Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation

The director of the Hospitality Kitchen (1323 S Yakima Ave. in Tacoma) is our UU Community Minister, Jim Anderson. TUUC members and friends help to prepare and serve meals there to homeless and/or needy persons.  Please call Joan Benderson at 253-566-4334 or email her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with questions or to volunteer to help.

On the third Thursday each month through June 17, 2010, TUUC volunteers are helping at Hospitality Kitchen to serve breakfast and lunch, working from 8 AM to 12:30 PM .

We also are make sandwich dinners for the Hospitality Kitchen on the first Sunday of each month through June 6, 2010.  We meet at TUUC at 9 AM to make sandwiches, bag cookies and carrots, etc.  At about 6 PM that day, we serve these dinners to folks at the Hospitality Kitchen.

TUUC's Change for Change outreach program started as an effort to collect pocket change from our members and friends each Sunday to support local charities.  Each month's collection benefits a different local charity, and on the first Sunday of the month we invite someone from the agency to tell us about its mission. This program has grown, and now many donors contribute bills and checks to these worthy organizations.  In 2008 we contributed over $3,000 to charities in this manner – along with another $700 to the Knoxville Relief Fund and $500 to the victims of Hurricane Ike. In 2009, the amount exceeded $8,000. 

Did you know . . .
Individuals from all backgrounds face hunger in Pierce County. Food Lifeline recently released the key findings for Western Washington from the study, "Hunger in America 2006". America's Second Harvest, the largest not-for-profit domestic hunger relief network in the United States, commissioned the study. Of those surveyed in Western Washington:

• 62% count a job, social security, SSI, or unemployment as a main source of income;
• 4.5% count welfare as their main income source;
• 51% of food bank customers choose between food and paying for heat;
• 40% choose between food and paying for medicine or medical care;
• 40% must choose between food and rent.

Join TUUC members in helping fight hunger in Pierce County by bringing dry milk, soups, canned fruits or vegetables, tuna, oats, beans, rice, peanut butter, chili, stews, baby formula, and other non-perishable items on the 3rd Sunday of each month.  We will deliver the food to a local food bank.  Cash donations are welcome; checks may be payable to TUUC with "food drive" in the memo line.  Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Jan Karroll for more information.

Join TUUC folks who are making sandwiches for the homeless on the last Friday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the Social Hall.  Donations of bread, meat, cheese, peanut butter, jelly, condiments, fruit, cookies, and sandwich bags are welcomed.  Immediately after, some helpers deliver and hand out food (along with groups from many other local churches) at the Friday Night Feed near downtown Tacoma.  Questions: contact Connie Andersen or Betsy Maier (see phone directory).