Chalice News and Notes April 16, 2021
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FIRST MEETING!!!! - TOMORROW
Parent Gathering
Every third Saturday of the month at 10:30am
First meeting: April 17
Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88161242525?pwd=OEtaRG1vNDRtZjEwM0ttSmlXTTVYdz09
Join fellow parents of Chalice for an informal gathering to share meaningful fellowship and catch up. Get to know other parents at Chalice better and talk about what's on your mind, whether it's parenting related or not. For any questions, contact Kelly Niebergall at kellyni...@gmail.com
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Exchanging the Love
PSWD Annual Meeting
April 17th, 2021
9:00am-12:30pm
Along with PSWD and deBenneville Pines’ business meeting there will be opportunities to connect, and exchange thoughts in breakout rooms on a variety of topics including the proposed regionalization which will be voted on in Oct. 2021. Camp needs your attendance to meet their quorum and there will be a bridging ceremony for High School seniors. Register here: To register for the annual meeting, click here.
Next Service
Sunday, April 18, 2021 - 10 AM
Family Chapel
Sundays 9-9:30am
Enjoy music, stories, and checking in with friends. Ideal for younger children through third grade but all are welcome!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81860584057?pwd=SkppaGd1TlhraEh0b3BSemdrUGtidz09
Please share this information with your children and youth!
Send any questions to d...@chaliceuu.org.
We have programs for our middle schoolers and elementary kids. For now, we have put a pause on meetups for YRUU.
Can you help save Feeding Hands?
Calling all Souls who enjoy cooking and caring for others
For over 30 years, Chalice has helped feed the hungry. We started with sandwiches and grew to preparing and serving the 1st Tuesday of the month hot meals at Calvary for often over 100 men, women, and children. When the pandemic shut down the communal meal program, we stepped up with boxed to-go dinners for Harbor House to give to the unhoused.
Now we need more help! Do you enjoy cooking, or coordinating, and sharing our abundance with people without homes? Then this activity might be for you!
We need a team to share the leadership! There are a number of dedicated helpers and we hope to be back in the Chalice kitchen soon. But coordination is key! Please help Feeding Hands live on! For more information contact: mrwi...@hotmail.com or (805) 204-6052.
Chalice Lighting
To start your day, a meeting, or before a meal
Committed to Respond
By: Lynn Harrison
Committed to respond to the call of a wounded world…
We join together this day with loving hearts, hands and minds.
Embracing the interconnected web of water, air and earth…
We light a fire of sustaining hope, ever bright with love and justice.
May we bring forth this day new wisdom, strength and courage
To create a new world not of wealth, but well-being.
A world of new peace and abundance for all.
As we give thanks for this earth, our shared and singular home,
May we dedicate ourselves to its ongoing care.
Rising to the calls deep within us, and all around us…
May we respond today and always with courage and with love.
We light our chalice with a commitment to respond to healing our beautiful planet.
Community Connection
A time for Fellowship and Spiritual Grounding
Every Thursday from 5-5:30pm join members of our Chalice community by Zoom to connect, check-in and explore a creative and spiritually grounding activity. This month will be focused on 30 minutes of Community Check-In. Share how you are doing, make new friends. Newcomers are welcome every week. We look forward to you joining us for our weekly check-ins and adventures.
For more information email ad...@chaliceuu.org
Join Zoom Meeting
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Saving the Earth by Saving the Earth
Friday, April 23rd – 7:00 p.m. PT (via Zoom)
Watch Kiss the Ground and join us to learn how to help transition to regenerative agriculture – globally and in our own backyards!
with
Ray Archuleta
Conservation Agronomist, featured in “Kiss the Ground”
and
Diana Lovejoy
Organic Garden Club of Ventura County President, Food Garden Author
Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals a viable solution to our climate crisis: by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems, and create abundant food supplies.
Ray Archuleta is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist with the Soil Science Society of America and has over 30 years experience as a Soil Conservationist, Water Quality Specialist, and conservation Agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). After retiring from the NRCS, he co-founded the Soil Health Academy, which teaches producers how to improve soil health through practical regenerative agricultural principles.
Diana Lovejoy has been organically growing her veggies for forty years. She is the President of the Organic Garden Club of Ventura County, the Vice President of Las Flores Community Garden, and authored Organic Container Gardening for All.
