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EARTH HOUR ONLINE Light a candle for the Earth We would like to encourage you to celebrate Earth hour by saying this prayer https://www.greenanglicans.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/earth-hour-v2.pdf Share a picture of yourself and your candle on social media.   Plan an event with your youth Earth Hour is an annual environmental campaign that brings attention to the effects of climate change by asking people to switch off lights at homes and businesses for an hour at 8.30 pm (20:30), local time, usually on the last Saturday of March. We would love for the youth to get involved in this campaign because they are the future of this planet.  What better way to reach out to the youth than in the church. Plan an event within your designated churches on earth hour. Earth hour aims to create awareness of people taking On this day have a non-contact meet up session in the evening. What better way to meet up than to use technology from the comfort of your home. Gather your friends/youth group light a candle, switch off the lights and do a Zoom/Hangout meeting and use the Earth hour prayer from the website. Dedicate earth hour to praying for the earth and discussing a sustainable future and negative environmental degradation happening on the planet.  The discussion may include different topics such as: climate change, recycling, reduce and reuse. Create different themes to discuss, specifically for energy resources Use this prayer https://www.greenanglicans.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/earth-hour-v2.pdf   How to use Hangouts On your computer, go to hangouts.google.com or open Hangouts in Gmail. If you are using a cellphone or tablet download the Hangout App At the top, click New conversation Create. Enter and select a name or email address. Type your message/ make a video call/ voice call How to use Zoom: A free zoom account allows for calls that are 45 minutes long Go to https://zoom.us/ Sign up for a free account Once you are signed in select new meeting or join meeting Get chatting        

On  Saturday 14th of March, the Grahamstown Diocese hosted a  workshop St. Michael’s and St  George’s Cathedral hall in  Grahamstown, this day saw  35 attendees and we were honoured with ta delegation from the Provincial College of the Transfiguration (CoTT). We were warmly welcomed by Rev Gwen Mvula (the Diocesan Environmental Coordinator ) on behalf of the Diocese. We began by asking attendees to write down their expectations for the workshop, this was done to ensure that , the workshop would move towards what the attendees are expecting at the end of the day, most of the attendees wanted to achieve knowledge on “Environment and Church” and Empowerment of Youth/Children Ministry leaders. One key thing we always focus on is to create compassion amongst youth and children Ministry leaders, this enables them to pass on the knowledge and conduct lessons using the two manuals namely Ryan the Rhino for Children) and Care for Creation for teenagers, with more passion as they too can relate . We took time to look at the methodologies for each lesson plan as this plays a big role in the quality of the outcomes. And together did a few lessons which where inclusive of the methodologies. A big thank you Rev Gwen for having to organize this special day, Dean Andrew and mama Claire for hosting us.  

oday the Green Anglicans (Proudly Anglicans) joined hands with Mother’s Union members & the Youth in a tree planting exercise at Christ the King Anglican Church-Chilinde Anglican Parish in Lilongwe. Rev. Canon Christopher Mwawa led the team in planting 200 trees. #RenewOurWorld.#GreenAnglicans.

A WOODLOT  FOR  EACH ARCHDEACONRY The Diocese of Lake Malawi passed a Synod resolution put forward by the Environmental Department  (green Anglicans) – to establish at least one woodlot for every parish or station.   The Diocesan Synod declared that the third week of January (to coincide with the rains) should be dedicated to replenish the environment. The Green Anglicans in Malawi took the initiative to implement this endorsement   Further to that to kick start this initiative, this year we secured funding to procure fruit trees, and hence each Archdeaconry was requested to prepare land for establishment of a fruit woodlot of hundred trees. The planting of these trees was presided over by diocesan officers from the Secretariat, under the leadership of the Diocesan Bishop Francis Kaulanda. The Diocese of Lake Malawi is one of the largest diocese in Central Africa with seven Archdeaconries and fifty-four parishes, hence for a start it was important that each archdeaconry to be targeted. Come next year this should spill over to all the parishes that is if we are to reverse the status quo of impact of environmental degradation countrywide. OUTCOMES: Fruit and non-fruit trees were distributed and planted in all archdeaconries and the table below summarizes the total number of trees planted during the exercise;   ARCHDEACONRY  PARISH/SCHOOL Fruit Trees Planted Indigenous Trees Planted Total Number of Trees Planted Kasungu Archdeaconry Manyani Parish 45 200 245 Nkhotakota North Chizeo Parish 45 150 195 Nkhotakota South Mtekateka Sec. School 45 100 145 Ntchisi South Buzi Parish 22 300 322 Lilongwe North Dowa Hills Parish 55 310 365 Lilongwe South Chilinde Parish 45 200 245 Sunday School day in Salima Parachute-Sengabay Parish 50 50 100 GRAND TOTAL 1,617   1,517 trees have been planted and Christians in these areas are committed to take care of the trees to maturity levels.     The team is working tirelessly to make sure that the campaigns being pursed reach to all the parishes in Malawi.   The Green Anglicans would also like to extend the support received from all institutions that took part in this activity more importantly the Youth and how they mobilized themselves to support the event in addition to sourcing of additional funds to procure indigenous trees.        

On the 15th February 2020 the Diocese of Khahlamba hosted a workshop for Sunday school teachers, confirmation teachers and Youth leaders. The workshop was facilitated by Bino Makhalanyane from the provincial Green Anglican office based in Cape town. It covered the Care for creation and Ryan the Rhino which are the material currently used throughout the province for the Sunday school and confirmation classes. The workshop had great attendance from with a total of 50 Sunday school teachers coming from all the 7 Archdeaconries of the Diocese of Khahlamba. The workshop was also blessed by the attendance of Dean Rev Sibiya of the Diocese of Khahlamba who also shared a reading from the Psalms and encouraged that the creation must be taken care of. Bino kept the workshop was very interactive and at the same time very informative in that the attendees were very excited about the workshop as it served as an eye opener to them of the things affecting Gods creation.  Sinazo Songca                 The Diocese of Khahlamba hosted a workshop for Sunday school teachers which was facilitated by Bino. The workshop was conducted  to capacitate the Sunday school on the creation .   ……………………………….                                                         …. …………………………………….. Songca Date Green Anglican