Well, my wife ran a dinner for the families of her cub scout den during February. Since the cub scouts needed to help prepare a dinner for their families and help wash the dishes for their family to fulfill some requirements, my wife made the dinner a potlach and asked them to bring their own plates, glasses, and flatware then take it home so the cub scouts could help wash them.

(How many of the cubs actually washed the dishes is a topic I’m not willing to pry into.)

I like the idea of refreshments after an activity because people seem to linger a little longer and socialize. Our ward actually has activities called “linger longer” where we serve light refreshments after church simply to get people to socialize more!! So often we come and go all too quickly.

Okay, back to lurking…….

I completely agree. In my “spare” time I’ve been working on a concept design for a sustainable chapel which would act as a ‘living building’ – generating all its own energy with renewable resources, capturing and treating all its water, as well as being efficient and beautiful. If you have any suggestions, especially as it would apply in an LDS context, I would love to hear them.

Peraonally, I’d like to see the rooftops of our chapels covered with solar panels. Start feeding the grid and lower those electricity bills!

When I was Activities’ Chair I cringed at the waste.

There was a recycling box in the first chapel we attended after we married. Someone emptied it of his own accord.