The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization advancing human rights together with an international community of grassroots partners and advocates.
The UUSC focuses its work on intersecting roots of injustice to defend rights at risk due to criminalization and systemic oppression of people based on their identity. They support self-determination and defend the rights of people displaced due to climate, conflict or economic hardships; and respond to humanitarian crises as partners with people whose access to aid is most limited.
Striving to center the voices of people most affected by injustice, UUSC creates eye-to-eye relationships with frontline grassroots movements across the world that support marginalized communities in determining their steps for the future.
UUSC mission: UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Their work is grounded in the belief that all people have inherent power and dignity.
Learn more about the UUSC’s initiatives, history, and resources at https://www.uusc.org/.
You may give at www.horizonuu.org any time in May by clicking “GIVE” and then selecting “Give to Share-the-Plate Donation” or by writing a check made out to Horizon UU Church with Share The Plate on the memo line. The offering collected on May 19th not marked as “pledge” will go to May’s Share the Plate for the UUSC.
Unitarian Universalist congregations have been fundamental to UUSC’s human rights programs since the founders, a UU minister and his wife, left their congregation in Wellesley, Mass., to help Jews and political dissidents escape the Nazis. You can learn more about their journey in the PBS documentary Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War.
Today, UUSC is honored to partner with congregations to amplify social justice efforts through advocacy and engagement, long-standing fundraising programs, and justice education programs and resources with the UU College of Social Justice.
Rev. Mary Katherine Morn
UUSC President Rev. Mary Katherine Morn will be in Horizon’s pulpit on May 19th. She joined UUSC as President and Lead Executive Officer in 2018, after 30 years in faith-based leadership. She has helped to grow a number of progressive congregations serving their members and the larger community.
President Mary Katherine contributed to efforts for economic, racial, and social justice in Macon, Georgia at the Economic Opportunity Council/Headstart with the NAACP. She also worked deeply in the reproductive justice movement. In Nashville, Tennessee, she collaborated with the Interfaith Alliance and Industrial Areas Foundation. In Fairfax, Virginia, she worked with interfaith ministries addressing hunger and homelessness, collaborated with LGBTQI+ advocacy organizations, and served on the county’s homelessness task force.
Mary Katherine also served in volunteer leadership with the Unitarian Universalist Ministers’ Association and for four years as Director of Stewardship and Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association.