Welcome to
Unity
of Columbus
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Mark Your Calendar
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MidWeek Renewal
Wednesday Evenings
6:30 p.m. - Meditation
7:00 p.m. - Discussion Series
"Mastering the Art
of Self Care"
facilitated by
Daryn L. Wells
May 26
Rev. Carrie Kenyon
Rev. Greg Coles
June 2
Rev. Jan Seward
June 9
Rev. Harry Stock
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June Meeting
June 13 (Thu)
6:30 p.m.
SAVE THE DATES!
May 25 9:00 - 4:00
Workshop
"Honoring Our Past, Creating Our Future"
with Rev. Carrie Kenyon and Rev. Greg Coles
(See article below!)
June 8 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Workshop
"The Scrolls Revealed: Homosexuality and the Bible"
with Rev. Harry Stock
(Sign Up By June 3!)
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Youth and Family Ministry
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Our youth offering is currently being redeveloped. In the interim, all children are invited to join their families in our Sunday Worship Service.
*Attention
Parents/
Grandparents
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Guardians:
For the safety and well being of children of our ministry, all children (age 12 and under)
must be attended and supervised by a responsible adult (age 18 or over) at
all times while in the Unity of Columbus building or on grounds.
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Regular Groups Meeting at Unity - UPDATED
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NA - Mon - Fri morning 9am to 10am
Toastmasters - SECOND and FOURTH
Tues. nights 7:30 p.m.
Bliss Run Sangha -
Thurs nights 7pm
A Course In Miracles (ACIM) - FIRST and THIRD
Thurs nights 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Line Dancing with DJ Mark Beach
2nd Fridays at 7pm
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Heritage Lending Library in Lobby
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Check out our assortment of Unity/New Thought books and other media - New selections are being added
NOW, including an EXPANDED Reference Section (behind the Lobby Desk)!
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Submit YOUR Ideas!
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Write to us with your ideas, works of art, or whatever Spirit inspires through you
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Supplies Needed
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We would appreciate donations of the following supplies:
**Paper Towels** **Bathroom Tissue** - Facial Tissue - 8.5" x 11 Paper (white and multi-color) - Hand Soap - Tri-Fold Paper Towels (for restrooms)
- Air Fresheners
- Brother TN820 or TN850 Toner
Thank you and BLESS YOU!
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Support Unity
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This ministry is wholly supported by your tax-deductible tithes, gifts, and love offerings.
Please consider sharing a donation to continue the joyful work, prayer support, and Truth teachings Unity of Columbus has offered Central Ohio for over 105 years.
We thank you for your love and support!
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Creating Conscious Community
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Welcome to our Unity of Columbus Newsletter.
Honoring Our Intention and Purpose
According to Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore,
"Unity is a link in the great educational movement inaugurated by Jesus Christ; our objective is to discern the Truth in Christianity and prove it."
As we prepare for the weekend, and our
"Honoring Our Past, Creating Our Future" experience, I invite you to turn within, and remember Charles Fillmore's
Invocation, which reads:
I AM now in the presence
of pure Being,
and immersed in the Holy Spirit
of life, love, and wisdom.
I acknowledge Thy presence
and Thy power, O blessed Spirit;
in Thy divine wisdom now erase my
mortal limitations
and from Thy pure substance of
love bring into manifestation
my world, according to
Thy perfect law.
I look forward to seeing you at Unity of Columbus at 9:00 Saturday and 11:00 a.m. Sunday.
Abundant Blessings,
Daryn L. Wells
Editor In-Chief
"Unity is not a sect, not a separation of people into an exclusive group of know-it-alls. Unity is the truth that is taught in all religions, simplified and systematized so that anyone can understand and apply it. Students of Unity do not find it necessary to sever their church affiliations. The church needs the vitalization that this renaissance of primitive Christianity gives it." ~ Charles Fillmore, Thought Magazine (now called Unity)
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The Spiritual Snippet
One Humanity, Many Stories
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"I Remember:
Our Memories Help Create Our Shared Humanity"
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This Month's Theme: Honoring Memories
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Our Unity Care Team
is Here for You!
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As a loving, spiritual community, the
Unity of Columbus Care Team seeks to serve members and their family and church friends in times of short-term needs and health challenges - as well as times of great joy and celebration.
We feel honored and blessed to serve our members and friends who so graciously and gratefully receive it. And, as the Universe would have it, the giver and the receiver are one, so YOU benefit, too!
This team is a very important part of our ministry.
Our Care Team volunteers are committed to make calls to home or hospital in challenging times, send cards of support, and offer comfort to our spiritual family.
(
NOTE: Volunteer support does
not include legal, medical, or financial advice or assistance.)
