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August 17, 2025

August 17, 2025

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

 

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501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
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August 17, 2025

In Person & Live Stream

As positive and negative systems are challenged, and institutions collapse in an increasingly dystopian world…

How can we remain human, hope+filled, and tender?

How can we continue to move towards Liberating Utopian+Futures?

Is the “already+not+yet” leading us into healthy+worlds+to+be?

 

rev Alexandre da Silva Souto [they+brown+Latine] is a person of the “in-between space.” They are a non-binary immigrant of color from Brazil, a soul+tender, intersectional justice advocate, interdisciplinary+artist, and liturgical curator in love with God and Sentient Beings. Earlier in their ordained ministry, rev co-led the formation of the United Methodist Queer Clergy Caucus, UMForward (para-Methodist social justice advocacy collective), and LMX (Liberation Methodist Connexion). They held pulpits in UMC congregations for over ten years, three years as the contract ministry of Sierra Foothills  Unitarian Universalist congregation in California, and have served as the Minister for Faith Formation at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia since August 2024.

UCWC
501 S. High St.
West Chester, PA 19382
United States
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