Every Sunday as a community at UUSS we engage in the spiritual practice of generosity by sharing half of the offering of our non-pledge contributions with a local community partner agency–a different not-for-profit every month. (The congregation votes to choose 12 of them every year.) From the Sundays of December we were able to send
![Resolve to Stand for Black Lives in 2019! Donate today!](https://www.uuss.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/resolve-2019-250x167.jpg)
The Allies of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Sacramento are calling on UUSS to support their January fundraiser to cover this month’s BBQ actions at the District Attorney’s office. Three times a week for the last 10 months, since Stephon Clark was killed, BLM gathers in front of DA Anne Marie Schubert’s office to let her
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Racial Justice Movie Night Friday, Jan. 11th at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary The UUSS Racial Justice Committee is hosting a screening of the film Fruitvale Station, the true story of 22 year-old Bay Area resident, Oscar Grant, who was killed by police at the Fruitvale BART station on Jan. 1, 2009. This is a fundraising
UUSS Family Promise is part of a group of churches who help families who are homeless as they work to find affordable housing. We will be hosting families from Sunday January 20 to Sunday January 27 and need volunteers to: Set-up on Sunday, Jan 20 starting at 1:30 pm; Provide meals/part of meals each day
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Tickets for the scrumptious auction dinner go on sale January 6th $20 for adults. Get yours before they’re sold out! Donation consultants will again be available after the service beginning January 2. Stop by and get ideas for auction donations or let one of these ideas from previous years catalog inspire you! Slow Food Italian Dinner…with a
![Environmental Justice in our Neighborhood. Saturday, January 12 @ UUSS, 9:00 a.m. - Noon](https://www.uuss.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/photo-2-January-EJ-Meeting-250x187.jpg)
We will gather on January 12 to develop the specific steps for in-depth and effective West Arden Arcade community engagement regarding Sacramento County’s environmental justice element coming before the Board of Supervisors in February. You are welcome to join our UUSS-hosted Sacramento ACT Environmental Justice Committee and members of the West Arden Arcade Community to
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Theater One’s next production is “Special Request,” directed by UUSS member Lonon Smith and written by Tim Foley will be performed for the first time beginning this coming Friday, Jan. 4th. “Special Request” is about a dying man who makes a request of a young barista that at first offends her, then leads to an unlikely