Eco-congregation in April will discuss how to be green

• Mar. 31 by Emma Dando (0)

Birmingham residents have been urged to attend the next eco-congregation event in the city to find out more about having an environmentally friendly lifestyle.

These events allow people to get together to discuss the best ways to be green and limit their impact on the environment and they believe that the best way to spread the message of being good to nature is to live by example.

The next eco-congregation in Birmingham will be on Friday 16^th April from 7pm-9.30pm at Journey Metropolitan Community Church.

Churches

Eco-congregation is a project that was set up by A Rocha in 2000 and has steadily grown into a worldwide campaign help make their church ‘green’.

The project provides incentives to encourage each church group to work hard at being green and to reach their targets.

These targets are made up of 12 modules in which the church must complete before they receive the Award based on these categories ‘Greening the Church Building’, ‘Community Matters’ and ‘Lifestyle Issues’.

The scheme isn’t just strictly for Christians; any member of the public can attend one of the events.

David Hughes, the Eco-congregation Coordinator for England and Wales said:

‘Although we are specifically Christian we have been approached by a couple of Islamic groups and a Jewish group who are interested in adapting the idea to work with their own places of worship and we are keen to help them set up their own schemes.

The Journey Metropolitan Community Church is running a biannual networking event in Birmingham to encourage churches to become Eco-congregations and to support those who are already working on the programme.’