Family Ministry: Our playgrounds and gardens need love

News at a Glance

Save the Dates – March & April are Busy 😊
Volunteer Opportunities – Spring Clean Around UUFH
Black History Month – Resources and Activities

Save the dates

Saturdays March 1, 8, 15, 22 – Playground Repairs & Gardening
Sunday, March 2 – Family Ministry Council Meeting
Saturday, March 8 – Rev. George’s Installation & Potluck Dinner
Saturday, April 19 – Easter Service Prep – Volunteers Needed
Sunday, April 20 – Easter Brunch, Surprise Dedication, Egg Hunt

We’ve been busy helping others

Passing out Diapers

Organizing Donations

Passing out Food

Repairing the Fellowship Hall

….but now we need help

Our playgrounds and gardens-Need Some Love

Family Ministry participants, y’all are amazing! You have worked so hard this year to help our community bounce back from Hurricane Helene. You can be proud of the work you have done! Unfortunately, while we’ve been busy helping others, our playground and gardens have taken a hit.

UUFH Congregation, we need your help! Our sweet playground and gardens are looking rough! Are you able to help spruce up the UUFH grounds before the special (surprise) dedication that’s happening Easter Sunday?

The Family Ministry Council has lead the way in terms of drafting plans, ordering supplies,and scheduling volunteer work days. A member of the council is available for every Saturday in March to lead the work efforts, and the cottage is reserved to serve as base-camp for volunteers.Now we need you and your friends! We need helpers!

Are you willing to join us and paint? lay mulch? plant bushes and flowers? nail boards together? feed volunteers or supervise child helpers? Can you help us out? Yay! That’s great!

Calling all Spanish speakers!

If you speak Spanish, (even haltingly) your community needs you!

Through the Henderson County Social Justice Network, organizations that serve Latinos (Safelight, El Centro, True Ridge) are seeking volunteers to be on an “on-call list” who can help as interpreters, translators, and providers of transportation.

This may involve assisting with medical appointments or even running basic errands (grocery shopping, picking up children from school, etc.) for those who are afraid to leave their homes. If you are able and willing to help with this effort, contact Dorothy Fantle (dfantle@nullyahoo.com) or Larry Winecoff (larrywinecoff@nullyahoo.com).

Let’s pick-up some paintbrushes and get to work!

To sign up, click the SSI poster! It’s a link to the Google sign-up form. Once you sign-up, someone from the UUFH Green Sanctuary team will contact you with dates and times.

Spring Street Initiative (SSI) was created in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene by a local contractor, Will Avery, to assist families in the Green Meadows Community get back in their homes with the least amount of expense possible. These are families who have fallen between the cracks and haven’t qualified for other assistance. Most of the work will be done by Will and his subs free of charge with donated materials.

UUFH Green Sanctuary has chosen this as one of our Congregational Projects, and offered to provide painters. We would love to have a several good crews that are able to work for several hours so that the burden doesn’t fall to a few people. This would be a great intergenerational project.