SC Green Team – meeting notes – 10/15/15

Who’s was there: Mark, Candy, Bill, Steve, Fran, Iric

We missed you: Janet, Terry

2nd Church Newton Session on Green Activism

Discussed Rev Antal's sermon and Q&A on climate change – focus of lunch audience questions was on fossil fuel divestment

ACTION – Bill – send copy of text of Jim’s sermon

Here is summary of event & link to our presentation:

South Church Green Team blog - Environmental Speaker Series - Presentation for 2nd Church in Newton UCC

Fossil Fuel Divestment 

Bill talked with Dave Floreen on Trustees of Trust Funds – Bill plans to attend their next meeting (which is not currently scheduled)

-       Trustees of Trust Funds are Dave Floreen, Mike Hawkins, Jane Ingram

ACTION: Bill (with assistance from Steve) – create a 2-3 page handout on divestment to share with church membership

-       this may encourage  church membership to consider fossil fuel divestment, and may also lead Trustees of Trust Funds to consider it, or to be ready to recommend it.

-    plan to share information and educate the church - and when ready, to lead to annual meeting item?

Green Messages in the Church Service

-       Sunday Nov 15^th

o    Children’s talk - Candy – ideas/theme for talk: doing a big difficult task is easier together (think of clapping – one kid first, then all kids, then congregation), a big difficult task is easier with God, doing it makes God smile

o    Green offering - Same Sunday - Have a card in the bulletin for "Your Green Offering" check-off items and/or fill in spots of what you do, and what you will do.

Harvest Dinner - Let's celebrate the giving garden!  Target for Saturday 11/21

-       invite the giving garden group and do in conjunction with them.

-       ACTION: Fran – contact garden group to see if they are interested - invite them to nexxt meeting on 10/27

-       Theme of local food, vegetarian & low impact cooking. Feeding the poor.

-       Cookoff event with recipe sharing – with voting by attendees (similar to Chili Cookoff)

-       ACTION: Steve – contact student intern Oceana and Anne Knowles – to ask if Oceana would like to give her talk on local food and feeding the poor

-       Garden group may have information to share that night too

-       ACTION: Candy - Invite Alex to talk more about social justice – he could take part in the dinner - social justice as seen through feeding the needy

Next meeting will be 10/27 – all about planning the Harvest Dinner

Parking Lot

-       Activities/Events

o   Show video "Merchants of Doubt", documentary on oil and gas company's misinformation campaign.  Options include movie night at South Church for youth or other churches.

-       LEDs (notes from August)

o    Bill and candy to follow up about LED lights.

o    Candy to find list, Bill to research NGrid deal, Steve to talk w Georgia Rex about helping us