News from the Chalice Unitarian Univeralist Congregation in Escondido, CA
As was announced to the congregation via email on August 22, member Gene Troxell has passed away.
A Memorial Celebration of Life service will be held at Chalice on Saturday, November 4 at 2 p.m. in the Chalice chapel.
The service will be streamed using the same … read more.
The following is an excerpt from Rev. Sharon Wylie’s sermon “Imagining Liberation” offered on September 10, 2023. You can watch the full sermon on Chalice’s YouTube channel.
I have three quick notes for us as we begin this year of learning about the characteristics of white … read more.
Your Chalice Board of Trustees will be working with you to complete important projects this year. In the spirit of transparency, I’ll be using this column to provide more information about our final goal, the creation of a new vision statement. See past letters for … read more.
This past July 30 was my “ask me anything” worship service, where I answer your questions in lieu of preaching a sermon. It’s always interesting, and I love seeing the questions that are on your mind. I’m usually able to provide some kind of answer … read more.
Your Chalice Board of Trustees will be working with you to complete important projects this year. In the spirit of transparency, I’ll be using this column to provide more information about our second goal, the creation of a long range (defined as 5 year) plan. … read more.
Are you enjoying the summer?
We get spoiled with good weather, living where we do, but there is still something different about summer. Longer days, children out of school, implicit permission to wear flip flops everywhere we go…summer just has its own vibe.
We’re leaning into the … read more.
Your Chalice Board of Trustees will be working with you to complete important projects this year. In the spirit of transparency, I’ll be using this column to provide more information about our first goal, the evaluation of our minister. Subsequent information about our other goals, … read more.
At our monthly Elders Lunch (held on zoom the second Friday each month from 12 noon to 1 p.m.), Rev. Sharon shares a reading from the book In Later Years: Finding Meaning and Spirit in Aging by Bruce T. Marshall, a Unitarian Universalist minister. The following are … read more.
As I write this, our annual General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) of Congregations has just come to a close. We thanked the Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray for her six years of leadership and elected the Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt as our … read more.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the people to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools, and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It has been an honor to go … read more.
