November 30, 2012 News
Trinity Eco Prayer Park
Trinity Eco Prayer Park Update
November 30, 2012
FUND AWARDS PARK $25,000 MATCHING GRANT
Chicago-based Mission Investment Fund (MIF) chose Trinity Eco Prayer Park to receive a matching fund grant of $25,000. For every dollar given to the Eco Prayer Park MIF will give a matching dollar up to $25,000.
Twice a year MIF, which is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, accepts grant requests for building projects. It seeks projects that strengthen outreach ministry and also looks for proposals that will make a facility more energy efficient or environmentally friendly. Trinity Eco Prayer Park appeals to both of MIF’s interests.
Please consider making a gift to the Park that will double in value. Gifts should be made out to Trinity Lutheran Church and sent to Trinity Eco Prayer Park, 402 Kansas City St., Rapid City, SD 57701. For more information contact Ken Steinken by calling Trinity Lutheran at (605) 342-9302 or reply to this email.
Please encourage others to consider making a gift that will be matched. You can forward them this update or use the links below to fill them in on the details.
MEDIA AND NEWSLETTERS TELL PARK’S TALE
The $25,000 Mission Investment Fund matching fund grant caught the attention of a couple media sources.
Please feel free to share these article with others by email, link, like, tweet, pin, post or however you pass along things that you find online.
KOTA MyTown website:
http://mytown.kotatv.com/rapid-city/2012/11/27/trinity-eco-prayer-park-gets-25000-matching-grant/
Rapid City Journal print
edition and website:
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/trinity-eco-prayer-park-gets-matching-grant/article_ffd4b440-00cc-5ca7-a7f5-9e29e0bae8f5.html
Friends of Rapid City Parks (friendsofrcparks.com) featured an article with photos about the park. They also posted a list of the native species that will be used in the park. http://friendsofrcparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/August-Newsletter.pdf
Great Plains Native Plant Society also carried a short article about Trinity Eco Prayer Park in its Summer 2012 newsletter.
LOCAL FAMILY DONATES USED LANDSCAPING ROCK
When a Rapid City family was landscaping their yard they had some old flagstones leftover and asked if they could be used in the park. This was a great idea. In keeping with its goal to be sustainable the park welcomes “recycled” landscaping items and building materials as well as items that are produced locally.
Here’s a wish list for some other items that the park needs: clean rock, topsoil, river rock, small boulders and seating boulders (big and bench-like). Contact Ken Steinken if you have access to any of these items or know someone who might.
SELECTIVE WEEDING YIELDS INCREASING DIVERSITY AND SEEDS
Since 2009 unwanted plant growth has been controlled by selective weeding, which allows desirable volunteer species to grow. During this extremely dry summer several species appeared and some even flourished. New arrivals included prairie coneflower, heath aster, curlycup gumweed and intermediate wheatgrass. Last week several volunteer collected seeds from some of these species. These seeds will be used to raise plants for the park that have a genetic make-up that is favorable to the park’s location and have proven to be able to tolerate extreme conditions.
MORE INFO?
Thanks for your interest. Contact Ken Steinken with any questions or ideas you have about Trinity Eco Prayer Park or if you know a group that would like to hear a presentation about the park. You can also contact us by sending an email to trinityeco...@gmail.com or calling 605-342-9302.
HELP SPREAD THE NEWS
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