The Social Justice Committee organizes initiatives to help our neighbors in need, promote justice and peace, and defend human rights. Our members are active in many efforts locally for affordable housing, feeding the hungry, and sustaining our environment. We also work to erase discrimination based on race, gender or gender orientation.
Ongoing projects connect beyond our suburban community to our neighboring City of Camden, our partner church in Transylvania, Romania, and worldwide through member loans to small businesses in developing countries. Projects initiated by one committed volunteer often grow to encompass many members, other churches and partner organizations.
Peace Activist Father Roy Bourgeois, a Nobel Peace Prize candidate who has been jailed several times for non-violent protests against the School of the Americas and faced censure by the Church for advocating the ordination of women spoke at UUCCH in May.