Every year our congregation hosts a Justice Sunday, during which we celebrate and support the work the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) does all over the world. Usually we take a special collection during our Justice Sunday service to benefit the UUSC. This year we will take a special collection for that purpose, but we will do so on May 18, the day the Guest at Your Table boxes are returned.
Every year I say it – and I really do believe it – the UUSC is one of the best things Unitarian Universalists do together. It’s not a missionary society – whose goal it is to “convert the natives,” using charitable and justice work as a kind of ruse to draw people in. It’s not a charity – theoretically, and even actually, fixing problems, but while telling people what to do and how to live.