Co-sponsored by UUSD’s Social and Environmental Justice Committee Over 25 people showed up at UUSD on Sunday April 6 to assemble 100 backpacks for distribution to people leaving Sussex Correctional Institution with little or nothing. Each backpack contained socks; laundry detergent; a folder with information about resources; a wallet; a bus pass; toiletries [...]
Transforming Hearts: 6-session Course Rev. Cathy Rion Starr (they/them) and Eli Scearce (she/they) led together an energetic, 6-session Transforming Hearts course: Transgender Inclusion in Congregations. This course, created by Rev. Mykal Slack and Zr. Alex Kapitan of the Transforming Hearts Collective has been called by some UU Ministers, “the single most transformative experience for UUs [...]
Community Building Volunteer Opportunity UUSD members are invited to join the locally organized community-wide Sussex County “Feeding the 5000 Multiplied" food-packing event on Saturday, March 9th at Sussex Central High School in Georgetown. This event is being organized by Grace United Methodist Church of Millsboro. You can join either of two sessions (morning or afternoon) [...]
Our Share the Plate offering in January is for Rise Against Hunger. Their second annual locally sponsored event, “Feeding the 5000 Multiplied,” is hoping to package and ship 120,000 meals for communities experiencing serious levels of food insecurity. Rise Against Hunger serves last-mile communities in remote locations. Meals are provided through educational institutions to help [...]
UUSD will host a Free Soup & Bread Dinner followed by a movie on Friday, January 26. The movie "3 Degrees of Connection" examines the heritage of Lewes, Delaware, from the perspectives of people with different histories with the area, of different races and ages, and with varied research agendas. Come for both the meal [...]