Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Your Values Working Throughout the World: A Paradigm Shift from Missionaries

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) works to advance justice worldwide by combining human rights education and advocacy in the United States with direct support for grassroots initiatives. UUSC is a secular, non-sectarian membership organization founded in 1948. In addition to humanitarian relief in crises for marginalized people, program areas of focus include the following:

• Advancing ECONOMIC JUSTICE, addressing the issues of globalization and privatization with a focus on defending workers' rights and supporting living wage link to campaigns.
• Defending CIVIL LIBERTIES threatened by terrorism, anti-terrorism and increasing authoritarianism.
• Promoting ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE with a primary focus on promoting and defending the human right to water.
• Providing experiential learning through JustWorks intergenerational workcamps working directly with people in the communities UUSC serves, experiencing social justice struggles firsthand.

The local committee for UUSC at First Church strives to inspire, educate and mobilize human rights activists within our congregation and in the community.

• Join and receive the newsletter Rights Now!
• Purchase Fair Trade coffee, tea and chocolate after each service 1^st,  2^nd, 3^rd and 5^th  Sundays
• Participate in Guest At Your Table mindfulness and purchase holiday greeting cards and alternative gifts during the holiday season
• Volunteer short or long term: opportunities for leaders and followers, visionaries and task-oriented, independently or in a group. Diversity in leadership is intentional with our local committee.

Our own Marilyn Sewell is a member of UUSC’s Ambassadors Council.

Visit: UUSC website