That was a sticky project
On Feb 14, Chalice members helped make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and sack lunches for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Category: Justice & Service
Sack Lunches
February 2016 and 2015: We made 150 sack lunches for people experiencing homelessness, to be distributed by our partner, Interfaith Community Services.
Collections for Just in Time for Foster Youth
December 2015 and 2014. We collected household items and gift cards for youth transitioning out of the foster care system.
Donate Gift Cards for Foster Youth
Chalice is participating again in “My First Home for the Holidays” campaign with Just In Time For Foster Youth. Our gifts will help transitioning foster youth outfit their first homes. Now through January 3rd, donate gift cards to Target, Walmart and … read more.
How Can We Stop Escalating Inequality?
We live in a time of escalating inequality. Many of you are acutely concerned about this escalation and the rise of poverty, homelessness, and wealth inequality specifically: during our Social Justice discernment process, you expressed deep concern for these issues.
How, as Unitarian Universalists, are we … read more.
ICS’s Holiday Adopt-a-Family is a Great Way to Honor the Holidays
In the past, Chalice has participated as a congregation in the Holiday Adopt-a-Family program at Interfaith Community Services (ICS). But ICS’s program is really set up for families to be matched with families, so we stopped participating at a congregation level last year.
But … read more.
Educating Ourselves on Immigration
by flickr user Light Brigading, used under creative commons licenseThank you so much for attending the October 25th seminar on the current immigration system. The immigrant justice task force looks forward to offering more seminars on immigration in the future, probably … read more.
The Borderlands
Used under Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/Our church is in a border region, less than 50 miles from the U.S./Mexico Border. Writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa wrote that “the U.S. Mexican border es una herida abierta (is an open wound) where the Third World grates against the first … read more.
Service Project: San Diego Food Bank
October 31st, 12:30-2:30pm
9850 Distribution Ave, San Diego, CA 92121
The San Diego Food Bank feeds, on average, 320,000 people per month. Come help! We will most likely be inspecting, sorting, boxing, and labeling food donations. Please wear closed-toe shoes.
RSVP to Elizabeth (DCL.ChaliceUU@gmail.com), and then … read more.
Filling the Well of Justice
We live in a time of drought. This drought is literal: our reservoirs are drying up and our landscape is drying out. The drought is also metaphorical: we live in a time of spiritual and moraldrought. Of oppression, of disconnection, of alienation. This “drought” is … read more.