From the creators of Relevant Magazine, this is the Relevant Podcast.

It's a week of Friday, September 22, 2017, and it's the Relevant Podcast.

I'm your host Cameron Strang, and this week's show is brought to you by LIT, a 501C3

leveraging energy management to equip and empower the local church in the most vulnerable areas.

They perform thousands of energy studies at churches, seminaries, and schools across the US

with the focus of capturing energy savings and redirecting them to missional partners.

According to a recent study, the US church tied $50 billion in 2013,

and $10 billion of that was spent on utilities and maintenance of our buildings.

It only one billion was spent on missions.

Imagine the impact we could make through energy stewardship.

We could double if not triple missional giving by redirecting our energy spend.

LIT's founder Colby May is a certified energy manager.

He's a missions pastor and an alumnus of Gordon Conwell's seminary.

He leveraged his experience in energy management to impact change and as a result,

started LIT leveraging energy management and sustainable principles to invest in the local church.

You can learn more by visiting their website at lit.church.

That's www.lit.church.

It's really cool.

Every time I think they can't possibly come up with another great idea.

Like all the great ideas are gone.

I hear about something like this and I'm like, this is a fantastic idea.

How did no one think of this?

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