Traveling to the Khasi Hills First UU Forum Speaker: Shelley Ross has been a member of First Unitarian Church for almost 30 years and part of the Khasi Hills Partnership Team since its inception. After many years of waiting for “the right time,” she traveled to northeast India in the fall of 2025 to visit … Continue reading First UU Sunday Forum 4/19/26
First Unitarian Church is honored to Share the Plate in March with the Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School in the village of Kharang in the Khasi Hills of northeast India. As part of a global Unitarian Universalist Association initiative, First Unitarian Church has been partners with our Unitarian friends in the Khasi Hills since … Continue reading First Unitarian Church Share the Plate in March is Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School
First Unitarian Church is honored to Share the Plate in March with the Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School in the village of Kharang in the Khasi Hills of Northeast India. A celebration of food and culture will kick off the month in the Undercroft gallery on March 2. Khasi Hills team members will also … Continue reading First Unitarian Church is honored to Share the Plate in March with the Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School
The Khasi Hills – home to one of the largest populations of Unitarians in the world ¬- lie in the far northeast of India, below Bhutan and above Bangladesh. Since 2003, First Unitarian Church has been a sponsor of the Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School in the Khasi village of Kharang. Now there is … Continue reading October 2025 Khasi Hills Pilgrimage Opportunity
As many of you know, our church has partnered with a Unitarian school in India since 2003, and for the last several years, we have supported two teachers’ salaries. The Khasi Hills Partnership Team invites members and friends to contribute to our 2025 fundraising effort. But first, a big Thank You! to the annual donors … Continue reading Khasi Hills Partnership Update: 2025 Fundraising Kickoff and First Team Meeting of the New Year!
This Sunday, September 29, we will be celebrating the 137th anniversary of the founding of Unitarianism in the Khasi Hills region of India. Hajom Kissor Singh was a member of the Khasi Seng tribe who had been converted by Methodist missionaries. He began questioning the Methodist faith and chose Unitarianism as a better fit. He … Continue reading Khasi Hills Unitarian Community 137th Anniversary Celebration!
Our Khasi Hills, India partners at the Annie Margaret Barr School began construction on September 11 of the reservoir for the Rainwater Harvest facility at the school. This facility was funded through UU Faithify Global, with First UU Pgh leading the campaign. We are so excited to see these donations being put into action to … Continue reading Khasi Hills Rainwater Harvest Facility Construction
The Unitarian School in India we have been partners with for over twenty years which has been thriving and expanding. Our sponsorship support is for the two additional teachers since we helped them build Grade 11 and 12 classrooms in 2016 to become a Higher Secondary School. This enabled students to graduate without traveling or … Continue reading Share the Plate for March is our Khasi Hills School Partnership
The global UUA Faithify campaign that our church led surpassed the $19,500 total for the Rain Water Harvesting facility for the Khasi Hills school that our church has sponsored since 2003. Of the 122 donors, 45 were from our local area. Thanks to all the big and smaller drops that made this happen! Team India … Continue reading “Thirsty for Water” Khasi Hills Campaign a Success!
East End Cooperative Ministry (EECM) was founded in 1970 as a collective response to changes in the East End community, born when local faith communities recognized that the troubles of the community were too great for any one of them to address alone. EECM was initially envisioned to serve the young, the elderly, and the … Continue reading December Share-the-Plate: EECM
The effort our church is leading that Reverend Kate announced at the September 17 service has launched. “Thirsty for Knowledge…Thirsty for Water” is a UUA crowdsourcing campaign to support a very concrete need for the children of the school we have been sponsoring in the Khasi Hills since 2003, the Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary … Continue reading Faithify “Thirsty for Water” Launches
