I do think a very poor church might have to buy its TP and coffee from Wal-mart, BUT most churches can afford to take justice and environment into consideration of it’s expenditures. Even if they just install CFL’s in all the fixtures or adjust the toilets to use less water. For starters.

I would love it if you would do a post on this…the kinds of things a church can do to be more compassionate and environmentally friendly in the things they buy…and where to buy those kinds of things, if they aren’t readily available at most stores. Sometimes I WANT to make better choices but don’t always know where to look.

Thanks for a great post.

Every time I think of the ’spend money on itself’ church, I remember a Simpson’s show years ago where Bart plays a prank on the town by pretending he’s a sweet little kid who fell down a well.

The local entertainment industry records a “We are the World” rip off to help rescue the kid. Krusty the clown gets interviewed on how they plan to spend the profits earned from the recording.

He says something like, “well…there’s the recording costs, the caterer, the this, that, blah, blah…and HEY! Them limo’s out back ain’t free”