Donating 1/2 the Sunday Collection Plate!
Beginning in April of
2015, UUC
joined
many other UU congregations across the country in giving ½ the basket
offering away every
single Sunday morning. Half the
plate away is an opportunity to practice generosity as a community on a
consistent basis. It’s a spiritual practice in generosity, an opportunity to
“live our values” and “walk our talk” as a congregation exploring what it
means to live generous lives of care, and hope! Doing this together each
Sunday is one powerful, visible, and important way we can make a difference
in local, national and international communities. Pennies, nickels, dimes
and dollars can add up to do a lot of good when we each give a bit… and do
this together every Sunday!
2017 recipients for each month and amount donated are listed below.
2017 1/2-plate Recipients:
January 1: Salvation Army of NRV, $131
January 8: Service canceled due to snow.
January 15: Final Exit Network, $385
January 22: Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, $278
January 29: YMCA at VT, $239
February 5: First UU Richmond Anti-Racism Program, $233
February 12: NR Community Action RE-housing Program, $244
February 19: UUC's Partner Church in Hungary to help purchase minibus,
$349
February 26:
Ronald McDonald House Charities of SWVA, $466 which includes $226 raised
by Dumbledore’s Army from soup mix sales.
March 5: NAACP Samuel L.
Clark Scholarship Fund, $211
March 12: UU-Sponsored Welcome Table Community Center,
OK (damaged in fire), $200
March 19:
Cluster-sponsored Showing Up: A Racial Justice Conference, $205
March 26: Special Olympics/NRV, $206
April
2: Humane Society of Montgomery County, $224
April 9: Interfaith Food Pantry, $362
April 16: Humane Society of
Montgomery County, $274
April 23: MHJM/Touched with Fire, $384
April 30: Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Dept., $267
May 7: Bending the Arc of Justice, $292
May 14: VA CARES FAST (housing for ex-prisoners), $233
May 21: Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, $134
May 28: UU Church of Spartanburg, SC (Chalice Lighters), $130
June 4: Head Start, $223
June 11: Feeding America SWVA, $214
June 18: National Center for Fathering, $128
June 25: Preserve Montgomery Co VA, $148
July 2: Micah's Backpack (purchasing peanut butter), $141
July 9: NRV Agency on Aging, $170
July 16: United Way "Stuff the Bus" Campaign, $181
July 23: Women's Resource Center, $261
July 30: Radford-Fairlawn Daily Bread, $109
August 6: Church of the Larger Fellowship, $260
August 13: Southern Poverty Law Center, $346
August 20: Black Lives of UUism, $288
August 27: UUSC's Emergency Humanitarian Crisis Fund, $188
September 3: Houston Coalition for the Homeless, $341
September 10: UUA/UUSC Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund, $574
September 17: Alzheimer's Assn., $223
September 24: UUA Hurricane Irma Recovery Fund, $348
October 1:
VA Interfaith Power &
Light, $132
October 8:
Hurricane Maria
Fund/Puerto Rico, $389
October 15:
Interfaith Food Pantry, $242
October 22:
Christiansburg
Institute, $236
October 29:
Interfaith Food Pantry, $757 plus $2330 worth of food items collected by RE
November 5: Plenty!, $235
November 12: Montgomery County Christmas Store, $353
November 19: Lifestraw Safe Water Fund, $155
November 26: (Radford) Bobcat's Backpack Program, $158
December 3: To Our
House, $326
December 10: Virginia
Organizing, $208
December 17: NRV CARES, $268
December 24: UUC Community Assistance Fund, $158
December 31: New River Community Action, $152
Learn more about past Fourth Sunday recipients.
