SC Green Team – meeting notes – 03/23/2016

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.