Let’s do great things together!

Emerson offers many opportunities for you to make a difference. Participation is open to everyone and new ideas are always welcome. Join the monthly meeting of the Social Action Council; check the Emerson calendar for details. For more information about us and what we do, contact socialaction@emersonhouston.org.

We address institutionalized and systemic discrimination through education, advocacy and witness. Much of our work is carried out in conjunction with other Unitarian Universalist congregations through regional or national programs. We often join with other UU congregations on racial justice initiatives such as the UUA’s worship resources for Black Lives Matter.

We collaborate with the following advocacy groups to make our voices louder:

 

“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

...to Build a Better World...

The Social Action Council is looking to gather thoughts and feelings from Emersonians regarding their personal Social Action priorities. The purpose of gathering this data is to help the Social Action Council plan Emerson’s social action activities as we live into the second part of our purpose statement: “to build a better world”.

On this form, we ask you to tell us about up to three of your Social Action priorities. We ask you to keep it general, not focusing on a specific service provider or organization, but rather a condition. So, for example, we’re looking for “children’s hunger” not “Feed the Children”. We’ll get to the specifics later in the process.

Here are some ways you can help…

  • English Class Program (ESL)

    The Emerson English Class Program provides free English classes to English language learners from Basic to Intermediate level. All classes meet

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  • Support Voting Rights

    As in 2020 and 2022, Emerson is collaborating with Texas UU Justice Ministry and Houston area UU churches to UU the Vote 2024. We are involved in supporting both voter registration and turnout. Our [...]

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  • Reproductive Justice

    Emerson UU Church Trusts and Respects Women Emerson is one of four churches in Houston, TX that voted to become a Reproductive Freedom Congregation. What is a Reproductive Freedom Congregation? Reproductive Freedom Congregations [...]

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  • Ministry for Earth

    Earth is in our hands Promoting the seventh Principle of Unitarian Universalism: to affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Our mission is [...]

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  • Justice Forward

    Help support Justice Forward and its Success Through Addiction Recovery (STAR) Program. STAR is an alternative to incarceration for long term drug addicts who have been arrested for a drug or drug related offense. [...]

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  • Houston Pride Festival and Parade

    Pride Fest has long been supported by the UU Network of Houston, UU congregations in the greater Houston area. Members of all UU congregations walk together to support the LGBTQ community. [...]

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  • Our Afghan families

    Update 2024: Emerson, along with the Houston UU Afghan Team, has arranged for Ikhlas, one of our mothers, to receive much needed dental care. A member of Emerson’s Social Action team is coordinating and [...]

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    Share the Plate

    Donating Our Weekly Plate Collection Members and friends sustain the operating expenses of the church with their pledges, enabling us to give away the Sunday collection. Please write Share the Plate on the memo line [...]

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