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UniLu has a long history of living out its commitment to care for Creation... 🌱

Congregational Practices:
  • Communal grieving
  • ​Cultivating gratitude and practicing prayer
  • Acknowledging the history and work of repair for and with indigenous peoples
  • Composting
  • Minimizing paper goods for sharing food
  • Installing heat pump heaters in the parsonage and in 2023, in the seminar buildings
  • Nurturing community
  • Giving to green nonprofits 
  • Giving a voluntary shuumi land tax to the Muwekma Ohlone 

Individual Practices:
  • Practicing the 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
  • Biking, public transportation, and electric cars
  • Rationing air travel
  • Electrifying homes
  • Gardening
  • Keeping chickens
  • Birding
  • Supporting local economies
  • Eating seasonally, locally and supporting ecological farms
  • Veganism, vegetarianism, and regenerative and holistic animal husbandry
  • Regenerating native habitats
  • Making and mending
  • Reducing plastics
  • Responsible investing
  • Divesting from banks who fund fossil fuel pipelines
  • Protesting and participating in direct action
  • Nurturing community
  • Volunteering with and giving to green nonprofits
  • Devoting one's career to care of Creation
  • Giving a voluntary shuumi land tax to indigenous peoples on whose land one resides
  • Greening death

1611  Stanford Avenue,  Palo Alto,  California  94306 | (650) 857-9660

Our church sits in an ancestral homeland of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Christian colonizers forced their ancestors into missions and seized their land. We grieve the loss of indigenous lives, the destruction of indigenous culture, and the commodification of indigenous land. God calls us to a right relationship with this land and its past, present, and future caretakers. Muwekma neighbors are a sovereign people. May we live in solidarity with them and repair Creation with all.

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      • Womxn's Shelter
    • Sanctuary Church
  • Love Each Other
    • Sunday Evenings >
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      • Storytelling Night
      • Travelogue Night
    • Young Adults
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