Local Faith Options

So, I've been working since like July to try and make it so that 50% of the food we buy be locally grown. Now, next Friday I am expecting a delivery of 1/4 of a cow, and along with our milk, cheese, (most) vegetables, apples, rice, flour, butter, and even tea and maybe even coffee (locally roasted from a sustainable farm in Africa) I think that will bring us quite close to the 50% mark. Now, part of the problem with making that claim is that I don't really have a sure fire quantifiable way of confirming it. But, at least I feel I have made my best effort- and hopefully that will make a difference. (I did take the consumer challenge and still found out I need 2.7 earths to have everyone live like I do. But I think coffee skewed my food numbers, so I'm not convinced.....take it yourself and see http://www.consumerconsequences.com/. )



So I was catching up with my friend the Holly, and she was asking how the 50% local goal was going, and we were also talking National Episcopal Church stuff, and sharing thoughts on how all THAT was going. And at one point, she says- "So Smitty, what's the answer, what do we do?" And while she wouldn't bite on my invitation to move to Greenville and start an emergent church plant, she liked my answer of "Doing church locally".