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Sunday Service - January 13

by Carolyn Saunders

Share the Plate Recipient

Clinica Amistad is a free health clinic that opened in March of 2003 serving Tucson’s low-income uninsured community. It is located in South Tucson at the El Pueblo Regional Center and, on two evenings a week, they see people who:

For most of their patients, this is their only opportunity to see a Primary Care Provider or to receive alternative therapies such as massage therapy, acupuncture, health education, and social services.

Would you like to travel to beautiful, fascinating Bosnia-Herzegovina (with a side trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia)? CMES is organizing a public trip, open to any adult interested in a fun and educational travel experience. You will be led by a Balkan historian and local guides, visit museums and historical sites (from Bogomil tombs to Ottoman monuments to sites from three major wars in the 20th century), explore cultural places (including a private viewing of the Sarajevo Haggadah and institutions of the region's 4 religious communities), visit places of local interest (a winery, the Croatian world heritage city of Dubrovnik), and lots more. You will also have the option of an additional day-trip to the Srebrenica genocide site/museum. You will stay in 4-star hotels, feast on the excellent local cuisine, have the opportunity to attend performances or participate in a cooking demonstration - all in a short period of time! Click here for more information.

• Are unemployed, uninsured, low income, supporting families below the poverty level, and have chronic medical conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

• Would not be able to see a doctor without the clinic.

• May not have had any medical evaluation for their chronic condition for years.

• Cannot afford to purchase medications.

• Are not able to get services through AHCCCS.

For most of their patients, this is their only opportunity to see a Primary Care Provider or to receive alternative therapies such as massage therapy, acupuncture, health education, and social services.

Volunteers in this small organization have a chance to make a difference in the quality of care provided to some of the more vulnerable members of our community. The clinic particularly needs:

• Licensed Physicians

• Physician Assistants

• Nurse Practitioners

• Nurses

• Mental Health Counselors

• Acupuncturists

• Physical Therapists

• Massage and Energy Practitioners

If you have any of these specialized skills, you might want to inquire about volunteering. Visit the clinic’s website at http://www.clinicaamistad.org for volunteer applications or more information about the vital help they bring to our community.

Of course, financial donations are needed as well. So on Share the Plate Sunday we will be asking you all to donate to Clinic Amistad. Half of all donations on January 13 that are not designated as “Pledge” donations will be shared with the clinic. If you want to write a check, make it out to “UUCT” but write “Share the Plate” on the memo line.

Because 100% of the medical staff are volunteers, your donations help pay for such important items as medications, X-rays, and lab tests. Please give generously to this worthwhile cause.

(Click here for more information.)

From the website of the Unitarian Universalist Association

Bellingham fellowship assists families

of immigrants arrested in ICE raid

Unitarian Universalists provide meeting space, food, money, and

volunteer support to local immigrant families disrupted by ICE arrests.

ELAINE MCARDLE | 12/24/2018

A special interfaith service and gratitude dinner took place on November 21 at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship (BUF) in Bellingham, Washington, to raise money for sixteen immigrant families whose primary breadwinners were arrested during an ICE raid on August 29 at a granite company in Whatcom County.

“Somos el Barco: An Interfaith Celebration of Thanksgiving” raised approximately $5,000, an amount that was then matched with a grant from another local group, said the Rev. Paul Beckel, the fellowship’s minister. The funds will be used to provide basic support for the families, including food, housing, and transportation, he said.

About 170 people from thirteen faith groups attended the service and the fundraising dinner, which featured foods from the countries from which the arrested men hail.

Click here to read to rest of the story

From the UUSC (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee)

Celebrating Our Partners

Human Rights' Impacts (2018)

UUSC’s impact is the result of cooperative action around the globe to dismantle systems of oppression. To achieve this impact, we center the voices and experiences of those most impacted by the human rights abuses we work to prevent, and partner with and seek to strengthen grassroots groups and movements organizing themselves to advance our shared human rights goals.

This past year, nearly every week brought new, often unprecedented rights violations and additional burdens on vulnerable communities. And yet, time and again, our fearless partners helped affected communities assert their rights, challenge oppressive systems, and make significant human rights impacts in UUSC’s core focus areas: migrant justice in the U.S. and Central America, climate justice in the U.S. and the Pacific, and humanitarian crisis response and recovery in the U.S., Burma, and Haiti.

Click her to read the full story

A 10-Day Trip through Bosnia-Herzegovina

April 7-17 (or 18), 2019

(Organized by the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a Title VI, U.S. Department of Education-designated National Resource Center on the Middle East)

U of A Middle Eastern Studies Trip

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Crossroads of History and Culture

Would you like to travel to beautiful, fascinating Bosnia-Herzegovina (with a side trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia)? CMES is organizing a public trip, open to any adult interested in a fun and educational travel experience. You will be led by a Balkan historian and local guides, visit museums and historical sites (from Bogomil tombs to Ottoman monuments to sites from three major wars in the 20th century), explore cultural places (including a private viewing of the Sarajevo Haggadah and institutions of the region's 4 religious communities), visit places of local interest (a winery, the Croatian world heritage city of Dubrovnik), and lots more. You will also have the option of an additional day-trip to the Srebrenica genocide site/museum. You will stay in 4-star hotels, feast on the excellent local cuisine, have the opportunity to attend performances or participate in a cooking demonstration - all in a short period of time! Click here for more information.