Mass Lobby on Climate Change

Richard and Christine were among 10 members of the Reading East constituency to meet up with Rob Wilson for this - most of the others were from churches too apparently.

Preparing for the mass lobby on Climate Change

Last Sunday we had a great family service and the lunch was in aid of Readifood. Alison gave us a brief talk about the food parcel service before the meal. We also used the time between the service ending and the meal beginning to do some preparation for the mass lobby on Climate Change on 17th June. Christian Aid have asked us to make bunting along the theme speaking up for the love of things we care about - so here is the bunting that Richard B will be taking to the lobby.

Christian Aid walk

It was the perfect morning for the Christian Aid sponsored walk today. There was a smaller crowd from St John's than usual I think but Simon and Judy were helping with the running and there were at least four car loads of walkers, two of whom met at the finish, above. 

I've been forgetting to add stuff, as usual, but last Sunday I wrote a Godly Play script for the children inspired by John 1 and Ascension so there was lots of emphasis on Creator and Created - a good excuse for very inventive craft activities afterwards.

The week before we encouraged congregation members to do more walking and less driving by handing out Beat the Street cards and inviting them to join the St John's school team. The week before that was another EcoCongregation planning meeting.

Time to Act on Climate Change

Abi succeeded in fill a bus with climate change campaigners from Reading for the Time to Act on Climate Change march. Quite a few of them were from St John's but I've still not got round to getting any of their photos. My family headed down by train earlier in the day so that we could fit in a trip to the Science Museum before joining the march near Charing Cross.

The idea of this march was to encourage politicians to put climate change on their election agenda. I'm not sure there were enough of us in the circumstances (many of the development agencies hadn't really advertised this one), but I'm hoping the National Trust's announcement this morning will help towards that.