The Social Action Committee coordinates community outreach and social justice projects for Community UU Church. To sign up for an event, e-mail the committee at UUsInAction.

Looking for an opportunity? Consult our Social Action Calendar.

Community Outreach

Community Harvest

Our community garden project.

Coordinator: Deb Bliss

Love Where You Live

Love Where You Live is a partnership between Plano neighborhoods, volunteers, and the City with a goal of transforming communities through social and physical revitalization.

Coordinator: Nelah McComsey

Plano Community Homes

Plano Community Homes provide affordable housing for low-income older adults and persons with limited mobility. Community UU's First Friday Folksingers provide a quarterly music program for residents of PCH.

Coordinator: Bev Fleming

God's Food Pantry

We provide canned vegetables, nonperishable food, and fresh vegetables from our garden for God's Pantry as well as assistance with their utility bill. Please bring your food donations and place in the cart next to the front door.

Coordinator: Linda Frank

New Orleans Rebirth Volunteer Program

In the summers of 2010 and 2011, a small group from Community UU Church traveled to New Orleans to spend a week participating in the New Orleans Rebirth Volunteer Program, a program of the Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal (CELSJR), housed at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans (FUUNO). We will return annually to New Orleans to continue this work.

Coordinator: Dick Hildenbrand

Other programs we support

Social Justice (Advocacy)

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies.

The mission of UUSC is guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), as well as Unitarian Universalist principles, which affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person. For specific program details, go to the UUSC web site.

Our members are encouraged to support social justice around the world by supporting the work of the UUSC.

Coordinator: Linda Frank

Standing on the Side of Love

Standing on the Side of Love is a public advocacy campaign (sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association) that seeks to harness love's power to stop oppression. For more information, go to their web site. http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/take-a-stand

Common Read

Common Read is a program of the Unitarian Universalist Association in which member churches across the country read a common book and hold studies and discussions of the book. During February and March 2011, we read The Death of Josseline: Immigrant Stories from the Arizona Borderlands. Nancy Barlow led a well-attended review and discussion of this book on March 27. In the spring of 2012, we will again participate in the UUA Common Read program. The title for 2012 is Eboo Patel's memoir Acts of Faith.

For more information, contact UUsInAction.