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Dronfield Baptist
'Spiritual':
- Undertaken the Eco Congregation Audit
- Preaching series on 'Jesus and the Earth'
- A Rocha meetings
- Discussions at Leaders meetings and Church Members meetings
- Occasional services developing environmental themes
- Regular tips and articles in Church Magazine and notice sheet
- Holiday club for children with an environmental theme (Waste Watchers)
- Promoted Hope for Planet Earth tour and a good number of Church members attended the event when it visited Dronfield.
- Our uniformed organisations have organised environmentally themed parade services.
Practical:
- Organised recycling within the Church building/Church groups in a more structured way.
- Water savers in every toilet
- Bird boxes in the Church garden
- Children in youth organisations encouraged to grow flowers and vegetables in Church garden.
- 6 Church members attended Baptist Union Conference - May 2008 which had an environmental focus
Reaching out:
- Environmental Day with speaker Dave Bookless of A Rocha, involving many local environmental groups not normally associated with the Church.
- Formation of an A Rocha group organising events and walks
- Lea Brook Valley Project - restoration and improvement of the Lea Brook Valley running through the centre of Dronfield.
- Links with local environmental groups.
- Improved relationships with the local Town Council and an opportunity to share our faith with local residents.
- Environmental Officer for Churches together in Dronfield and District
- Encourage and Promote Fair Trade - writing letters to local supermarkets to stock Fair Trade products, selling Fairly Traded goods at special events, a group working with the Town Council to have Dronfield made a 'Fair Trade Town'.
- Links with Aquaid Lifeline in Malawi, several Church members (many of them young people) have visited the project to work for a number of weeks.
- School work
- Participated in Dronfield Open Arts Weekend (Spring Bank Holiday weekend 2008)where the theme was 'Creation Cares' . This involved a number of Church members who exhibited art and photographic work, craft work, and floral displays. The Brownies created a display depicting the creation story and the guides produced banners. There was also a display of dance during the weekend. The Sunday morning service was held around the displays and focussed on the theme of Creation Cares with special hymns, meditation and prayers, a word search, quizzes and a relevant message.
