Belle Vue Methodist, Shrewsbury

'Spiritual' - worship and teaching:

• Encouraged environment themes, prayers etc at local preachers’ meetings and the church’s consultation.  

• Organic, wholemeal rolls for communion.

• Bible study group has used EcoCongregation bible studies

• Marches Energy Agency presented on climate change to Afternoon Fellowship

• Activities highlighted in church newsletter and notice sheets

• Methodist Church Environment Policy displayed

• Fairtrade and other environment-related leaflets on table display

• Several members attended / were involved in organising District climate change conference

• Two members attended ‘bags of thrift’ workshop in Shrewsbury

Practical - church buildings, land, and church management:

• Finance & property committee representative actively involved in green group
• Installed low energy bulbs throughout church
• Investigated green electricity tariff in depth. 
• Recycling boxes in prominent location in church hall
• Stamp collection for Oxfam at Christmas
• A Fairtrade church – monthly stall at back of church
• Specified native tree for ‘in memoriam’ planting at front of building
• Used small area of church grounds as a ‘reflective garden’
• Checked collection envelopes recycled, and recycle after use
• Church website features ‘monthly promise’
• Carpeted and curtained much of church
• Very attentive to energy bills and meter readings
• Installed toilet bricks in cisterns
• Garden waste taken off-site for composting by gardener. 

Mission - reaching out to the local and/or global community with the creation care messge:

• Planting of ‘in memorium’ tree featured in local paper
• Promoted home energy audit project to congregation – two are participating
• Several members belong to local environmental groups
• Prayerfully support ‘Shrewsbury Youth for Christ’ including their litter pick
• Brownies ‘sent a goat’ in 2006 
• Several members attend One World Week events
• Monthly Fairtrade stall in church and several members work in local shop
• Collections for NCH, JMA Chernobyl, and Farm Africa
• Church represented and involved in the ‘Shrewsbury Ecumenical Green Group’ a.k.a. ‘EGG’
• Group member has links with World Development