Children's Liturgy, Sunday September 20th 2009
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THIRD WEEK of CREATIONTIDE.
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Today
we talked about carbon footprints again.
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nine people had filled in their parish basket leaflets, so we decided
that when we went back into church, we would ring a bell when we told
everyone of the useful things some had written about- and we would sound
a hooter when we said that so few in the parish had responded to our request
for help! Eve was delighted to get the chance to sound the hooter and
everyone thought it was very funny. |
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Kiera
was pleased to be able to ring the bell.
Zoe and Grace had brought their leaflets back.
Zoe had asked her Mum to wash clothes at low temperaures, walked instead
of going in the car and saved water.Grace had bought Fair Trade tea, turned
off lights, walked to and from school, used reusable bags, had showers
instead of baths, saved water when cleaning her teeth, unplugged the television
and eaten food her Dad had grown.
Someone in the congregation lived alone, so washed up once a day to save
water, cooked all her vegetables in one pan and washed clothes on low
temperatures. Someone else cycled to the shops had 2 compost bins, used
low energy light bulbs, recycled clothing via the clothing bank, had cavity
wall insulation, use up leftovers, had a rain-water butt, grows lettuces
and had planted onions for next year, having also cleared a vegetable
patch for next year, reuses foil and plastic trays when possible...and
uses old tights cut into strips for tying things up in the garden.
Somone else looks for beauty, travels into town by bus instead of car,
turns off the heating between May and October, watched only 5 hours of
T.V. per week, has insulated his loft, and can't remember the last time
he had a bath....because he always takes showers!
So our parish IS getting greener! |
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If
you want to recycle your mobile phone, you can contact Norfolk Wildlife
Trust at:
www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk
or get further information on : 0800 970 5097
You can obtain bags in which to recycle your mobile on:
www.recycleyourmobile.co.uk
Remove the sim card but leave in the battery.
Or you can give in your old mobile at St. Joseph's School.
We talked about the wonderful world God has given us, particularly beautiful
colours and we rehearsed a poem about colour, everyone making a leaf,
flower or animal out of coloured paper. We practised waving our paper
when our colour was mentioned in the poem.
We realised that God cares about animals as well as people. We heard how
people in Bangalore in India are working out how to live alongside the
elephants which often try to eat people's crops. People study the routes
the elephants take as they are travelling around and try to protect their
crops and divert the elephants.
Finally, some of us made a collage out of multi-coloured leaves and flowers.
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