As winners of the Eco-Congregation Award (the precursor to Eco Church), St Edmund’s, Roundhay embraced Eco Church as a means of continuing their work to care for creation as an expression of Christian mission.
Introducing ‘Green Communion’
A Rocha UK’s hugely popular Eco Church award scheme will celebrate its first birthday in the New Year! To mark the occasion we’re inviting churches across England and Wales to hold a ‘Green Communion’ as part of their worship services on Sunday 5th February, 2017.
Green Communion Participating Church
A Rocha UK’s hugely popular Eco Church award scheme will celebrate its first birthday in January 2017! To mark the occasion we’re inviting churches across England and Wales to hold a ‘Green Communion’ as part of their worship services on Sunday 5th February, 2017.
St John’s, Waterloo
Dealing with an old building and engaging the congregation in entering a ‘personal ecological conversion’ were the biggest challenges faced by St John’s, Waterloo in working towards an Eco Church Award.
Salisbury Cathedral
Commenting on Salisbury Cathedral’s success in gaining a Bronze Eco Church Award, Canon Treasurer, Robert Titley said: ‘We believe that the Christian gospel is good news for the whole of creation as well as for human beings.
Streetly Methodist Church
Having replaced an old heating system with new one fuelled by a biomass boiler, Streetly Methodist Church began thinking about a 20-year future plan and how caring for the environment might feature in it.
Wymondham Abbey
Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk received a Bronze Eco Church Award in July 2016. Hilary Hunter describes some of the work involved…
The Parish of Baildon
A combination of Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and A Rocha founder Peter Harris’s books alerted the three churches of the Parish of Baildon (St John’s, St James’s and St Hugh’s) to the need for Christians to be responsible stewards of God’s earth.
Hilfield Friary
When Dorset-based Hilfield Friary applied for a Silver Award, their application was so impressive, they were immediately upgraded to Gold! ‘They’d achieved so much,’ said Eco Church Manager Nigel Hopper