Immigration Reform Rally A Success!

Light the Path to Citizenship Rally at UUCUC held April 10th as part of a National Immigration Reform Vigil endorsed by the Standing on the Side of Love campaign.

2013 Auction Donation Catalog Available here

Join us on Saturday, April 13th in the Fellowship Hall for the 30th Annual Service Auction. The event starts at 4:30 pm with a reception in the sanctuary, with silent auction bidding and fixed price items. Dinner is family style at 5:30, followed by a live auction at 6:30. Desserts and coffee will be served after the live auction. Tickets are available after services this Sunday, or you may buy them at the door but RSVP to wchilder57@gmail.com! Tickets are $10 per adult, $5 per child. $30 max for a family and $12 at the door for adults. There is still time to donate an item for the auction. If you would like to make a donation, please contact Jody Hanger at jody@hannauer.net or 351-6756. See you there! The list of items available for bidding are found by clicking Here

More Details about the Crop Walk: April 14th at the UU Church in Urbana

The big day is coming soon! On April 14 our church is hosting the community-wide CROP Hunger Walk. As you know, the six-mile walk will start and end here at the UU Church. Following are a few more details about the event that you may not know. On the day of the walk we will be collecting non-perishable food items to be donated to the Eastern Illinois Food Bank. This is an additional way of donating to the walk that is recommended by the organizers of CROP Walk. In addition to people from our own congregation, walkers from other organizations may be bringing food items as well. We will have a table set up to collect these donations. The UU Walkers are busy collecting donations and/or pledges at this time! A few of us have registered on the C-U CROP Hunger Walk 2013 website, since donations can be made directly online by credit card or Pay-pal. You may want to try this because it is an easy way to collect donations. It is a good idea to collect your pledges as soon as you can. However, don’t worry if you don’t have everything by April 14. You will actually have another 2 weeks to get your donations in to Sandy Hannum and Nancy Dietrich. We appreciate having your envelopes as soon after the walk as you can comfortably manage. The snack providers can bring any kind of hand-held food. Walkers from the entire community will end up here, so we need many, many snacks. We know that this is an area of great expertise in this congregation, and we appreciate your help tremendously!! Snacks can be taken to the church kitchen on the morning of the walk, and must be clearly labeled for CROP Walk so that they are not mistaken for Sunday morning hospitality. The building hosts will be sort of super-welcomers. This important role involves making the walkers from the community feel welcome, directing them to Fellowship Hall where they will find the snacks and drinks, and also the bathrooms. If they should happen to show an interest in our church, then you can take advantage of the opportunity to engage them in a discussion. We will make sure the literature racks are well-stocked! If you signed up to direct traffic we will put you in touch with Esther Portnoy, who will assign you a spot and give you instructions. The Hunger Initiative team thanks everyone for participating in all these different ways!

April Shared Offering: Illini Fighting Hunger

Illini Fighting Hunger is a Registered Student Organization at the University of Illinois, a program of the Wesley United Methodist Church and Foundation, and a Kids Against Hunger satellite organization. The mission of IFH is to address local and international hunger issues by making meal-packaging events more frequent, more accessible, and more effective in Champaign-Urbana. IFH is run entirely by student volunteers. They match trained student leaders with community partners to organize food or meal-packaging events of all sizes. IFH provides the expertise and equipment for packaging, and the networks for purchasing raw food products and supplies and for distributing the final product. The organization putting on the event is then able to focus on fundraising for their event, recruiting volunteers, and educating participants about hunger issues in our community and abroad. Together the partners are able to work very effectively to achieve great things. One example of a successful IFH community project is the rice re-pack in our own church, which was so efficient that we finished it in half the expected time!