News from the Chalice Unitarian Univeralist Congregation in Escondido, CA
The New Year is here and it’s time for the Annual Chalice Auction fundraiser. This year, for the first time, the auction will be held entirely online. It will be a new and exciting adventure.
The auction opens for bidding on Sunday, February 7 at 12 … read more.
In this pandemic time, you are invited to participate in a communal but solitary water ritual. Bring a small amount of water from your home.
Where?
If you live outside Escondido or are otherwise unable to get to the Chalice campus, simply find a spot of earth … read more.
Drop off canned or dried goods at the Chalice campus any time in September for donation to Interfaith Community Services.
As we begin our work together to dismantle White Supremacy, we invite and encourage the Chalice Congregation to read two informative and challenging books.
We will begin with White Fragility, written by a white professor Robin DiAngelo for white people. Jonathan Capehart, in a recent article in … read more.
Your legacy at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Ensuring a Bright Future Through Legacy Giving
Your legacy gift in support of Chalice ensures that our congregation will be vibrant for generations to come. Legacy gifts are a wonderful way to provide for Chalice while making sound … read more.
Open Position Posted: July 22, 2020
Position Title: Congregational Administrator
Reports To: Senior Minister
Status: Half-time Hourly (22 hours)
Start Date: August 10, 2020 (negotiable)
Application Deadline: August 5, 2020
JOB SUMMARY
The Congregational Administrator is the primary person responsible for ensuring that the business affairs of the congregation are conducted in an … read more.
(Mission: Through education, self-reflection, and social action, the Transformation Team will assist the congregation to identify and dismantle white supremacy culture and racism at Chalice and the world.)
During last Sunday’s Worship Service, Reverend Sharon and the Team urged congregants to take the Implicit Association Test … read more.
The Transformation Team made a request of Chalice congregants during our July 19 Sunday worship. You can watch their video here:
You can watch the entire worship service, “Comfortable with Discomfort,” here:
What is Chalice?
For the last six years our focus has been on construction and decisions on how best to use and update our new campus. Now, in a moment, that’s been removed from us. Or at least, for a while. If it had burned down, … read more.
I am writing this just as our annual General Assembly has come to a close. The full name of this event is the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) of Congregations, but we mostly just call it “G.A.”
This year, for the first time … read more.
