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Actions carried out at the Church and within church groups for which the
Christian Ecology Link
Millennium Challenge Certificate
was presented on Sunday 30th July 2000:
- Annual Gardeners' Market selling vegetable and flower plants for Mission or church funds. Birmingham Organic Gardens also had a stall
- Harvest of Recycling:
Display at harvest festival 1999 staged by the Green Group  with a rubbish monster - Mr Waste Not Want Not - built by the Junior Church
- Low Energy Church Lighting This was described in the article in the Methodist Recorder of 11th Feb 1999. See picture of this at Selly Oak Church
- A Green Revue - The Green Fuse - was performed by the Church based drama group Festival Arts.
- Nearly New Stall at the Autumn Fair and other Nearly New sales recycling clothing.
- Meetings within church groups on the theme Sustainability: this includes at least three class meeting groups, the Tuesday fellowship, and three sessions of the pre morning-service SALT group
- Autumn Church Clear-up leaves taken for composting by green group members
- The Green Machine was installed in the Church Welcome Area which facilitates the collection of items mentioned below and provides a standing reminder of the need to reuse and recycle:
- Pill bottles for Medical Missions: over 1000 collected for reuse since Autumn 1999
- Spectacles for Vision Aid Overseas: over 200 collected pairs collected since Autumn 1999
- Collections of aluminium foil and cans: for a local charity helping disturbed, young people
- Collection of used UK and foreign stamps: for Leprosy Mission
- Collection of used envelopes for reuse: by Jubilee 2000 Organisation
- Collection and reuse of knitting wool: a ladies group knits Oxfam Blankets and winter clothes for an inner city school.
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