Social Justice
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Midland lives out its mission and values by working toward justice in the public sphere. Our commitment to love overflows in service to building a better world today and for the future. We currently do this through four pathways:
- Food and Housing Security
- Environmental Justice
- LGBTQ Justice
- Racial Justice
Social Justice Teams
The goal of our Social Justice Teams is to encourage congregants to get involved in either action or education in one or more of the above areas. Activities may include
- sponsoring Statements of Advocacy for the congregation to adopt
- organizing service projects
- facilitating classes, workshops, or discussion groups
- contributing to worship services
- encouraging congregants to attend other community events
- coordinating with similar groups in the Tri-Cities region, and more
More specifically, theses examples might include:
- Food and Housing Security
- Food pantry collection
- Food and housing equity worship service
- Environmental Justice
- Adopt-a-Road clean-up
- “Green Sanctuary” renewal
- Legislative lobbying
- Earth Day or other worship services
- LGBTQ Justice
- Great Lakes Loons baseball Pride Night booth
- Great Lakes Bay Region Pride Festival booth
- Ruth Ellis Center winter clothing and blanket collection
- Transgender Day of Remembrance worship service
- Gender equity issues
- “Welcoming Congregation” renewal
- Racial Justice
- Book and issue study and discussion group
- Racial justice worship service
- Collaboration with other Racial Justice groups and projects, encouraging support of academic programs, K-12 reading materials – such as READ Association)
Team Leadership
Current team leaders include:
- Food and Housing Security: Scott McDonald, Vicki Reidelberger
- Environmental Justice: Jim Crissman, Scott Malusi
- LGBTQ Justice: Jacob Guettler, Maxine Guettler
- Racial Justice: Susan Mayer
For more information about our social justice efforts, please contact any of the leaders above or email [email protected].