The ASC Jubilee Committee is now accepting requests for financial and other support for ASC member activities that promote the Jubilee principles. Please see Request for Jubilee Support for information. The proposal deadline is January 7, 2008. Questions?: Email jubilee@ascboston.org or talk with any Jubilee Committee member: Abigail Donner, Mary Doyle, Charlene Galarneau, Mary Ann Hardenbergh, and Kate Toomey.
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Jubilee's commitment to advancing human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice is built upon ASC's mission of love and service for justice and peace. Through Jubilee we aspire to share these values beyond ASC's walls - developing new partnerships and strengthening relationships with spiritually enriching and justice-seeking work in our local community and throughout the world. We will share our time, energy, and financial support with short- and long-term actions. Through this giving and receiving we will deepen mutual respect and advance our most cherished values.
* Drawn from the Hebrew Bible (Leviticus 25:10), Jubilee represents the radical reordering of relationships every fiftieth year when slaves were to be freed and property returned to its rightful owner. Recently the term has been used by various movements (religious and secular) to stand for economic and social justice efforts. Similarly at Arlington Street, we understand Jubilee to signify our ongoing work to restore right relations in the world.
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- priority on rebuilding/deepening relations in current/recent ASC partnerships and between ASC members and friends
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local (Boston area) focus recognizing extended (global) impact and import
- sustained attention/action (16 months to start)
- develop Jubilee work as spiritual practice; assume Jubilee work will change us as individuals and as a congregation
- balance inclusive process (congregational involvement) with Committee action (leadership)
- $$ follows service
- What Jubilee is not: coordinating or function "central" for all ASC's work in the world
- membership/elevated participation in UU Service Committee (UUSC), UU Urban Ministries (UUUM), UU Women's Federation (UUWF), Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), and other interfaith activities
- support of existing programs by creating service and educational opportunities "in the world" and worship/reflection and education opportunities "in-house," as well as contributing $$