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Sunday Justice Collections

Our congregation has made a commitment to share our offering every time we gather for worship. We do this to consistently remind ourselves of our connection to the larger community and to honor those connections with monetary support.

The specific causes that we support are determined at the beginning of the year by our Social Justice Council (SJC). Participants in the congregation can lobby the SJC to choose a particular charity or non-profit. One charity or non-profit is chosen for each month of the year. At the end of each month’s collection, we send a substantial sum to that given month’s outreach recipient. Past recipients include local, national and international interests: Loudoun Free Clinic, Loudoun Interfaith Relief, Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter, Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light, our Unitarian Universalist seminaries and our Partner Church School in Uganda.

On occasion we donate our full offering to special emergency causes like outreach to Japan, after the tsunami. These quick decisions are determined by our Board of Trustees.

Whenever a month includes a fifth Sunday, the full offering is given to the Minister’s Discretionary Account. This account is used by our minister to help individuals within and beyond our congregation with financial assistance, and to support other causes and fill other pressing needs as the minister deems appropriate.