Yesterday afternoon St John's hosted a meeting for the Reading-Düsseldorf Churches Interchange - part of a week long visit. The afternoon was themed around Climate Change and Creation Care and started with a presentation about EcoChurch. I delivered this, and had been asked to focus especially on actions that individuals can do. In my preparation, I came across The JUMP's very optimistic calculations on the impact that individuals can have on the crisis by doing six key things to cut our own emissions, so I put these at the heart of the talk.
Afterwards one of the visitors, Hans, shared some of the activities done and issues faced by German churches also wanting to cut their carbon footprint. He told us of their Green Rooster initiative - their version of EcoChurch. There followed lots of enthusiastic discussion, especially around practical action like installing solar panels and the question of influencing our politicians. As well as learning about actions in Germany, it was a great opportunity to chat with people from other Reading churches who are now interested in becoming EcoChurches too!
After an excellent cream tea, there was a lovely ecumenical service at which Michaela Nieland-Schuller preached on creation care.
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