All the members of the church had a chance to participate in a recycling project. The Religious Education Director uses the Study Guides for the General Resolutions passed by the UUA General Assembly as a way of generating reflection and action. This congregation of 62 members takes the third Sunday and creates an intergenerational program on social issues. For example, they might have all of the adults and children participate in a project to clean up a park. When developing a social justice program in a small church or fellowship remember to involve the whole congregation in developing the social justice program and pick one or two-focus area.
Small groups can t support a whole network of task groups like a larger congregation can.
But hopefully they can pick one or two issues that can receive broad support from the members of the group. Large congregations have more than 600 members. Middle size and large congregations, which have strong social justice programs, carry out their programs through task groups. By using task groups a congregations can have a number of substantial ongoing projects. Task groups are necessary because it s difficult for a social justice committee to manage several projects at the same time.