Friday, February 19, 2016

Next Two-Year Initiative: Call for Proposals

In 2011, the church took on a congregation-wide social action initiative to address the problem of hunger in our Community. After a successful two-year effort on hunger, the congregation supported a two-year Immigration Justice initiative beginning in 2014. Many members of the congregation have been involved in various facets of these initiatives. Energizing the congregation to work together on a particular social action theme has been extremely powerful and gratifying, and a great deal of good work has been done.

The Social Action Committee (SAC) is now soliciting proposals for the next two-year initiative from church committees, groups, and individual members using a simple one-page form. Complete the form online here. Please note responses are due by Sunday, March 13. The SAC will vet the proposals for feasibility, relevance, and accordance with UU principles and church goals. The proposals that have passed the vetting process will be communicated to the congregation through the eUniter, E-News, Social Action table handouts, and other means, to ensure that everyone has a chance to read them. If more than two proposals are submitted, we will have a preliminary vote to winnow the list of initiatives down to the top two. These top two will be presented and discussed at the annual meeting in May and a vote taken to select one topic for our initiative.

After the initiative has been chosen, SAC will work with the Director of Religious Education (RE), RE Committee, Minister, and Membership Coordinator to appoint a task force, separate from the SAC, to implement the two-year initiative. Work on the initiative will begin in September 2016 and end in May 2018. We look forward to reading about all of your ideas!