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= 2010 Share The Plate Collections: ARCHIVE  =

Completed Collections: ==January 2010 == === **January 10, 2010,** ** RENA/CEER: **The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association **and t** ** he Coalition to End Environmental Racism **===
 * Contact: Tracy Kulman **


 * Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,683.51 was raised . **

The Rogers-Eubanks Community is a 150-year-old neighborhood in the northern part of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. This primarily low-income, African American community has been host to Orange County’s regional landfill for the last 38 years. ** The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) has been working hard to bring basic services such as public water and sewer to the community and to advocate for the health and safety of its residents. **  To expand its base of support and further its goal of advocating for environmental justice across Orange County, RENA created the Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER).

**Your gift will help RENA fund systematic well-water testing for residents in the Rogers-Eubanks Community, so that it can use the data to apply for grant money to help pay for public water/sewer hookup. It will also be used for community improvements such as residential access ramps for the disabled. In addition, donations will be used for networking and advocacy.** CEER is a member of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and participates regularly in the network’s statewide Environmental Justice Summits. For more information, see **[|http://rogersroad.wordpress.com.] **

**January 24, 2010 –** ** Habitat for Humanity of **** Orange ** ** County **
** Contact: Kathy Farinola **

**Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $2,401.50 was raised for Habitat for Humanity of Orange County. **

“A Hand Up, Not a Handout”: That’s a core principle of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, working in partnership with low-income families to help them build and own quality affordable homes. Volunteers help build homes to keep costs low for Habitat families, who invest 325 hours of labor into building their own homes and the homes of others. Families pay closing costs and make monthly mortgage payments directly to Habitat. As Habitat homeowners pay their mortgages, the money is used to help build homes with other families.

Our church has helped fund and build 13 Habitat houses in 15 years, and hopes to build two more homes in 2010. Our Share the Plate collection on Jan 24 will be the major source of funding for our share of the Habitat home build. You can help provide “a hand up, not a handout.” For more information, see http://c3h.wikispaces.com/C3HMemberHabitatBuild - the Habitat webpage on the church’s website.

** February 2010 **
===**February 7, 2010**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">**,** <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|**In**terfaith Ministries of Chatham County] === Contact: <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">Patricia Learned

<span style="background-color: #f6f66a; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">** Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, ** ** $2,000.00 was raised for ** <span style="background-color: #f6f66a; border-collapse: separate; color: #540080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 27px;">** The Interfaith Ministries of Chatham Count y. ** The Interfaith Ministries of Chatham County(IFMCC ** ) ** was founded in 2009 by county ministries and founding members from our congregation - Gayle Ruedi, Dick Weston-Jones and Patricia B. Learned. The purpose of the ** IFMCC ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">is to raise funds to help local organizations fight hunger, provide clothing and cash for basic needs while establishing an information and referral network so that anyone in need will know where they can find help. Our vision is to meet the needs of the homeless, victims of domestic violence, childcare, healthcare, and housing, as well as the economic and educational needs of the community. We believe that by sharing the resources of the many faith communities, both small and large, we can accomplish more together than any one of us can do alone. Your donation will enable us to move forward with providing these much needed services. More information is available at our website<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.interfaithministriesofchatham.org] === ** February 21, 2010 ** **, **  **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|Orange County Justice United in Community Effort] (JUSTICE UNITED) ** === <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">Contact: Maggie Scarborough

<span style="background-color: #fafaa8; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">** Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1662.00 was raised for Justice United. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">In October 2009, over 450 leaders from across Orange County witnessed Maj-Britt signing the Justice United charter as C3HUU became one of the 22 founding member organizations. This was the culmination of over a year of strategy and planning workshops in which Maj-Britt and C3HUU members had participated. Justice United will provide leadership training on effective strategies for local change, and has organized working groups on affordable housing, living wages, education, environmental justice, health care and quality of life for immigrant families.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">Last summer the C3HUU board voted to support Justice United by pledging dues of $10 per member household to the organization. We have already raised $600 from sales of //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Better World Shopping Guide // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">, and we have been awarded up to $1330 by the Congregation-based Community Organizing Matching Grants Program of the Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility Funding Panel. This Share the Plate Collection will be used to match the grant for our dues //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;"> Any extra raised will be reserved for the training of interested church members.