Registrants will receive a viewing link for Kiss the Ground. Please register in advance here: http://bit.ly/3eIDbinSavingtheEarth
Chalice Annual Auction
Dear Friends –
Mark your calendar for the Chalice annual auction! The 2021 Auction will be virtual, with a silent online auction from May 9-22 and a virtual live auction event on May 22, from 6:30-8:00pm. The live auction will require no special software, it will be accessible from a web browser. Register for the live auction at https://tinyurl.com/ChaliceUU
As always, we welcome items and experiences for the auction from our members, friends and supporters. We’re looking for wonderful, creative items and experiences to tempt and delight our members and friends – all to benefit Chalice. We are seeking donations of unique offerings and opportunities that people cannot find anywhere else, including virtual experiences offered by Chalice members and friends. Themed gift baskets are always popular! Delivered dinners, and even meals or events to be offered for a later date after social distancing requirements. All kinds of experiences are welcome as long as it allows for people to be safe and comfortable knowing that they will be there when current restrictions have been lifted. To submit auction donations please click this link: https://www.chaliceuu.org/auction-donation/
Our theme this year is I Heard it Through the Grapevine! with a nod to the great song by the legendary Sam Cook. We encourage everyone to get into the spirit by providing the Auction committee with photos of how you have survived and thrived during the time of social distancing, for a musical photo montage of experiences of our members and friends during the Year of Covid. Email your photos to auc...@chaliceuu.org.
If you have any questions about the Auction, email auc...@chaliceuu.org.
I Heard it through the Grapevine! Be there or be square! Invite your friends, family, and neighbors!
Calling all Goddess loving people. Join us as we honor and rejoice in her creations’ passion to blossom and bear fruit with ritual, meditation, song and dance.
Contact Darcey Lober at 805 443-4532 for more info.
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Tie Dye Party!
Saturday, May 15
Join in with your friends at Chalice for some swirly, colorful fun! Bring your spirit of joy and something to dye, we'll provide the rest.
Sign ups coming soon! Don't forget to reserve your spot!
BREEZE keeps members connected!
We invite you to do 3 things to update your profile page:
1. Upload a photo (family or a single photo) If family, please provide the same photo for all members.
2. Add your birthday. If shy about revealing your year, put 2020, we’d love to celebrate your day!
3. Provide ad...@chaliceuu.org with a family or neighbor’s phone number in case of emergency, or loss of contact. This number will only be visible and usable by leaders and only when absolutely necessary. Chavonne will enter it into your Breeze account for you. It’s Easy-Breezy.
Contact breeze...@chaliceuu.org for assistance.
Taking Social Action Online
Consider joining the Chalice Social Justice Facebook group. To learn about latest events supporting Black Lives Matter and other concerns, click on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1260868657268458/
Chalice Climate Action Team - (Next Zoom meeting - 4th Sunday at 12:30pm, April 25, 2021 CAT@ChaliceUU.org
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 873 183 426
Password: 715302
Save California Solar
Utilities like PG&E want to stop California’s solar progress. Don’t give up our solar power!
Right now, a program called net metering is helping to expand the benefits of rooftop to more people and communities in California. Through net metering, people get credits on their own electricity bill if their rooftop solar puts electricity back on the power grid, making solar more affordable for them and adding more clean energy for the local communities.
Utilities want to drastically reduce that credit and add expensive new fees on rooftop solar customers in order to stop competition and secure their monopoly that allows them to keep raising rates.
ACT NOW
Join us in telling Governor Newsom to stand up to the utilities! Sign the petition: https://www.savecaliforniasolar.org
Community Forum Planning Meetings (Next meeting is Monday, Apr. 26)
Do you enjoy our Community Forums? Ever considered joining the Community Forum Team? Check out our planning meetings now being held regularly on 4th Mondays of the month from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Our next meeting will be April 26th. Be part of sharing Chalice's values with the wider community!
For more information, contact: fo...@chaliceuu.org
The Citizens Climate Lobby meetings are open to anyone interested in saving our planet! The meetings will continue on the 2nd Saturday of the month indefinitely. Next meeting - Saturday, May 8 @ 9 am.
Here is the sign-on info:
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Meeting ID: 822 7475 2266
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Next Racial & Cultural Justice Team meeting on Wed. May 13, 2021 at 5:30 pm
The Racial and Cultural Justice Team meets monthly to reflect on issues and develop action plans for education/service, advocacy/coalition and witness/protest. For more information contact Randall Edwards rcjco...@chaliceuu.org.
