As part of Dublin and Glendalough Council for Mission’s Conversations About Mission series, members and guests discussed the issue of climate justice and the Church while the COP27 climate change summit took place in Egypt last November.
Glencairn Community Garden, at the foot of the Belfast Hills, is full of colour and life on an acre of what was previously derelict land beside St Andrew’s Parish Church.
Drumcliffe Church, in Co. Sligo, is currently heated with an air–to–water heat pump and is likely to be one of few churches in Ireland using a heat pump as a heating source.
As part of National Biodiversity Week, the children of the Glebe National School, Aughrim, Co. Galway, recently conducted a wildflower survey in the Aughrim Climate Action Park and in the Rectory Garden Project.
With the help of a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, Magheralin, outside Lurgan, Co. Down, has created a beautiful garden in its church grounds.
Among the news Bishop Paul Colton brought back from the Lambeth Conference was that of the inauguration of the Anglican Communion Forest.
Excellence in religious education is recognised by the TRC Award which is presented each year to a Stranmillis University College student at who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to creativity and innovation in this subject area.
