Sunday Collections at UUCR

Share the Plate for January 4th

Our Share The Plate partner this week is Sleep In Heavenly Peace, an organization dedicated to ensuring that every child has a safe and warm place to sleep, a notion that meets with universal agreement, but all too often is not fulfilled in too many communities. While multiple organizations and charities provide food assistance, clothing, books and toys to children in need, there is an ongoing lack of warm beds. Sleep In Heavenly Peace works to fill that space.

For more than a dozen years, Sleep In Heavenly Peace has been operating throughout the United States and in Canada to coordinate volunteer group efforts building quality bunk beds and delivering them to families in need. Its core mission is to provide the physical, emotional and mental support that comes with having a safe place to sleep, something that is even more critical where children are concerned. Sleep In Heavenly Peace is the largest and most diverse network of its kind in the United States.

Early next year, Sleep In Heavenly Peace has plans to sponsor a bed-building event in Montgomery County. Volunteers from many congregations – including UUCR – will gather to do the hands-on work of making the organization’s mission a reality for those children in our own County who lack the comfort and security of having their own bed. Our contributions will help to provide building materials and general support for the project. As you are willing and able, please join in generously supporting Sleep In Heavenly Peace’s critical effort.

First Sunday Food Drive

Manna Food Center

Help support UUCR's program to reduce food insecurity in Montgomery County by bringing canned food items on January 4th for our monthly food drive for Manna Food Center!

Please bring one or more non-perishable foods that we'll donate to Manna Food Center for local distribution. Any and all donations are valued and welcome (no glass containers, please). Collection bins are in UUCR's lobby off the courtyard entrance and outside the sanctuary doors.

Thousands of families in Montgomery County don't have enough food to eat and turn to food pantries for support. Our local pantries are struggling to keep up with the rising demand and need community support. Let's all pitch in and help as we can! Thank you!

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