Guest at Your Table

Quick Links:

• General information about Guest at Your Table (GAYT) and the UUSC

• Simplified list of human rights

• 2025-2026 GAYT Theme

• Stories of Hope booklet about this year’s guests

• Template to make your own GAYT box

• Videos from the four “guests” for 2025-2026

• Supplemental video for Cristosal

• What we will do at SFUU for GAYT

• Information about gathering our donations

• Recording of SFUU’s Feb 23, 2025 Sunday Service that tells the stories of last year’s four “guests”

• Shelter Me

General Information

SFUU has begun to participate once again in the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s (UUSC) Guest at Your Table program. Guest at Your Table (GAYT) is UUSC’s annual intergenerational program, which raises support for, and awareness about, key human rights issues here in the U.S. and around the world. Each year UUSC features the stories of 4 different “guests” who lead organizations that are partnered with UUSC. Guest at Your Table is an opportunity to celebrate grassroots partnership, support human rights, and learn about just four individuals that UUSC works with – the “guests” in Guest at Your Table. The Social Justice Committee now brings this program to SFUU in the spring.

U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Here is a simplified list of the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

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

Mark your congregational calendars for this special celebration of justice, generosity, and global solidarity!

more about this year’s 4 guests:

Supplemental Cristosal Video

Click here to learn more about what happened to Ruth Lopez

What We Will Do at SFUU

Kick Off Service this year: Apr 5, 2026

Boxes for the program and brochures detailing the stories the guests are first distributed during a kickoff worship service (this year it will be on Easter Sunday - April 5, 2026), and remain available at church if you were not here that Sunday. Set the box at your dining table and read your guests’ stories. Show your support for their human rights work by placing a contribution in the box during each meal (or whenever you are moved to do so). The act of making a donation during at least one meal each day makes your advocacy of the work that the UUSC does a deliberate practice. Slipping just a quarter into the slot each meal will add up to a sizeable donation by the end of the program (usually a 4 to 6 week period)! At the end, write a check for the total and bring it to church on the collection date (this year on Mother’s Day - May 10, 2026) as we celebrate the Guest at Your Table journey!

Gathering Guest at your Table Funds on May 10, 2026!

On our end date, baskets will be available to collect the GAYT donations during SFUU’s Sunday Service.

Here’s What to Do:

• Open up your box and count up what you have accumulated.

• Write a check for the amount, payable to UUSC (or if you prefer, you can make it out to SFUU with GAYT in the memo line).

• Cut out the white side of your box and fill out the information in that square (your name, and contact info if you want thanks from the UUSC; also put down our congregation and indicate how much you are donating)

• Bring your check and the completed information square to church for collection.

• If you are pressed for time, then you can bring the whole box, but it will save us both time and effort if you bring a check instead (thanks)!

• We will send the checks to the UUSC for you. 

Not Going to Be at Church on the the end date?

• No problem, you can bring your donation and information square the following Sunday

• OR, you can send it to UUSC directly (Guest at Your Table - UUSC, PO Box 808, Newark, NJ, 07101-0808) – you can even donate on-line and avoid using a stamp.

Your Social Justice Team thanks you for your commitment to the work of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee!