Our Social Justice Bookstore is opening in January of 2017. The Social Justice Action Team will sell books on current social justice issues in the Fellowship Hall following Sunday services. A member of the Social Justice Action Team has made a generous donation to make the bookstore a reality. Stop by the SJAT table in Fellowship … Continue reading Social Justice Bookstore at UUCS
Please join the Dances of Universal Peace for a Global Peace Dance in The UUCS Fellowship Hall Dec 31 at 8:30 pm. Celebratory and ethnic dress encouraged. Every dance is fully taught, and no partners are necessary. We will begin dancing at 8:30 with a potluck break at 10 pm. More dancing at 10:45. If you can, please bring food to share. … Continue reading Global Peace Dance December 31
With temperatures expected to fall well below freezing, the Community Action Agency is activating a Warming Center event to begin on Sunday, January 1st through Wednesday, January 4th (Shelter will be open 8:00 pm to 6:30 am for guests each night). We continue to monitor the forecast with local area emergency managers and may extend the activation if needed. … Continue reading Volunteer for Homeless Warming Center January 1-4
On Monday January 23rd at 7:30pm the Welcoming Congregations team will present the documentary “Do I Sound Gay?” A documentary that examines the stereotype of the “gay accent” After the movie please join us for a discussion. For more information contact Benjahmin Boschee at benjahminboschee@yahoo.com. This is part of our congregation’s Welcoming Congregation re-certification process. … Continue reading Welcoming Congregation Movie Night January 23
The January 2017 Share the Plate recipient is the Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network (SIHN). This is a group of churches who minister to homeless members of the greater Salem community. Each church hosts homeless families for one week, providing morning and evening meals, companionship to families and children in the evening, and a place … Continue reading January 2017 Share the Plate Recipient is SIHN
The UUCS Microfinance Project with IMANI resulted in a successful corn harvest for these women in Kenya despite ongoing draught conditions. As a result, each woman will have two large bags of corn to feed their families and funds to help pay for healthcare and education costs. We will be providing additional funding for … Continue reading Microfinance Results in Kenya
Salem Speaks Up! will be held December 10 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in the MICAH Building, 680 State St. NE (next to the First United Methodist Church) in commemoration of the 68th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Event organizers are the United Nations Association, American Association of University Women, and League of Women … Continue reading Salem Speaks Up! December 10
Please come and help with the Cordon Road Cleanup effort takes place December 3, 2016 from 9 am to 12 noon. Twice a year, the UUCS congregation has the opportunity to clean Cordon Road which runs adjacent to our property. With some dedicated volunteers showing up to keep this one-mile stretch of road clean we can have our name on the Adopt-a-Road sign. In April … Continue reading Cordon Road Cleanup December 3
The Social Justice in Action Team points out another way you can help the protesters at Standing Rock: Oregon Peaceworks and 350 Salem Oregon are holding a benefit concert 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Ike Box Café, 299 Cottage St., NE in Salem. The $10 charge will fund local people going to Standing … Continue reading Help Standing Rock December 10
On December 23, we will host a Red Cross blood drive in the Fellowship Hall. This is an important time to give blood as holiday donations sharply drop off even though the need increases. We have been given 40 slots to fill between 1-6pm. This is also a 2RBC event; a Double Red Blood Cell collection. Please remember to … Continue reading Red Cross Blood Drive At UUCS December 23
