Eco Church
In 2021 the Mint Church registered as an Eco Church, one of over seven thousand in England and Wales, we obtained our bronze award at the start of 2022 and in March 2024 we obtained our Silver Award. We will now be working towards Gold. We realize there are a lot of restraints on what we can do easily due to our older buildings but we are incorporating the theme of care for creation more strongly in our worship and teaching, strengthening the green credentials of our building and the activities that happen in it, working in local and global partnerships with others committed to environmental concerns, and challenging the lifestyle of our members. Our Young Church provided us with the impetus we needed to become greener in our actions as well as our words, and we are determined to pass on to the next generation a church committed to the fullness of God’s creation. We are currently working at building relationships that will enable the church and the many users of the centre to address the issues together, and also at strengthening relationships with those outside the church who share similar aims.
Eco Church News
ECO CHURCH NEWS June 2022
Carbon footprint – Travel survey Here’s a reminder that the Eco Church Team will be doing a carbon footprint survey of the congregation after the...
Eco Church News May 2022
Letter from A Rocha UK Earlier this year the Mint achieved the Bronze Award under A Rocha UK’s Eco Church scheme. The Church Council subsequently...
Making Eco-Friendly Choices May 2022
This month Colin Lambert tells us why he invested in an Air Fryer. As energy prices rocket, how is it possible to reduce energy costs in the...
Eco Church News April 2022
Carbon Footprint - Travel survey As part of the Eco Church initiative, we are starting to measure the Mint’s carbon footprint. This is the amount of...
Eco Church News March 2022
Mint achieves Bronze Award Recently the Mint achieved the Bronze Award under A Rocha UK’s Eco Church scheme, designed for churches who want to...
ECO CHURCH NEWS January 2022
Eco Church group For our “Climate for Change” service at the Mint on November 7th we asked you to contribute a recentlifestyle change you had made,...
The Young church manifesto in which ecological concerns dominate the “Issues for the Church to help tackle”