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Energy Star Pennsyvania Stewardship Tour

Posted on September 4, 2018

Most congregations waste about 30% of the energy they pay for. What could your congregation do with funds equivalent to 30 percent of your annual energy bill? Mennonite Central Committee is hosting the event.

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Hoosier Interfaith Power and Light Features Mennonite Solar Efforts

Posted on September 27, 2017

Trisha Tull, the director of Hoosier Interfaith Power and Light (HIPL) focused on Mennonites in the organization’s September newsletter. Her article mentions Kern Road Mennonite Church, South Bend, Ind., Benton Mennonite Church, Benton, Ind., Assembly Mennonite Church, Eighth Street Mennonite Church, and Waterford Mennonite Church, all of Goshen, Ind. Each congregation has installed solar panels and/or worked at energy conservation. The article relates these creation care efforts to Mennonites’ historic faith commitments.

Lest you think Mennonites are the greenest, holiest people in all of Indiana, also read HIPL’s uplifting features on other faith groups: Muslim…Quaker...Unitarian-Universalist…Jewish… Disciples of Christ…Presbyterian.

For in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

Colossians 1:19 - 20