This
year Green Christian is encouraging the church in Britain to take a moment to
consider our role in the destruction of the environment, our complicity in
consumerism, and in an economy that serves profit over people. Instead, we are
invited to embrace the sufficiency and the joy of enough.
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Green Christian recommends three prepared courses courses – which can be used for either Advent or Lent
An extra fourth course “Loaf for Lent” is being written and tried out at Emmanuel Church, a URC-Methodist church in Redditch, Worcestershire, by Revd Steve Levett. He invites other churches to take part if interested.
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It would benefit you to join a Speakers Club or a Toastmasters Club:
Speakers Clubs can cost as little as £40 to £80 (Depending on your local group) for 14 two hour sessions during spring and autumn (Compare that with professional weekend courses that cost £300)
You may be shy person –
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The following prayers are particularly appropriate as lamentations:
A Light Landing
Luke 12.22-34
Creator Spirit
out of nothingness
no thingness
a cosmos of intricate harmony
and elegant balance emerged.
How is it that we can walk past butterfly wings –
our minds filled with weightier matters –
and not drop to our knees
in reverie?
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Here are prayer resources which some GC members have found particularly helpful:
Creationtide resources – there is so much on the internet from many church traditions. Here is the one from the C of E – https://creationtide.com/
GC Way of Life Companions’ ‘Liturgy of Commitment’ which has been provided to all Companions and which can be said at any time,
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Prayers based on Psalms, with “the enemy” being climate change or “the powers that be” that are causing it – by Ruth Jarman
A prayer based on Psalm 4 by Ruth Jarman
“Answer me when I call to you,
O my righteous God.
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Sandra Dustson wrote this poem several years ago, and used it as a basis for a house-group discussion on “Bus Stop Theology”. Enjoy reading the poem and the discussion at the end.
THE BUS STATION.
The bus station
Is the starting point
Social injustice
incarnate.
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Andover URC Harvest Festival, 9th September 2018, 10.30
by Revd David Read
You may remember two hurricanes last year: hurricane Harvey killed at least 39 people in Houston and across Texas; hurricane Irma crashed through the Caribbean before smashing into Florida. It was a terrible time for thousands of people – homes and businesses destroyed,
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