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To see our church members at the Founding Ceremony and to learn more, go to // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://c3h.wikispaces.com/OC+Justice+United+in+Community+Effort //

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">March 2010 ** ==

===<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">** March 7 ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 32px;">**, 2010 - ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;">The Joe and Lucy Straley Fund for Youth Travel === <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">** Contact: Marion Hirsch **

<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">** Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $2.046.63 was raised for the Straley Fund to help send youth to New Orleans this Spring. **

** The Joe and Lucy Straley Fund for Youth Trave ** l was established to fund youth from the Community Church to travel for peace, justice and service. This year the Straley Fund will support 15 youth who will travel to New Orleans to participate in the post Katrina rebuilding efforts 3/27-4/2. The Straley Fund has supported over 60 youth trips from our church over the last 8 years, to New Orleans and Nicaragua. Church support means that youth of modest means can take these trips which would otherwise cost prohibitive and it conveys to our youth our values and commitment to their future. The fund honors Joe and Lucy Straley -- founding and stalwart members of the Community Church and prominent activists for civil rights, peace and justice here in North Carolina and around the world especially in the Latin America. Links to more information about Joe and Lucy Straley:

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**March 14, 2010 - CROP WALK**
Contact: Lynn Davis

** Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,366.00 was raised for Crop Walk. **


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//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">** Date for 2010 Crop Walk: ** // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">** March 21, 2010 ** // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">See 2009 Crop Walk on Utube: // //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[] //

We walk because they walk...for the simple essentials of life which we take for granted: food and drinkable water. The ** __average__ ** walk for these basics is 4 miles per day for the people of the world. Ponder this as you walk 10 ** __steps__ ** to the water faucet or cupboard in your home. Think of it as you ** __drive__ ** to the grocery store.

Community Church has always been a great supporter of equitable conditions for __all people__. Please, join this cause by donating generously on __Share the Plate for CROP Walk__Sunday, March 14.

25% of the funds benefit the Interfaith Council; 75% benefit CROP Walk.

You may do more by collecting contributions on-line or in person. Ask everyone you know. Walking, or not walking, your efforts make a difference in the lives of our world's impoverished. ** __www.cropwalkonline.org__ **

=== **March 28, 2010** <span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;"> **-** **<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|Unitarian Universalist Service Committee] **  === <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Contact: Tr acy Kuhlman

** Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,266.82 was raised for The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. **

//** Celebrate Justice Sunday **// <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"> and put our principles into practice by supporting the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). Through a combination of advocacy, education, and partnerships with grassroots organizations, the UUSC promotes economic rights, advances environmental justice, defends civil liberties, and preserves the rights of people in times of humanitarian crisis. The UUSC is involved in projects in the United States and around the world. For example, it is participating in relief and recovery efforts in Haiti by providing aid and ensuring equal access to that aid irrespective of race, class, and gender. As part of the UUSC’s pursuit of economic justice, it actively supports workers’ rights to organize, fair trade, and the fair wage movement; these efforts are especially important in the context of the global economic crisis. There are many ways you can get involved with the work of the UUSC; for more information, visit their website at<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.uusc.org].
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=== **April 11, 2010 - <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|Inter-Faith Council For Social Services] (IFC)** === ** Contact: Kathy Putnam ** **Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,724.00 was raised for IFC.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What is IFC ?
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For over 45 years, Inter-Faith Council for Social Services (IFC) has provided concrete help to local people struggling to feed their families, hang on to their jobs, and meet their basic needs. The Community Church was a founding congregation of IFC and continues to contribute the money, groceries, leadership and volunteers needed to help IFC help families.
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 * What are the Services at IFC? **

