Good Trouble Lives On!

Early voting for the August 6th election starts Friday, July 17!

Click here to find out when and where to early vote in Davidson County!

And speaking of exercising our right to vote, don’t miss the annual John Lewis Way March this Saturday, July 18, from 8:00am to noon, starting at the Tennessee State Library and Archives at the corner of Jefferson Street and Rep John R Lewis Way. 

The fight to protect voting rights never ends. Six years after John Lewis’ death, we carry the torch to continue his legacy and pass it forward to future generations. Register here to join us! See flyer for details.

Voter Happy Hour #2
Saturday, July 11, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Em & Me Cafe
1244 3rd Ave N

Come chat with the Integrated Voter Engagement team about how we need to engage voters in this election season and beyond! 

Topics include:

• How you can get out the vote in your community

• What can be done to get people more involved in voting

• Redistricting and how to be heard

RSVP for Voter Happy Hour #2

Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) Phonebanking
Sunday, July 12, 1:00 pm

Join NOAH’s IVE team to get out the vote in targeted Nashville neighborhoods, because TN is Home! Location TBD.

RSVP for 7/12 Phonebanking

See flyer inside for more opportunities to get involved!

I wanted to send a great big Thank You on behalf of the Pride organizing team here at FUUN, GNUUC and UUFC. We accomplished so much this weekend at Nashville Pride, which we could only do because of you!

Over 60 UUs and friends marched in the Parade, handing out 700 pocket blessing zines (find them here: https://foothillsuu.org/fiercetogether/) and sending love to the LGBTQ+ community of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.

More than 25 UUs staffed our booth at the Festival—that’s 14% of the membership of the three congregations willing to sit or stand and talk with people about UU in the heat and rain, y’all. Many stickers, pens, pins, uu-value bracelet kits, and love cars were given out. Not to mention all the love shared with festival-goers. Using the number of folks (of all ages!) who decorated their own love car to race hate (see photo), we interacted with at least 1000 attendees.

Additionally, at least 89 folks added comments against the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s proposed revision to its Equal Access Rule that would roll back protections meant to ensure the safety of any trans person seeking HUD-funded support. This was a call-to-action from the UUSC called Pride in Action (https://www.uusc.org/action/pride-in-action/). While the campaign is over, the website has links to learn more about the work being done by UUs nationwide in solidarity with transgender, nonbinary, two spirit, and gender expansive people.

That’s amazing work you guys! 

With love and solidarity,
Jeannie Haman

Our July Share the Plate partner is the Southern Alliance for People and Animal Welfare. SAFPAW is a non-profit organization serving Davidson County by improving the quality of life for people and pets in need. SAFPAW provides free pet food, supplies, and veterinary care to pet owners who are homeless or living at or below the poverty level, and so much more.

How to give
Each Share the Plate gift is divided evenly: half supports the current Share the Plate recipient, and half supports GNUUC's general fund. To direct your gift to Share the Plate, use the keyword "share":

In the Sanctuary: cash or check in a provided envelope (memo: share)

Online: visit nashvilleuu.org/donate, then click Give to and choose the “Give to Share the Plate” fund.

By text: text 615-246-5553 with "[Amount] share" (example: $50 share)

By mail: GNUUC, 374 Hicks Road, Nashville, TN 37221 (memo: share)

GNUUC and FUUN will be joining forces in volunteering at Nashville Pride this year. You can:

Join FUUN at the Pride March. Note that at 9:15 AM Marchers (groups and individuals marching next to vehicles and/or floats) need to be lined up. Kick off at 10 am (Broadway and 8th Ave). Parade takes place on Broadway between 8th Ave and 2nd Ave.

Volunteer at the FUUN Booth at Pride.

Please click the title for the links and details for joining Nashville Pride this year.

To buy a ticket, purchase an ad, or pay for a sponsorship, click here. Tickets are discounted this year for those under 35!

NOAH is thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for this year’s banquet, Dr. Taure Brown, Director of the James Lawson Institute at Vanderbilt University and a sociologist, educator, and organizer from Kinston, North Carolina. His work sits at the intersection of scholarship and action, equipping communities with the tools to challenge injustice and build collective power.

