"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve ... You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"Everybody can be great and everybody can serve ... and we hope you will."

-Rev. Kären Rasmussen, Minister for Social

Justice, and Martha Ades, Lay Minister for Social Justice.

 

Lay Minister for   Social Justice   Martha Ades

Since 1994, our nation has honored Martin Luther King, Jr., by setting aside a day for people to provide volunteer service to their communities. Often this becomes a day off from school or work, a day to catch up on chores or plan something fun.

 

This year, UUCF and the Social Justice Council would like to invite you to spend

just a little bit of time in volunteer service. Throughout the weekend of Jan. 18-20 - UUCF's Weekend of Service - we will have service opportunities ready for you and your family to pitch in and help.

 

 

You'll be able to sign up to help prepare meals with our Coming of Age class for Stop Hunger Now or help with a children's party with our local Embry Rucker Community Shelter. There will be a chance to help remove the invasive species on our own campus or try your hand at making fleece blankets for our own February Hypothermia shelter. Mark Vogel will also be taking adult and youth choir members out into the community to perform where people don't normally hear us.

 

Why is this important?

 

Because by setting aside a little bit of time, we are living our values and putting our faith into action. Because we are a faith community that believes in the worth and dignity of all. We work in the community with our hands and our hearts to become an integral part of the interconnected web of life. We work because we have so much to offer and there is so much need. It is a chance to work side by side with others from UUCF and the community to make a difference.

 

It is also a way to join so many across the nation who are volunteering their time and energy for service in their own communities. Serving is a chance to make a difference on this day to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Our service, for a least an hour or two, is a way to use our hearts full of grace and our soul generated by love ... to serve.

 

Will you join us? Click here to see all the amazing opportunities and to sign up!

 

Yours in service,
Kären and Martha