Posts filed under 'God's Green Earth'
Blame it on the summer, but it’s been far too long since I last wrote something - sorry! A lot’s happened since my last entry.
First, hubby and I went on holiday in North Wales, as I’ve always wanted to visit the Centre for Alternative Technology , and this year I finally did it, hooray! Hubby also did some active stuff like mountain biking and white water rafting, while I lay back and enjoyed the fantastic scenery.
Then later in the summer we went to the Greenbelt Festival which was AMAZING!! I’d been before, but not for a while; in fact I discovered that I only went every 7 years. My first time was in ‘92, then ‘99 and now in ‘06. I’m hoping it won’t be so long before I go again!
Anyway the reason I ended up at GB again this year was all down to The Year of Living Generously and the discussion on the email list by seasoned Greenbelters about how much fun it was and what they were planning this year. Generous had their own area in one of the tents and it was a great opportunity to meet people I’d only ever chatted to online.
One of the Generous seminars was about the future of Generous, and my hubby ‘generously’ (??) volunteered me to stand up at the front and tell everyone about my involvement in Generous - I’ll get him back sometime… The seminars in general and the discussion they provoked were all really inspiring though, and I think I may have come up with a plan for introducing some of the ideas at church. However I have to go now, so I’ll tell you all about it another time. ‘Bye!
September 7th, 2006
Well, the Weekend Away was a great success and everyone had a good time, as usual; there may be some photos on the website soon! I didn’t get to talk to as many people as I’d hoped, but those I did talk to seemed keen to get involved with an environmental project of some kind; now all I have to do is decide what.
I’m a member of Christian Ecology Link so I think the next step is to find out what’s already going on in Birmingham as it makes more sense for us to join in with an existing project rather than start something new. If you’re reading this and are already involved in a Christian environmental project in Birmingham then please get in touch - I’d love to hear from you!
In the meantime my husband will be leading a session on the environment with the young people (11-16ish) this Sunday. He’s got a few practical things for them to do (set up some boxes for recycling, put silver foil behind the radiators etc) so it’ll be interesting to see their reaction and whether they have any more ideas. Next Sunday they’ll be discussing why Christians should be doing these things, but someone else will be leading as Jim and I will be heading off on holiday!
June 30th, 2006
Since this is the first post in this blog, I suppose I’d better start by introducing myself and what this blog is all about.
Well, my name’s Alison, I’m married to Jim and we live in South Birmingham where we are both members of Tiverton Christian Fellowship (named for the street it’s on, not the town it’s in, just to clear up any confusion!). If you’d like to find out more about TCF then have a look at our website here as that will tell you far more than I can include in this blog.
So, the aim of this blog is to tell you about what TCF is doing to care for the environment. At the moment this isn’t very much, but it’s something I’m passionate about and I believe we should be doing more. Thankfully there are a few people who agree with me and given time I should be able to bully, sorry, persuade a few more!
The majority of the church are going away together this weekend to discuss plans for September so it’s an opportunity to sound out other people to see how keen they’d be to get involved. I’ll let you know how I get on…
June 23rd, 2006
