Share The Plate
Once a month we dedicate the financial donations collected during a worship service to a local social justice nonprofit organization chosen by the Social Justice Committee. Please give as generously as you can to support our commitment to serve our community with respect and compassion.
To make a donation to this month’s recipient using a credit card or PayPal™ click the button above. Indicate a one-time donation, or set up a planned or ongoing donation. You do not need a PayPal™ account to use your credit card to make a donation.
Our designated 2026 recipients are:
- CHIP (Community Housing Improvement Housing Project) – to support their winter fuel assistance program for those in need.
- Ecumenical Food Pantry of Newcastle – the Twin Villages anchor program for food insecurity.
- FARMS (Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools) – Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools to support their new outreach programs to local food pantries.
- Healthy Kids – A Family Resource – Lincoln County’s child abuse and neglect prevention program.
- Maine Family Planning – affordable reproductive health care services for all Mainers, including abortions, primary care, and gender-affirming health services.
- Maine Wabanaki REACH -Wabanaki health, wellness, self-determination and community building.
- Meals on Wheels – provides delicious, nutritionally balanced meals for home bound individuals 60 years of age or older and persons with a disability who are unable to prepare a meal.
- MUUSAN (Maine Unitarian Universalist State Advocacy Network) – our Fellowship’s connection to statewide social justice advocacy in the public square.
- New Hope Midcoast – Lincoln County’s support for those affected by domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
- OUT Maine – partners with schools, clergy, health care workers to focus on needs of LGBTQ youth and families in rural Maine.
- Pine Tree Society Camp – Scholarship for a Lincoln County resident with disabilities.
- Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast – promotes fundamental change in the justice system and schools.
Rev Pamela Barz began her ministry serving the UU Church of Saco-Biddeford and now has returned to Maine where she offers coaching to help clergy and others get "unstuck" and live from deep gladness. Contact her at: .