The Hospital Meal Packet Program is a home-grown social action project that has been providing food to people in need since 2010. UUCCville provides meal packets through the Social Work office at the University of Virginia Medical Center. In 2025, we provided 900 meal packets that were distributed to people...
On the first Friday morning of every month, a group of about 15 volunteers receive food from the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and unload the truck in the Summit House parking lot. We put the food on tables, noting what is USDA and what is “bought food” from the...
I have been reflecting this month on the many ways our congregation works with the local community, and would like to highlight a few of them. We recently concluded nearly 2 weeks hosting 40 men as part of the PACEM winter shelter program. PACEM is a local organization that coordinates...
Click here to donate during January 2026 IMPACT is a multi-faith coalition of more than 30 local congregations, organizing to empower citizens to create significant change through direct action. IMPACT gets into “good trouble” by using evidence based research to identify causes of injustice and suffering, and then planning effective and achievable actions that...
This is the second report from the Committee on Ministries on the progress UUCville has made on our Long Range Plan. In the first report, COM described the progress on the Preamble of the plan. This report is about how UUCville are doing with Goal 1. Summary of Accomplishments I....
Click here to donate during December The Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (commonly known as PHAR) was founded in 1998 with the mission of educating and empowering low-income residents to protect and improve our own communities through collective action. PHAR is entirely governed by public housing residents and one...
The Board met for our annual retreat in September 2025. In addition to getting to know each other better, we spent a lot of time discussing the strategic plan, our progress so far, and our priorities for this year. Two members of the Committee on Ministry (COM) attended to help...
Sin Barreras’ mission is to empower immigrants and their families in Central Virginia with a focus on the Latinx population by educating, advocating, and supporting their needs. We serve people by phone or in person in our office.
Every day of the year, The Haven provides a refuge, a place where anyone in a housing crisis can come to find the support and resources they need to survive and exit their crisis. We’re a low-barrier day shelter, vital housing services provider, and main point of entry for our...
Halloween is coming! If you want to be a good global citizen, make sure that the chocolate you buy is labeled “fair trade”. Most of the major chocolate companies ** use unpaid and underpaid child laborers who are prevented from attending school. In addition, the cocoa industry has a huge...