OUUC Religious Education

Last Sunday, the kids in our 2nd-5th grade class learned about a program called Homeless Backpacks, which provides food for homeless and at-need students.  The students can pick up the food packets at the nurse’s office, to bridge the nutrition gap on weekends and extended school holidays.  While we are enjoying Spring Break this week, it wouldn’t be fun if you were going hungry because of it. 

There will be a bin in the foyer, and please bring donations of foods such as cereal or protein bars, cup of noodles, applesauce or pudding cups, or juice boxes.  We will collect food items for the next several weeks.

A few weeks ago, when we launched the Guest At Your Table program, Rev. Vaeni and I told a story about water rights in South Africa, and the struggle to stop the water company from installing prepaid meters in low-income neighborhoods.  The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee supported the activists who took their case to court.  The story isn’t over, however, and UUSC continues to support the human right to water.  Read more about it, here.  This is the kind of work that you support when you put money in that Guest at Your Table box.  And please remember to return your boxes to the church office this Sunday!