Bethlehem is an official Green Church. Our church leaders signed a covenant in 2018 that we as a church affirm the importance of healing and defending God’s creation through our Worship, Learning and Teaching, Lifestyle, and Involvement.
The team meets the first Friday of each month at 2:00 to evaluate their goals and activities, and plan opportunities for the congregation and others to participate in caring for God‘s creation. If you are interested in attending, please contact Ann Marie Smith.
Our Goals as a Green Team
1. To educate, encourage, inspire, and commit to being Christian Caretakers of Creation.
2. Guide the Ministries of the Church and congregation through education to embrace an earth-friendly focus in church-planned programs/activities and at home.
3. Reduce the carbon footprint of the Church by assessing its use of energy, lighting, water, and other resources, and by reducing usage and improving efficiency.
4. Encourage recycling at church and at home. Providing recycling containers in classrooms, workroom and kitchen with signs to collect clean paper and cardboard, plastic and glass bottles, and cans. Also collecting Kroger Flexible Plastics and ink cartridges. We are educating members about all aspects of recycling. We have developed a special recycling flier (See https://bethlehemunitedmethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Recycling-flier.pdf)
5. Offer special events during the year highlighting the beauty of God’s creation and ways to be better caretakers of it, such as document shredding and electronics recycling.
6. Educate the congregation by contributing ideas and information regularly to the Church newsletter, and by leading classes and other educational events.
Kroger Flexible Plastics Recycling Program
The collection box is on the rack in the hall near room 112. The only plastics we can accept are flexible plastics with the brands Kroger, Simple Truth, or Private Selection. All other flexible plastic bags, wraps and films should be recycled in the bins outside Kroger or Food Lion.Please do not bring to our collection box anything that does not display one of the accepted brands.