December Share the Plate: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Guest at Your Table

Our Share the Plate partner for December is the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Guest At Your Table Program. UUSC works around the world to promote human rights and social justice, transforming our UU values into action, through advocacy, education, and partnerships with grassroots organizations. GNUUC has supported UUSC since our earliest days; this is our 26th year of participating in the Guest at Your Table program. Our main fundraiser for UUSC is our Share the Plate program. Last year we raised $601.50 for UUSC through Share the Plate!

The theme for this year’s Guest at Your Table program is The Meaning of Home. For many of us, our relationship with home has intensified this year. The pandemic has given many of us new appreciation for, and concerns about, the places we call home and the centrality of these places in our lives.

This year during Guest at Your Table, we invite you to witness stories of UUSC’s partners around the world as they tell you about home. Although we won’t be taking home Guest at Your Table boxes to keep on our dinner tables this year, we can still share their Stories of Hope. Partners in Central America are working to make sure no one is forced to flee their home due to violence or economic devastation. Partners in Alaska, Louisiana, and the Pacific are fighting for their homes and ancestral lands against the ravages of extractive industries and climate change. And partners in Burma, Bangladesh, and beyond are working tirelessly to support the rights of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority of Burma after facing government-backed genocide in their homeland. They are all fighting for their right to home in one way or another. May their stories inspire you to give generously to the UUSC as our December Share the Plate partner!

The ways in which our congregation and families come together may look different, but the beloved tradition of Guest at Your Table is here and needs your support.