Ministry for Earth Newsletter, February 2024
Keep up to date with UUCville's Ministry for Earth with this new newsletter.
March Social Action Collection: Cultivate Charlottesville
At Cultivate Charlottesville we believe FOOD IS A HUMAN RIGHT. We engage youth and community in building equitable, sustainable food systems through garden-based experiential learning, growing and sharing healthy food, and amplifying community leaders while advocating for food justice. Our approach centers racial equity as we grow with students, neighbors, and...
Learn How to Cook Sustainably – Ministry for Earth
The Ministry for Earth invites you to learn how to cook sustainably. It is our great fortune to have a local vegan restaurateur – Ryan Becklund, owner of Botanical Fare and Bar Botanical – offer to teach a series of three classes for people who want to learn how...
Advocacy for Busy People – You Can Make a Difference!
UUCville Ministry for Earth Legislative Advocacy The VA General Assembly only meets for 60 days (Jan 10 – Mar 10) so your advocacy is needed NOW! Here are pending bills of interest organized by topic. You can write to your legislators to ask for their support (some organizations provide ready...
39th Annual C’ville Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration
“Honoring the Dream” Sunday, January 21, 2024 5:00 pm Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church, 105 Lankford Ave., Charlottesville, VA 22902 Keynote Speaker: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the author of My Monticello, a fiction debut that was called ‘a masterly feat’ by the New York Times...
Rivanna Clean Up November 18
Our friends at Rivanna Conservation Alliance are asking for our help in the Dunlora neighborhood on November 18. Join Ellie Syverud of UUCville Ministry For The Environment at Dunlora Farm Road for a short work project, 10am to 12:00pm. We will be removing invasive plants from one of our recent...
Switch to Zero Emission Busses
C3 (Charlottesville Climate Collaborative) is sponsoring a petition drive to encourage the City of Charlottesville to switch to zero emission busses. According to their petition: Our transportation system can be a catalyst for combating climate change and uplifting community health. It has a profound influence on both our environment and...
UUCville’s Ministry for Earth Living “Love in Action”
Kim Grover, a member of UUCville Ministry for Earth, said that they had a very successful clean up of the Rivanna Trails Pollocks Branch with some of our YRUU group along with the Ministry for Earth group. The work group made pretty short work of that section of stream that...
Grant Us Peace the Mission of PACEM
Jayson Whitehead Executive Director at PACEM This year we host PACEM for the men from November 11 to 25 and the women from November 25 to December 9, 2023. Other congregations will feed our guests for the first three weeks. We partner with Ebenezer Baptist Church to feed our...
Refugee Welcome Update – September 2023
Front Row: Breck Gastinger, Nasrat, Haji Muhammad, Hikmat, Saeeda, Regina White, and her daughter Second Row: Lara Gastinger, Sharon Baiocco , Burnie Davis, Rev. Tim Temersen. (May 2023 Visit by the Ghaznavis family to the UUCville campus) The Refugee Welcome Mentors are pleased to report that the UUCville sponsored...