need to watch the service to find out why!

Recycling the congregation

This Sunday, we had at least a dozen bicycles at church covering three generations (from teens to 60+). We have plans for a new cycle shelter to be built, hopefully in the next few months and hopefully from green timber with a green, living roof so that we can lock our bicycles up safely.

Some of the cyclists about to leave.