Saturday, April 12, 2014

South Church Green Team - Meeting Notes 2014-04-10



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
-       Terry Ebner & Iric Rex to lead
-       This is the next regularly planned children’s service
-       To be held in Fellowship Hall or possibly outside
-       Lots of good ideas gathered re: songs, asking each kid to think of places to love & protect
-       Iric & Terry have notes
-       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
Who – and who to call
Temple Emmanuel
Steve
contact Brian Major & Greg Sebasky to find out their church connections
Steve F
Grace Chapel
Steve - Andover Baptist – Steve – will call minister
Greek Orthodox
Steve
Grace Chapel
Steve – call Steve and Jan Hathaway
West Parish Andover
Bill – contact Art, Fran to contact Suetta
St. Michaels  North Andover
– Candy
Trinitarian Church North Andover
Candy – call Vickie Keane
Hindu Temple
Candy – call Karuthiga
Faith Lutheran
Fran
St. Augustine
Fran – contact Suzy
Ballardvale UCC
Fran
Free Christian Church
Fran – Dave Dargy
Methuen Mosque
Fran – Imam
Rolling Ridge  Conf Center Rev. Larry Peacock
Iric will contact
UU – North Andover
Mark – contact Charles Leinbach, ask Debbie
UU – Andover 
Mark – start with Heather Bond
Church?
Bill – Christopher Jenkins
New England Bible Church Andover

Korean Church Andover

Christian Science Church Andover

St. Patrick’s Lawrence





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
-       Monthly Green themes
·   August – re-usable lunchboxes
·   September – local and garden harvests, composting, local farms, CSA’s
·   October – weatherizing / energy sealing, energy programmable thermostats
·   November – Green Xmas decorations, living trees
·   Jan – lighting, LED’s CFLs, timers, alternatives to salt & ice control
·   Feb – appliances, Energy Star
·   Mar – spring cleaning products
·   Apr – Green lawn care & gardening
·   May – plant trees to takeup C, shade house, invasive species
·   Jun – water conservation, farmers markets, water bottles, rain barrels
·   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
- include MACUCC program "Witnessing for Creation" in services on a regular basis
See how kids can be involved
Plan to discuss with new minister



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