IMPORTANT: The deadline for MCCN’s grants is moving from October 31 to June 30. The next opportunity to apply is in June 2018. Mennonite Creation…
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Hoosier Interfaith Power and Light Features Mennonite Solar Efforts
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.
MCC Seeking Partners to Share in Solar Grant Opportunity
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in partnership with Secure Futures, a solar power business, are looking for three institutions that are interested in implementing a solar project. Since winning…
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Solar Grant Recipients Now Generating Power
The news from Vermont: Heather Wolfe of Taftsville Chapel Mennonite Fellowship, says, “I am pleased to report that we are now generating renewable energy! The…
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Virginia Church Pays Climate Change Reparations
In 2017, for the first time—but not the last—Park View Mennonite Church of Harrisonburg, Va., will pay climate change reparations for the fossil fuels their…
Read moreFor 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