Pacific Southwest District - UUA

PSWD Chalice Lighters

What is Chalice Lighters?

The Chalice Lighters Program of the Pacific Southwest District exists to help fund the growth of the member congregations of this District.

The program is designed to make grants to applicant congregations for:

• Facility improvements, such as buying land, building, rebuilding, furnishing or enlarging facilities
• One-time professional leadership expenses, such as the costs of hiring a Minister, Religious Educator, or Music Director

These are improvements which would significantly strengthen the scope of a congregations’s ministry.

Mission:

To support and encourage the excellence and growth of Unitarian Universalism in the Pacific Southwest District by providing resources to new and existing congregations through the distribution of Chalice Lighter grant funds.

Who is eligible?

PSWD Congregations that meet these requirements:

• A member congregation of the Pacific Southwest District of the UU Association
• A congregation that contributed its Fair Share to the UUA and to the PSWD for the previous two years, as published in their respective annual reports
• A congregation in which 20% of its members are active subscribers to the Chalice Lighters Program (an active subscriber is one who has contributed to at least one call in the previous year)

Chalice Lighters Grant application forms are available for download now, or through the PSWD office or your congregation’s Chalice Lighters Representative.

You Can Help!

The funds for these grants come from UUs like you:

people who pledge to contribute $20 or more three times a year.

For a printable brochure in PDF click here.

For a downloadable copy of the most recent Call Letter, click here.

NEW: Now you can make a Chalice Lighters contribution online! Click here

Oct 2011: Rev. Ken Brown presents a check for $12,750 to Marci Burns, President, and Rev. David Pyle, Assistant Minister of the UU Church of Ventura, CA

Committee Members 2009–2010
Mary Nelson
Rev. Ken Brown, District Executive

Grants Awarded since 1997

Facilities
UU Church, Surprise, AZ
UU Congregation of Las Vegas, NV
Valley UU Church, Chandler, AZ
UU Congregation of Northwest Tucson, AZ
Emerson UU Church, Canoga Park, CA
Monte Vista UU Congregation, Montclair, CA
West Valley UU Church, Glendale, AZ
Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, CA
UU Congregation of Las Vegas, NV
UU Church of Studio City, CA
Chalice UU Congregation, Escondido, CA
UU Fellowship of Kern County, Bakersfield, CA
UU Church of the Desert, Rancho Mirage, CA
UU Congregation of NW Tucson, AZ
Orange Coast UU Church, Costa Mesa, CA
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, CA
UU Church of Long Beach, CA
Granite Peak UU Congregation, Prescott, AZ
UU Church of Ventura, CA
Tapestry: A UU Congregation, Mission Viejo, CA
Conejo Valley UU Fellowship, Thousand Oaks, CA
Live Oak UU Congregation, Goleta, CA
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, CA
UU Church of Santa Paula, CA
First UU Church of San Diego, CA
UUs of the Santa Clarita Valley, Newhall, CA
Religious Leadership
UU Congregation of Green Valley, AZ
Conejo Valley UU Fellowship, Thousand Oaks, CA
Granite Peak UU Congregation, Prescott, AZ
UU Church of Southeastern Arizona, Sierra Vista, AZ
Emerson UU Church, Canoga Park, CA
Unitarian Universalists of the Santa Clarita Valley, Santa Clarita, CA
Tapestry: A Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Mission Viejo,CA
Summit UU Fellowship, Santee, CA
UU Church in Surprise, AZ
Sepulveda UU Society, North Hills, CA
West Valley UU Church, Glendale, AZ
UU Church of Ventura, CA
August 2007: the Rev. Ken Brown presents a $15,500 check from Chalice Lighters to Deborah Wingard and the Rev. Kathleen Green of Summit Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Santee, CA.
December 2007: Gwen Janes, co-chair of the Chalice Lighters Committee, presents a check for $15,700 to Nancy Bechtolt of the UU Church of Surprise, AZ
August 2008: Mary Nelson presents a check for $15,000 to Gloria Burr of Sepulveda UU Society, North Hills, CA
January 2009: Tera Little presents a check for $15,000 to Claudia Barton and Rev. Betty Stapleford of the Conejo Valley UU Fellowship, in Thousand Oaks, CA.
May 2009: Tera Little presents a check for $15,000 to Rev. Erika Hewitt of Live Oak UU Congregation in Goleta, CA. 2011: Mary Nelson presents a check for $14,000 to Pat English, President and Rev. Carolyn Price, minister of the UU Church of Ventura, CA. May 2011: Rev. Ken Brown presents a check for $16,000 to Dorothy Ward of West Valley UU Church in Glendale, AZ.


May 2009: Tera Little presents a check for $15,000 to Rev. Erika Hewitt of Live Oak UU Congregation in Goleta, CA.	2011: Mary Nelson presents a check for $14,000 to Pat English, President and Rev. Carolyn Price, minister of the UU Church of Ventura, CA.	May 2011: Rev. Ken Brown presents a check for $16,000 to Dorothy Ward of West Valley UU Church in Glendale, AZ.