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Here are to a
few Organizations, Groups and Congregations in our community that you
might like to know about.
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The Unitarian Universalist Association. The National Unitarian Universalist website.
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The Pacific Northwest Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
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Olympia Unitarian Universalist Church. Our Sister Congregation on the West Side of Olympia
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The Church of the Larger Fellowship. The CLF makes available many worship and religious education materials
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Crisis Clinic. (http://crisis-clinic.org/) The Crisis Clinic provides telephone support to people in emotional crisis, especially people who are suicidal. All Souls can support this service in several ways:
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Help for Hard Times. This is one of the groups we connect with to help
disadvantaged families.
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| Interfaith Works. (www.interfaith-works.org) Interfaith Works is a non-profit association of faith communities and individuals of diverse faith traditions dedicated to nurturing and promoting interfaith understanding, respect, and action on social issues. | ||
| The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is America's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. (http://www.nami.org/) | ||
| Survivors of significant disasters are referred to Operation Hands On through one of five service organizations: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the American Red Cross, the YWCA, World Vision, and Associated Ministries. (Home: http://www.operationhandson.org/; see also http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_060209WAB-operation-hands-on-KS.4135110c.html) | ||
The YWCA of Olympia OTHER BANK program. The YWCA of Olympia is the only agency in the South Puget Sound area that provides a comprehensive distribution of personal and household hygiene and cleaning supplies to women, men, and their families in Thurston, Mason, and Lewis counties. The program distributes the following items to hundreds of low-income people every week:
Each year, The Other Bank provides approximately 15,000 individuals with these hygiene supplies. None of these items can be purchased with food stamps. |
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| Physicians for a National Health Program. (pnhp.org) The PNHP believes that access to high-quality health care is a right of all people and should be provided equitably as a public service rather than bought and sold as a commodity. |
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| South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity. (www.pshabitat.org) | ||
| UU Triangles Group. (http://rainbowskies11.tripod.com/index.html) A Unitarian Universalist Club providing emotional and spiritual support and a safe social environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the greater Thurston County community. | ||
We Respond To The Cry of the Poor. (Selena Kilmoyer, faithcommunitiesnetwork@gmail.com) We the citizens of Thurston County who are invested in Responding to the Cry of the Poor, vision together what Thurston County will be like without homelessness. As people of faith, we can join together and lean into the enormous challenges in the pro-active effort to dare to end homelessness in Thurston County. |
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