Saturday, May 30, 2026 1:00 PM -  2:30 PM CT
Join us to call inactive voters and encourage them to VOTE in the upcoming elections, because Tennessee is our home and we all deserve to be heard!

NOAH’s Integrated Voter Education working group invites you to help activate inactive voters!

Register at bit.ly/NOAHMayPB.

NOAH in a Nutshell

Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH) is an anti-racist, inter-faith coalition of congregations, community organizations, and labor unions (around 70 member organizations). We aim to amplify the power of ordinary people so that their voices are heard in the public arena. GNUUC is a founding member of NOAH.

NOAH is a member of Gamaliel, a national network of local organizations committed to building political power by uniting people of different races and faiths.

NOAH engages ordinary people in the political and economic decisions affecting their lives, acting as a unified voice for the faith and justice community to act on its values in the public arena. NOAH does not endorse political candidates but gets them to endorse our issues agenda, and pledge to work with NOAH if they are elected.

Currently, NOAH has four task forces, selected at its most recent Issues Convention: Affordable Housing; Education; Economic Equity, Jobs, and Transportation; and Transformational Justice. Additionally, there are three working groups: the Faith Leaders Caucus, made up of clergy members, Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE), which engages with voters about the issues they care about, and, more recently, the Immigrant Rights Campaign, which has partnered with The Remix to provide Know Your Rights trainings, among other things.

Join Us at the No Kings Protest

If you are marching in the No Kings protest Saturday, March 28, from 10 am - 1 pm, and you would like to meet up with us, contact Kristin Reveal, kristin.reveal@gnuuc.org or text her at 615-400-3445 by Friday to join a group text. You are also welcome to text the day of, but it might be harder to coordinate.

Details

Saturday, March 28, 10am – 1pm CDT

592 S 1st St, Nashville, TN 37213

Bus

Note the WeGo bus from Bellevue does not run on the weekends.

For other bus routes see the WeGo website.

Parking

For parking, we would try:

Music City Center Parking, 701 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37203. It is about a 20 minute walk across the pedestrian bridge.  It is $15/hour.

Metro Courthouse / Public Square Garage, 101 James Robertson Pkwy, Nashville, TN 37201. It costs $5 on the weekend. It will take 22 minutes to walk, but you'll have to cross Woodland St instead of the pedestrian crossing.

Nisson Lot R, Nissan Stadium - Lot R, 400 S 1st St, LP Field, Nashville, TN 37213 (on the same side of the river) often has free parking for 2 hours when there is not a game, but it is small and we think it will quickly fill. It might be blocked off as well.

Sign up at No Kings Nashville Tennessee

The Mental Health Cooperative was founded in 1993 with a bold mission to provide community-based care for adults with serious mental illnesses. We united three essential services — Urban Case Management, Continuous Treatment Team, and the Mobile Crisis Team — into one coordinated model focused on access, dignity, and real outcomes.”

Our January Share the Plate partner is Side with Love, the organizing strategy team of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Side With Love confronts exclusion, oppression, and violence rooted in identity. With the goal of building Beloved Community, they pursue social change through advocacy, public witness, and solidarity with those whose lives are publicly demeaned.

Through education, organizing, and collective action, Side With Love supports work for democracy, climate justice, racial and immigration justice, and LGBTQIA+ and gender justice—reminding us that these struggles are deeply connected, and that lasting change happens when we act together, grounded in love.

Side With Love has also supported our wider Tennessee UU community, including a recent grant that helped make the TUUCAN Fall Flock in Nashville possible.

We invite you to give generously today as a way of choosing, together, to Side With Love.

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.

NOAH will be holding a special "Power Planning Training" this Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 AM to 3 PM, at West End United Methodist Church (2200 West End Ave). Lunch will be provided. All are welcome! 

This training will dive deep into one-on-ones -- and also look at specific ways to take action to win on the issues that were identified by the NOAH congregations and groups. These are the fundamentals of organizing and extremely useful for where NOAH is right now. There will be specific breakouts for Affordable Housing, Education, Criminal Justice, and Economic-Equity-and-Transportation.  

Please come and be with us!  Register ahead of time at bit.ly/metro-power-plan, so there will be enough materials and food!