Myers Park Baptist Church 1900 Queens Rd Charlotte, NC 28207 Contact: Kate Green, greenkat1@bellsouth.net Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte dedicated their 5 kW system on October 2, 2011 in a ceremony after worship services. A church Energy Committee, created at the request of their Earthkeepers Group learned about a matching grant using federal stimulus funds that was […]
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Asheville
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Asheville 20 Oak St., Asheville, NC 28801 Contact: Pastor Joe Hoffman, revjoehof@uccasheville.org First Congregational United Church of Christ, Asheville is the first congregation in North Carolina to use this model. They dedicated their 10KW solar system at a Solarbration on April 3, 2011. It was featured in a news story […]
NC Congregations Speaking Out on Climate Change
Public News Service
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Congregations in places of worship across North Carolina soon will hear a message about climate change. On Feb. 8-10, at least 36 places of worship in the state will participate in the fifth annual Preach-In on Global Warming, organized by the organization North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light. www.preachin.org lists some of them.
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The Christian Response to Global Warming
Coastal Review Online, Annita Best
Christians, says Penny Hooper, often don’t put their beliefs to work protecting God’s creation. They just need to know how, she says.
Interfaith Power & Light, Hooper hopes, is one way.
This national coalition that describes itself as “a religious response to global warming” and believes that Christians and environmentalists aren’t necessarily very different and that they can work together to solve the greatest environmental threat.
Christianity and the Environment: NC Churches Take Action
Authentic Progress (NC Sustainability Center) by Sami Grover
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden to till it and keep it.”
Genesis 2:15
Stewardship of the Earth – or creation care – is at the heart of the Bible’s Creation Story.
Allison Reeves Jolley is Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator at North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light (NCIPL), an organization that brings believers of all faiths and denominations together to address the causes and consequences of global climate change.