By Allison Hess on behalf of First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR

On Sunday, March 21, 2021, our intern minister, Stacey Mitchell, a United Nations Women's Representative, conducted a United-Nations themed service....

By Allison Hess on behalf of Morristown UU Fellowship, Morristown, NJ

Bruce Knotts was the featured speaker, and I gave a 5-minute Reflection, as well as the chairperson of our Green Earth Ministry, Linda DeLap. Also our Time for All ages featured a reading of Linus the Vegetarian T-Rex, very cute (Posted on behalf of UU@UN Envoy Gabor Kiss)...

By Allison Hess on behalf of First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa

Service and sermon organised by our developmental minister Rev. Patricia Guthmann Haresch services available on Youtube (Posted on behalf of UU@UN Envoy Irvin Waller)...

By Allison Hess on behalf of Kingston Unitarian Fellowship, Kingston, ON

Lives disrupted and lost, institutions and infrastructure upended, inequalities exacerbated… Before, during, and after the pandemic, we are confronted with an even greater existential threat: the climate crisis. We must come together as a world community, seeking peace, justice, and liberation for people and for...

By Allison Hess on behalf of All Souls UU Church, Watertown, NY

We had to Zoom the Service, using our traditional format with some words and outstanding music incorporated from UUA films and videos. Our guest speaker was Allison Hess herself. (posted on behalf of UU@UN Envoy Sylvia Heap)...

By Allison Hess on behalf of UU Congregation of Frederick, Frederick, MD

Since I was the new UN Envoy as of October 2020, I was only able to put together a Friendly Forum talk after the service. We did this via zoom. There were about 9 of us present on the zoom. We played the video Bruce Knotts recorded about the 2021 theme for UU-UN. Afterwards, we discussed the annual seminar and the...

By Allison Hess on behalf of Cedar Lane UU Congregation, Bethesda, MD

On Sunday morning, October 25, 2020, Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, MD, held a virtual program for the congregation, and for the Unitarian Church of Barnstable, MA, exploring the topic “UN at 75: Past>>Present>>Progress”. The guest speaker was Rachel Bowen Pittman, Executive Director of the United...

By Allison Hess on behalf of North Shore UU Society of Louisiana, Inc., Lacombe, LA

We were fortunate to have Allison Hess, our liaison at the UU @ UN office, join us via Zoom for our UN Sunday virtual meeting. The theme was "All In for Climate Justice: People, Power, Planet" (Posted on behalf of UU@UN Envoy Barry Lee)...

By Allison Hess on behalf of Humboldt UU Fellowship, Bayside, CA

On United Nations Sunday, we celebrated the work of the U.N and our Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations (UU@UN). 2020 also marked the 75th anniversary of the U.N. The theme for this year’s celebration and for our service was “All In for Climate Justice: People, Power, Planet.” Climate change is a...

By Allison Hess on behalf of Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax

The service was on the 75th birthday of the UN and how it's as important now as it's ever been before. Our time for children was about the UN World Food Program.