From Canada-St. Luke’s parishioners are renovating their old stone and brick church to reduce energy consumption and maximize their use of the space after an energy audit discovered they were practically throwing money out the front door.
“It was a wake up call more to realize that of course this is a serious issue,” said the minister at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Rev. Gregor Sneddon. “Churches these days, which were at one time almost the fabric of culture and society, are now struggling for their existence and how they’re relevant and meaningful in a secular Western society. So the free lunch is kind of over and we’re wrestling with how do we be efficient and lean in our costs and how we operate.”
Last week the old door was replaced, which Sneddon described as leaking heat like a “loonie dispenser”. There are also plans to revamp the furnace, light fixtures and windows.
Creation Matters, the diocese’s environmental group, directed the appraisal as a pilot for the national program that works in “greening sacred spaces” throughout the Anglican Church of Canada.
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