SC Green Team – meeting
notes – 03/23/2016
Attendees: Mark, Candy, Bill, Linda Z
Green Service – scheduled for April 24
- Theme: Climate Change
is a container issue (this doesn't sound so spiritual - we'll do this
in a spiritual way!)
o Churches care about
poverty, hunger, homelessness, clean water, justice, war, etc
o Climate change affects
all of these – Climate change is now the “container” of all of these
o Climate change is not "another
issue" - it effectively supercedes them all by making them all more likely
if we let things get worse
- Bill will give a personal
witness / mission moment
o Dana is also giving a
message
o Church green service
is registered on both the UCC site and the Interfaith Power & Light site.
o Does someone from the
giving garden also want to contribute?
§ We could work this in
if someone is interested.
- Music
o Pentecostal Pickers
are on for April 24 – they know it’s a green service
§ They are planning on
doing 3 songs
- Children’s talk
o Idea: a large white
bucket with a map of the earth filled with all the things we care about
§ could use a 5 gal
paint bucket
§ or a wheelbarrow
instead to tie it to the giving garden – it’s large and dramatic too.
o Need youth voice or
voices
§ Candy talked to Jenn Murray
– Jenn agreed to ask two kids to do this.
·
Mark will provide the initial script
·
Steve could coach when back?
§ Possible youth: Anna McGrath, Katherine Gatewood, Carolyn
Parker?
§ Other middle school
kids?
§ Christina Nardini ? (graduate
student attending Merrimack College)
- ACTION: Bill - Get EDF
“I’m a Climate Voter” bumper stickers to handout at fellowship hour
- Steve Fink’s suggestion
of a theme - Local connection – we work this in with the Giving Garden
- Green Sunday - Bulletin
idea
o a photo
of the Giving Garden with the new shed in the background would make a nice
program for the bulletin.
Divestment Discussion
- We will take up how to
spur the divestment discussion at church (both with the Trustees of the Trust
Funds and with general church membership) at our next meeting
- Bill has a 4 page handout
that goes into divestment reasons/justification – he will send this out to the
core group again.
