Good
morning. It’s September. This is the month when we celebrate creation. I can’t
think of a better way of trying to keep the first great commandment, to love
God, than honouring creation.
This year
our theme for Creationtide is trees. Trees are wonderful. They soak up carbon;
they store carbon; they can be used to replace concrete and steel and plastic
in all sorts of applications (there are even some timber skyscrapers being
built nowadays); they provide habitats for all sorts of creatures.
This is
Charity Sunday. There are lots of good tree charities. We chose one. Our plan
is to plant at least 200 trees with Trees for Life. 200 goes well with our
bicentenary. If everyone who comes to church today makes a donation we should
meet our target easily. Donations during the summer – mostly from visitors
during the week – have got us off to a good start. You can see the effect on
the display on the north wall. By the end of the month let us have at least
200.
If you would
like to give an exact number of trees, think in terms of a multiple of six. The
trees are six pounds each. But all donations large or small will be most
welcome.
You should
have got a Charity Sunday envelope in front of you. If you can fill it straight
away, just put it in the collection now. But any time in the next couple of
weeks will do fine.
Climate
change is harming the poor and disadvantaged all across the world. Just at the
moment I can’t think of a better way of keeping the second great commandment,
to love our neighbour, than doing something like this to help mitigate the
effects of climate change.
To find out more about Trees for Life do visit their web-site:
https://treesforlife.org.uk/
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