Green Chalice Blog

Hello! Hello! Hello! We are moving right along with our three changes. We left off at the last meeting when we finished discussing the communion cups and started working on the coffee program. At our meeting today, we discussed the coffee program more in depth and started discussion on the Bee Houses and Wildflowers! Coffee Program We are going to order the Fellowship Blend for our personal use. We also plan to order a couple packages of tea. Each tea package has 6 boxes; we

Hello everyone! This is (1) a check-in on the glass communion cups and (2) an update on our next change (Spoiler; it's the Coffee Program!) It's been two weeks since we initiated our first change; glass communion cups have been a BIG hit! Not one has broken and there haven't been any negative comments! I was worship leader the first Sunday we put them into action and I felt like communion was taken much more seriously. Instead of picking up a light, plastic mini cup full of

Two updates in one day!? Crazy! The Green Team just finished up and I wanted to share really quickly what we went over! As stated in the last update, the congregation picked (1)using glass cups for communion, (2)planting native grasses/flowers in some of our flower beds, (3)make/place bee houses around the outside of the church, and (4)join the Equal Exchange Coffee Program. Our first change will start THIS SUNDAY! The Green Team decided that the first change will be to use

Howdy everyone! Don't forget we have our SECOND Green Team meeting TODAY ! Oct. 20th, @ 5pm at FCC (Fireside Room) Quick update before our meeting today The church had our October Board Meeting yesterday and I reported on the Green Chalice program updates. To my gleeful surprise, everyone was really excited about it! I introduced the six changes the Green Team has brain stormed and then everyone voted on their top three favorites! As a reminder, here are the six changes pick

Hello everyone!! We had our first official Green Team meeting! Thank you to all those who came and participated! For those that couldn't make it, here is a brief review of what went down! We started with a centering prayer/meditation; I read the Thanksgiving Address from the "Allegiance to Gratitude" chapter in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. If you are interested in reading this book I have a copy that you can borrow! After we talked about the Thanksgiving Addr

Howdy everyone! I just wanted to update ya'll on our first Green Team meeting! It will be next Monday, the 13th, at 5pm. We will be meeting at the church. Please join if you are interested! Again that's, October 13th, 2025 at 5pm! This meeting will be a time to talk and learn about the Green Chalice program, sign the covenant and discuss/brainstorm three changes we want to see in the church! See you then! Peace and Blessings, Kate Title Page Picture: This was taken in Memphi

October 2nd, 2025 Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well, I have some important updates on the Green Chalice project! *Please see...

The origins of the Green Chalice starts way back at the 1977 General Assembly. It was there that the "Task Force on Ecology" (side note,...

Hello! My name is Katee Kostecki and I am a student at the University of Montana. My main focus is Forestry but I am also minoring in...