Chalice Lighters 2012 2nd Call

Our second Chalice Lighter Grant will help Jefferson Unitarian Church with an exciting new outreach and growth project. JUC identified numerical growth as an important part of their mission in 2008 and they have been growing. Now, the congregation is at capacity with their current facilities on 32nd Ave in Golden. They began exploring second campus ministries after attending a multiple campus conference in San Diego. Since that time they have carefully planned this new launch with demographic research and pilot services drawing 55 and 68 adults with a total of 29 children in Evergreen, CO. Monthly services began in December and will be increased as capacity is developed. The JUC services in Evergreen are offered at Rocky Mountain Academy.

Now it is time for us to help support this new outreach model. All of us will learn from JUC’s new growth strategy, just as JUC learned from First Unitarian Albuquerque and First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Diego. I am confident this campus will serve as many as 200 new Unitarian Universalist when it has matured.

Please make your check payable to MDD and note Chalice Lighter Grant Fund in the memo section. If you are willing to make one annual contribution for all four calls it will reduce program costs. Please note on your check if your gift is annual.

Please mail your gift to 2242 S. Albion St. Denver, CO 80222, attn: Melanie Buck.

Thank you for your contribution to growing Unitarian Universalism in the mountain west. For more information on this program as a whole, please see the Chalice Lighters page!

Posted Monday, 23 April 2012 14:51 Written by Jess Cullinan

Save the Date: Leadership School 2012!

This year's Russell Lockwood Leadership School will be held in Alta, UT, July 22nd-July 28th 2012. Updates are coming soon, so keep an eye on the RLLS website!

Posted Wednesday, 07 March 2012 12:49 Written by Jess Cullinan

Human Rights On the Border 2012

A BorderLinks Trip sponsored by the Mountain Desert District of the Unitarian Universalist Association

Thursday - Sunday, May 3-6th, 2012

The trip will be a service/learning/reflection journey for Unitarian Universalists to engage in the issues of human rights and immigration at the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico border. We will visit with individuals and organizations that provide basic assistance to migrants, create community-based alternatives, and advocate for just policies on both sides of the border. We will meet with people who are directly affected by current economic and immigration policies, and we’ll be given tools and resources to work for justice. There will be ample time for worship, theological reflection, and fellowship while we travel the borderlands of Arizona.

Total trip cost will be $300, not including travel to/from Tucson, AZ.

Space is limited, so register now!

For more information, contact Kierstin Homblette, Community Ministry Intern at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Full information about the trip after the break!

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Posted Wednesday, 07 March 2012 12:08 Written by Jess Cullinan