Postcard Writing Opportunity For our next postcard campaign, we’ll be writing cards for Virginia. This is a WRITE, HOLD, and MAIL LATER campaign. Mail date is Sept. 1 through Oct. 4. We will distribute postcards to you by end of August. For our third and last postcard campaign for the 2024 election, we are writing … Continue reading Support Voting Rights by Aug. 23
Mark your calendar for Sunday, Aug. 25, AUUC’s first meal packing assembly event of this church year. With the new school year starting soon, we are back in full swing with our No Child Goes Hungry/Accotink weekend meal packing for delivery to 35 Halley Elementary children identified as experiencing food insecurity. We are excited to … Continue reading No Child Goes Hungry Meal Packing, Aug. 25
Each summer we ask Accotinkers to consider sponsoring one or more students at the Mawlat Upper Primary School in a remote location in Northeast India. Our Social Justice Committee commits to sponsor at least 25 of the poorest students. Donating $40 (all donations of any amount are gratefully welcome!) sponsors one student for an entire year. The money … Continue reading Sponsor a Mawlat Student for Just $40
Inova Health Systems, which is offering its presence and support to VOICE for the Sept. 29 Action Assembly, will also be sponsoring a two-day Act on Addiction Virtual Summit on Sept. 17 and 18, 7 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. The collaboration underscores the critical need to address addiction and behavioral health in the community together.Join this opportunity … Continue reading Inova Act on Addiction Summit, Sept. 17
Save the Date! Hope your summer is off to a great start! Thanks again for your incredible contributions to raising awareness about local and global hunger and raising over $31,000 to prevent hunger at the 2023 Burke/Fairfax CROP Hunger Walk. Spread the word, potential walkers. Get a cool summer treat as we prepare for CROP Walk. Save … Continue reading CROP Walk, Nov. 3
AUUC’s Outreach Sunday Collection for July supports the Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ). Their website is uusj.org UUSJ represents the views of UU’s on Capitol Hill and before Federal agencies. UUSJ sponsors the Write Here/Write Now and Action Alert campaigns, which give UU’s nationwide a chance to write to their representatives about an issue … Continue reading July Outreach Collection: UUSJ
Support Voting Rights For our next postcard campaign, we’ll be writing cards for Polk County, FL. This is a WRITE, HOLD, and MAIL LATER campaign. Mail date is Oct. 1 to 15. We will distribute postcards to you in late July. Background Info: We are writing to alert 969,000 registered Black women voters in Florida … Continue reading Postcard Writing Opportunity
Are you new to AAUC? An old-timer with new ideas? All Accotinkers are invited to a special listening session at 11:30 a.m., Sun. July 7 to learn about each other’s contributions to and wishes for our wider community — Fairfax and beyond. Rev. Kenneth Nixon from VOICE, an interfaith coalition that has achieved many things … Continue reading Building Beloved Community, Jul. 7
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Now in our second year, Racial Justice and True Accotink Colors host a monthly Banned Book Club on the second Tuesday of every month. Our next discussion will be about Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Please be aware: this is the story of Hannah Baker, a high school freshman, … Continue reading Read & Discuss Banned Books, Jul. 9
True Accotink Colors will host a summer movie night event on Saturday, July 20 at 6:30pm. We’ll watch the one-of-a-kind musical biopic that embarks on the spectacular journey of Elton John in his rise to fame: Rocketman. Please be advised that the movie is rated R. TAC will provide food, drinks, and possibly surprise goodies. … Continue reading TAC Movie Night: Rocketman, Jul. 20
All are welcome to come to church Sunday, July 21st in celebration of Lammas, or Loaf-Mass, the gift of grain. This will be the regular church service, but with some twists, so come with an open mind and ready to laugh as we talk grain, County Fairs and Highland Games on one of the hottest … Continue reading Celebration of Lammas, Jul. 21
Once again Sacred Wheel invites all to share in supporting our No Child Hungry Meal Pack program, which provides meals to underserved kids at Halley ES. That Sunday will also be a congregational Lammas, or Loaf-Mass, the celebration of the gift of grain of all types. At a time when we are celebrating the Staff … Continue reading Bake Sale, Jul. 21
