Eco Church Update

Written By Clare Coombes

There are now 12 churches in the Mersey Synod area registered for the Eco Church awards. Seven of the churches have achieved a Bronze award and one a Silver award.

Congratulations to all those involved in making this happen.  This is a big step along the road for the Mersey Synod to achieve an Eco Synod award, one of the key objectives in the Synod’s Environmental Policy which can be downloaded from the Synod website here:  https://www.urcmerseysynod.org.uk/eco-church   

Eco Church is A Rocha UK’s award scheme for churches in England and Wales who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God’s earth. The Eco Synod Award is a development of Eco Church whereby a URC Synod can register its interest in and work towards an award. The two awards are designed to complement each other, encouraging both Synod-level and local church-level engagement with Eco Church. For more details visit: https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/

URC Mersey Green Apostle

Richard Pearce is the URC Mersey Green Apostle, providing information, advice and support to the Synod and individual churches to help them to care for God’s creation and to rise to the climate action challenge. 

Key challenges include making significant reductions in URC Mersey’s carbon footprint, minimising waste, improving resource efficiency & recycling and protecting biodiversity.  

Greenapostle@urcmerseysynod.org.uk 

07976 352914

01925 382970

Clare Coombes
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