Special Collections for Haiti Relief

Update: UUSC and the UUA  have launched a relief program.

Friends,

I hope you will have a special collection for Haiti this Sunday.   As of this post (1/13/2010 12:00EST) I haven’t seen formal responses from the UUSC or UUA. I’m assuming this will come shortly.

Your members will be ready to offer support this Sunday. Its in the news now.  Call for a special collection now.  That or at least announce that you will be having a collection or starting a Haiti Relief fund.

Not to talk growth in the midst of a major disaster, but lets.  Being relevant in the world, making a difference in the lives of those who are suffering. Great growth strategy. No need to wait for  national UU relief efforts to be announced.  Call on your members and friends now.

You can announce that funds collected will be donated to relief funds organized by either the UUSC, UUA or Red Cross depending on how quickly relief efforts are organized.

Update: UUSC and the UUA  have launched a relief program.


UU Voice, May It Rest In Peace

Thanks to all of you for your comments regarding the need for independent UU publications.

Yesterday I did a search for the UU Voice.  I was curious to see if there were any online archives.  I found very little. While searching I noticed that the domain uuvoice.org was not registered or had lapsed. I’ve taken to safeguarding UU domains that I don’t want to see suffer the same fate as uua.net and unitarianuniversalism.com, becoming either bible sites or generic ad delivery pages.

I will add that while researching I was thinking about an NPR story I heard Sunday after church.  The story “More Unclaimed Bodies As Economy Impacts Funerals“  (Weekend Edition, 5 minutes) talked about the unclaimed dead.  Searching for the UU Voice I had the image of a loved one stuck in a morgue somewhere, dead, but not buried.

I registered the domain uuvoice.org and have it parked on a blog with a small collection of UU feeds keeping it company.  Perhaps there can be an effort  to archive past UU Voice writings.  Or who knows, maybe it will be resurrected with a group of outstanding UU bloggers emerging, agreeing to syndicate select posts from their primary blogs on a shared UU Voice blog.

Archives? New UU blogging syndicate?  Either way I thought it was worth safeguarding the domain.

RIP UU Voice…

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