IFC provides year-round services to individuals in need in our community. Meals are served at the ** IFC Community Kitchen ** 365 days a year. The** Community House ** offers shelter and other services to homeless men. ** Project Home Star **t provides services and transitional housing in a homelike atmosphere for women and children. Low-income families receive nutritious groceries at the ** Food Pantry **and specific help with needs such as clothing, utilities and referrals for other services at the ** Main Street office **.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How can I help? **
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Join a volunteer team that cooks and serves three of these meals every month. Bring canned goods to church for the Food Pantry. Volunteer at Community House, Project Home Start, or Main Street. Our contributions at the IFC Share the Plate on April 11th make all this remarkable work possible. Read more about these and other innovative services such as FoodFirst and Community House at <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">** www.ifcweb.org **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">**April 18, 2010 - ECO project to plant trees on Mt. Kilimanjaro**
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"> Contact: Hank Rodenburg <span style="background-color: #fbfbac; color: #551a8b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">**Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $ 1,147.24 was raised to plant trees on Mt Kilimanjaro.**

Mt. Kilimanjaro is the world’s highest freestanding mountain, a biodiversity hotspot and a UN World Heritage Site. Global climate change has severely reduced the snowcap and highly diverse cloud forest through rising temperatures, reduced precipitation, and more frequent forest fires. As a result, the livelihood of over one million people in the surrounding area who depend on the water supply for agricultural and domestic use is threatened. In addition, fragile ecosystems have been harmed, damaging the habitat of numerous species. Unsustainable logging and farming practices have exacerbated the damage, and the deforestation contributes to further global warming.
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The Environmental Committee (ECO), in celebration of Earth Day (April 22), invites you to support the Interfaith Power and Light’s Carbon Covenant project to raise $150,000 to establish tree nurseries, reforest open spaces and restore wildlife through the work of 152 parishes scattered on the slopes of the Mountain. An additional component of the project is to provide education about forest conservation and sustainable farming. Thus your gift will help address both consequences and causes of global warming in this unique part of the world.

//**EVERY DOLLAR BUYS TWENTY TREES!**//

**More information on:** **ECO** : <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.c3huu.org/ECO] **Interfaith Power and Light**: <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.interfaithpowerandlight.org] and <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 10px;">[|**"Plant 3 Million Trees on Mt. Kilimanjaro"**] **Mt. Kilimanjaro risk**: <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.oecd.org]. search on Mt. Kilimanjaro

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">May 2010 == === **May 10, 2010** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">**,** <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">**Minister's Discretionary Fund and** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">**Benevolence Fund** === <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">contact: Susan Spalt <span style="background-color: #fbfbac; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">**Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $** **1,182. 00 will be divided between the Minister's Discretionary Fund and the Benevolence Fund.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">On May 9th our Share the Plate collection will be divided between two special Funds: the Minister’s Discretionary Fund and the Benevolence Fund. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">The __**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Minister’s Discretionary Fund **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;"> can used by our minister to give help—immediately and confidentially—to anyone who needs it. Funds can be used to help a church member in crisis or a member of the community in need. The church treasurer reviews this account once a year to ensure its correct use, but it is otherwise confidential. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">The __**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Benevolence Fund **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;"> is used where a need is identified which cannot be met in other ways. The Benevolence Fund can be used to help address critical needs—often caused by an injustice. Benevolence Fund gifts may or may not be confidential. Suggestions for Benevolence Fund recipients can be sent to any of the task force members: Nancy Reichle, Katie Donovan or Susan Spalt. Allocations are approved once the need is confirmed. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">We all know that these are difficult times for many people—within and beyond our walls.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal;">**May 23, 2010, Ted Guild Village Bank of UU Church of Philippines** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">contact: Ruth Gibson <span style="background-color: #fbfbac; color: #551a8b; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">**Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $** **1,415.00 was raised for the TED Guild VIllage Bank of the UU Church of the Philippines.**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;"> On May 23 rd, our Share the Plate collection will be for The Ted Guild Village Bank, a Faith in Action program of the UU Church of the Philippines. This micro-credit program, established by the UU Church of the Philippines in collaboration with the UU Partner Church Council, helps fight poverty by helping qualified church members secure small loans at fair interest rates in order to start small businesses or farms. Many Filipino UU’s live in small farming and fishing villages, where isolation combined with religious discrimination combine to keep them in a condition of indentured servitude.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;"> These micro-loans are especially important at this time because so many farmers lost last year’s crop and seed to the hurricanes which devastated the islands. Any help received this spring will help them get back on their feet. Our own SAM Brooks is personally familiar with both the program and the need because of her 2 years with the Peace Corp in the Philippines. Ruth Gibson has long been involved with the UUA Partner Church Program. If you would like more information, look for them at the Share the Plate table after church on May 23, or visit these websites:


