Social Action Committee
Our mission is to mobilize the energies and resources of the church and focus them on global and local actions that promote our Unitarian Universalist principles.
We have several subcommittees, each focusing on key themes:
- Poverty Alleviation
- Human Rights
- Environmental Protection
- Peace activism and Conflict Resolution
The Social Action Committee meets in Classroom 5 at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of every month. Please feel free to join us – all are welcome. For more information, please contact: Deb Lockett
This year we are focusing churchwide Social Action efforts on the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry. Opportunities to participate with the Urban Ministry include:
- English as a Learning Language
- Quilting for Renewal House
- After school tutoring
- Computer training
- Explorer’s Club
Upcoming Events for the 2010/2011 Church year
Social Action Committee Brochure 2010
RECENT EVENTS:
2nd Annual Belmont Serves on October 11, 2011 was a huge success!
On the morning of Columbus Day, Oct. 11, 390 folks, young and old, showed up for breakfast at St. Joe’s Parish Hall. (Thanks to Shaws for doughnuts and Breuggers for 600 bagels!) We then dispersed to groups making quilts in the Hall, gardening at the town Library and other locales, painting (at Butler School, the fence around the athletic field in front of the Beech St. Center, and the town Hockey Rink), and working on clearing out invasive species and tree limbs from Rock Meadows and the meadow at (formerly) McLean Hospital conservation land.
The Garden Club and willing volunteers collected eighty-five (85) bags of weeds and debris taken from roadway deltas, the library and town hall. Volunteers took away at least two dozen (24) huge bundles of limbs and invasive plants from conservation land. At the hockey rink eight (8) benches were painted as well as four (4) dressing rooms.
And did I mention…? We collected 410 full bags of groceries for the virtually empty shelves of the town Food Pantry. (Thanks to Shaws for supplying the grocery bags!)
At noon volunteers re-gathered at St. Joe’s for lunch. (Thanks to Brothers Pizza and Rancatore’s for pizza and ice cream.!) During lunch we were able to watch a slide show of the pictures taken by Chet Messer at various work sites during the morning.
Many thanks to all the volunteers and the Belmont Religious Council. Belmont Serves Day was also co-sponsored by the town school system and the Selectmen.