The Share-the-Plate program raises money to give to local agencies which are trying to improve life for Chester County residents.
Eleven times a year, UCWC gives approximately half of the collection plate to a congregation-nominated recipient. Funds are given to small, local organizations for whom our gift is very meaningful in the continuance of their efforts.
The 2024-2025 Recipients
Nov 17 – Baby Food Fund
Dec 15 – Melton Center
Jan 19 – Citizen Advocacy of Chester County
Feb 16 – West Chester University Resource Pantry
Mar 16 – Educational Equity Alliance
Apr 20 – Community Youth and Women’s Alliance
May 18 – Maternal and Child Health Consortium
Jun 15 – West Chester Food Cupboard
Jul 20 – Kennett Area Community Services
Aug 17 – Act in Faith
Sep 21 – Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children
Oct 19 – UCWC Board Selection
Would you rather be happy or content? In what ways is each similar to or different form the other? How is each attained or fostered? What paths or practices might lead us to where we want to be related to the happiness and contentment? These are among the questions Robin plans to explore with us.
Robin Garrett is a long-time member of UCWC and credits our congregation with being a major force in enabling her to gain new insights and understandings about life, the universe and everything. She currently identifies as Unitarian Universalist Quaker semi-Buddhist. Her first formal exploration of contentment was in an essay she wrote in 2013 during a year of yoga teacher training. The essay focused on santosha, or contentment, one of the five niyamas or rules for daily living in Yogic philosophy.
Sunday, Feb. 16, 7: – 8:30, led by Pam Sapko & Pam Seres
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born
to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead
father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for
survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice,
he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic
success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he
reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes
have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his
experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his
society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite
for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration.
