Sunday Collections at UUCR

Share the Plate for May 25th

Mary's Center

This week we Share The Plate with Mary’s Center, a 35-year-old non-profit organization that has been supported by UUCR for many years. Mary’s Center is a community health provider that supports more than 65,000 Washington, D.C. area residents of all ages, incomes and backgrounds with healthcare, education and social support services. The Center is a participant-focused organization that fosters an honest and judgment free environment.

Mary’s Center’s Social Change Model acknowledges the connection between good health and family stability and economic independence, and is empowered to take smart risks, believing that innovation leads to growth. Mary’s Center’s mission embraces all communities in furtherance of building better futures for its clients. Its program includes medical, dental, behavioral health and literacy services, all under one umbrella, and its staff encourage active collaboration by sharing knowledge and seeking client input to reach organizational goals effectively.

Mary’s Center’s model has been recognized as an effective and progressive design for promoting family health by the Urban Institute and the National Institutes of Health. As you are willing and able, please join in supporting Mary’s Center’s valuable mission.

Collage Item Collection

All congregants of all ages! To honor our Soul Matters Themes throughout this year, we have an exciting art project underway! We will be creating collaborative collages that represent what the Soul Matters themes mean to all of us!  We would love for everyone, friends and members, young and young-at-heart, to participate in this project!

What we are asking of you

What we need to begin is items to collage. These can be magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, copies of photographs, articles - any flat words or imagery that YOU connect with each month's theme.

How can you participate?

We will have a basket in the Corridor each Sunday that is labeled "Soul Matters Collage Donations" - please bring those items that represent the monthly theme to you to drop into the basket. You are more than welcome to bring more than one! Each month the theme will change, and we'd love your participation throughout the year.

The theme for May is IMAGINATION

If you'd like more information, please contact Lara Klopp.

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 June 1st 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!