Nine of us carpooled to Lansing on Saturday, March 2, to participate in the Poor People’s Campaign Moral March. We listened to a number of motivating speeches and sang in solidarity, including “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around!”
This year, your Social Justice Coordinating Team (SJCT) is asking each of us individually to set an intention – and follow through! – to involve ourselves more and/or to learn more about our neighbors and issues. This Sunday we are kicking off our third “season” for March and April, commemorating Women’s History Month and Earth Day/Environmental issues.
As a team, we’ve researched books, children’s books, movies, organizations, podcasts, etc., about Women’s History and Earth Day/Environment so that you would have a variety of intentions to choose from – read a book, watch a movie, peruse a website, for example. Our two pages of ideas are below, and we’ll have hard copies available on Sunday. We encourage each of you to make an intention and then, preferably, make it public by writing it on our Intention Posters in the Fellowship Hall. Throughout this “season,” we will hopefully be able to share what each of us is accomplishing to meet our intention! Please join in our efforts! March 2024 - Women's History Month Resources April 2024 - Earth Day/Environmental Issues Resources February tool box point totals can be sent to Jodi Fisher at jbfisher121@gmail.com. March's tool kit can be found here.
As part of our efforts to change our habits, our Tool Kit for January focused on reducing plastics in our daily lives. We launched a new project: collecting totes or bags made out of cloth, netting, or durable plastics to use in grocery and other stores. The response was great!
We collected 31 such bags and donated most of them to Clothing, INC which will give them to their clients and encourage them to use them instead of single-use plastic bags. A big "Thank You" to everyone who donated bags or took some for their own use. We'll keep the collection box in the social hall for another month, so bring what you can and take what you need! It’s that time again! We are scheduled to provide dinners for the homeless shelter guests at St. John’s church on Tuesday, March 19, and Wednesday, March 20. If you are interested in helping, or in getting more information, please contact Joyce Henricks (joyce.henricks@mich.edu).
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