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Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Recognizing the Struggles of Our Local Indigenous People

In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, Alan Salazar, a Fernandino tribal elder will speak to us of the struggles of the Fernandeno Tataviam tribe to achieve Federal recognition. Alan will also share a recent children’s book he has written called “Tata, The Tataviam Towhee, A Tribal Story”. Our Central Coast Cluster of UU congregations is … Continue reading Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Recognizing the Struggles of Our Local Indigenous People

Cultivating Relationship

Humans are relational creatures, yet relationships can often be complicated. They challenge us to evolve and understand our triggers. How do we best nurture our relationships with partners, family, friends and community? Today we explore one of our most important needs as humans and how we might cultivate and tend our individual and collective relationships.

Embracing Possibility ~ Ingathering

Today we celebrate our annual Ingathering. Join us for a zoom/online service at 10, followed by an in-person Ingathering ritual on Chalice’s grounds at 11:30. We will plant seeds for our future, burn our old mortgage, say farewell to Jason Hall and family, and collect quarters and laundry pods for fieldworkers. Please also bring a piece of wood, no larger than your hand for a congregational art work. Rev Nica will preside over our traditional water ceremony blessing and we will be returning the items you offered our Sanctuary last year, that made our space sacred in our absence.

The Hardest Job You’ll Ever Love

Parenthood is equal parts amazing and hands down the hardest job of our lives. It embodies a myriad of possibilities–some more easier than others. Hear day-to-day reflections from two parents on how having kids has shaped their lives and how they handle the overwhelming possibilities that shape their children.

Animal Blessing

Today we celebrate and bless the animals in our lives. We invite you to show us your beloved pets in this service, so we may honor them here together. Please send us a photo of any beloved animals who have passed, whom you wish to memorialize. Send pictures to admin@chaliceuu.org. We look forward to celebrating the difference animals make in our lives.

A Walk into the Light of Love

Rev Nica returns from study leave and vacation, and leads a half hour Chalice gathering before joining in a collaboration with our Channel Islands ClUUster. At 10:30 we will participate in the collaborative service on a separate link with special guest Reggie Harris,  a songwriter of great depth and passion, Reggie Harris writes from a personal sense of mission that merges a world wise point of view with a singularly hopeful stance that life, though often challenging, is filled with possibility and hope. His songs reveal thoughts about life and love and some of the deep aspects of the human experience and cover topics from his own personal journey to world issues and history. Offering to the Living Legacy Project, on whose board Reggie sits. https://www.uulivinglegacy.org/

Soul Music

In 1969, there was a huge music festival that took place in the state of New York. Thousands of people attended. It wasn’t Woodstock. Come hear how the Harlem Cultural Festival touched the souls of the people present, and how music continues to move those who hear it.

More Than Our Mistakes

Tanner Linden, Head of Outreach for the Largest Unitarian Universalist Church in the world with an expansive UU Prison Ministry program, will preach on witnessing our faith at work in the hardest of circumstances, wondering, how can we view liberation as a spiritual practice? Tanner grew up in the UU Church of Ventura and is now on staff at the Church of the Larger Fellowship.