Virginia church wins award for energy conservation
Young congregants at Rock Spring UCC celebrate completion of a 119-panel solar array atop the church's Carpenter Hall. (Facebook)
When the choir at Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ complained about overheating while harmonizing under incandescent lights more than 15 years ago, congregant John Overholt didn’t just empathize. He acted.
The self-described “handyman who fixes things” replaced the 20-plus blazing hot bulbs in the chancel ceiling with cooler, then state-of-the-art, money-saving compact fluorescents.
That stopgap switch not only granted the toasty singers relief but was also an early indicator of the Northern Virginia church’s environmental ethic. Since then, that commitment has only accelerated.
