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Services:
Sundays
8:15 & 10 am
Child care provided
Office hours:
Tuesday - Friday
9 am - noon
Location:
5705 Lacy Rd.
Fitchburg WI 53711
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Phone:
608-273-1008
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| Reaching out in 200 ways |
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When Memorial UCC dedicated its new church 20 years ago, Rev. Frederick Trost, the conference minister for the United Church of Christ in Wisconsin, challenged us to look out into the world through our windows and “move from here to there.” As a congregation, we reach across the world with our partnership with Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. We reach across the nation with our work camps at Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, Mississippi. We serve the people of our community with meals at Luke House, food for Allied Drive, shelter through the Interfaith Hospitality Network. Last year, our members contributed some $34,000 through our congregation to causes beyond the walls of this church. But people here “move from here to there” in a wide variety of ways. Here are some of the things people associated with Memorial give their time or money to that make a difference in our community and our world. This represents only a slice of what people are involved in, based on those who responded in early April 2009. Those in need American Red Cross (including blood donors) (8), United Way (7), The Road Home (6), Habitat for Humanity (6), Luke House Meal Program (5), Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin (5), St. Vincent de Paul (3), Allied Drive Partnership (2), Literacy Network of Madison (2), Salvation Army (3), Community Shares of Wisconsin (2), Oregon Food Pantry, Back Bay Mission, SECC UW Hospital Combined Campaign, A Fund for Women & Madison Community Foundation, The Welcome Ministry, Community Action of Wisconsin, Options (social service agency), YMCA of Dane County, WAGS (service dogs), Domestic Abuse Intervention, Feeding America Harvest of Hope Fund (Local resources for needy farmers), Churches Center for Land and People (Local resources for needy farmers), Keep Wisconsin Warm Fund, Feed the Children USA, Empty Stocking Club, Back Bay Mission, DreamBikes, Christian Appalachian Project, Meals on Wheels, donate to food drives, knit articles for the community General community Goodman/Atwood Community Center (2), New Glarus EMS, library, fire department; Rotary, Women's Western Golf Association, Regent Neighborhood Association, Elections inspector for the City of Fitchburg, Fitchburg Library Board, Friends of the Fitchburg Library, Fitchburg Police & Fire Commission, Westmorland neighborhood band ambassadors, Knitting for a kids program, Fitchburg Senior Center, Madison Senior Center, Fitchburg Senior Center, Benedictine Sisters of Madison, Capitol Sound Drum & Bugle Corps/Madison Scouts, Methodist Church – Brooklyn Advocacy American Civil Liberties Union (3), Union of Concerned Scientists (2), American Friends Service Committee (2), Fellowship of Reconciliation, Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice of South Central Wisconsin, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Wisconsin Veterans, Church Women United, Madison Ecumenical Center, Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society), Fair Wisconsin, The Human Rights Campaign, AMFAIR, Klan Watch, The Southern Poverty Law Conference, Campus Crusade for Christ, Madison-area Urban Ministry (2), Council of Indian Nations, Credo (Working Assets), Southern Poverty Law Center, United Farm Workers, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Wisconsin Council of Churches, Peace Action, Feingold/Baldwin, Common Cause, Public Citizen, Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice, Friends National Legislation, Sojourners Health HospiceCare (8), American Cancer Society (5), Smile Train (surgical repair of children with cleft palates) (3), American Heart Association (3), March of Dimes (2), Paul Carbone Cancer Center, Alzheimer's, Hospice Kenyan hospice partnership in Meru Kenya, Easter Seals, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, American Diabetes, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Planned Parenthood, Tour de Cure for Diabetes, UW Hospital & Clinics, MS Society, Juvenile Diabetes Society, HATS (an informal group, meets monthly to make chemo hats, hospice gowns, and pillowcases), United Cerebral Palsy, Children’s Cancer Research, American Diabetes Association Education Wisconsin Historical Society (2), Madison Public Library (2), Oregon Public Schools, UW's Path to Excellence program, Dictionary for American Regional English, Southwestern University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Leopold Elementary School, UW Foundation, UW Madison School of Nursing, Edgewood College Nursing Student Program, Madison schools, Schools of Hope at Emerson School, Peer tutorial at West High, Capitol Christmas pageant, Stage Crew / West High Theatre, Fine Arts / West High, Monona Pre-school, Elvejehm & Sennett schools, Veterinary Medicine Outreach, Recruitment and Education (VetMORE) Environment The Nature Conservancy (4), Sierra Club (3), Fitchburg Fields (2), UW Arboretum (2), Green America (formerly Co-op America) (2), River Crossing Environmental Charter School, Prairie Enthusiasts, Blue Mounds Project, Friends of Wisconsin State Parks, Friends of the St. Lawrence River, Friends of Lake Kegonsa, Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin, National Audubon Society, EarthJustice Environmental Defense Fund, National Resources Defense Council, Trust for Public Land, Sustain Dane, Food First, American Farmland Trust, Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Global Doctors without Borders (5), Heifer International (3), Amnesty International (4), What If Foundation (Haiti) (3), Church World Service (3), Global Exchange (2), Kiva (micro loans) (2), UNICEF (2), Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, Engineers Without Borders, Compassion International, Oxfam, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA, Franciscan Sisters Holy Child Program (School for Palestinian children in Bethlehem), Bethlehem Christmas Lutheran Church, Bright Stars of Bethlehem, Central Asia Institute ("Three Cups of Tea"), Friends of the World Food Program, International Rescue Commission, The Carter Center, World Vision, FINCA International (microfinancing), CARE, Project Hope, Feed the Children: Abandoned Baby Center – Kenya, Humane Borders, Central Asia Institute, Spanish Honor Society (raises funds for Central America), Free the Children (they help to educate youth in less fortunate countries) Youth Boy Scouts of America (5), Girl Scouts (4), Volunteer youth soccer coach, Performing Arts for Children (PAFC), East Side Club Student Scholarship Fund, Art of Note for WYSO, Children's Miracle Network, Wisconsin, My children and their families Disabilities S Goodwill of South Central Wisconsin (3), Special Olympics (2), NAMI Dane County (2), Mental Health Center of Dane County (2), ARC (2), Autism Society of America, Dreamweavers, Inc. Culture Wisconsin Public Radio (7), Wisconsin Public Television (4), U.S. Holocaust Museum (2), American Players Theater, Madison Symphony, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Folklore Village Animal welfare Various humane societies (3), Citizens for Animal Protection, Feed wild birds and stray cats |