The Earth and Spirit group meets on the 2nd Sundays of the month after church in the lounge. Please join us in transforming our church to pollute less and use our resources wisely. A healthy vegetarian lunch will be provided and our meetings are speedy: we only meet for 1 hour!

Check out these calls to action from Marjorie Visher and the Earth And Spirit Committee (requires Adobe Acrobat reader):

• Let's Walk the Talk
• Green Energy

The Earth and Spirit group is something of a subcommittee of the facilities
committee, focused on helping to make First Pres "walk our talk" concerning the environment. The group in establishing goals for itself decided to:

• be action-oriented, i.e. focused on completing specific projects within a specific timeframe.
• work closely with the facilities committee of the church.
• initially undertake a Fair Trade Coffee campaign and change the lighting at the church to be more energy efficient.
• seek to include materials in our bulletins and work with the youth program to involve all members of the church in our projects.
• include spiritual reflection as part of our meetings and time for prayer.

There were many other ideas for projects we could undertake to make our church facilities more environmentally-friendly. We cannot do these without your help, so please consider joining our group if making First Pres a good steward of the environment is important to you.

If you have questions about the group, please contact Margaret Okuzumi.

In keeping with our commitment to the earth, we are members of California Interfaith Power and Light (CIPL). Please click here to visit their home page for more information.

Please click here to visit Earthlight Magazine, an organization and publication led by a former long-time member of our congregation..

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