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Children’s Book Drive
Our annual Children’s Book Drive will benefit low income elementary school children
and those for whom English is a second language. We will be collecting money to purchase age and reading level appropriate
books at a great discount through a scholastic book supply. Each child will have a book to take home and provide reading enjoyment
during summer vacation. $5 will provide 3 books, $10 will provide 6 books, and so on. Please make checks out to Unity
and put them or cash in an envelope marked Book Drive.
Give your envelope to the volunteer in the Book Center. Your donation is needed by May 11th.
Join Community Action Committee
If service to the community speaks to you, WE NEED YOU...your ideas
and your heart. The Community Action Committee is Unity’s liaison to the larger community. We recommend
and coordinate community involvement. This includes Unity’s tithing to community organizations as well as Unity’s
participation in projects benefiting the community.
We meet once a month in the evening on the second Thursday. Here’s your chance to make a difference as
Unity serves the greater community. For more information contact Barbara Tuck Smith (925)513-1108 or Irene Estella (925)228-5885.
Helping
the Homeless in our Community -- Bag Lunches
Every Saturday we continue to make bag lunches for hungry and
homeless people. Come to the Unity kitchen at 9:15, and join a happy group of sandwich makers until about 10:30. Lots of people
down on their luck count on us each Saturday. Especially needed is someone to coordinate lunches on the fourth Saturday of
the month. Want to join up? Call Javier Cortez at (925) 570-8401
You can also help by donating money for our
feeding the homeless activities. Write a check made out to Unity Center; designate it for “feeding the homeless”
and put it in the prosperity basket on any Sunday.
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Here are some of the activities we have had in the past year:
- Feeding the homeless and hungry: Every Saturday morning we make 70 bag lunches.
- Shelter Week: We provide meals and other help for a week to homeless families in the Concord and Martinez homeless shelters.
- Book Drive: We collect money to buy books for kids in kindergarten through 5th grade at Pleasant Hill Elementary School,
many of whom are from low income homes in which English is a second language.
- Back to School Drive: We collect new backpacks for kids and back-to-school supplies.
- Warm Clothing Drive: In the Fall we collect warm clothes and rain gear and give them to homeless people.
- Teddy Bear Drive: Before Christmas, we collect teddy bears of all shapes, sizes and varieties and these are auctioned
off to raise money for seriously ill children in hospitals.
- STAND! Christmas Tree: We have a Christmas tree in our patio loaded with ornaments printed with money amounts, from which
people take the ornaments and buy gift certificates in the designated amounts. These are given to the STAND! Against Domestic
Violence organization so that presents can be bought.
- Food Bank Drive: During the month of December we collect food that is given to the Food Bank to assist it in providing
food to people in need.
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Affiliated with Unity School of Christianity
Unity Village, Missouri
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