Community Outreach Offering Recipient July 2022 ABOUT HOSPICE SLO COUNTY The end of life deserves as much respect as the beginning. Hospice of San Luis Obispo County (Hospice SLO County) is an incorporated 501(c)3 volunteer hospice serving San Luis Obispo County residents who are facing a life-limiting illness, end of life or grief. We depend…
Community Outreach Offering Recipient May 2022 SLO Village was founded in 2016 by a group of active older adults who wanted their retirement years to be engaging and purposeful. Our Village is part of the grassroots “Village Movement” that began in Beacon Hill, MA in 2002. There are now over 350 Villages across the nation.…
A ZOOM only service/ May 29 – Woven in a Single Garment of Destiny / UUA President Susan Frederick Gray/ Worship Associate – Gina Whitaker/ We’re all connected: an interdependent whole. Therefore, says Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, “covenant is our religious response to our fundamental interdependence.” We make promises about how to be together, and how…
May 22 – Eye of the Beholder/ Rev. Rod Richards/ Worship Associate – Chris Ralston-Cummings/ Anais Nin wrote, “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” What does that mean for how we define, recognize, and nurture beauty?
May 15 – Family Ties/ Rev. Rod Richards/ Worship Associate – June Minikel/ Connections between people — challenging as they can be–are also a way to nurture beauty. A particular form of connection that can exemplify this is often referred to as: family ties.
A ZOOM Only Service May 8th – Get Rooted, Get Ready!/ Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth/ (Online only: see announcement above)/ “It will take all of us, working with all of us… doing what none of us can do alone”/ –All of Us, the new climate hymn by Dana Clark/ Our faith calls us into relationship with the sacred elements of Earth and to put…
May 1 – Lovely to Look At/ Rev. Rod Richards/ Worship Associate – Alison Rittger/ Many famous stories, songs, poems through the ages have paired physical attractiveness with inner beauty. How does that show up in our culture?
Community Outreach Offering Recipient April 2022 Planned Parenthood California Central Coast (PPCCC) is a safety-net provider for sexual and reproductive health care services in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. PPCCC was established in 1964 and supported 568 patients in the first year of operation. Since then, the agency has grown to operate…
February 2022 Community Outreach Offering Judy Jimenez, President Assistance League of SLO County; Judy Hornaday, UU COO Chair; and Bonnie Long, AL Grants Committee member celebrating their receipt of $741 from the UU COO in February. From the Assistance League website: Transforming Lives of Students and Their Families Since 1996 Assistance League of San Luis…
Center for Restorative Justice Works/ Get on the Bus March 13 Community Outreach Offering The mission at Get on the Bus is simple: keeping children and parents connected while helping them build family relationships when the parent is incarcerated. Until 2020, Get on the Bus was a one-day event for 14 prisons in California,…