Name Change to Social Justice AND LOTS MORE!

 Wow!  What a lot has happened in social justice this year!   And it made this UUCS annual meeting very exciting for me.   We asked everyone who had participated in two or more meetings of the social concerns committee to stand up, then asked all who had attended at least one of our education sessions on the social justice issues to stand, then asked those who had viewed the online powerpoints about the issues to stand-- and most people were standing!  The first vote at our annual meeting was to change our name to the Social Justice Committee, as a sign of our church's new, more activist mission statement.    This was approved overwhelmingly.
Next, we voted for the local issue to focus on this year.   Although the vote was close, we approved the Green Sanctuary Program.   This can involve every church member and friend in many ways.  Our knowledgeable minister and Chuck and Jack won't do the work for us-- but they will help us do it, and do it right!
Last, we voted, again, by a fairly slim margin, for the global issue, Appalachian Tragedy, Mountaintops & Miners.   This choice was geographically the closest of our three options, so it will be the easiest for church members to actually visit  (right, Amber?).    We are going to have an exciting year, with opportunities for every church member to learn and to participate in Social Justice Work!    If you count the exclamation marks, you can tell I'm excited-- hope you are, too! (one more)
Need more info right now?    See    
http://mrainey.freeservers.com/Family/SocialJustice.html

  ~Alice Sutton, chair, Social Justice committee
Oh, one last point-- next year, we'll be choosing new issues, so those that didn't win this year, may be options for next year.  

Learn All About Our Social Justice Issues!

At open meetings on Sunday April 24th and Sunday May 1st, we talked about the six social justice issues that the congregation will vote on May 16th.   If you missed our presentations, you can learn about them at this link:

http://mrainey.freeservers.com/Family/SocialJustice.html

Lots of great pictures --so check it out!