 * <span style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">UU church of the Philippines: ** <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Enter Ted Guild Village Bank in the search box.
 * <span style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner Church Council: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.uupcc.org] Select from the “Where We Are” menu to learn about our partnerships in the Philippines or other places.
 * <span style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To read a sermon entitled **"** <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[|**The Peace Corps: A journey into the wilderness**] " <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">by our own **Sam Brooks** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 25px;">Delivered at the Unitarian Universalists of Quezon City, May 31, 2009: go to <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">[]

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">June 2010 ** ==

** June 6, 2010 - Re Summer Project ** ** Contact: Marion Hirsch ** <span style="background-color: #fafaa8; color: #551a8b; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">**<span style="background-color: #fafaa8; color: #551a8b; display: inline !important; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"> 1,121.00 was raised for **** Habitat for Humanity International’s Chile Earthquake Relief ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">The June 6th Share-the-Plate Offering will go to support Habitat for Humanity International’s Chile Earthquake Relief. Habitat is the // Children’s Religious Education Summer Service Project //. The annual RE summer project has an international focus that gives the children a chance to learn about what life is like in other cultures, learn about the nature of global poverty and ways to effectively help people. This year children will also learn about Habitat in our community and meet the people in the church that are involved with Habitat. The children also raise funds for their project with bake sales and penny collections. Your Share-the-Plate donation for Habitat International will combine with funds the children raise for Habitat. It gives you a chance to be a part of their project.

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian Housing Ministry which invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1976 and has built 350,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.75 million people in 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 32px;">**June 20: Two Groups Addressing Justice for Prisoners** Contact: Peggy Misch Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $392.50 will go to People of Faith Against the Death Penalty and $392.50 will go to North Carolina Stop Torture Now.

<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">** People of Faith Against the Death Penalty ** <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 24px;"> is an interfaith, nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization that educates and mobilizes faith communities to work to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Currently PFADP is focusing on a mental illness bill in the North Carolina General Assembly, a measure that would exempt the severely mentally ill from the death penalty.
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** PFADP ** has begun the only statewide campaign in the country to build support for repeal through resolutions. This summer it is sponsoring a speaking tour of death row exonerees and lunches with local clergy to give them the information they need to be more informed moral and community leaders on this issue. This fall, PFADP will host the first national conference this century on religious organizing around the death penalty at Emory University in Atlanta, November 16 and 17.

Support from the congregation will go toward PFADP’s work to support the bill to exempt the severely ill from the death penalty and the Kairos Conference, the national conference on religious organizing against the death penalty to equip clergy and lay leaders with tools to take back to their communities of faith. ** www.pfadp.org **

**North Carolina Stop Torture Now** is a grassroots coalition of individuals representing themselves and a diversity of faith, human rights, peace, veteran, and student groups across the state. It aims to stop torture everywhere, and has worked since 2005 to expose and end North Carolina's central role in U.S. torture programs <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Special focus has been on the "torture taxis" of Aero Contractors, Ltd. of Smithfield, and Centurion Aviation of Fayetteville. Both are nominally private companies linked to the operation of aircraft in clandestine support of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. Extraordinary rendition is a phrase that disguises the kidnap, detention and torture of individuals alleged to be enemies of the United States, including those guilty of nothing other than being misidentified.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">STN advocates that state and local government officials and individual citizens recognize their own complicity in the extraordinary rendition program and take prompt steps to provide restorative justice to victims and survivors, to air a full account of human rights violations, and to demand top-down accountability for the authors and perpetrators. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">** www.ncstoptorturenow.org/ **

