{"id":138597,"date":"2023-11-02T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=138597"},"modified":"2023-11-30T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:05:44","slug":"nominations-for-2024-monthly-special-offerings-now-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/nominations-for-2024-monthly-special-offerings-now-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations for 2024 Monthly Special Offering Due by Sunday, December 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>One important way First UU lives its mission to do justice is through our Monthly Special\u00a0Offerings.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>These offerings are collected during service(s) on the second Sunday of the month.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Each member\u00a0of First UU may nominate one nonprofit social justice organization that promotes our UU values in the larger community.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>To nominate an organization, please complete the form and return it to us at the Social Action table on Sunday, by email: <a href=\"mailto:mover100@aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mover100@aol.com<\/span><\/a>, or in the Stewardship Mailbox at the church.<\/div>\n<div>Nomination forms must be received by\u00a0<b>Sunday, December 3, 2023 &#8211; no exceptions.<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>The congregation will be asked to rank their top 10 recipients on Sunday, December 17, 2023, after the worship service\u00a0 and at the congregational meeting that afternoon. Two additional special offerings are reserved for\u00a0 Spring into Action (First UU\u2019s church-wide social justice outreach project) and the Texas UU Justice Ministry.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>After the vote, the Social Action Chairs and Co-Ministers will determine the schedule of selected<\/p>\n<div>recipients. All money collected will be held until the end of the year and distributed equally among the 12 recipients in January 2025. For 2022, the amount donated to each recipient was $1,485.00.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Please fill out the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstuuaustin.churchcenter.com\/people\/forms\/642487\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nomination Form here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">If you need further information, please contact Mary Overton at <a href=\"mailto:mover100@aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mover100@aol.com<\/span>.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One important way First UU lives its mission to do justice is through our Monthly Special\u00a0Offerings.\u00a0 These offerings are collected during service(s) on the second Sunday of the month. \u00a0 Each member\u00a0of First UU may nominate one nonprofit social justice organization that promotes our UU values in the larger community.\u00a0 \u00a0 To nominate an organization,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138731,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138597\/revisions\/138731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}