Green Ministry

Green Ministry: For Environmental Harmony

The Green Ministry's mission is to celebrate God's creation by educating, encouraging and enabling the St. Luke's community to conserve resources and renew environmental harmony.

View the list of Green Ministry projects and accomplishments. 

For Green Ministry questions, contact Betty Brandt.

Energize Indiana Now Paying $25 Per Audit

Help the Green Ministry buy a new dishwasher for the Fellowship Hall kitchen!  Through a special program offered by all the energy companies in Indiana, a skilled representative from Energize Indiana will come to your home, do a careful energy audit and leave a report and a box full of energy saving goodies. There is no charge and you are not pressured to buy anything. In fact, if you follow this link and make an appointment on-line for your residential audit, St. Lukes' Green Ministry earns $25. These monies will be used to fund "green" projects around our campus. If you would rather have Energize Indiana contact you by phone to set up an appointment, you can pick up a request form in the main office or at the Recycling Center in the Central Passage. These completed forms should be placed in Betty Brandt's mailbox. This opportunity is not restricted to the St. Luke's community. Open to your friends and family too.

Collapsible, Ecologically Safe, Reusable Bottle

Break the single use plastic bottle habit! Buy a bright green “bottle” that can fold, snap and attach easily to your belt loop or backpack or fit in your purse. Great for traveling. Cost:$8. Contact Betty Brandt.

Break the Trash Cycle and Recycle!

Grab a Mug on Sunday Mornings

The Green Ministry is experimenting with providing mugs for your Sunday morning use. Pick up a mug instead of a paper coffee cup, use it and the return it to the cart. Keep one-use cups out of landfills and incinerators!

Make your Event a "Green Event"

For help with use of dishes, silverware, and glasses, contact Sharon Chambers at sharon.chambers39@comcast.net.

Recycling Center in Central Passage

Find a place to recycle:

• Children's books for Fletcher Place
• Yarn for Needlecrafter's projects
• Eyeglasses and hearing aids for Lion's Club
• All electronics for Workforce, Inc.
• Pull tabs from pop cans for Ronald McDonald House
• Batteries
• Printer cartridges
• Used candles
• Reusable shopping bags

Recycling Computers and All Other E-Waste

The Green Ministry encourages you to keep as many computers as possible out of landfills and incinerators and bring blessings to those served by Wings for West Africa and RecycleForce.

If you have a Pentium III or IV PC, please call (317) 846-2722 to make arrangements for pick up from your home or office. These computers will go to Wings for West Africa.

Non-working computers, printers and all other electronic waste (anything with a plug) can be brought to the Recycling Center in Central Passage. These computers will be donated to a not-for-profit, RecycleForce, who trains those recently released from prison to disassemble and safely recycle all the components. RecycleForce is a registered electronic recycler with the Indiana Department of Environmental management and certifies it does not dump or discard waste material.

Our summer RecycleForce/Wings for West Africa event will be Saturday, August 3, 9AM-1PM in the front parking lot .  White molded foam plastic (not peanuts) can be recycled at this event. Fee is collected for TVs.

More Than 4 Tons

A visual report of our paper collections in 2011 can be found in 5 locations around the building. You will quickly see that we came close to the magic 4 ton mark several times but only crossed the line once.With your help, the Green Ministry can earn a considerable amount of money in 2012. Please bring your newspapers, catalogs, junk mail and office paper to the green and yellow Abitibi bins located at the east driveway (by Lion’s Gate) No corrugated board or cereal boxes. FYI – the blue recycling bins located in the NE corner of the back parking lot are for internal use only. Please do not bring your recycling from home to these bins.

Green Ministry Leadership Team

The Leadership Team normally meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 5:30-7PM in E213 and welcomes new people to the discussion. Contact Betty Brandt or just show up.