SOCIAL ACTION
Click on the following social action initiatives
at Buxmont to learn more:
Split Plate Program
The Green Sanctuary Committee
The Peace and Justice Committee
Apartment Partners
SPLIT PLATE PROGRAM
The split plate program was initiated at BuxMont in October 2004.
Fifty percent of the offertory donations (not including operating
pledge money) taken on Sunday go to help organizations in BuxMont's
community who serve those in need. A different organization is chosen each
month. If you have any suggestions for organizations that you would like to
see BuxMont help in this way, please contact Dena Condron.
August Split Plate
The split plate recipient for August is the Doylestown chapter of FISH. The mission of FISH is to provide emergency assistance to people in need when no other timely assistance is available. FISH serves the nine municipalities within the Central Bucks School District as well as some adjacent areas like Solebury, New Hope, Tinicum, and Bedminster. They provide, within their means, food, a motel room, help with prescriptions, rent, utility bills, a bus ticket, or any other emergency short-term need that may arise.
Click HERE for more information about split plate and to see a list of past recipients.
GREEN SANCTUARY REPORT
Click
here for Green Sanctuary Resources.
PEACE
AND JUSTICE NEWS
Peace Gathering and Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration
Four events sponsored in partnership with The Peace Center and the Coalition for Peace Action are planned from August 6 to August 9:
• A service commemorating the Hiroshima Anniversary will be held at BuxMont on Friday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. and will take place outside, weather permitting. A Hiroshima survivor and some children from the peace camp will be part of this service.
• On Saturday, August 7, the Peace Center will be showing the movie Black Rain at 3 p.m. at the Peace Center in Langhorne, 102 West Maple Avenue, Langhorne, PA 19047-2820, 215-750-0323.
• On Sunday, August 8, Jerry Johnson of the Peace and Justice Committee will provide a Sunday service entitled “Disarming God.” There will be a discussion after the service about positive steps we can take to ensure that nuclear weapons are never again used.
• On Monday, August 9 we will have a Nagasaki Commemoration service in the BuxMont sanctuary that will feature reflection and meditation and give people a chance to light a candle and express their feelings about the weekend events and what they can do to work for peace and nuclear disarmament.
Look for the banner purchased by BuxMont and the Peace Center to advertise these events.
UU Plan Now on Facebook
For up-to-date information on the current issues and activities of UUPLAN (the Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania Legislative Advocacy Network), go to our new Facebook website. We are working on several important issues right now and we could use your help. Contact Cynthia Jones for more information.
ONGOING PROJECTS
Apartment Partners
BuxMont has responded with great generosity to our project to adopt an immigrant family from Mexico. We have received clothes, food, furniture, and assorted household items along with a generous financial contribution. If you have items you would like to donate, please contact Celia Sharp. The children in the family, ages 15, 13, and 8, would also welcome help with their homework.
Doylestown Food Pantry
We have an ongoing collection of items for the Doylestown Food Pantry (also by the Social
Action bulletin board).
Other Projects
Other ongoing projects supported by the committee include donations of eye glasses to
Volunteer Optometrists Serving Humanity (there is a box in the social hall to
drop off donations) and collection of used printer cartridges and cell phones
that are donated to A Woman's Place. (A collection box for these is next to the
Social Action bulletin board outside of the kitchen.)