1. Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Overland Park, KS
Constructed : ,000 sf
1991 Ed. Wing added + 20,000sf
600 members
58 K 6-12 / 25 youth program
2 worship services
16 music groups
Weekday offices M-F : Staff 8
Community activities
2 children’s daycare programs
150 kids East Wing M-F
45 Kids West Wing T-Th
AA Fellowship Hall 1 Hour daily
Boy Scout M evenings
Our church was built in 1987, Ed. Wing addition Currently serves a congregation of about 600 with two worship services, weekday offices, two children’s day care facilities and numerous community activities. Note: Brown roofs now White Energy Star “Cool Roofs”

2. Your Church own a Hummer ???
Yes, we owned hummers, but not that vehicle that gets 9 MPG and less than half the mileage of the Model T Ford, the first car ever mass-produced! The Hummer that comes to mind emit over 3 times more carbon dioxide than average cars and they give off more smog-producing pollutants and dangerous particulates.

3. Adopt A Light Project
Without a capital campaign, we retrofit over 250 fluorescent light fixtures with an electrician and 20 volunteers. The retrofit will average 65% energy saving over the useful life save $57,000; retrofit cost $15, Where else are you getting better than a 10% return on investment?

4. Carbon Neutral? Energy efficient? Benchmark & set goals
If you don’t measure you will never know how your doing or if your really improving. Energy Star converts the data – we started in They convert gas and electric units into Btu’s, energy cost and total carbon emissions to know what carbon neutral means.