Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks » social justice

Public Assistance: How close are you to our doors?

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:45:41 +0000

Public assistance clientele are not always the people you expect them to be. Many times they are your friends and neighbors whose delicate financial balance has been upset by life events. Mike Thibodeau, Northern Region Manager for Division of Public Assistance will come and brief us on the reality of the people that come to his office for assistance. Speaker, Mike Thibodeau. Lay leader, Julia Stewart. Accompanist, Laurel Holmes.

Nonviolent Communications Workshop resumes

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:32:56 +0000

Nonviolent Communications Workshop resumes classes meeting every Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Blue Room. When we come from a place of caring self-interest and compassionate out reach, putting aside judgment, both sides of opposing parties can win and we can have a life affirming outcome. Hidden Hill Quaker Meeting House has classes on Wednesdays. Contact Suzanne Osborn if interested in joining, 907-457-8086.

Small Acts Plus Quiet Courage Equals Change

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:46:47 +0000

We are taught to think of great, larger-than-life figures as the creators of social change. For example, in the popular imagination “the civil rights movement” and “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” are two ways of saying the same thing. In reality, much change flows from multiple small acts, many of them quietly courageous, performed by people un-noted in the history books. Gordon Gibson, our visiting minister, was a participant in the Selma voting rights campaign of 1965 and was the Unitarian Universalist minister in Mississippi 1969-84. He has spent years collecting stories of small acts of great courage. Last summer he witnessed such acts when the church he now belongs to in Knoxville, Tennessee, was attacked by a man with a shotgun. Guest minister, Rev. Gordon Gibson. Lay leader, Michael Bonilla. Accompanist, Laurel Holmes.

Animal Rescue Survey

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:32:48 +0000

On March 1, our Sunday service will focus on the needs of Fairbanks’ “other homeless” and the work of animal rescue groups and caring pet owners to help them. However, these groups are operating with little information about our community’s animals to help us understand what assistance they most need and to get grant funding to meet that need, such as how many animals we have in our community, how many are spayed or neutered, and the most common reasons that cause people to give up their animals. By understanding this, we may be able to develop, modify, or strengthen current programs that help our animals. So, an online survey has been developed by the animal rescue community to gather this information. Take the survey

The data gathered from these surveys will be shared with the FNSB Animal Control Commission, local rescue groups, and anyone else requesting the data. They have kept this survey short in the hopes that more people will be willing to take it. Therefore, there will by MANY questions that you and others wish had been asked. Please send them, or requests for data, to InteriorAlaskaAnimals@gmail.com and if they conduct another survey, they will consider including them.