We’re Moving Ahead on our Global Issue!

Global Issue- Appalachia: Jinx, Amber, and Alice spent Sept 25-27th in Washington, D.C., for a mobilization to fight mountaintop removal.  Go to http://crooksandliars.com/matt-osborne/appalachia-risesby-sitting-down
for an article & great video of the march, really showing the crowd, the arrests, & interviews with the leaders of this movement.  About a thousand people were there, perhaps a third from coal-mining states, the rest from all over, just people who care intensely about the Appalachian people and mountains! Way over half were college-age, and even some high school students-- it's great to see this fire and determination in our American youth. We are inspired and challenged by them, as well as by the older mountain people who have been fighting against mountaintop removal for twenty years!   We're looking forward to sharing this experience with everyone at UUCS at a 10:00 Sunday program in October.  This also inspires us to look for ways to fight mountaintop mining in our community.  Please put the event below on your calender & let us know if you would like to join us for the free workshop at Greer City Hall to connect with like-minded (but more traditionally religious) folks.

Creation Care Workshop Sunday October 24, 2010, 2-6 pm
“There is a movement in the upstate to meld together several national initiatives relating to the care of God’s creation.  Info at www.creationcare.org and www.interfaithpowerandlight.org.”  We can carpool (after Sunday lunch) to Greer City Hall, 301 E. Poinsett St. Greer, SC 29651.   To register on your own, email Shelley Robbins at srobbins@upstateforever.org   (they want a headcount so they have enough material & snacks for all.)

Local Issue: Green Sanctuary:   We have a one-page survey available from committee members and on the Social Justice table in the Fellowship Hall.   Please grab one & fill it out--  we really need your input!  You can return it to a committee member or to the big box on the Social Justice table.

We filled the Food Barrel again, helping the hungry in our community.   A warm THANK YOU to all who contributed!  Let’s do it again, and help out those struggling during these very tough times.   Here’s an idea from Total Ministries’ Ann Jones:  “whenever there is a sale where you buy a product and get a second item for 1 cent, buy it and put the second one in a bag for TOTAL.  The bag fills up quickly and you don’t feel a pinch on your grocery bill.”  What a great idea!   Try it & let’s see how fast we can fill that barrel again! 

Park Hills School:  The congregation collected $137 to help students in need with school uniforms for the new year.  Looking ahead, our November 14th Share The Plate collection will be for Christmas gifts for children in need at PHS.  Cynthia Lanier will head the PHS Christmas Team:  Susan Brown, Jeraldine Mack, Bonnie Lee Mizelle & Ruth Stanton.  They will purchase gifts, wrap, and deliver them to the school before the Christmas break.  If you’d like to join the team, catch Cynthia at church or let us know by email.  It should be fun, so don’t miss out!

For more info on any or all of the above (and to take action!), email socialjustice@uucs.org