Creation Care
Sheldon Road Church is committed to do all we can to care for God’s Creation in our worship, lifestyle and engagement with our community. We include this commitment in our church vision: Caring for the whole of God’s creation so that it thrives now and into future generations. We are part of A Rocha UK’s Eco Church programme, and we are currently working towards the Gold Award.
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July 2026 |
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Living Lightly 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. |
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Love Parties? Hate Waste?: Party Smarty in Chippenham offer reusable partyware kits for hire for your summer or children’s party. Plates, bowls, cups, cutlery and jugs with serving bowls and cake stands. They also offer bunting, party games and activities. http://www.party-smarty.co.uk |
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Choose to Refuse – Plastic Free July: Be part of history this July! Join thousands making a Pledge in a world record attempt for “The Most People Refusing Single-Use Plastic in One Day”. Choose one plastic item to refuse, from single-use cups to plastic bottles or packaged produce, and make a pledge as an individual or with friends, family, classmates, colleagues, or your community. Together, our small actions make a big difference toward a plastic free future. Visit the pledge page: https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/pledge/ |
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July 12th – UN International day of HOPE: What challenges do we face, and what solutions can we imagine? How could you/me/we turn these thoughts and conversations into action? We have the greatest hope to offer as Christians, as reflected in our mission statement. There are so many options open to us: Dedicate an hour to service—mentor a young person, clean up a public space, check in on an elderly neighbour, sit with someone and listen, or volunteer your time and skills. Think up an act of kindness which could potentially change someone’s level of hope in their life. |
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Really Good News: Sheldon Road Methodist Church building is not using any gas over these summer months!!!! Stuart and the Property Team have been working hard to make this happen; there is now an electric water heating system in place, so when you turn on the hot tap in the building, you are not asking the gas boiler to heat it up. Stuart has also tightened up the programming of the boiler, with sensors in the rooms, so that when heating is demanded in the coming months, then the boiler will only come on to prepare for a time of the building needing it. Every month’s results are better than the last! What an amazing leap forward to reducing our carbon footprint!
The Bristol Methodist District Carbon Reduction Champion, Freya Ballard, is coming to our worship service on Sunday July 12th, to see how we are doing in caring for our creation. |
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Blister Packs: We have already filled the recycling box in the café area once! Please continue to use this box for your empty medical pill blister packs (not scrap paper or plastic boxes though….), but if you are in the habit if taking them to Boots, and this is no problem for you, please continue to do that, as this recycling service costs our circuit money. |
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