Congratulations, St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church!

​Our St Andrews Family is so honored to be nominated as a Go Green Park Ridge Change Maker!  Thank you for all you do to highlight those in our community who are looking after our environment.

Our congregation voted this summer to move forward with the solar plan.  We are grateful for the many government incentives available and to the Lutheran Church Extension Fund (the financial arm of our church body) for making it possible for us to complete this project.  We anticipate that the solar system we installed will make the electricity use on our campus energy neutral throughout the course of a year. 

It is our belief that our environment and our campus are great gifts from God, and we are grateful that we can honor God by being good stewards of our space for those in our community (our parking lot is full most nights of the week because of community use!) and that we can be better stewards of our environment by making use of green energy. 

Our hope is that we can be a good example of care and concern for our planet, and that more businesses and non-profits would be able to install solar technology on their own campuses in the future.  It is a great win-win, we get to use renewable energy and save money at the same time!  We can use the savings to advance the mission of our church and serve our neighbors.  What could be better than that!


Rev. Matt Hoffmann
Pastor, St. Andrews Lutheran Church and School
Park Ridge, IL