SJOT Update:
All members & friends are welcome to join the efforts of the Social Justice Outreach Team. Date change for November-December Meeting: SJOT will not meet on the 1st Wednesday of November or December but will meet via Zoom on November 18 @ 1:00 PM.
Contact Charlotte Corrigan for access link to participate or observe
OUTREACH COLLECTION–
Sunday, November 22: YOUTH HUNGER
Sunday, November 22, the Social Justice Team will continue our Collections for 2020-2021 with an Outreach Collection for Youth Hunger. The Youth Hunger collection is split between two local organizations addressing food insecurity: Feed the Kids Coalition and the Flat Rock Backpack Program.
Your donations will help local youngsters who live with food insecurity in their homes. In this time of year when we celebrate our bountiful harvests and many blessings of abundance, food insecurity remains a significant issue for many in our community. In these trying times of Covid-19, your donation is needed all the more. Many in our community are impacted severely by economic disruptions to their jobs and incomes.
UUFH members volunteer regularly for these two organizations by providing a nutritious meal or filling a backpack with a weekend’s worth of non-perishable foods. UUFH has raised funds in support of these two organizations from their inception.
- Feed the Kids (FTK) provides a nutritious Friday afternoon meal to children enrolled in the Hendersonville Boys & Girls Club. The Coalition feeds more than 300 kids each Friday during the school year. That’s many thousands of meals per year. FTK has responded to the pandemic with changes from served meals to take home meals of sandwiches and nutritious snacks.
- Backpack serves selected children at Atkinson and Upward Elementary schools, Flat Rock Middle School, Immaculata, and selected day care sites. Thousands of backpacks of food are provided annually. Backpacks are assembled on Friday mornings and delivered to the schools by volunteers based at St. John in the Wilderness Church.
Please give generously:
Make your check out to UUFH, note “Youth Hunger” in the memo line, and mail to UUFH. You can also donate directly via your account on the UUFH website; select the Outreach Collection option. The collection will remain open through December 20.
Virtual Racial Justice WORKSHOP
November 23 and 30.
Mark your calendars!
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville (UUFH) is presenting a Virtual Racial Justice Workshop
November 23, & 30 from 6:30PM to 8:00PM.
The workshop will be presented by Rev. Michael Carter and Rev. Judith Long.
Rev Carter is an anti-racism trainer and diversity consultant, receiving recognition from President Clinton for his anti-racism work. He serves as the minister to the UU Congregation of the Swananoa Valley.
Rev. Long is the Executive Director of The Free Clinics of Henderson County. She is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, earning her Master of Divinity from Harvard University Divinity School. Rev. Long serves as Community Minister at UUFH.
Session 1. The difference between “diversity training” and anti-racism efforts for institutions. (Nov 9)
Session 2. White privilege and white fragility (Nov 23)
Session 3. How to become an ally in the struggle for racial justice (Nov 30)
Each session will include a discussion in smaller break-out groups.
If you are interested in joining this powerful workshop, please send your name, email address, and organization to judybonner1@nulloutlook.com with “workshop” on the subject line.
We will reserve your space and send you a reminder and the Zoom link before each session.
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