One important way First UU lives its mission to do justice is through our\u00a0Monthly\u00a0Special\u00a0Offerings. Nominations for 2026 Monthly Special Offering Due by Thursday, December 4th One important way First UU lives its mission to do justice is through our\u00a0Monthly\u00a0Special\u00a0Offerings.\u00a0 These\u00a0offerings\u00a0are collected during\u00a0service(s) on the second Sunday of the\u00a0month. Each member\u00a0of First UU may\u00a0nominate\u00a0one nonprofit social justice organization that promotes our UU values in the larger community.\u00a0 To\u00a0nominate\u00a0an organization, please\u00a0complete…<\/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-141125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141125","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=141125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141143,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141125\/revisions\/141143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
To\u00a0nominate\u00a0an organization, please\u00a0complete the 2026 Monthly Service Offering Nominations form<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.
The congregation will be asked to rank their top 10 recipients on Sunday, December 21, 2025, after the worship\u00a0service\u00a0and at the congregational meeting that afternoon. Two additional special\u00a0offerings\u00a0are reserved for\u00a0 Spring into Action (First UU\u2019s church-wide social justice outreach project) and the Texas UU Justice Ministry.
After the vote, the Social Action Chairs and Co-Ministers will determine the schedule of selected recipients. All money collected will be held until the end of the year and distributed equally among the\u00a012 recipients in January 2027. For 2024, the amount donated to each recipient was $1,662.09.
Please fill out the Nomination form here<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you need further information, please contact David Overton at\u00a0i<\/a><\/span>nfo@austinuu.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"