December Share the Plate: Guest at Your Table program with UUSC
Our December Share the Plate partner is the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) through its Guest at Your Table program. For half a century and counting, UUSC has worked with faith communities across the country to bring our partners’ stories and experiences to your family table. The long-running Guest at Your Table program is a chance to learn about our partners’ work and support our shared efforts to advance human rights.
Guest at Your Table (GAYT) is UUSC’s annual intergenerational program to raise support for and awareness about key human rights issues. Since UUSC works in more than 20 countries, with over 50 grassroots partners, there are thousands of individuals involved in and who benefit from the work that our members make possible. The program is an opportunity to celebrate grassroots partnership, support human rights, and learn about just four of these individuals—the “guests” in Guest at Your Table.
2025-2026 GAYT Theme: Plant Seeds of Justice
While human rights and international aid are under attack, it’s easy to feel like change is impossible. UUSC’s partners, however, know first-hand that justice doesn’t just appear overnight. The movement for collective liberation requires ongoing, diligent tending and long-haul commitment.
This year, grassroots leaders share how they’re planting seeds for a more just future, no matter the circumstances. You will meet:
Innovative migration justice leaders housing LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers in Philadelphia
A Honduran community of water defenders carrying on the legacy of the late Juan Lopez
Political prisoner Ruth Lopez fighting for government accountability and human rights in El Salvador
Haitian activists fighting for the rights of people in migration
Learn more about this year’s Guests through reading the Stories of Hope booklets that will be distributed in the sanctuary. Please give generously to Guest at Your Table this year, as we continue GNUUC’s participation in this program supporting the transformational social justice work of the UUSC and its partners.