Celebrate Earth Day 
April 20th, 2019
​1PM-5 PM at UUCG!

Please Join us April 20 from 1:00pm -5:00pm.   Please invite your friends to hear drumming and stories of Indigenous Peoples about Mother Earth, test drive a Nissan Leaf electric car, hear about bees and pollinators.  Visit tables from Sierra Club, Citizens Climate Lobby, Earth Democracy from WILPF, Sandbox Solar, Weld Air and Water, Paint canvas grocery bags, (for a suggested donation), Hear from a master gardener and learn about water conservation and more.  Don't miss this event put on by the Social Justice Ministry at UUCG. ​

Social Justice

Our faith-based approach to justice making is based on restoring right relationships - with people and the earth. This kind of justice is based on love and non-violence in thought, word, and deed. A faith-based approach to justice is realized by expanding the vision of Beloved Community, a term used by Martin Luther King, Jr. to depict a completely integrated society built through love, justice, and a welcoming brotherhood.

Unitarian Universalists believe that every person is sacred and and that there is an interdependent web of all existence. When one part of the web is torn or injured, all other parts are injured, and the web needs to be restored.

We also hold that faith-based justice work is more than obtaining and sharing information. It’s about transformation.  In order to transform the world, we need to be transformed, and that's an ongoing process that we do together here at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley. 

Whoever is doing social change work is encouraged to attend the Social Change Circle which is a monthly gathering to sustain your work and help you reflect on it theologically.  Contact Minister Barry Bloom for more information.  Join us to be transformed - and to integrate your spirituality with your work for justice. 

One Sunday a month, we donate our offering plate to a charitable organization that meets the following criteria: non-profit, non-partisan, whose mission aligns with ours, and is a place where our members could potentially volunteer.

This practice tangibly connects us to something larger than ourselves, acknowledges our interdependence with each other, shifts our outlook to one of abundance rather than scarcity, strengthens ties with our neighbors, and shows our world that we are the church “of the loving heart, open mind and helping hands.”

 Social change issues that we have addressed in the past (not in any order) include:

1. We are a Welcoming Congregation, a welcoming place for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender People. We partner with One Colorado for LGBTQ justice. 
2. Immigration issues.  We partner with RISE and American Friends Service Committee to companion immigrants in the Greeley area.
3. Climate Change.  We partner with Citizens Climate Lobby and their compassion-based work to affect climate change legislation. 
4. Each year we work with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to support international partners in places like Haiti, Kenya and the U.S.-Mexico border
5. The Heifer Project
6. Water issues
7. Food Justice and Ethical Eating
8. 40-40 for the Earth
9. Peace efforts
10. Sowing the Seeds of a Healthy Community
11. Fair Farm Bill
12. Volunteering to read to children at a local school
13. Food Drives for the Weld Food Bank
14. Sexual Assault and Survivor issues
15. Supporting A Women’s Place
16. Winner of the Environmental Stewardship Award from the City of Greeley 2011.
17. Participating with Greeley Interfaith
18. Participating in the Occupy movement
19. "Cookies for the Homeless"

Equity

Acceptance

All Existence

​Compassion
Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash

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