Platte Woods United Methodist Church (7310 NW Prairie View Rd, Platte Woods/So Platte Co) is hosting an environmental stewardship event on May 2, 2009. (one week before the BTG event at Theis Park) The theme of our event is "God's World in Our Hands." The event is going to focus broadly on how to make greener choices in our daily lives. The event will be conducted as festival with entertainment and activities from 12:00 to 5:00 PM on Sat, May 2.

I am working on the information and displays for our event. We are planning to have children's activities, snacks, some hands-on displays, and live entertainment (Green Elvis). There will be indoor displays that highlight transportation choices including ridesharing, transit and biking and literature about cleaner vehicles.

We will be featuring a clean car exhibit in a parking lot that fronts along Prairie View Road (accessed from the Church entry) and have commitments from several area dealerships to show new hybrid and CNG cars. We would love to have some of your members showcase what can be done with existing vehicles as well. Last year, my adult son spent the entire Home Show in conversation with a couple of your members.

The Church is promoting the event to other congregations, civic and neighborhood groups in southern Platte County and through ads in The Star. We will be giving away reusable shopping bags and the first 100 visitors will receive tubed trees for planting w/instructions to make the tube itself into a bird feeder.

We propose to leave most of the indoor displays set up through Sunday, May 3 at 1:00 PM so that they can also be viewed by members who come to worship and would be happy to include information about MAEAA. Our average Sunday attendance is about 800 persons.

Please contact me if you're interested. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have and would like to make it easy and fun for some of you to participate.

Thank you,
Carol Adams
sactadams@yahoo.com
816-587-2596