Things have been busy at Mayflower! At the end of January, Mayflower's Earthwise Action Core Team, a group of dedicated Mayflower members who are passionate about helping Mayflower church become a more green church, and the architecture firm doing an energy audit for Mayflower hosted a congregational forum to hear what was important to Mayflower members. Mayflower is a church that values being a catalyst for justice (in fact, it's part of their mission statement), so it wasn't too much of a surprise when members starting saying that it was important for the green work to be VISIBLE! If there were mountains to shout from in Minneapolis, I think they would be trying to figure out a way to shout from the top of one "Hey World! Let's All Go Green!" There aren't any significant mountains that I know of, so instead what came out of the forum was the clear message that whatever Mayflower does, it has to be something that can be seen, something other churches can do too, and it has to be made into a movement.
Why? Because what we do today, affects our children, our children's children, and our children's children's children, and so on. It affects God's creation for many generations and it is past time to show the whole world that Christian's are more than just talk when it comes to loving God and our neighbor (which includes the neighboring generations which will follow us)!
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