A multi-month thank you to everyone in the congregation who has donated to designated charitable organizations through our Share the Plate program. Thanks to you, we were able to donate $458.85 to Call to Care Uganda for September for their well-drilling projects; $467.50 to Hawkwing for aid to people on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation …
Our Share the Plate recipient for January is the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, a nonpartisan, non-profit membership organization that defends, promotes, and preserves individual rights and liberties under the U.S. and Connecticut constitutions in state and federal court, the General Assembly and the state’s 169 towns and cities. It is one of 54 affiliates …
This month, our charitable share of the plate will go to the Connecticut Food Bank, which provides food to local food banks, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, and food aid programs across six counties in Connecticut, including our shoreline towns. Last year, they distributed enough food for nearly 22.5 million meals to the more than 400,000 …
Welcome to the Racial Justice Team’s Media suggestions for Fall, 2020! Thank you for reading and watching. (Please click on the links below in blue to access the resources.) Videos by Racial Justice Team: Video on a line from a book which prompted action on racial justice Adult Resources Books: Widening the Circle of Concern …
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Our Share the Plate recipient for November is Covenant to Care for the Children, an organization we at SUUS have supported for many years. Covenant to Care has worked for 30 years to provide essential goods to children in need in Connecticut, from food and bedding to school supplies and even bikes. For many years …
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Our Share the Plate recipient for October is Hawkwing, headquartered in Glastonbury, CT. Hawkwing began with a promise its director Rochelle Ripley made to her Lakota grandmother to “go home and help the People.” “Home” is the Cheyenne River Lakota/Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, a land of beauty, wilderness, inspiration, and heart-wrenching poverty. The Cheyenne River …
Our Share the Plate recipient for September is Call to Care Uganda, a local nonprofit organization based right here in Madison founded by our own, Martha Wells Hoffman. Call to Care Uganda’s mission is bringing health, safety, education and vitality to the people of Uganda through clean, accessible water. “It all starts with water…” and since …
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Guilford Peace Alliance has been meeting from 11:00am-12:00pm Saturday mornings since 1977, only missing a handful of Saturdays over the years. We stand on the corner of the Guilford Green, across from Page Hardware.Check out Guilford Peace Alliance on FB and give the page a like:facebook.com/GuilfordpeaceallianceThese meetings are a model of peaceful witness.Come for 5 …
