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Hope United Church Goes GREEN!

Hope United Church Goes GREEN!. Abbey Baker Colloquium Spring 2011. PCUSA- National Level. Eco-Palms…how we harvested for Palm Sunday Council “Enough for Everyone” “Celebrating and Caring for God’s Earth” Green Seal. PCUSA- Local Level. Work with Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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Hope United Church Goes GREEN!

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  1. Hope United ChurchGoes GREEN! Abbey Baker Colloquium Spring 2011

  2. PCUSA- National Level • Eco-Palms…how we harvested for Palm Sunday • Council “Enough for Everyone” • “Celebrating and Caring for God’s Earth” • Green Seal

  3. PCUSA- Local Level • Work with Coalition of Immokalee Workers • March to Publix • Commitment to Recycling • Hymnal & Bible Recycle and Reuse

  4. My Church- My Role • What I did to go “Green” • March 13th-Bring Your Cup to Church day • Fellowship- saw cups from all over the country! • Recycle Bin for Bulletin • Basket hanging for bulletins that people do not take home • Recycle Bin in My Office • I now recycle my paper waste too!

  5. All About the Money! • Average cups of coffee served a week 150 cups • 1 package of 300 cups $32.00 • Savings of $64.00 a month • Savings of $832.00 a year • More money saved during a year- this number not counting special events

  6. Helping Hand • March 4th- I went to Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry in Immokalee • Served meal • Hand out clothing • Handed out fruit picked from the fields • Gleaning- outskirts of the fields • “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.” • Leviticus 19:9

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