We invite you to share this particularly powerful reflection by President Peter Morales on the unjust effect current U.S. immigration policy has on youth and young adults. - Ed. BorderLinks nonprofit is making the arrangements. These students are receiving support from and working for an...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: Friday, Jan 27, 2012 – Participate in a Facebook Chat with SSL Campaign Manager. Staff Member: Campus Ministry Associate Kayla Parker Description: Standing on the Side of Love is about to enter its fourth year. We have joined together to...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src="Date: Thursday, January 26 – Occupy the Present: Change the Future—Collective Visioning. Staff Member: Campus Ministry Associate Kayla Parker Description: “If you can imagine a better world, you can make one.” – Linda Stout. Collective...

  Date: January 25 – Lift up a Story of Courageous Love Staff Member: Spirituality and Service Consultant Erik Mohn Description: When was the last time you recognized those whose words and deeds exemplify the values of inclusion, diversity, community, and equality? Now is an ideal time to...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: January 24 – Occupy Community Staff member: Campus Ministry Associate Kayla Parker Description: This exercise invites reflection upon how you live the issues of the Occupy Movement and how those issues effect your local community.

Taken from the December webinar on ministry with transracially adopted youth in UU congregations, the PowerPoint presentation with additional resource links and aud… file of the discussion are now available for download on the Resources for Youth of Color page at www.uua.orgMosaic Project – The...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: January 23 – Who Are We and What Motivates Us? Staff member: Leadership Development Associate Jeremie Bateman Description: Who are we and what motivates us? We all make assumptions about who are in our congregations and communities, and...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: January 22 – Gather to Discuss Story of Us, Story of Now. Staff Member: Director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries Carey McDonald Description: Gather after services, or plan another time, when your congregation can discuss...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: January 21 – Examine Your Words Staff Member: Spirituality and Service Consultant Erik Mohn Description: When was the last time you spoke (emailed, etc.) unlovingly to someone? To yourself? What about the last time you spoke or wrote...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: January 20 – Share Something About Yourself to Inspire Others. Staff Member: Communications Technology Associate Ted Resnikoff Description: "Coming Out” about our own struggles and challenges is an act of Courageous Love. Consider the...

Transgender individuals face much discrimination in the United States, in part because their struggles and their journeys are not well understood. In the spring of 2007, a public battle arose in Largo, Florida, around the struggle of one transgender person. Susan Stanton, then known as Steve, had...

Date: January 19, 2012 – What Do You Struggle With? ...

In August 2011, I traveled to Ghana, Africa on a health service volunteer trip. While on this trip, my friend, Nicholas, a student leader in a local village, took me to the village where he grew up. On the way, he explained to me that the water pipe in this village broke four years ago, and had yet...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: Wednesday, January 18 – Embrace Silence. Staff member: Office Administrator Deborah Neisel-Sanders Description: Making room for our own thoughts, and space for others’ thoughts, is crucial to standing on the side of love. Today, from...

This is the second installment in the continuing series of personal reflection by Erik Mohn, the Spirituality and Service Consultant at the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries of the Unitarian Universalist Association - Ed. So, where was I on November 1, 2011? Well, professionally, I was...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: Tuesday, January 17 – Ponder Love. Staff member: Leadership Development Associate Jeremie Bateman Description: To know the story of us and the story of now, we must know the story of self. Powerful actions emanate from profound...

… class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1741" src=" Date: January 16 – Martin Luther King Day. Staff member: Communications Technology Associate Ted Resnikoff Description: Wear your shirts and buttons, bring your banners and placards.

The Standing on the Side of Love's http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/national-standing-on-the-side-of… DAYS OF LOVE project, "The Story of Us, The Story of Now", a collective visioning process about making sense of the present moment, and what we are called to do. THIRTY DAYS OF LOVE will...

This article was originally posted on the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee blog - Ed.