Congratulations, One and All, from MUUSJA!

Our Fellowship has been selected as the recipient of the Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance’s 2018 Beacon of Justice Award!  The award honors a congregation that has made significant efforts to embody our Unitarian Universalist values through justice-making within its own walls and in deep partnership with movements for justice in the community.

The award is being given for the Fellowship’s action for racial equity and honest conversation about the effects of racism. The work of the congregation includes participation: in the Greater Mankato Diversity Council’s “Write on Race to be Right on Race”; in the YWCA’s “It’s Time to Talk: Forum on Race”; and in passage of the Mankato City Council declaration of Indigenous Peoples Day, replacing Columbus Day (this year celebrated on October 8). This is the work of justice for which our congregation makes a deep commitment. This is how our Fellowship shines as a beacon of light and love in the greater community.

The Fellowship will be honored this Thursday night at “Courage for the Long Haul: MUUSJA’s Annual Celebration and Fundraiser,” taking place at Springhouse Ministry Center in Minneapolis (610 W 28th Street, Minneapolis, MN) from 6-9pm. Education and Justice Committee Chair Diane Dobitz and Board President Tony Filipovitch are sending an acceptance video to the event.