Eco Gold Award Celebration
Sunday 19 October 2025
10.30-11.30 Green All Age Service with Rev Doreen Hare
11.30-12 noon Tea & Coffee served
12 noon-1 pm Homemade soup and roll lunch
1.30-4.30 Open Afternoon. All welcome
1.30-3.00 Tea, coffee and cakes available
3.00-4.30 Afternoon cream tea available
5.00-6.00 Circuit Service with Rev Peter Barnett
Guest Speaker - Mr Tim O'Brien, District Net Zero Officer
Please come and join the Church and share our Gold Award Eco celebration
On 28 July 2025 we were visited by A Rocha to assess our Gold Award submission. It was the culmination of much hard work going back 15 years. It is the start of another period of sustained effort to maintain high eco-standards and church and community engagement. Please ask any of the eco-Team any questions you might have, whether about the award or our church ethos.
Congratulations on the Gold Award!
The ending of support for Windows10 by Microsoft
There are individual risks associated with this bullying approach by Microsoft. But there are huge eco-consequences too. It is reckoned 60% of corporate users are still using Windows10 and over half general users. That is a staggering 600 million PCs. Can you start to imagine the waste?
What can you do if your PC will not upgrade thanks to Microsoft limitations, well intentioned or not? You have a few options and they are summarised here. You might like to read "Tom's Guide" here. (External website). This gives an overview.
1. Back up data to Onedrive and then enrol in Extended Security Support (free) extends support to 13 Oct 26. This is only a temporary fix unless Microsoft relinquishes.
2. Redeem Microsoft Reward Points. Again, a temporary fix.
3. Pay Microsoft for Security updates - (about £25 for ESU). Suggest you enrol for one year only here, if you choose this method, as Microsoft may change its mind during the year!
4. Pay Opatch for Security patches. Offers 5 years of patches (to October 2030. £25.95 annually. Probably the safest unofficial option.
5. Only use your WIN10 PC offline - possible, but not at all convenient!
The next options require a degree of bravery and understanding!
1. Run Win 10 in a virtual machine.
2. Switch your operating system to LINUX.
3. Force Win10 to upgrade (FLYOOBE) or use RUFUS
I am delighted to tell you I have used the FlyOOBE option, and it has worked a treat. That has saved my £1000+ PC from the scrapheap.
If you want to talk about it please get in touch and I will do what I can to guide you. (Ed).
Subsidizing Ruin is Wrong: A New Report from GreenFaith
The U.S. government provides billions of dollars each year in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry—even as vital programs like healthcare, food assistance, and clean energy face budget cuts. Subsidizing this harm is unjust. That’s why GreenFaith brought together faith leaders from across the country to speak out. United by shared moral convictions, they’ve signed a powerful letter opposing the reconciliation bill and calling on Congress to reject fossil fuel giveaways.
Read the letter here (external website)
If you would like to read what GreenFaith (external website) represents then please go to their website. There are actions all around the world.
Green Faith Group (GFG)
The next meeting will be on Friday 24 October 2025 at 2 pm. For details go to the GFG tab under Eco Church above. We continue our in depth study of "Come, have Breakfast" by Elizabeth A Johnson, as we look at Chapters 16 (Born of Woman: God with us, the kangaroos, the grasses, the soil)) and 17 (The cross and the tree of life).
Meetings coming up:
28 November 2025
The Leader - Autumn Edition 2025
The latest edition is available for you to read. Either CLICK HERE (download) or go to "Church Publications" above and scroll down. Like all publications on this website the articles are easy to read in full screen as if you had a hard copy in front of you! Follow the simple instructions on the Church Publications page.
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Thanks to 30 supporters we have raised over £1300!
The Four aims of Methodists
Methodism's activities, both alone and with ecumenical and secular partners, are based on four aims known as Our Calling:
· To increase awareness of God's presence and to celebrate God's love
· To help people to grow and learn as Christians through mutual support and care
· To be a good neighbour to people in need and to challenge injustice
· To make more followers of Jesus Christ.
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