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How UUs are responding 

In the wake of the tsunami disaster in South and Southeast Asia, many Unitarian Universalist congregations and individual UUs responded in unique and creative ways of raising funds for humanitarian relief or expressing support for the survivors and relief workers. If you know of anything happening in your community or church, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us at 800.388.3920, ext. 230 or by e-mail at tsunami@uusc.org.

N.J. church hosts benefit folk music concert
A folk music concert to benefit the UUSC-UUA Tsunami Relief Fund will be held at the Central Unitarian Church, 156 Forest Ave., Paramus, N.J., on Saturday, Feb. 19, from 7:30 to 11 p.m.

Among the folk and jazz musicians from the New Jersey/New York metro area who have generously offered to play are Cynthia Summers, John Moroski, Rich Micallef, Barbara Dobrin, Rich Deraney, Ron Bienstock and Blue Plate Special. Refreshments will be served.

Donation $20. For tickets and more information, call 201.262.6300 or 201.447.4899. For directions to the church, visit http://cucparamus.org/.

Cheryl Richardson highlights tsunami benefit
Renowned motivational speaker and author Cheryl Richardson was the highlight of a special benefit for tsunami relief sponsored by the Arlington Street Church in downtown Boston. The benefit was held Sunday, Feb. 13, beginning at 2 p.m.

In a program, entitled “The Unmistakable Touch of Grace,” Cheryl discussed the transformative power of grace and how to create a life that reflects that grace. Cheryl was the team leader for the Lifestyle Makeover Series on the Oprah Winfrey Show and she accompanied Ms. Winfrey on the “Live Your Best Life” nationwide tour. She also has appeared on the Today show and Good Morning America.

UU artist organizes online “thank you” program 
Laura Evonne Steinman, a lifelong UU now living in Warsaw, Poland, is working on an online participatory art project that is creating a thank-you quilt card with the message in mind: “We are thinking of you.” The online quilt will be sent via mail to relief workers and volunteers who are in the region of South and Southeast Asia who provide assistance to tsunami victims. Laura is a community artist with degrees from Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently runs "hand in hand arts" facilitating artshops and community projects for people of all ages from different backgrounds. She is a member of the UU Church of the Larger Fellowship.

To learn more and to participate in the project, visit hand-in-hand arts. 

Massachusetts church matches individual donations
The Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn in Swampscott, Massachusetts, has decided to match all church member contributions to the UUSC-UUA Tsunami Relief Fund, to a maximum of $5,000. In the first two weeks, we raised $4,770. (This includes $700 from church members who had given directly, either online or by check, as well as our collections.)

Jim Peterson, church president, also reports that two of the church's religious education classes will be making things to sell at Fellowship Hour, with the proceeds going to UUSC. “We will continue monthly collections during the next year as well. We plan to do a press release to the local newspapers about our efforts.”