From September to June, our Society donates each month to a Dedicated Offering recipient and splits every Sunday’s offering plate 50/50 with the recipient organization. Our September offerings for EmbraceRace will be shared in a future newsletter.

From September to June, our Society donates each month to a Dedicated Offering recipient and splits every Sunday’s offering plate 50/50 with the recipient organization. Our September offerings for EmbraceRace will be shared in a future newsletter.

Last year, we entered a partnership with the non-profit Trust Funds for All Children (TFAC) to help channel funds that they raised to the Foyer Angelique Orphanage in Haiti. The Board of Trustees approved a partnership in May, and we started sending funds that TFAC raised in June.

Now, our congregation can contribute directly to this worthy cause with our October Dedicated Offering. For UUSA, this is an opportunity to do more than act as agent to transfer money; we can help provide the resources for the orphanage to continue its mission.

The orphanage is run by Pastor Duckens Janvier and has 28 children left of the original 45 that entered when TCAF started supporting it 10 years ago. Pastor Duckens is their caretaker, ensuring that the children are housed safely, have basic needs met, and resources for school. He will continue to run the orphanage until the 28 children leave its care.

Pastor Duckens was deeply grateful to receive the funds and is already putting them to good use. There has also been some hopeful news from Haiti recently as 400 Kenyan police officers are reestablishing a measure of security in Port au Prince. 

Please give generously to help Foyer Angelique Orphanage continue its mission of providing these children of Haiti a chance to survive and thrive in a challenging environment. This is an opportunity for us to apply our second principle; providing for justice, equity and compassion in human relations.

The Dedicated Offering Committee selects non-profit organizations that our Society will support with donations from our Sunday collections. We solicit UUSA’s members for names of organizations through a form which is available in the office and on-line here. A representative of the chosen organization is asked to speak about it, usually on the first Sunday of the month. We welcome new members. If you are interested in learning more or joining DOC, please contact Anne Perkins, Mary Beth Seminario, Linda Callahan, or Carolyn Holstein.