Churches in Transition
... is the new CEL campaign to help people involved in Churches in Transition Towns to help each other. We also plan to work in conjuction with A Rocha and EcoCongregation
Display CEL's new leaflet Churches in Transition in your church to explain what Transition Towns and Churches in Transition is about.
Read more about Transition Towns (Martyn Goss article)
-the new interactive website where you can read and add your contribution.
Transition Towns was the theme for the CEL Day Conference in Ottery St Mary in November 2009 and for the Weekend Conference in 12-14 February 2010 - Report coming shortly on the latter.
Transition Towns involve the whole community (or aim to) - of which the local churches are just one part. CEL resources can be used in Transition Town Activities.
A good number of CEL members are involved in Transition Towns where they live, including
Andover
Bishops Cleeve
Bradford
Brixton (www.site.transitiontownbrixton.org/)
Buxton
Cheltenham,
Croydon,
Coventry,
Earlsdon
Exeter
Evesham Methodist Church is involved in TransitionEveshamVale and some mebers at Transition Pershore
Hackbridge
Lancaster, (tt-lancaster.doc) and www.transitioncitylancaster.org/index.html
Ottery St Mary
Redhill
Todmorden
Scarborough, www.sustainablescarborough.org.uk/
Tavistock
Tring
Tunbridge Wells www.tunbridgewells.co.nr
Wolverton www.transitionwolverton.org.uk (Wolverton is a a constituent town of Milton Keynes )
The website for Transition Towns is: http://www.transitiontowns.org/
We encourage everyone to read Rob Hopkins book The Transition Town Handbook. ISBN 978-1-900322-18-8. Even better ask your local library for it.
To be put in touch with other CEL members involved with Transition towns please contact Jo Abbess our Information officer . We have a group of CEL members involved in transition towns that meets by "telephone conference" twice a year. But the main means of communication is intended to be by the Ning group: CELnet: Churches in Transition
http://christian-ecology.ning.com/ |