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">July 2010 ==

** July 11, 2010 - Habitat for Humanity of Orange County ** contact: Kathy Farinola and Dave Morgan ** Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,773.27 was raised for our next Habitat House. **

The Problem: Families in Need Orange County has a large number of families who have one or more of these needs: (1) They live in substandard housing. (2) They are cost-burdened. (3) They are overcrowded.

** The Solution: ** ** “A Hand Up, Not a Handout” ** Habitat for Humanity of Orange County partners with low-income families and community churches or groups to help these families fund, build and own quality affordable homes. Volunteers help build homes to keep costs low for Habitat families, our neighbors, who invest 325 hours of labor into building their own homes and the homes of others. Families pay closing costs and make monthly mortgage payments directly to Habitat.

** What We Can Do: Let’s Make it **** “15 in 15” ** Our church has helped fund and build 14 Habitat houses in 15 years, and hopes to build our 15th home this fall. Our Share the Plate collection on July 11 will be the major source of funding for our share of this green-certified home in Habitat’s new 50-home community of Phoenix Place in Chapel Hill. If we don’t collect the funding, we can’t build the home. ** Let’s make it “15 in 15!” **

(If you can’t be here July 11, you can send in your contribution to “15 in 15”. Please make checks payable to Community Church of Chapel Hill UU and put “15 in 15--Orange County H4H STP” in the memo line so your contribution is applied to our local efforts. Thank you.)

**July 25, 2010 - Two Projects Helping Children and Youth** contact: Community Services Ministry and Eleanor Armstrong Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,528.80 was raised for school supplies and $281.20 was raised for OKAY : Opportunities for Kids And Youth.


 * School Supplies for both Orange and Chatham Counties**

**The 11th annual School Supplies Project is underway...** Community Service Ministry looks forward to another successful School Supplies Project. We are excited to announce the arrival of 120 backpacks. We have 72 packs for the worthy high school and middle school students of Orange County and 48 packs for the fantastic elementary school students of Chatham County. Now we need school supplies with which to fill them. Learning should be fun and adventurous not the source of frustration. Please be generous with your donations. Proceeds from Share The Plate will go towards the purchase of pens, pencils, paper, magic markers, crayons, highlighters...all the essentials to help students hit the ground running on the first day of school. If you miss Share The Plate, fear not. We will have a table in the Jones room on July 25, August 1 and August 8. We will graciously accept your generous donations at the table. Let's put a smile on young faces and give them the opportunity to have a successful school year.


 * OKAY: Opportunities for Kids And Youth**

The children of low-resource families do not have the opportunities that many of your children do during summer vacations. Their parents have to work and do not have the extra money for special summer experiences. So the kids watch TV, care for younger siblings, or possibly get into trouble. OKAY has been working for several years to compile a list of affordable summer programs to share with school social workers, IFC, churches, NAACP, and El Centro Hispano. This year they will also be working at a new community center in the Rogers Road area to help provide supplies, volunteers, monetary assistance, as needed. Anyone interested in helping with OKAY in any way should contact Connie Gates at <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">conniegates@juno.com Men, women, and older teenagers are all welcome.

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 27px;">August 2010 ** ==

** August 8, 2010: Two Projects in the Local Community: Charles House and El Centro Hispano **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">contact: Community Services Ministry: Connie Gates and Sue Brewer Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $527.00 will go to El Centro Hispano and $611.99 will go to Charles House.

