Share the Plate Recipient for January 2021 is Family Promise

Share the Plate Recipient for January 2021 is Family Promise

What is Share the Plate?  During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is Family Promise.  Family Promise of the Mid-Willamette Valley (formerly, Salem … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for January 2021 is Family Promise

Share the Plate Recipient for December 2020 is IMIrJ

What is Share the Plate?  During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice..  The Interfaith Movement … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for December 2020 is IMIrJ

Help Homeless Families – Sign Up Online

The Family Promise ministry needs help feeding 21 unsheltered family members December 6-12. Because of the wildfires, Family Promise has taken in an extra family. We need 3 volunteers to prepare or buy and deliver meals. Click here to sign up online. You can find additional ways to engage on the Family Promise website

Legacy Campaign Final Report

First and most important, THANK YOU to the Congregation for supporting this campaign. The longer-term financial future of the Congregation is more solid because of your participation. When we started, of course we had no idea that a Coronavirus would get in the way. It did. Lack of togetherness opportunities made it more difficult to … Continue reading Legacy Campaign Final Report

Share the Plate Recipient for November 2020 is the Santiam Canyon Wildfire Relief Fund

What is Share the Plate?  During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is Santiam Canyon Wildfire Relief Fund through the Santiam Hospital’s … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for November 2020 is the Santiam Canyon Wildfire Relief Fund

Share the Plate Recipients for the 2020-2021 Church Year

July, 2020 – Oregon Black Pioneers – August, 2020 – Partner Church September, 2020 – CAUSA October, 2020 – Microfinance November, 2020 – Santiam Canyon Wildfire Relief Fund December, 2020 –  IMIrJ Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice January, 2021 – Family Promise February, 2021 – Marion Polk Food Share March, 2021 –  LUS Latinos Unidos … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipients for the 2020-2021 Church Year

Legacy Campaign Ends November 22

The object of this campaign is to give us an opportunity to pay forward the benefits bequeathed to us by the builders of this church and congregation. We can build the UUCS endowment as well as our maintenance reserve and emergency reserve. Some members are making cash gifts now. Others are making provision for end-of-life … Continue reading Legacy Campaign Ends November 22

Share the Plate Recipient for October 2020 is Microfinance

What is Share the Plate?  During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is our Microfinance project.  The UUCS Microfinance project makes small … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for October 2020 is Microfinance

Share the Plate Recipient for September 2020 is Causa

What is Share the Plate?  During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient is CAUSA.  Causa is Oregon’s immigrant rights organization. Causa works … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for September 2020 is Causa

2019-20 Minister’s Report from Rev. Rick Davis

This past year has been momentous in more ways than one! We are enduring the worst presidential administration in our nation’s history. Our nation has floundered under scandalous and morally rudderless leadership causing concerns about the sanctity of our democracy. For that very reason, it’s important to remember our congregational role when things take a … Continue reading 2019-20 Minister’s Report from Rev. Rick Davis