South Bay Campus Building Dedication
February 7, 2010
Chula Vista, CA
Written by Elka Carrier-Ladd, Intern Minister and led with Mar Cardenas, South Bay Campus Coordinator
Elka: Welcome! With passion for this faith community and with shared values and dreams,
Mar: Our work has brought us here.
Elka: With gratitude for all of the organizing, negotiating and renovating that has helped make this home ours,
Mar: With excitement and joy for having carved out our own space, a space so full of possibility.
Congregation: We give and receive thanks with one another.
Elka: Commitment to love has kept us together even as we do not always agree on every detail of how our visions are to become reality.
Congregation: Our words and actions have brought us to this place of hope.
Mar: Compassion has and will guide us on our journeys as we build our spiritual home.
Congregation: Our hearts are open to the beauty we will continue to create here and to the growth that awaits us.
Elka: May all those who enter these doors find the warmth of acceptance.
Congregation: May the walls of our spiritual home hold us in safety.
Mar: May all those who enter these doors find the strength of community.
Congregation: May our doors remain as open as our hearts as we welcome all those who come seeking a home with open minds.
Elka: May all those who enter these doors find the courage to bring their whole selves and to be transformed by the grace found here.
Congregation: May we allow ourselves to trust one another so deeply that we may speak our own truths in love and take the risk of truly listening to one another.
Mar: May we hear the voices of the smallest among us as much as the voices of the most powerful.
Congregation: We build this place where all are valued as we seek justice and equity in all we do.
Elka: May this place be filled with laughter as well as debate, sweet silence as well as glorious song.
Mar: May this house hold our tears of sorrow as well as our cheers of joy.
Congregation: We create a space to celebrate all that is our lives and praise all that is sacred.
Elka: Spirit of Life, Bless this place of faith and seeking, this place of praise and peace.
Congregation: Bless our sanctuary of hope and love.
Chula Vista, CA
Written by Elka Carrier-Ladd, Intern Minister and led with Mar Cardenas, South Bay Campus Coordinator
Elka: Welcome! With passion for this faith community and with shared values and dreams,
Mar: Our work has brought us here.
Elka: With gratitude for all of the organizing, negotiating and renovating that has helped make this home ours,
Mar: With excitement and joy for having carved out our own space, a space so full of possibility.
Congregation: We give and receive thanks with one another.
Elka: Commitment to love has kept us together even as we do not always agree on every detail of how our visions are to become reality.
Congregation: Our words and actions have brought us to this place of hope.
Mar: Compassion has and will guide us on our journeys as we build our spiritual home.
Congregation: Our hearts are open to the beauty we will continue to create here and to the growth that awaits us.
Elka: May all those who enter these doors find the warmth of acceptance.
Congregation: May the walls of our spiritual home hold us in safety.
Mar: May all those who enter these doors find the strength of community.
Congregation: May our doors remain as open as our hearts as we welcome all those who come seeking a home with open minds.
Elka: May all those who enter these doors find the courage to bring their whole selves and to be transformed by the grace found here.
Congregation: May we allow ourselves to trust one another so deeply that we may speak our own truths in love and take the risk of truly listening to one another.
Mar: May we hear the voices of the smallest among us as much as the voices of the most powerful.
Congregation: We build this place where all are valued as we seek justice and equity in all we do.
Elka: May this place be filled with laughter as well as debate, sweet silence as well as glorious song.
Mar: May this house hold our tears of sorrow as well as our cheers of joy.
Congregation: We create a space to celebrate all that is our lives and praise all that is sacred.
Elka: Spirit of Life, Bless this place of faith and seeking, this place of praise and peace.
Congregation: Bless our sanctuary of hope and love.