**Charles House** in Carrboro, started by the family of our first minister, Charlie Jones, is an adult day center for older adults who need extra help during the day while their family works or has a brief respite. People are recognized as individuals, encouraged to join in group activities, but allowed to make their own choices. The number of days they come each week varies with each person. Quite a number receive scholarships which adds to the diversity of the group. This summer they are doing reconstruction on a small family home in Heritage Hills which will open in the fall as the first residential unit for 6 people who need more help than a day center can provide, but want to follow the same family-like philosophy.

With the closing of Centro Latino last November, **El Centro Hispano of Durham i**s planning to a branch here this summer – as an ECH satellite, at Carrboro Plaza near the new Hispanic Credit Union. The same services offered by ECL will be available – the employment program, free legal services, a women’s support group, tax preparation assistance, tutoring, to name a few. Financial support will be derived by a membership program for individuals, families, and businesses. The Chamber of Commerce will also be approached for support. El Centro Hispano will certainly appreciate support from past donors including the Community Church. This agency depends on volunteers for assistance in conducting their programs. You can contact them by email <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">procha@elcentro.org or at 919-687-4635.

** August 22, 2010: Prevent Family Violence in Chatham and Orange Counties: **
Family Violence and Rape Crisis (Chatham County) Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $590.50 was raised. Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $590.50 was raised. contact: Kathy Hodges

“Shirley” and her two young children fled to Chapel Hill from Texas. After years of violence and stalking, she finally managed to get herself and her children away from their abuser and to safety, moving here to stay with a friend. When the landlord asked them to leave, she called the hotline at the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County (FVPC). A hotline advocate provided support and information, then assisted her in getting to Family Violence & Rape Crisis Services (FVRC) in Chatham County for shelter. This is only one of the many families these two agencies worked together to help last year. With cuts in state and grant funding we are finding it more difficult to meet the increasing demands for our crisis services.

FVPC has been assisting victims of domestic violence in Orange County since 2001. Our services include a 24-hour hotline, support groups, civil and criminal court advocacy, a teen dating violence prevention program for Orange County high school students, and community education presentations. All services are free and confidential and are available in English or Spanish. Learn more at [|www.fvpcoc.org] or call (919) 929-3872. In Chatham County, FVRC provides shelter, 24-hour crisis services, counseling, support group, court assistance, children’s counseling and day camp, batterer intervention program and displaced homemaker services. Our innovative prevention programs are working to create a culture where domestic and sexual violence are unacceptable. For more information or to volunteer, visit [|www.fvrc.org] or call 919-542-5445. Please consider supporting both of these agencies in their critical work to provide safety and help change lives through the Share the Plate on August 22. Let us be the light, based on our values, for others in crisis or in critical need.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">September 2010
c ontact: Peggy Misch, Charles M. Jones Peace & Justice Committee Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $630.40 was raised. Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $630.40 was raised.
 * Sept 5, 2010, For Labor Day: **
 * ===** The National Farm Worker Ministry, (NFWM) **===
 * ===** The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, (FLOC) **===

In few other periods of our history have workers in this country been so besieged, and income inequality so dramatic. On this Labor Day, the Charles M. Jones Peace and Justice Committee seeks generous support from our congregation for two social justice and worker rights organizations: the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and the National Farm Workers Ministry (NFWM). The NFWM is a faith based organization devoted to securing decent wages and working conditions for workers without whose labor our multi-billion dollar agricultural industry would not survive. Yet our farm workers labor long hours for low wages, suffer from heat stress and pesticide exposure, frequent wage theft, and are excluded from many of the laws protecting workers. FLOC, since its inception in the mid 1960's has overcome corporate resistance by building a faith and social justice movement to support its efforts to organize migrant farm workers into a union that gives them the right to collectively bargain for fair wages, medical care and decent and safe working conditions.

Both FLOC and NFWM have joined together in the national campaign to reform our immigration laws, and locally, to press the Winston Salem based tobacco giant, R.J. Reynolds to negotiate with the union on behalf of tobacco workers to address human rights violations workers suffer every day in the tobacco fields. R.J. Reynolds has the power and resources to influence and change abusive practices of its contractors. Our Church has a proud history helping support workers' rights campaigns: FLOC's contract victory at Mt. Olive Pickle factory in NC; United Food and Commercial Workers contract victory with Smithfield Pork and Processing Plant, and the Moncure Plywood workers' recent contract settlement after a 9 month strike. CH Community Church members joined the recent R.J. R. shareholders' meeting as NFWM workers' rights proxies and marched with FLOC workers outside at a solidarity rally.

