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LSUS PROGRAMS Social Action Committee The Social Action Committee is Lake Shore Unitarian Society's most recently organized group, and represents a renewal of the congregation's commitment to social service. Since 1999 Lake Shore has undertaken projects with more than a half dozen social service agencies throughout the greater Chicago area. These have included the Evanston Ecumenical Action Council; Christopher House; the Evanston YWCA's Shelter for Women and Children; and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Since 2000
the Social Action Committee has also sponsored Lake Shore's participation
in the annual North Shore/Skokie CROP Walk, an interfaith fundraising
and educational walk to help address problems with hunger both globally
and close to home. Dinner For Eight Dinner
for Eight provides an opportunity for old and new members alike to get
together for an evening of informal dining and conversation. Four-to-six
times a year interested members are divided into groups of about eight.
Each group gathers at one participant's home for a meal that all have
helped prepare. Hosting responsibilities rotate from dinner to dinner. Great Decisions Great Decisions
offers a forum to discuss contemporary world problems in a well informed,
focused manner. Participants come together eight times over the course
of the winter months, using a common reader prepared by the Foreign Policy
Association as the basis for background readings and initial questions
to consider. Meetings rotate among participants' homes and usually last
about two hours. Book Club Book Club
meets the third Friday each month to discuss a book chosen by group consensus.
Meetings rotate among participating members' homes, and normally last
about two hours. Investment Club The Investment Club meets at 7:45 p.m. the first Friday of each month. A portion of the Club's annual profits are traditionally donated to the Lake Shore Unitarian Society. Men's Breakfast Men's Breakfast
offers informal coffee and conversation at 8:45 a.m. the second and fourth
Friday of each month at the Ridgeview Restaraunt, Lake Avenue and Ridge
Road, in Wilmette. Movie Club Movie Club convenes at 7:45
p.m. the fourth Friday of each month to discuss a specific film that participants
have viewed prior to the gathering. Films are chosen by group consensus
and typically include a mix of mainstream and art releases. Meetings rotate
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