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Church Wide Social Justice Project
Calling all members and friends to a church-wide social justice project!
As we strive to live our UU faith, we are called to bring our UU values beyond our church doors to the world outside our sanctuary. Our church must be more than a safe harbor for us. Our shared principles challenge us to reach out, to make our world more just and more peaceful.
In this spirit, we in the UU Church of Kent are launching a congregation-wide social justice project with the aim of involving as many members and friends as we can. We intend our project to be intergenerational, and we are especially eager to involve our children and youth. Our goals are to bring social justice ministry to the center of congregational life and to make a positive difference in our community and in the world.
In doing this work together, we hope to change ourselves and to raise our own consciousness about the work of social justice. We intend our project to be grounded in our faith and practice as Unitarian Universalists, and we hope to weave this congregation-wide project into our church experience. We also hope, through this project, to share our UU message with the local community. We intend to be reliable, credible partners with the people and organizations we encounter in doing this work.
We anticipate that our project will last a year and possibly longer. Our first step is to identify an appropriate project that will engage church members and friends of all ages. We are therefore soliciting proposals from members and friends of the church for a social justice project. There are a numbe of way to submit a proposal: You may download the Project Proposal Form (pdf) and email your proposal to Judy Brannan in the church office at uukent@sbcglobal.net. The completed downloadable form may also be printed out and given it to our minister, Melissa Carvill-Ziemer. Also we will also make printed proposal forms available in the rear of the sanctuary. Completed proposals are due no later than November 15th.
Our second step will be to decide from among the proposals which project we will pursue. We will gather as a congregation for a pizza party in Fessenden Hall after the second service on Sunday, November 22nd to hear people speak about each proposal, and then together we will decide on a project for the congregation. Anyone who comes, including children, can participate in making the decision. Please let Judy Brannan in the office know you are coming so we know how much pizza to order.
We encourage everyone to get involved. We have pledged in our church mission "to inspire people to live caring lives of meaning and purpose." By working together to create a better world, we give meaning and purpose to all of our lives.
Vivien Sandlund
Christie Anderson
Mac Goekler
Melissa Carvill-Ziemer
Services at 9:30 am and 11:15 am.