FLOC and NFWM are working with international human rights organizations to document abuses in the tobacco fields, and expose R.J. R.'s effort to market its commitment to human rights, while it denies fair wages and benefits to the very tobacco workers whose labors provide the enormous profits and multi millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses paid to its CEO and Board members. Finally, FLOC NFWM invites us to join the campaign it is mounting to press R.J.R's investors to demand the tobacco giant assure justice to its immigrant work force.

Thank you for your support, Charles M. Jones Peace & Justice Committee

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sept 19, 2010 - El Vinculo Hispano/Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County **
Contact: Patricia B Learned <span style="background-color: #faf7bc; color: #6a00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $1241.40 was raised.


 * The organization was formed in 1995, one of the oldest in North Carolina and the only one in Chatham County focused exclusively on the needs of the Latino immigrant population.

Chatham County has approximately 20,000 Latino residents. Siler City Latinos account for nearly 50% of the City's residents. The Liaison serves nearly 5,000 individuals per year and assists organizations by translating their materials into Spanish, interpreting for clients and training their staff on Latino culture.

Activities supporting immigration reform include organizing a 2006 march in Siler City that drew over 6,000, mobilizing support for County Commissioner's resolution regarding immigration and law enforcement in January 2009, and participating in the January, 2010 "Dream Walk" organized by the Chatham/Orange chapter of Reform Immigration for America. ||

=== ** Oct. 3, 2010: XDS, otherwise known as Cross Disabili ** **<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">es ** === <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Contact: Jay Miller ** Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $843.00 was raised.

Our Mission is to empower and assist people with multiple disabilities to live in the community of their choice, achieve personal responsibility, and gain an enhanced quality of life by providing an array of clinically appropriate, person-centered, and flexible treatment, rehabilitation, and support services. (53 words)

This is the mission but the work is more personal than that. I have seen the dedicated staff of this company change people’s lives. They have helped restore dignity and responsibility to many struggling and desperate individuals in our community through sensitive and professional responses to complicated needs. I am proud to be associated with this caring and valuable non-profit company that serves us so well.

Our gifts will help cover independent living needs not met by traditional sources of housing funds.

** Oct. 10, 2010: For UUA Sunday: The Unitarian Universalist Associatio __ n __**
<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Contact: Susan Spalt Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $946.00 was raised.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Celebrating 50 Years and the Future of Our Faith! Proceeds from this year’s Association Sunday special collection will go to ensuring that our faith thrives for generations to come. Beginning in spring 2010, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) will embark on an in-depth strategic review of leadership and growth in order to develop an action plan to strengthen our community for future generations.

“We want congregations that are spiritually deep places where strong and enduring relationships can flourish, and that are engaged in their communities as sources of moral vision and effective action. We want our religious homes to be truly multi-generational and reflect the racial and cultural diversity of the wider world. And, we want professional religious leaders who are visionary, spiritual, innovative, and diverse.”

—The Rev. Peter Morales, President of the UUA

** October 24th - Interfaith Council (IFC): **
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Contact: Maureen O'Rourke

Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $1573.50 was raised.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For almost 50 years the homeless and poor of Orange County have looked to the IFC for help. Interfaith Council for Social Services (www.ifcweb.org.) serves the needy of Orange and Chatham County. There is a Men's Shelter on Rosemary Street which houses between 40-80 men nightly, where meals are served to anyone in need, three times a day, seven days a week. The Woman's Shelter on Homestead Road, provides women and children with apartment-style housing, as well as meals, counseling, job coaching, tutoring and financial counseling. In 2009 over 100,000 meals were served with volunteers giving about 2000 hours a month to the agency. The agency provides counseling, meeting space, emergency funds and a food bank on Main Street in Carrboro. About 60 members of Community Church UU volunteered at IFC last year. The IFC relies on the Churches in the community for financial as well as volunteer support to keep doing its vital work.

