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God is Green

Green Team | With all this talk on God being green and our call to creation, we realize we have some work to do as a church! If you have a passion for the environment and would like to help make our church more green, please contact Eddie Caton or leave your name with the office and we’ll get together and help Wellington Square Get Green!

Eating Green | Is it possible to shrink our ecological footprint by changing the way we fill our bellies? Read the article “Eating Ethically” in the April issue of the United Church Observer magazine, or online at www.ucobserver.org

May 31 is Environment Day | Bring your old or unused pesticides or other household hazardous waste, electronics, tires and reusable items to the Burlington closed landfill (North Service Road, between King and Waterdown Roads) in exchange for prizes and tips on healthy lawns. www.halton.ca/waste

Green Lawns | Wellington Square is not having pesticides applied to our lawn and gardens this year … one small effort to being kind to our earth.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. – James 2:14-18

“Our responsibility within creation and our duty toward nature and the Creator are an essential part of our faith” – the late Pope John Paul 11

It’s almost always an eventful week around the Square. Firstly, the Capital Campaign is ending. With an original estimate of $2.3 million needed, and with commitments approaching $1.8 million, all sacrificial gifts will still be gratefully received. Nevertheless, the Building Committee and architect must soon make decisions about what repairs and improvements we can afford, based on the amount of money committed. We are planning to avoid any long term mortgage. So Russ Jackson and his team will welcome your pledge of support this week, which can be then given over the next five years.
The other impactful happening this week is Rhonda’s announcement that she is concluding her work here, at the end of June. We receive her decision with regret for ourselves, with gratitude for her work, and with confidence in God’s future direction.
We are learning that when the Holy Spirit is allowed THE leadership role, the church can remain healthy and vibrant even as servant leaders are called to new tasks in new locations. So let’s enjoy Rhonda in the weeks ahead, celebrate her presence, her friendship, and her ministry, and then let’s release her toward new service on Jesus’ team. – ORVILLE

“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it; the world, and all who live in it.” — Psalms 24:1

As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet? — Ezekiel 34:17-19

So why a series of sermons headlined ‘God is Green’? Are we Christians turning into tree-huggers? I hope not, because true followers of Jesus ought to already be environmentalists.
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” Genesis 1:31. Creation is a thing of beauty, of wondrous complexity, and magnificent ingenuity. We don’t worship creation, but we do worship the Creator, and we accept the mandate to be caretakers and protectors of our world. It really is a spiritual cause, a religious duty. The United Church Observer notes “Al Gore, who has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his diligent work on behalf of the environment, believes in hell…The core of Gore’s message is that the earth will become like hell if we don’t very quickly do two things old-time religion used to ask of us as well: recognize the error of our ways and, in repenting, change how we live.” The global climate change movement certainly has all the hallmarks traditionally ascribed to religion. “We need to fix this crisis”, says Gore. This is not a political issue but a moral, ethical, spiritual issue.” AMEN.

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