Here is where you can find out all about our Small Group Ministry program, now known as “Chalice Circles”, and learn about developments as they happen.

Chalice Circle enrollment is in progress

Signup for the Neighborhood Church Chalice Circle program started up Sunday 21 September, and will continue through 28 September. Sign up at Sunday Service or you may contact Jonathan Lubin directly: his phone number and e-mail address are listed in the Church directory.

Flash! A new Chalice Circle group is formed!

If you were at Neighborhood Sunday 21 September, you may have seen that the Thursday evening group was attracting more sign-ups than the others. So we have added a new group that will be meeting every First Thursday, first meeting 2 October, at 7:30PM. So if you were looking for a Thursday group, you have more opportunities to fit your schedule.

For those of you new to Neighborhood, Chalice Circles bring groups of 8-12 members and friends of Neighborhood together in a regular spiritual practice. Facilitators encourage participants to share their life stories in response to thought-provoking, UU-oriented themes and to draw insights from them. Circles invite intimacy, allow for serious engagement with religious and spiritual topics, and lead toward expression of our principles and values in action. We feel that being involved in a Chalice Circle fosters a small-church feel for the congregants of our large church and draws us into mutual ministry.

Since missing a Chalice Circle meeting has a significant impact on the group and greatly diminishes a member's small group ministry experience, we strongly encourage participants to choose a meeting time when they have no other commitments and to take into consideration whether or not they want to be in a group that meets once or twice a month. We welcome and encourage you to sign up and become part of this special ministry at Neighborhood Church.

—Grady Goddard and Jonathan Lubin, Cochairs, Chalice Circle Oversight Committee

Do you have questions about how the Chalice Circle program is organized, or how it works? Read the FAQ page, where all possible questions are answered.

Starting in the Fall of 2003, Jane Zamanzadeh published articles on the work of the Task Force in the Neighborhood News, which you can read if you would like to review them. Or you can download the first six of her postings in a single file in .pdf format.

Thanks to the efforts of Peggy Painton and Bob Holmes, we have started up a collection of Library Materials to be kept in Neighborhood House, and from which you may download selections. These downloadables are listed on a separate page.

For information that you don’t find here, you may contact either of the cochairs of the Chalice Circle Oversight Committee, Grady Goddard or Jonathan Lubin.
For questions about scheduling, contact Jonathan Lubin.
All of us may be reached through the SGM e-mail address
chalicecircles@uuneighborhood.org

If you would like to have your name on the list of people interested in Small Group Ministry, contact us at
chalicecircles@uuneighborhood.org