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Your story is an important way to influence other congregations. Telling your story makes you a solar champion, building this growing movement by showing other congregations that it can be done.

Please join and contribute to this effort. We will list your name and picture of your solar array, and a sentence or two about your congregation. 

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The Unitarian Universalists of Central Oregon had great leadership and a very engaged congregation that made this project happen. Way to go UUFCO!
Ashland UMC pulled together a committed congregation to make their project work. Congratulations Ashland congregants committed to fighting climate change!
Molalla United Methodist Church
Molalla United Methodist received a grant from Cascadia Grants and Loans to make their solar project pencil out. Nice going, Molalla!
Temple Beth Sholom is always looking for ways to serve both its members and the broader Salem community. The MillieWatts project is named in honor of Millie Estrin, who was was a pillar of our community and an ardent environmentalist. In 2019 she, along with several other TBS members, spearheaded a successful grant proposal to PGE
Over the last four years, First UMC of Richardson TX's green team has been educating our congregation about aspects of creation care, including electricity conservation and solar panels. We had representatives of North Texas Renewable Energy Group (NTREG) exhibit at our annual Creation Care Fair. At the urging of the green team, our facilities manager consulted with a solar advisor about what might be possible on the church's twenty-year-old buildings and land. The church's leaders were addressing many other issues concerning our facilities, and did not include solar panels when they planned a capital campaign for the summer of 2025. Before that campaign was announced, though, in March, 2025, an anonymous donor gave $200,000 worth of stocks, to be used for solar panels or batteries; I cannot say whether that donor knew about the capital campaign or discussed the gift with other church leaders before making it. Our facilities manager had been fond of saying that if someone gave him million dollars, we could get solar panels. He was amazed that the $200,000 gift could install enough panels to provide at least $14,000 worth of electricity annually for at least twenty-five years. He purchased the system from a Texas installer, using panels made in the US. The panels were installed in late 2025 and connected in February, 2026. Something that surprised me was the reaction of some of my fellow church members. On hearing of the gift, some members said they would like to donate for solar panels, too. The business office accepts donations designated that way now, though I do not know how much money they have collected for that purpose. I cannot speak for the anonymous donor who made our installation possible, but I see the solar panels on the roof of our gym as an act of faith and love. We have faith that God's sun will continue to provide power. We love God our creator and God's creatures by reducing the air pollution that our electricity use generates. Our installation has the same effect on our atmosphere as planting thirty acres of oak trees or taking twenty-two pickup trucks off the road.
ur green team has been educating our congregation about aspects of creation care. In March, 2025, an anonymous donor gave $200,000 worth of stocks, to be used for solar panels or batteries. The $200,000 gift could install enough panels to provide at least $14,000 worth of electricity annually for at least twenty-five years. The panels were installed in late 2025 and connected in February, 2026. On hearing of the gift, some members said they would like to donate for solar panels, too. The business office now accepts donations designated for that purpose. Our installation has the same effect on our atmosphere as planting thirty acres of oak trees or taking twenty-two pickup trucks off the road.
Oregon City United Methodist Church is covering nealry 100% of their electricity needs with this beautiful array!