Save the Date for the 2026 Music for Food Benefit Concert:

On Saturday, January 31, 2026, from 7:30–9:00 pm, join us in Channing Hall for Princeton’s second Music for Food benefit concert supporting Arm in Arm.

Presented by UUCP’s Caring for Our Neighbors Ministry and local violinist Sunghae Anna Lim, this special evening will feature outstanding live chamber music Inspired by https://musicforfood.net/ and performed by Anna and her fellow professional musicians. Sunghae/Anna is a longtime Princeton resident, as well as Violinist with the Manhattan String Quartet, Faculty and Artistic Advisor of the Maine Chamber Music Seminar, and Performance Music faculty at Princeton University. She combines these talents, and her considerable network of talented friends and colleagues, to present our concert.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $40 ($15 for students), and 100% of proceeds will support Arm in Arm’s hunger-prevention work in Mercer County.

Interested in helping with publicity or hosting a simple intermission reception?
Contact Louise Senior (DrLSenior@gmail.com) or Jody Maher (jodym1025@gmail.com)

How we care for our neighbors:

Weekly Food Collection for Arm In Arm (Formerly Crisis Ministry of Mercer County)

Our members are encouraged to donate food staples, personal care items, disposable diapers, and McCaffrey’s grocery receipts in our Crisis Ministry bin located by the front door every week. We are one of the 60 interfaith partners of the Arm in Arm (Formerly Crisis Ministry of Mercer County), which for more than 30 years has partnered with the community to achieve stability for neighbors in need. From its Trenton and Princeton locations, it serves people from more than 1,400 households each month through its hunger and homelessness prevention initiatives. Updates on Arm in Arm’s donation needs are published weekly in Happenings included with the Sunday Order of Service

We join with the community in special food drives, including Valentines Day, and the annual Footprints Walk-a-Thon. 

Gather & Give Thanksgiving Service for Arm In Arm  

Each November in the Thanksgiving In-gathering worship service tradition is to fill the horn of plenty to the brim with food donations from our congregants. After the service we work together to sort, pack and transport the holiday food items to Trenton. At the Arm in Arm pantry a group from UU Princeton helps again to sort and shelve the donations.

Click here for a list of items to donate during this service.

Loaves and Fishes

Loaves and Fishes is an annual congregation-wide, collaborative social justice project.  One weekend per year, volunteers from our congregation and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Washington Crossing gather together and prepare bag lunches on Friday night and on Saturday travel to Trenton to help serve hot meals to the hungry.

Outreach Grants

For more than 30 years, we have supported charitable organizations in the greater Mercer County area through annual outreach grants. These funds are raised at our annual May Spring Sale – a wonderful, community event and inter-generational congregational effort. Join us at the fair and give back to the community.

Trenton Area Soup Kitchen

The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) is a private, non-sectarian, charitable organization that depends almost entirely on the help of volunteers and financial support from individuals, churches, local businesses, and community organizations. UU Princeton volunteers assist with the serving of meals once a month. Some of us serve at TASK as tutors.

Food Pantry Collection

Do You Know? Our church is a year-round collection site for the Crisis Ministry’s Client Choice food pantry.   Look for the tables to the right as you walk in the front doors. The Crisis Ministry is grateful all year long for your non-perishable donations!

Community Organizations

In addition to these major economic justice ministries, UU Princeton members are active in many causes and local organizations, including the Coalition for Peace Action, Meals-on-Wheels, Not In Our Town, and many others.