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Participants in Drive-less Sunday

Leading up to the event was four weeks of bulletin notices and verbal announcements during that time of the service.  The congregants were made well aware that Drive-Less Sunday was coming.

Preparation for the event included designation of carpooling coordinators. However, most carpooling arrangements were handled between congregants on an informal level.  Others made their own plans to walk, bike, or ride the bus.

University Baptist Church is a small congregation.  Of the roughly 40 in attendance on the Pentecost Sunday (Memorial Day weekend), 31 completed the Drive-Less Sunday pledge cards.  On that Sunday 45% carpooled, 19% walked, 13% took the bus, and 10% rode bikes.  Car miles driven on this Sunday was a 37% reduction from a normal Sunday’s miles driven. 

If this congregation commuted each Sunday as they did on Drive-Less Sunday they would reduce their collective, annual miles driven by 4,056 and their annual C0₂ production by more than 4,000 pounds!

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