On Sunday St. Mark’s church celebrated achieving the bronze Eco church award and we are on our way to silver. In March we started the process of becoming an Eco church. We focused on the five key areas of church life promoted by the scheme: worship and teaching, management of church buildings, management of church land, community & global engagement and lifestyle. We had already, as a church, taken steps to reduce our carbon footprint and met many of the criteria for the award.
To achieve our silver award we will need to raise the profile of our support for sustainability projects both globally and locally, to re-examine our commitment to Fair Trade and to be encouraging church members to reflect on how their lifestyle can be made compatible with caring for God’s creation. We have recently started the process of bringing more wild flowers to the churchyard. David Walker