7 Simple Steps to Green Your Church - Softcover

Simon-Peter, Rebekah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1426702930 ISBN 13: 9781426702938

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2010

Synopsis

This companion book to Green Church, selected for the United Methodist Women's reading program for 2012, can be used as part of the Green Church study or as a stand-alone tool.  7 Simple Steps to Green Your Church offers a practical, stimulating, and creative step-by-step guide to greening your church over the course of one year.  From calculating the church's carbon footprint to "paying it forward" with another congregation, this useful tool, replete with personal anecdotes from others who've used these methods, offers creative ideas for caring for creation both in the church, and at home.

Each monthly focus is motivating and action-based.  Some of these include:  Do Unto Others: Recycling, Let There Be Light: Lighting, and To Everything There Is a Season: Heating and Cooling.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebekah Simon-Peter, an ordained United Methodist pastor with a degree in Environmental Studies, worked as an acid rain researcher and volunteer naturalist before receiving her call to ministry.  After more than a decade of pastoring churches, she is now a sought-after presenter, sharing the "green" gospel with churches, interfaith groups, and community groups. She lives in Casper, Wyoming, where she is the founder of BridgeWorks, a ministry that builds bridges of understanding. For more information, go to bridgeworkspresents.org.

Review:

- A 2012 Selection of the United Methodist Women's Reading List

"I can't imagine a church of any size that will not benefit from using this book.  It is lively, easy to read, and wonderfully practical.  Get it, and use it!" - J. Ellsworth Kalas, author of Parables from the Back Side

"Green Church is the most direct...no-nonsense argument I have yet seen for the holy obligation to Christian greenness.  This and its companion volume, 7 Simple Steps to Green Your Church, should be 'must reads' for every church in North America." - Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence:  How Christianity Is Changing and Why

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1426702930
• ISBN 13: 9781426702938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 143