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Peace and Justice Program The Peace and Justice Program works for the ultimate goal of peace through the pursuit of social, economic, and environmental justice within the congregation, the community, and the world at large. The program is organized into task-forces, tackling different projects of advocacy and activity. Areas of activity currently include:
The Peace and Justice Program is affiliated with the UUs for Social Justice (UUSJ), a Chicago-area coalition of programs. This year, the Peace and Justice Program is working with the Mission/Vision Program to lead the church in learning about the issues of hunger in the world and working for social justice in that area. They will connect various groups in the congregation to, among others, Oxfam and The Heifer Project. Faith in Action Evanston UCE families can participate together in helping a family in the Evanston area who has asked Evanston-based Faith in Action for help. Your family registers with the Faith in Action leaders and is paired with a family. The help is usually over a period of time and usually for a specific kind of task, although the families can work out what is most helpful. CROP Walk for Hunger Each October, UCE members participate in a North Shore segment of this nation-wide initiative to raise funds for local, national, and international organizations fighting hunger. Members collect contributors for their walk or act as a sponsor of a walker. October 16. United Power for Social Justice is a metropolitan area-wide coalition of religious, labor, and civic organizations, working on social justice issues, such as health coverage for the uninsured, affordable housing, immigrant rights, and living wages. UCE holds a paid membership in the coalition. The organization works through the political process using advocacy and education to effect legislative change. The Mitten Tree Project At winter holiday time, UCE members volunteer to provide gifts and provision food baskets for the families in the Family Focus/Our Place program, which supports pregnant and parenting teens in the Evanston community. Hilda's Place UCE has developed a supportive relationship with this homeless shelter program, currently housed at Lake Street Church, Evanston. RE programs make bag lunches, members serve as shelter monitors, and "Second Helping Sunday" gives UCE members an opportunity to donate nonperishable food and toiletries for their pantry. Soup Kitchen Fall 2007 Soup Kitchens - Call for Volunteers!
Harms Woods Prairie/Forest Restoration Project UCE has been working with the North Suburban Interreligious Sustainability Circle, in its efforts to achieve a sustainable environment in our community. To that end, we volunteer with their prairie/forest restoration project, clearing and reseeding the Harms Woods area. Guest at your Table Around the holidays, UCE participates in this project of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), to collect funds to support the work of UUSC through the year. “Guest at your Table” is a box into which families may put a donation at each meal around Thanksgiving. Unitarian Church of Evanston
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