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">November 2010 ** ==


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Novem﻿ber 7- Coalition for Peace with Justice and Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions **

<span style="background-color: #fbfbac; color: #6a00ff; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;">Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $418 was raised for Coalition for Peace with Justice and $418 was raised for Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These are two local groups that address peace and justice in the Middle East. Both groups have an office in Durham and have members working actively in the Triangle, offering cultural and exchange programs, opportunities for dialogue, and ways to work for a just peace in Israel/Palestine. A table in the Jones Room and a bulletin board in the Commons will offer more detailed information.

November 21 - Orange County Holiday Gifts for Foster Children and Chatham County Holiday Gifts for Foster Children
Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $1083.50 was raised for each of these groups, totaling $2,167.00.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">December 5th - Christmas Dinners From the IFC
Once again low income folks in this area can receive a bagful of holiday dinner food to feed 4 through the IFC. This bag includes a ham, sweet potatoes, a vegetable, rolls and a pie, all for a gift of $25. In previous years we did Thanksgiving Dinners, but in 2010 it is Christmas. In 2009 we served 114 families and in 2008 we served 73. Let’s keep up the tradition of thinking of others at this special time of year. Your cash gift or a check made to the church with Holiday Meals in the memo will be the funding for those bags. On our STP Sunday there will be only the early service, with a congregational meeting at 11:15. If you are not there at 9:30, you can contribute later at the Holiday Dinners table or by mail to the church office.

Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $1939.15 was raised.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">December 19th - Benevolence and The Minister's Discretionary Fund
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) Maj-Britt is working in her office on her Christmas Eve sermon when the phone rings. Someone in a personal and confidential crisis needs immediate help and is calling churches in the area asking for assistance. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) A number of church members are really concerned about a family in the congregation. The family is struggling because their 20-year-old son has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and needs long term care. Due to the dad’s loss of a job they have no health insurance. The family has no money for food and they are facing the loss of their home. These are difficult times for many people. And the holiday season can make life even more difficult. Fortunately both our minister and our congregation have resources they can tap when the need arises. In the first scenario, Maj-Britt can dip into the Minister’s Discretionary Fund—a fund which can be accessed immediately by her for any reason she deems appropriate. Only Maj-Britt knows how MDF funds are spent. Funds can be used to help a church member in crisis or a member of the community in need. The church treasurer reviews this account once a year to ensure its correct use---but it is otherwise confidential. Anyone who thinks they or someone they know may benefit from this type of assistance should contact Maj-Britt directly. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes there are critical needs that go beyond the scope of the Minister’s Discretionary Fund. Needs arise in the church or in the community—which if met can really help address a critical problem (often caused by an injustice). As a non-profit the church cannot collect funds for individuals. Enter the Benevolence Fund. The non-confidential Benevolence Fund exists for use in situations where a need is identified which cannot be met in other ways. Church members who serve on the Benevolence Task Force receive requests for these funds and approve the allocation once they have confirmed that there is a need. These funds are not confidential. Current members of the Benevolence Task Force are Nancy Reichle, Susan Spalt and Katie Donovan. Church members who are aware of needs in the community can contact on of the Benevolence Committee members for more information.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Sunday, December 19th our Share the Plate collection will be divided between these two funds. Let us reflect the spirit of this holiday season by giving to these funds so the church can help those in crisis or in critical need.

<span style="background-color: #fbfbac; color: #6a00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $1,021.00 was raised.


 * LINKS: **
 * Procedures: How to Nominate a Share The Plate Collection AND How to do a Share The Plate Collections **

There is a 2010 Planning Chart from Google Docs at the bottom of the procedures page. Archive of 2009 STP Collections Return to Share The Plate Main Page
 * Upcoming Collections ( with Descriptions of Recipient Organizations) **