Every December, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) asks UU Congregations to participate in Guest at Your Table (GAYT), imagining that one of the grass root partners doing justice work around the world is a guest at your table for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This year, the UUCMP Social Justice Committee voted to make Guest at Your Table, the Shared Plate non-profit for December.
The UUSC is a sister organization to the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) that bolsters grassrootsled movements for change around the world. It began as the Unitarian Service Committee in the 1940s to aid European refugees during World War II.
Over the years, UUSC has adjusted with the times to provide support where most needed: from organizing exploited migrating workers in Texas in the 1940s, providing economic support to Central American communities in the 1980s, addressing the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s, and working to stop the impacts of climate change in the 2000s and beyond, UUSC’s history has consistently centered the needs and solutions of communities experiencing oppression and injustice. Right now, UUSC is concentrating on supporting groups working on climate justice, democracy and civil liberties, emergency humanitarian crises, and migration.
In our country, we are currently challenged by a national administration that is attacking human rights and international aid. It can feel discouraging. But UUSC keeps helping the work go forward. UUSC’s grass-root partners know first-hand that justice doesn’t happen overnight. They understand that the work requires diligence and a long-haul commitment. This year, GAYT is highlighting these four efforts:

• Innovative migration justice leaders housing LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers in Philadelphia
• A Honduran community of water defenders carrying on the legacy of the late Juan Lopez
• Political prisoner Ruth Lopez fighting for government accountability and human rights in El Salvador
• Haitian activists fighting for the rights of people in migration

Please go to the UUSC.org website for more information on all these efforts and lots more information on
the innovative and impactful support that UUSC offers to move the needle of justice forward worldwide.
The 2025-2026 GAYT theme is Plant Seeds of Justice. Your donations will do just that. Thank you.
Konny Murray (Nominator of Guest at Our Table)