Hi Fellow UUCS Congregational Members and Friends,Well, GA 2022 is over, and we – Ben, Barbara, Bob, Joel and Sara – your delegates- were able to take advantage of the multi-platform presentation to attend business and workshops either virtually, in-person or both. More articles are on their way, about the Article II Committee, what “Normal” … Continue reading UUA GA Outcome of Elections and Voting
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 Oregon Black Pioneers. The vision of Oregon Black Pioneers … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for July 2022 is Oregon Black Pioneers
As one of your delegates to GA, I wanted to update you on the Delegates for UUA Board Forum that was held June 8 in the evening. I was only able to stay for an hour, but even within that hour was able to get a perception on the 4 different candidates, 2 who had … Continue reading Observations on “Delegates for UUA Board Forum” June 8
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 Thompson-Patch Scholarship Fund. The Nellie Thompson-Dorothy Patch Scholarship … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for June 2022 is the Nellie Thompson-Dorothy Patch Scholarship Fund
The first movable shower trailer for use by people living in their supervised micro-shelter communities in the Salem area, “Shower Trailer Number One” is nearing completion with roll-out now scheduled for late June. The movable shower trailer was purchased by Habitat and Hope Village, Inc. and built-in Salem by Edomo, Inc., and will be donated … Continue reading Shower Trailer Nears Completion
I want to share with you an opportunity to reduce gun violence and make Oregon schools and community spaces safer. Lift Every Voice Oregon has drafted two Initiative Petitions that present common sense gun safety measures. Initiative Petition (IP) 17: Safe Owners and Less Lethal Ammunition– Requires a permit to purchase all firearms– Requires a … Continue reading Lift Every Voice
This month’s social justice article is about building a social justice culture which is the outward expression of UUCS’s values seen by the greater community. Any religion’s rational for being is the values it professes. What makes a value system a religion is acting on those values. Yes, there is more to a religion than … Continue reading Social Justice Report – May 2022
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 Salem Harvest. Salem Harvest is a non-profit organization that … Continue reading Share the Plate Recipient for May, 2022 is Salem Harvest
The UUCS Microfinance Committee held a very successful sale of items made by Basha women in Bangladesh on April 3 and 10. We partnered with Basha which is a non-profit organization that provides a sustainable livelihood for women at risk and survivors of trafficking. Women gain job skills and the opportunity to develop into leaders … Continue reading April 2022 Basha Sale a Success. Thank You!
Yes! With financial contributions from UUCS congregants and friends from the wider Salem community and with design work by John Davenport in collaboration with representatives from Church at the Park (C@P), Habitat and Hope Village, Inc. (HHV) has agreed to purchase and donate its first new movable shower trailer to C@P for use by people … Continue reading Shower Trailers for Those Living in Micro-Shelters
