Greetings everyone, and a special welcome to our new Board and committee members. Thank you to all for a successful Congregational meeting last month. In addition to the usual Board and budget approvals, we approved a new Mission Statement and adopted a new Eighth Principle. … read more.
There is an excellent article in the UU World this month entitled Snapshot in Time: A Different Church by Gail Geisenhainer. It is a story about a lesbian woman who goes to a UU church in Maine in the 1980’s for the first time. She … read more.
Hopefully by now most of you have seen or heard our newly proposed mission statement.
With love at the center, the mission of this congregation is to…
INSPIRE, CONNECT, and ACT.
INSPIRE individual and communal spiritual growth,
CONNECT through worship, music, learning, and caring ministries, and
ACT to promote UU … read more.
At the last Board of Trustees meeting Kate Vereb gave this reading. I liked it so much that I decided I wanted to share it with you.
Community Means Strength
By Starhawk
We are all longing to go home to some place
we have never been—a place half-remembered and … read more.
Over the last couple of months, the Mission Statement Task Force has put a survey in most of the weekly E-Nuus for everyone’s participation. Refer to the February 17th E-Nuus for the last survey which also includes all the previous ones. It’s still not too … read more.
Dear Chalice Members and Friends,
I don’t know about you, but I am finding this pandemic ever more disheartening. As many of you know, I am a physician, an obstetrician with an entirely hospital-based practice. We are seeing so much Covid right now. Every day I … read more.
Hello all at Chalice,
This month’s column is an update on some actions of the board of trustees. The board a few months ago created two task forces. One task force was charged with the task of educating themselves and the congregation about the 8th principle … read more.
One of the goals for the Board this year is as follows. “Support the Outreach team to make Chalice more visible to the outside Community and encourage growth, with a goal of diversifying membership”
Our current membership at Chalice includes 130 members, 9 non-voting members, 5 … read more.
Do you know what our mission statement is here at Chalice?
Let me see if I can tell you without looking it up. Open doors, open hearts, open minds,…and then something about seeking justice to the wider world.
I remember when we, as a congregation, created it. … read more.
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.
