After two years of virtual-only interaction, General Assembly (GA) is going multiplatform this year with both in-person and online options. GA runs June 22-26, 2022 and is live from Portland Oregon with the theme of “Meet the Moment: Reimagining Radical Faith Community.” GA is the annual meeting of our Unitarian...

This Sunday is UUSC Justice Sunday, when we focus on the human-rights work of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and this Sunday’s offering will go to the Service Committee. The Service Committee began during World War II, when Unitarian Minister Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha went to Czechoslovakia to...

As we all watch in horror to what is happening in Ukraine, we want to do something to make a difference. We can. As you may know, our Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) partnered with local groups in Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia when refugees from the Middle East were flooding...

It is time to wrap GAYT up for 2021, but it is only a soft wrap. Why? Because the year around need for work to be done on human rights, civil rights, and social justice never goes away. We can wish that such work is not needed, but we know...

Women in rural Nicaragua face many challenges: the damaging farming practices of multinational companies, gender inequity and violence against women, severe hurricanes and severe drought tied to climate change, political violence, and, of course, Covid-19. Faced with these obstacles, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) partner Fundacion Entre Mujeres (FEM) is...

The beautiful island of Kioa is located just across Buca Bay from mainland Fiji. In 1947 it was purchased by residents of Vaitupu, one of the eight coral reef islands of the nation of Tuvalu. Maina Talia, the co-director of Kioa Island Community Organization (KICO), explains that the people of...