I want to share with you an opportunity to reduce gun violence and make Oregon schools and community spaces safer.
Lift Every Voice Oregon has drafted two Initiative Petitions that present common sense gun safety measures.
Initiative Petition (IP) 17: Safe Owners and Less Lethal Ammunition
– Requires … read more.
This month’s social justice article is about building a social justice culture which is the outward expression of UUCS’s values seen by the greater community.
Any religion’s rational for being is the values it professes. What makes a value system a religion is acting on those … read more.
What is Share the Plate? During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient … read more.
The UUCS Microfinance Committee held a very successful sale of items made by Basha women in Bangladesh on April 3 and 10. We partnered with Basha which is a non-profit organization that provides a sustainable livelihood for women at risk and survivors of trafficking. Women … read more.
Yes! With financial contributions from UUCS congregants and friends from the wider Salem community and with design work by John Davenport in collaboration with representatives from Church at the Park (C@P), Habitat and Hope Village, Inc. (HHV) has agreed to purchase and donate its first … read more.
The UUCS Microfinance Committee invites you to check out and purchase Basha products after the service on April 10 in the Fellowship Hall. These beautiful items, made by Bangladeshi women, include blankets, scarves, bags and clothing. The proceeds of the sale will benefit the women … read more.
What is Share the Plate? During each Sunday service, we take a collection. This voluntarily given money is then shared between our congregation and an organization from the local community which has goals that align with Unitarian Universalist principles. This month’s Share the Plate recipient … read more.
We began the Microfinance Committee because we were inspired by our minister, Rev. Rick Davis, who implored the congregation to do something about global poverty. We were also inspired by the work and principles established by Nobel Prize laureate Mohammad Yunus.
We located our partner … read more.
Marion Polk Food Share comes by the first Monday of each month to pick up donations generously given by UUCS members, visitors, and Staff. The donation site is the beautiful Red Wagon in our Foyer. Let’s try to fill the wagon each month with food … read more.
Habitat & Hope Village (HHV) is working to fill a very important service to Salem’s Unsheltered Communities. Progress is being made to house our unhoused citizens with the development of Micro Shelter Communities. Donations have been received for the purchase of one hundred and twenty … read more.
