Each week we collect the surplus from our gardens and deliver it to those who are in need. Simply bring your bagged produce and place it in the Westside Food Bank basket on Sunday morning during the service. Our volunteers will collect the produce and donate it to Turning Point. If you would like to join the Backyard Bounty team we would love to have you! Please contact hunger@uusm.org for details or to sign up.

Backyard Bounty members also attend Food Forward harvesting events. Everyone is welcome to help harvest produce, and it's fun too! You can sign up to collect excess produce from the Santa Monica Farmer's Market on Sunday afternoon, or for one of many other local events during the week. Produce is donated to local food banks. For information visit the Food Forward website or contact hunger@uusm.org.

In our annual YRUU Sunday Service, the high school group presents a service that explores how they balance the many expectations, stresses and joys of being a teenager in this day and age.

This coming Saturday morning, May 14th will see the first coordinated nationwide action in support of reproductive rights since the leak of a forthcoming Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Join Faith In Action, UUSM members & friends, and other area UUs as we meet up in Downtown LA for this rally and protest co-organized by Planned Parenthood, the Women’s March Foundation, and other allied groups! Sign up to meet and/or carpool here. Questions or concerns: contact justice@uusm.org.