All Souls Community Church
6th Annual Silent Auction

December 3, 2009, 6 – 9 pm

San Chez Bistro Third Floor

Links

Institute for Healing Racism

Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce

San Chez - A Tapas Bistro

All Souls Community Church of West Michigan

Unitarian Universalist Association

 

 

 

 

2009 Auction Recap:

 

And thank you to the Auction Committee: Kim Waalkes, Heather Williams, Annie Logan, Andy Truax and Cindy Schneider, and helpers Jen Hall and Tracie Coffman for leading this important fundraising and community event!

 

Join All Souls Community Church of West Michigan for a Silent Auction benefitting the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Healing Racism.

Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Where: San  Chez, 3rd Floor
38 West Fulton, Grand Rapids, MI
Click here for a map to San Chez.

Tickets are $25 and include Tapas buffet. Cash Bar. Mastercard/Visa accepted.

To Purchase Tickets, call 460-2983;
email ascc.auction@yahoo.com ;
or respond to the person contacting you.

Click to download the poster!
  A sampling of the great items available for Holiday gift-giving or your own enjoyment are:

-        Overnight stays at the Amway Grand Plaza, JW Marriott and the Courtyard Marriott
-        Four packages of yoga at four different places around town (downtown, NE, SE and Cascade)
-        Massages
-        gift baskets for holiday presents (baby blankets, movie nights, bowling and pizza party, and gourmet birthday)
-        book baskets
-        Zoo membership
-        Baking class for four with San Chez’s own pastry chef
-        Golf gift certificates
-        One hour professional teeth whitening
-        Bounce around Art Prize 2010 and $50 in gift certificates to local restaurants and bars
-        hand painted pottery by the ASCC Children
-        gift certificates to San Chez Bistro, Zeytin, XO Cuisine, Marie Catrib’s, Graydon’s Crossing,
         Derby Station, First Wok and The Gilmore Collection

And much more! Click here for a up to date list of auction items!

All Souls Congregation members: check out the "One Chance Bid" items here.

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The arc of the moral universe is long, But it bends toward justice.
-Abolitionist Theodore Parker, c. 1850's

Quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. in his address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Aug 16, 1967, entitled "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE"

 

About the Institute for Healing Racism:

The Institute for Healing Racism exists to eliminate individual and institutional racism and to promote oneness of humankind.  The Institute program began at the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce in 1997.  Our first Institute attracted highly visible business leaders that were moved to action.  Chamber members committed to utilizing the program beginning with the top leadership in their organizations.  Currently more than 1,600 persons have completed a Chamber Institute for Healing Racism program.

For more information, contact Latricia Trice, Diversity Initiatives & Programs Coordinator, at 616.771.0332.

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In the past 2 years of All Souls Community Church has raised over $5000.00 to support the wonderful work at the Institute for Healing Racism. These donations help eliminate racism and promote a oneness of all humankind here in Grand Rapids and West Michigan.
Other Resources:

Social Justice Statements, UUA.

THE ARC OF JUSTICE
A Sermon by the Rev. Phyllis L. Hubbell
The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore

 

 Our Unitarian Universalist principles call us to affirm and promote "justice, equity, and compassion in human relations" and "the goal of world community". Our history as Unitarian Universalists includes evidence of both great commitment and individual achievement in the struggle for racial justice. Racism and its effects, including economic injustice, are embedded in all social institutions as well as in ourselves and will not be eradicated without deliberate engagement in analysis and action. Because of the impact of racism on all people, and the interconnection among oppressions, we realize we need to make an institutional commitment to end racism. The social, economic, and ecological health of our planet is imperiled by the deepening divisions in our world caused by inequitable and unjust distribution of power and resources. We as Unitarian Universalists are called yet again by our commitment to faith in action to pursue an anti-racist, multi-cultural society in the spirit of justice, compassion, and community.

(excerpted from Toward an Anti-Racist Unitarian Universalist Association, uua.org)

 

  

"Recognizing the fact that institutional racism is still embedded in American society ... the Unitarian Universalist Association shall seek to eliminate racism in all its institutional structures, policies, practices, and patterns of behavior, so that it will become a racially equitable institution and can make an effective contribution toward achieving a similarly equitable society." The "Racism Imperative", UUA, 1981.

  
  All Souls Community Church is a church dedicated to religion, but not to a creed. It is a liberal religious community of free individuals of all ages walking together in relationship to one another, to our larger community and to the transcending mystery of the universe. Our community is based on open communication, democratic process and a belief in the capacity for goodness in all people. Out spiritual health and our growth as a church community are intimately connected with the spiritual growth and development of our children. We pledge to develop out church community with this always in mind. This church aims at celebrating and cultivating community, a sense of inquiry, moral character and insight, religious freedom, and helpfulness to humanity - that is, it aims at liberating and cultivating the human spirit.  
  (c) 2009 All Souls Community Church of West Michigan
http://www.allsoulscommunity.org