South Church Green Team Meeting 2014-04-10 regular meetings 2nd Thursday of the month
Attendees:
Mark Bohrer, Candy Dann, Bill Schroeder, Steve Fink, Fran Fink, Iric Rex, Terry
Ebner
1) Green Children’s Service - theme of sustaining God’s creation – Sunday May 11th
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Terry
Ebner & Iric Rex to lead
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This
is the next regularly planned children’s service
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To
be held in Fellowship Hall or possibly outside
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Lots
of good ideas gathered re: songs, asking each kid to think of places to love
& protect
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Iric
& Terry have notes
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Other
Green Team members ready to help
2) Sustainable House of Worship (SHOW) Saturday, May 17
SHOW
stands for Sustainable House of Worship,
and it's a program put on by Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light.
It's a workshop with presentations and Q&A focused on helping faith
groups reduce their energy consumption, hence living out their faith, saving
money and operating more sustainably.
The cost of the program from MIP&L is $700.
Seeds of Faith at South Church agreed to underwrite. Our goal is to recoup as
much of this cost as possible from other supporting organizations. We already
have commitment from American Baptist for $100; a few other churches may also
commit. We're trying to line up a couple of appropriate corporate sponsors.
There will be an admission fee of $10 per attendee.
Fellowship hall – signup & coffee at 8:30,
program from 9AM to 12:30 PM, optional lunch to follow
See
Latest Flyer attached
ACTION: all – see list below - the main effort
is to contact local houses of worship to signup attendees
ACTION: Fran – Lunch - investigate
inexpensive good options for food
Church
Contact List
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Who
– and who to call
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Temple Emmanuel
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Steve
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contact Brian Major & Greg Sebasky to
find out their church connections
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Steve F
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Grace Chapel
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Steve - Andover Baptist – Steve – will call
minister
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Greek Orthodox
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Steve
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Grace Chapel
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Steve – call Steve and Jan Hathaway
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West Parish Andover
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Bill – contact Art, Fran to contact Suetta
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St. Michaels North Andover
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– Candy
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Trinitarian Church North Andover
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Candy – call Vickie Keane
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Hindu Temple
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Candy – call Karuthiga
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Faith Lutheran
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Fran
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St. Augustine
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Fran – contact Suzy
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Ballardvale UCC
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Fran
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Free Christian Church
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Fran – Dave Dargy
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Methuen Mosque
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Fran – Imam
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Rolling Ridge Conf Center Rev. Larry Peacock
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Iric will contact
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UU – North Andover
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Mark – contact Charles Leinbach, ask Debbie
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UU – Andover
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Mark – start with Heather Bond
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Church?
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Bill – Christopher Jenkins
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New England Bible Church Andover
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Korean Church Andover
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Christian Science Church Andover
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St. Patrick’s Lawrence
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3)
Watch Party for Years of Living Dangerously
Series
starts on Showtime & YouTube 4/13 – tabled until next time
ACTION: Mark to notify SC Green Team
mailing list
Watch party - Tabled - talk at next
meeting for possibly next month
4)
"Green opportunities" on the horizon for both the parsonage and the
church - Candy
Energy
audit at the parsonage and a lead inspection. There are items under
discussion that would warm our hearts as well as warm the parsonage such as:
- replacement windows, attic insulation, blocking off the ceiling
fan, installing more efficient heating for a room over the garage, renovating a
bathroom which will allow for full wall insulation for that room at least,
and some minor cosmetic improvements.
The
Trustees will be asking the congregation as a whole to raise the money to do
this work but there are some groups (Trustees, Financial Summit
participants) in the church being asked to take a leadership role and get
the ball rolling with early commitments. I would like to ask our Green
Team to be one of those groups.
5)
Ongoing Topics
Monthly
themes – “Green Thing of the Month” at Fellowship hour << tabled – no event
planned for April
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Monthly Green themes
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August – re-usable lunchboxes
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September – local and garden harvests, composting, local
farms, CSA’s
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October – weatherizing / energy sealing, energy
programmable thermostats
· November – Green Xmas
decorations, living trees
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Jan – lighting, LED’s CFLs, timers, alternatives to salt
& ice control
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Feb – appliances, Energy Star
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Mar – spring cleaning products
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Apr – Green lawn care & gardening
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May – plant trees to takeup C, shade house, invasive
species
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Jun – water conservation, farmers markets, water bottles,
rain barrels
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Jul – vacation offsets
Divestiture
discussion < last discussed in October 2013
- Candy
invited Janet to talk about UCC Divestiture
o Will
invite Trustees of Trust Funds
- Can
this lead to a church-wide discussion on divestiture for each household?
- Postpone until February
Witnessing for Creation
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include MACUCC program "Witnessing for Creation" in services on a
regular basis
See how kids can be involved
Plan to discuss with new minister
