A Guest at Your Table

During this season of charity and kindness, while families gather together and many blessings are counted, families in UU congregations throughout the United States have welcomed little boxes to their tables. This is in celebration of a more than 30-year-old tradition we call Guest at Your Table.

Families place their Guest boxes on their meal tables, and as they sit down to share meals together, they discuss the stories of people whose lives have been affected by UUSC's work and place money in the box to help us continue our work.

Most congregations feature the program in their children's religious education classes, and organize a special worship service on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. And they help each family keep their Guest in mind during the busy season.

Andrea Heier, Director of Religious Education at the UU Church of Minnetonka, Minn., is doing so in her own way. After requesting high resolution copies of the images featured on this year's Guest box, she has created a display to welcome members into the congregation and remind them of the people whose lives and communities are benefiting from the support congregations and individuals provide UUSC and our program partners.

Beautiful work, Andrea!

If you have a story like Andrea's you'd like to share, share it in a comment to this blog post, or e-mail it to us.