Faith-to-Action Collections
September’s Faith-to-Action collections will be going to support the work of the UUCC Honduras Team. The team is going to go on its sixth trip to the El Cangrejal River Valley to assist in building latrines and doing other projects that the community has identified as most pressing. The team also sends $400 a month to the El Pital health clinic for basic supplies. Faith-to-Action contributions will go towards all these projects.
Recent Faith-to-Action collection results:
September: $537 for The Center Project
October: $736 for Heart of Missouri CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates)
November: $1,454 for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Combined with the Chili Fund-Raiser, that makes a total of $5,174 for PCRF.
December: $888 for First Chance for Children
January: $721.58 for MADP (Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty. Ms. Elyse Max thanks us and is grateful for our continuing support.
February: $1,080.12 for Minority Men’s Network
March: $1,101.77 for our Sanctuary and Immigrant Justice Team.
April: $997.99 for River Relief
May: $487.36 for our Honduras ministry
June: $1,096.91 for Loaves and Fishes
July: $862.06 for Mobility Worldwide
2025 Honduras Service Trip News
Monthly meetings are well underway to plan the sixth UUCC Service Trip to Honduras. But it is not too late to join us! We will be traveling to Honduras during Spring Break 2025 to build latrines and do other projects the community desires and we can offer. Scholarships are available.
Cito, our foreman on the ground in Honduras who leads our projects, has recovered from Hepatitis C and is feeling so much better. The cost to treat Cito was enormous, but thanks to very generous donors, he could get his full treatment, leading to full healing.
Cito says that going through first Dengue and then Hepatitis C was very difficult but also very important in order to learn to be a better person every day and to learn that he can do much more to serve others. Cito is a very remarkable person who even before his illnesses was doing SO much for his community. We really couldn’t do our Honduras ministry without him.
September is Honduras month at UUCC! Faith-to-Action collections will go towards building latrines and buying health clinic supplies in El Pital, Honduras. We will be selling delicious crêpes after worship on Sept. 22. Please join us at the Honduras Ministry table at the Activity Fair on Sunday, Sept. 8 to learn more about our ministry.
Mark your calendars for Nov. 16 for our next Trivia Night!
Please email Allie Gassmann if you would like to get involved, join us on the trip and/or have questions and ideas.
Thanks for feeding our food barrel
Last month Joan and Steve Mudrick took 112 pounds from our food barrel to the Food Bank Market, as it is now called. Thanks to those of you who feed the barrel, so it can help feed the Market/ Hunger continues around us. Thanks to all who help.