Green your home
Green your home
Make your home better insulated and reduce heating costs:
- Identify and seal drafts around your home. Find the gaps that let the cold air in and warm air out (think keyholes, letterboxes, cracks around the edges or bottoms of windows and doors, loft hatches, floorboards, etc.) and fix these gaps using the correct materials and online tutorials. Additionally, place foil or radiator panels to reflect heat into your room.
- Close curtains and blinds at night to keep the heat in. If you have any spare blankets, you can hang them over windows for extra insulation.
- Place rugs or carpets on bare floors to help retain heat. This is especially useful for rooms with hardwood or tile flooring.
- Wrap any exposed pipes with old towels or blankets to prevent heat loss.
- Place aluminum foil behind radiators to reflect heat back into the room. This can be done using household foil and cardboard.
Pray for those who might be experiencing the cold this winter.
Worship resource
Isaiah 32:18
"My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.”
Prayer of the month
Bronwen Braisdell, local preacher, Epworth and Scunthorpe Circuit
Creator God, Frost carpets the fields, sparkling on sunny winter mornings, so may your Holy Spirit be seen in us as we scatter the treasures of your love in acts of kindness. As soft rains fall on fertile spring soil, so Lord, may our words be fruitful as we shower the treasures of your word on our communities. May the warmth of the summer sun gladden our hearts and urge us to live our lives in praise and thankfulness for the many treasures you gift to us. And, as autumn colours fall around us, may we seek the treasure within as we meditate on your word and strive to follow your example through every season of our lives. Amen.