What are some of the other things we do?
- Birding B&B
- Service Auction
- Margaret Circle
- Adopt-A-Road
- Book Club
- Alternative Energy Group
This is one of our signature events, and a major fundraiser for us. Once a year, either in the Spring or Fall, we invite fellow nature-lovers for a weekend of world-class birding at a very reasonable cost. We are fortunate to have expert birders among our members, and their expertise and good humor entices some of our guests to come back year after year. The non-birders in the congregation pitch in too, providing comfy accommodations for our guests or serving as dinner hosts.
This is another primary fundraising event, and tons of fun! Members contribute and then bid on one another's goods and services, anything from jewelry and CD players to dinners, trips, and Spanish lessons. Great food too!
Want to get together with other women for lunch, coffee, dessert, and stimulating conversation? This is the group for you (named after Margaret Fuller, a famous UU of the 19th century). Join Kathie, Kathy, Peg, and others at a different diner or restaurant each month. A topic is selected beforehand and sometimes there is homework! Recent topics have been Taoism and Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Compassion, evolution, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance, and Phantom of the Opera.
Members of our congregation keep the roadside clean along about a mile stretch near the site of our new building, at Liebig Ave and Pomona Rd (County Route 575) in Galloway.
An informal group of book-lovers meet once a month in members' homes, usually on the third Tuesday or Thursday of the month. The books are selected by the group, and we are often able to reserve copies in the Atlantic and Cape May County Libraries. Recent reads have included The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Secret Life of Bees, The Alchemist, and The Life of Pi.
About once a month a group interested in alternative energy meets to discuss the latest scientific and business-oriented news in this area.