Eco Church

Our world is experiencing a climate emergency and every one of us needs to try to tread more gently on the earth. A Rocha is a Christian environmental charity that allows churches to look at the way that they are running their churches with a view to lowering their carbon footprint and working in a more sustainable way, through the Eco Church awards.

Each church registers online and completes a simple survey about how their church operates in different areas of their life and work. The answers collect points towards an Eco Church Award – the more the church does the more points it gets. The awards are Bronze, Silver and Gold and the areas of church life are:

 Worship and teaching
 Management of church buildings
 Management of church land
 Community and global engagement
 Lifestyle

In May, Reepham PCC agreed to register and begin working towards an award. It takes some time to complete the survey to give a baseline but we are nearly there, and we are already at the Bronze level for three of the categories. We are forming a small group to look at how to take this forward. As communication about environmental issues is a vital part of the Eco Church awards, there will be regular updates to chart our progress and hopefully, other churches will see that they too can become Eco Churches.