Christ Church is signed up to the Eco Church Award Scheme

We were thrilled to receive our Silver award in December 2024 and Bronze award in August 2021. We have a small Eco Church team which would be delighted if you would like to be involved. The scheme covers five key areas of church life:

1. Worship and teaching
2. Management of church buildings
3. Management of church land
4. Community and global engagement
5. Lifestyle

Express your concern

Our world has an urgent rubbish problem, but Christians around the world are uniting to take action. Why not take part in Tearfund’s Rubbish Campaign This is a Rubbish Campaign – Tearfund

Talk to your friends and family about your concerns regarding climate change.

Websites

Church of England Environment Team

Hope for the Future

Young Christians Climate Network

A Rocha UK – Caring for God’s Earth

Wild Christian – Ideas for families and communities from A Rocha

The Climate Coalition

Tearfund – Environment and climate

Tearfund Reboot Campaign (as featured in our recent Climate Sunday services)

Christian Aid – Climate justice, every moment matters

Fairtrade Foundation (Christ Church is a Fairtrade Church)

Guide to Going Green at Home – A great guide to being green at home

Videos

Prof Katharine Hayhoe’s three sessions at the A Rocha International gathering in July 2021 covered talking climate change with Christians, finding hope and dealing with disagreement. If you can, do make time to watch these engaging, and challenging talks.

Try Tearfund’s great series of short videos on Christianity and Climate Change.

Pray

Our prayers are likely to include lament, repentance, praise and calls for wisdom for ourselves and government leaders across the globe.  We may also want to pray that others who are in a position to help tackle the environmental crisis – including international organisations, corporations, scientists and technologists – will also recognise their responsibilities and succeed in developing measures to avert the current crisis.

Act

By making more sustainable choices in our own lives, each one of us also has the opportunity to demonstrate our love for our global neighbours and for God’s creation. Our actions and choices make a difference – and influence those around us to take action too.

Hopefully the above resources will provide lots of ideas of ways to make positive lifestyle changes and to reduce our ‘carbon footprint’ – these may be related to our transport, our diet (introducing more plant-based meals into our diet is one of the best ways to cut our carbon footprint), our shopping choices, our energy provider, involvement in local action (see below), the way we clean things, how we garden, or perhaps who we bank with.

Local groups and events

We are not alone – why not join in a local or national event for inspiration and community.

Local groups include Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Beeston Wildlife Group, Feed Me Fully Loaded, Nottingham Climate Assembly, Nottingham Energy Partnership, Notts Cloth Nappies, Extinction Rebellion Nottingham and Incredible Edible Beeston.

Talk to someone

It is good to talk together. Do contact us with your suggestions, questions or if you would like to join our local Eco Church team.

The Green Champion at Christ Church Chilwell is Esther Pawley and she can be contacted at ecochurch@ccchilwell.org.uk.