This week, Rev. Sean Neil-Barron shared about harm reduction and recovery as part of our When Death Comes Series. As a follow up, we’ve gathered some helpful resources for further learning and impact. Harm Reduction & Recovery Resources
Need Some Good News?
Ready for some good news? I’ve got two things for you.
To start, last Sunday I shared with you that there was a new local coalition emerging, led by people of color, directly addressing racism in our community. I invited you to take a leap of faith and support their leadership with financial support. My first piece of good news is that between the two services…
Climate Justice in Your Own Back Yard
Foothills Climate Justice Ministry helps lead spontaneous participation of eco-groups to grab control of fracking in our community.
I Am Only One
Since last October, Sanctuary Everywhere has grown from providing in-church Sanctuary to Ingrid, an immigrant from Peru with a deportation order over her head, to accompanying asylum seekers living in detention under circumstances you’ve read about; to working with lawyers to get parole for them; and to providing housing with a host family, and a Village to support them as the asylum seeker navigates their new life in this country.
Faith Family Hospitality Celebrates Seven Years
Seven years ago this month, Foothills joined more than 30 local faith communities in an effort to house families experiencing homelessness in Fort Collins.
Foothills Receives 2018 Fort Collins Human Relations Award
Wow! Tonight Foothills received the 2018 Fort Collins Human Relations Award in the Non-Profit Organization category, which is to celebrate a “spirit of inclusiveness, giving and altruism that makes Fort Collins a better place for all people.” A few of our lay leaders were able to join the ceremony, but really the award was to […]
Foothills Announces Support of #MeToo movement
For Immediate Public Release – Full Text Foothills Unitarian Church is proud to announce our upcoming plans to explore and support of the #MeToo movement, which seeks to end the silence around sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct that people of all genders, and especially women, have experienced, and to draw attention to the magnitude of […]
Chalk Angels
by Karen Harder This is a story about the power of prayer and sidewalk chalk. For the past six months, I’ve followed a spiritual practice of daily prayer. What I pray to has changed with each of the UU sources we’ve studied in our Wellspring small group. But my format remains roughly the same: name […]