Unity in the Community
We serve the larger community through hands-on work projects, fundraisers, and special drives. By taking part in these outreach efforts, you can help spread love in the world.
Partnership with Oak City Cares to Serve People Experiencing Homelesness
Unity is a proud financial and volunteer supporter of Oak City Cares, a hub for connecting individuals and families who are at risk of, or are experiencing, homelessness. Oak City Cares coordinates services that create a path to stable housing and renewed hope. As part of Unity of the Triangle’s mission of love, service and personal transformation, our congregation provides volunteers and hosts toiletry drives.
Through Unity in the Community volunteer teams, we’ve sorted items donated to OCC as well as participated in a cleaning and sanitizing effort at its offices. Our congregants have donated over 500 pounds toiletry items to OCC including items purchased from Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore. We welcome Unity members and friends to tour the OCC facility and get involved in this important mission. If you’re interested in touring or volunteering for Unity’s mid-week workdays, please contact Don Davage at davagedon@gmail.com and include your name, phone number and email address. If you are interested in volunteering with OCC in any other capacity, please go to oakcitycares.org and sign-up for one of the many opportunities available.
Habitat for Humanity
We have worked with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County since 2014. During these six-week projects, teams from Unity join with volunteers from other faith communities to build houses for those in need. Unity also originated a project in which children paint messages of love on insulating baffles for the ceilings of Habitat houses. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Contact Mark Boggs.
Angel Tree
Every Christmas, Unity takes part in the Angel Tree project organized by the Wake County Guardian ad Litem program to provide gifts for children in foster care. We receive wish lists from children, put their names on our Angel Tree, and congregants choose children and buy and wrap their gifts. This is the most joyful Christmas shopping you’ll ever do. Contact Jane Johnson and Nancy Goodyear.
Eastern North Carolina Food Bank
Several times each year, a team from Unity spends a Saturday at the Food Bank sorting produce, boxing frozen items, and helping out as needed. This is a fun and popular project for an organization that provides food to thousands of low-income families in Eastern North Carolina. Contact Nancy Goodyear.
Blessing Bags
In fall, we collect travel-size items — toiletries, socks, reading glasses, combs, brushes, nail clippers, and the like — which our youth sort and pack into “blessing bags” for the Women’s Shelter and Oak City Cares, a facility serving the homeless in downtown Raleigh. Contact Joset Wright Lacy.
Undie Sunday
Every February, Unity celebrates Undie Sunday. Congregants bring new underwear to be delivered to the men and women at Healing Transitions centers, and the women at Helen Wright Center in Raleigh. Contact Rev. Tami Johns to get involved!
“I have always felt a responsibility to put my faith into practice. Representing Unity in the community, helping others get involved in spreading love—these things are important to me and give me joy.”
Karen Thorsen, Outreach Coordinator