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Volunteer Opportunity: Emergency Response Team
BUF’s Safety & Security Team is forming the Emergency Response Team for Sunday Services and looking for volunteers to respond to individuals who are (1) in need of medical assistance or (2) who are experiencing emotional/psychological distress and may be threatening the safety of the congregation.
Chaco Canyon Call to Action: Comments due right now!
Chaco Canyon, one of the most sacred landscapes in our country, is being targeted for further extractive industry projects and the Bureau of Land Management have given us only 7 days to respond with tomorrow being the deadline—April 7th.
Click HERE to comment.
Clyde W. Ford Book Reading
Please join us on Sunday. April 12th, 6:00 PM in the Sanctuary for this Whatcom County community event and fundraiser for local organizations working to resist I.C.E. Oppression: IRIS, WAISN, and the UU Solidarity Initiative.
To Register Click HERE
Budget Listening Sessions
Zoom-only Session
Tuesday
April 7
6:30 PM
Come hear current budget plans, major changes in spending and programming, and provide your feedback before the budget is finalized this spring.
Need a Phone & Want to Help Humanitas?
The executor of Linda Darks’ estate would like to sell her IPhone 13 in good condition and donate the money to Humanitas.
From Detroit to Liverpool: Community Sing Along
Saturday, April 4th
3:30 PM in the Sanctuary
Meal Train help needed
There are two BUFsters in need of help with meals at the moment. Please consider signing up to bring a meal to one of these families:
Invition to Rod Haynes’ Book Reading from “Unauthorized Disclosures: A Navy Memoir of the 1980s”
Village Boooks & Paper Dreams
March 28, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Lynden Village Books
April 11, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Our Envisioning Goal Is In Sight
Your generosity is paying off! We are on our way to achieving our goal of funding additional Religious Education programming, Cost of Living increases for Staff, Taize funding and other priorities! There is still time to help achieve the goal. Give today!
Join the BUF Contingent at the No Kings Rally
Join us Saturday, March 28 for Bellingham’s “NO Kings” rally. We will gather in front of BUF at 12:15 pm and leave promptly at 12:30 pm to walk to the rally at Waypoint Park. Shuttle rides will be available for those with limited mobility.
BUF Singing Resistance Plans for No Kings
3 opportunities to come sing with BUF’s Singing Resistance pod. All are welcome, no experience necessary.
Wednesday, March 25 4:30 PM in BUF Sanctuary - Practice for the No Kings Rally
Friday, March 27 6:00 PM, Vigil at First Congregational Church
Saturday, March 28, 1:00 PM, No Kings Rally
Neighborhood Organizing at the No Kings Rally
March 28th, 3 PM
Help support the formation of many new autonomous neighborhood groups that can begin organizing a larger number of people in Whatcom County.