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THANK YOU FOR GIVING TO CHALICE
We are so grateful for all and any gifts to Chalice! Thank you for helping our beautiful Fellowship thrive!
What you might not be aware of is that some of your gifts are subject to fees that reduce the funds that we get. To view this information visit our website by clicking here.
Again, huge gratitude for any and all gifts.
We could not exist without your generosity.
AmazonSmile is a program that donates 0.5% of your eligible purchases on Amazon to a charity of your choice.
Give to Chalice while you shop!
All you need to do is start your shopping at smile.amazon.com. You can then choose to donate to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Conejo Valley at no extra cost to you. It's an easy way to support this congregation.
Thank you for your support!
Are you looking to Connect more deeply with Chalice activities and friends? Or are you currently actively involved in Chalice? There are ways to share this information using Breeze.
1. Take the Chalice Interest and Skills Survey: A way for newer members to find ways to get involved. How would you like to contribute, work with others, be in community and stay involved at Chalice? Click here: https://chaliceuu.breezechms.com/form/a0a810
2. Take the Chalice Involvement in Groups, Committees, Social Justice and more Survey: How you are engaging with Chalice at this time. Click here: https://chaliceuu.breezechms.com/form/d9b495
3. Visiting Chalice and wish to receive and share more about yourself? Take this survey: https://bit.ly/ChaliceConnection
Information from these forms will help both Community Life and the Leadership Cultivation Committee help YOU find ways to connect at Chalice. Thanks!
(Form 1 & 2 can also be found on your Profile page in Breeze)
Have you ever wanted to take voice lessons, learn to play the piano or study music theory? Has the pandemic left you with extra time on your hands and a desire to learn something new? If so, consider contacting Chalice’s Music Director, Anthony Concepcion. Anthony is currently offering zoom lessons at a discounted rate of 20% off for Chalice members and friends. Email him at musicd...@chaliceuu.org to ask any questions and schedule a trial lesson. Peace, love and music!
Saturday, April 17
9:00am PSWD/deBenneville Pines Annual Business Meeting
10:30am Parent Gathering (zoom)
Sunday, April 18
9:00am Family Chapel - PreK – 2nd / Lower Elementary (Zoom B)
10:00am Chalice Worship Service (Zoom 2)
1:00pm Chalice Circle 3rd Sunday (zoom)
5:00pm Newcomer AA Meeting
Monday, April 19
7:00pm Chalice Circle 3rd Monday (zoom)
Tuesday, April 20
10:00am Gardenia Group (zoom)
6:30pm Choir Tuesdays (Zoom B)
7:00pm Board Meeting (Zoom)
Wednesday, April 21
6:00pm Overeaters Anonymous
6:30pm Choir Rehearsal (Zoom)
7:00pm Bi-monthly Council Meeting (Zoom 2)
7:00pm Chalice Circle 3rd Wednesday (zoomB)
7:30pm Meditation (zoomMH)
8:00pm Website meeting
Thursday, April 22
5:00pm Community Check-In
7:00pm Men's Discussion Group (Zoom 2)
7:00pm Moonflower Women's Group (Zoom)
7:00pm Witnessing Whiteness - The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It (Zoom B)
Friday, April 23
7:00pm Community Forum: Saving the Earth by Saving the Earth(zoom2)
Our Community Cares - Pastoral Concerns
It's so important to stay connected during these times. In News and Notes we will share joys and concerns within our Chalice community. Let us know if you’d like to share something here. Also, if you have special news to share with the congregation in Sunday services please write to ad...@chaliceuu.org or Rev Nica at mini...@chaliceuu.org.
May we hold each other up and support our Chalice community.
Staff Contact Information -
Chalice Office # (805) 498-9548 - Messages will be checked regularly.
Rev. Nica Eaton-Guinn, Minister, mini...@chaliceuu.org
URGENT Calls or Texts to Minister (805) 410-3860
Anthony Concepcion, Music Director musicd...@chaliceUU.org
Samantha Dickerson, Director of Religious Education d...@chaliceuu.org
Chavonne Estrella, Office Administrator ad...@chaliceuu.org
Tonya Kulpaca, Bookkeeper, bookk...@chaliceuu.org
Explore our website to learn more about everything we are doing.