Justice is what love looks like in public.
SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM (SJT)
Our next SJT monthly meeting will be held online on Tuesday, January 14 at 6:30 pm.
The SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM is a self-selecting group open to all UUFH Members and Friends. We welcome all active participants. Whether your social justice interests are one or many, you can contribute to our SJT efforts. Your inputs are welcome. Contact any team member AND join the team to help carry out your suggestions.
Contact Charlotte Corrigan for the Agenda, minutes and meeting LINK and current schedule
GS2030 Green Sanctuary Renewal is included in our SJT meetings per the Fellowship’s approval of our UUFH Congregational Project for 2024-2025.
Join Social Justice Team (SJT)
We meet the first Tuesday of each month.
All are welcome to attend. These meetings are your chance to provide input and contribute to our UUFH Justice efforts. To participate, please e-mail Charlotte Corrigan for the agenda, minutes, and Zoom link.
DECEMBER OUTREACH COLLECTION:
Guest at Your Table – UU Service Committee
On Sunday, December 1, your UUFH Social Justice Team begins a new Outreach Collection: Guest at Your Table (GAYT) benefiting the UU Service Committee.
Since it began in 1975, the Guest at Your Table program has introduced generations of Unitarian Universalists to our grassroots partners working for justice around the world with your support. This church year, we are celebrating Guest at Your Table’s 50th anniversary with the theme “Expanding the Welcome Table.”
Videos: “What is Guest at Your Table?” animated video and “Meet This Year’s Guests!” Introduction Video
You can meet the guests representing this year’s expanded Table in these individual videos:
- 2 Young climate activists in the Marshall Islands helping their communities heal from the destructive legacy of nuclear testing by the United States while envisioning a sustainable future for their people. Video of Konea Ishimura from Jo-Jikum
- LGBTQ+ leaders in Ukraine offering resources and companionship to the queer community impacted by Russia’s full-scale invasion. Video of Anna-Maria Tesfaye from Queer Svit
- Haitian academics researching racism’s impacts on the experiences of migrants of color in the United States. Video of Suleyman Wellings-Longmore from the Haitian Bridge Alliance
- Trans organizers forming networks of safety and welcome for trans and gender expansive people forced to flee unsafe communities and states. Video of the Pink Haven Coalition
Please note Guest at Your Table (GAYT) on the memo line of your check or envelope. Or simply select “donate” on our website.
Contributions will be accepted through January 5, 2025.
GAYT Envelopes should be placed into the collection plate on Sundays. GAYT Boxes should be placed into the “big blue shopping bag” on the shelving unit at rear of the Sanctuary.
November Outreach Collection Proceeds
Our November Outreach Collection for Youth Hunger yielded a total of $1926.00 in contributions. Our Youth Hunger Collection is split between the Feed the Kids Coalition and the Flat Rock Backpack Program. Thanks to your generous contributions, each organization will receive a check for $963.00.
WANT MORE NEWS?
If you’re not following the UUFH jUUstice WORKERS NEWS, you’re missing out on events and actions that support our UU values.
Contact Charlotte Corrigan to join the email list or click the link to the current edition: JW NEWS
See the current UUFH jUUstice Workers News for details of this UUSJ WEBINAR on December 17 at 8pm
This week’s highlights: details are in the text!
- DECEMBER OUTREACH COLLECTION: Guest at Your Table – UU Service Committee
- Proceeds – Youth Hunger Outreach Collection (November)
- MLK Holiday Events: UNITY BREAKFAST & DAY OF SERVICE, January 20, 2025
- Christmas Presents for Migrant Workers Children – a thank you for our UUFH volunteers
- UU JUSTICE NC – News and Friday Action Hour, and more actions
- UUSJ NEWS – WEBINAR and ACTION alerts
- Library Exhibit: VOICES & VOTES – a Traveling SMITHSONIAN Exhibit opens December 9, Henderson County Main Library
- Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America: Remembrance Ceremony: January 25, 2025 at 3 pm
UU JUSTICE NC
Subscribe to receive the monthly newsletter & action alerts in your inbox at UUJusticeNC.org DONATE to UU Justice NC via this link: You Can Donate Here!
FRIDAY ACTION HOUR Every Friday at 11:00
Join UU Justice NC for our Weekly Friday Action Hour.
Every week, UU’s and justice partners across the state gather to recap the past week and take action on the issues impacting our state and country. And there is always great music to help us feel the justice movement in our bones!
Join via this Zoom. Link: NEW ZOOM LINK If you can’t make it on Fridays, just check out our Action Hour Link: Google Doc This link permits viewing, at your convenience, all the links & materials – including the Actions List – for the current and any previous sessions for 2024.
BONUS: Sign up for the Weekly Friday Action Hour community listserv Email Each email includes a promo of the week’s actions, the Zoom link, and the link to our Actions List (Google Doc) direct each week to your inbox. Click here to sign up! Review this week’s resources and actions on our Google Doc, and Join via this Zoom Link.
MLK Federal Holiday EVENTS – January 20, 2025
NOTE: The UUFH Social Justice Team has contributed to these 2 events as sponsors. Additional information may be found in the UUFH jUUstice Workers News.
MLK UNITY BREAKFAST January 20 (8:15 – serving, 9am presentation)
The MLK Unity Breakfast celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision by bringing the community together to reflect on his legacy and recognize those who embody his commitment to unity and service. This year’s Theme is Service and this year’s Speaker: is DeShannon Bynum Dixon. Rev. George Grimm-Howell will present the closing prayer.
TICKETS are available at UUFH: To attend this event, please write a check for $15 per person to UUFH and give it to Judy Bonner or Charlotte Corrigan. We have bought a block of tickets for us sit as a group.
MLK DAY OF SERVICE January 20, NOON
Please join the Hendersonville community on Martin Luther King Day, January 20, at noon at St. James Episcopal Church (766 N Main St, Hendersonville, NC 28792). For this annual service project. We will once again bag a TON of dried beans and rice to share with our neighbors in need via the Storehouse. This is a fun, multigenerational event.
UUFH MEMBERS step up for Migrant children’s Christmas
A huge THANK YOU from Anne Backer of the Social Justice Team to some outstanding volunteers:
Richard and Ivy Lottenberg , Becky Elston, Joni Sams, Vicky Smith along with a few other citizens of Hendersonville helped make sure that 15 children of migrant workers will have a wonderful Christmas. (Connie Hanna had planned to help but a sick granddaughter foiled her plans.) These individuals stepped up when those families were not able to sign up with the Storehouse or Salvation Army for Christmas assistance.
SJ Team members also salute our Anne who is always ready to see that migrant families receiveneeded assistance and that includes presents under the tree for all.
Traveling SMITHSONIAN EXHIBIT – Per League of Women VOTERS newsletter: Voices & Votes, Democracy In America
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| Be sure to put this fabulous exhibit on your calendar and invite your friends and family members of all ages to attend. Learn more about the exhibit here. The library is looking for volunteers to serve as DOCENTS in 2-hour shifts. Docents must attend a self paced training, and the exhibit will be open on Friday December 6th 10 am – 4 pm for docents only. If you’re interested in volunteering for a shift, please sign up HERE. |