{"id":34,"date":"2017-06-01T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/184.154.174.110\/wordpress_uucep\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:46:52","slug":"justice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uuelpaso.org\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UUCEP has several on-going Social Justice projects, including our foodbank, which serves our neighborhood, our prison ministry, and our commitments to the poor and the dispossessed, along with our commitment to LGBT justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Partnerships<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>UUCEP\u2019s prison ministry at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institute began in 2010 when we received a request from an inmate for UU services. Since then, we have continued to minister to inmates twice a month, with the help of video sermons featuring Rev. Christine Robinson of First UU Church of Albuquerque. Getting to know those living under incarceration has taught us a lot about solidarity and our nation\u2019s penal system. To learn more, talk to any of our La Tuna volunteers: Kathy Anderson, Aurolyn Luykx, and Janet Kincaid, or visit the Facebook group \u201cUUs Resisting New Jim Crow and Mass Incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/uuelpaso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Justiceleague.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our members also help out at Villa Maria, the Annunciation House and Nazarene Hall, three&nbsp;El Paso efforts to help the most needy and vulnerable among us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ruben Garcia of Annunciation House sent out a call to all churches to help with the\u00a0increase in migrants, we have been serving lunches once a week at one of the shelters. We\u00a0generally serve burritos,\u00a0potato salad, coleslaw, and a brownie or cookies. Most of the people we serve are parents with young children who have recently been released from detention, where fresh, home-cooked meals were not available. Each week, we purchase groceries as well as plates, cups, and utensils. Thanks to several generous donations and special collections, we\u2019ve been able to sustain this work, and we are deeply grateful. Our costs typically range from $150 to $200 per meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donations are\u00a0always welcome<\/strong> &#8211; click the button below to donate via PayPal, or go to our <a href=\"https:\/\/uuelpaso.org\/?page_id=414\">Donate<\/a> page for other methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><em>When donating through the PayPal button, please click on the link entitled &#8220;(Optional) Use this donation for&#8221; and select &#8220;Migrant Feeding Program&#8221; from the drop-down menu<\/em>.<br><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><br><input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"47HVNQ8SLMYFQ\"><br><input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\"><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UUCEP has several on-going Social Justice projects, including our foodbank, which serves our neighborhood, our prison ministry, and our commitments to the poor and the dispossessed, along with our commitment<a href=\"https:\/\/uuelpaso.org\/?page_id=34\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Justice<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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