If you would like to receive this benefit, please add your name by clicking
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Prayer Support
Our Unity of Columbus Prayer Team is praying for you.
Please send your online prayer requests to:
You are also welcome to fill out our Prayer Request slips and place them into our Prayer Box, located in our vestibule, and we will hold you in prayer for 30 days.
If you have an immediate prayer need, please call
Silent Unity, our 24-Hour Prayer Support Center,
at 1-800-NOW-PRAY (669-7729).
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This Sunday At Unity
11:00 a.m. Sunday Celebration and Worship Service
Speaker:
Rev. Carrie Kenyon
Title:
"Through the Eyes of An Ego"
Music:
Danny Bauer with the Unity Community Choir
Featuring Special Guest
Rev. Greg Coles!
Prayer Chaplains:
Pj Breese
Daryn L. Wells
Need Prayer?
Our Prayer Chaplains are available to pray with you after the Service. Our Chaplains are trained to hold spiritual space, lovingly listen, pray affirmatively from the heart, and hold in confidence what is shared during the prayer time. Know that you are lovingly supported and ever-blessed...
Be sure to stay for food and fellowship
after the Service.
Revs. Carrie and Greg will be facilitating a Healing Circle
in Wilson Hall at 1:00 p.m. This is a sacred space for authentic sharing, healing, transformation, and growth.
It all begins within - setting an intention for self-awareness and personal accountability for our thoughts,
choices, feelings, and actions.
You are always welcome home at Unity!
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A Loving Invitation To Conscious, Authentic Community
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A Path To A New Beginning...
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"Honoring Our Past, Creating Our Future"
at Unity of Columbus
Saturday, May 25 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Facilitated by Revs. Carrie Kenyon
and Greg Coles, Unity Ministers
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On Saturday, May 25, 2019,
Rev. Carrie Kenyon
, Member Services Coordinator for Unity Worldwide Ministries (UWM), our parent organization headquartered in Unity Village, MO, and our UWM Great Lakes Regional Representative,
Rev. Greg Coles
, will co-facilitate an empowering process that invites us to reflect, forgive, and heal - as well as value our history - in preparation for what we are called to be as a spiritual community in the present and future.
The workshop will be from
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
in Wilson Hall. Lunch will be provided on-site (details to come). Everyone is encouraged to bring an open mind, a story to share, and to plan on being present for the entire time.
The
Honoring Our Past, Creating Our Future
("HOPCOF") process brings the entire church community together to tell our story and begin to see the ways we have created identity, continuity, meaning, and purpose as the context from which we orient ourselves to present circumstances and future possibilities. It will help us become aware of how our story has been compelling, limiting, empowering, diminishing, fragmenting, and freeing. By understanding our story as a rich framework of our life together, we will discover that we are greater than our story.
Historical events are less important than the meanings we give them.
Honoring Our Past...
is finding the activity of Divine at the heart of our story, which allows us to shift our meaning-making. As Rev. Dr. Gary Simmons's book
The I of the Storm
relates, our hurts, conflicts, and difficulties are the effects of not being connected to our wholeness, our Divine Self. As we realize this, we can begin to choose to relate differently.
While primarily focusing on the story of our spiritual community, the HOPCOF process also places an individual in relationship to his/her own narrative and the myths, challenges, and successes that are a part of their spiritual journey.
Who should attend:
The entire congregation should attend. Previous members / attendees are also invited. It is important that folks be willing and able to attend the entire Saturday session-no one can attend only part of it.
Intentions:
- To honor the sacredness of this transitional time in the life of Unity of Columbus;
- To provide support for the ministry as it moves through the transformative integration of honoring and healing the past with future possibilities;
- To assist the congregation to move lovingly and effectively through this time of change and preparation for a minister search
Key Tasks:
- Honoring the Past
- Healing the Present
- Defining Current Identity
- Empowering and Expanding Our Leadership Base
- Strengthening Unity Connections
Please make a special effort to attend this important process that will sow the seeds to grow a positive future.
To RSVP, please e-mail us at:
If you would like to send any thoughts, feelings, or ideas to us, please contact us at the e-mail address above, or call us at:
(614) 267-4959.
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Carrie, an ordained Unity minister (2009) and Licensed Unity Teacher, coordinates all aspects of the employment process for credentialed leaders, spiritual leaders and ministries, as well as providing support on questions regarding compensation, church governance and operations (bylaws, ministry policies, code of ethics).
She also provides assistance (USA including Puerto Rico, Canada only) to those who are interested in starting a new church or alternative ministry,
or who want to know more about what support is available.
Carrie works closely with a number of related ministry teams including Colleague Connect, Ministry Consulting and Transition, Credentialing and Standards. Her focus is to create connections with and between ministers/spiritual leaders/ministries and Unity Worldwide Ministries' central office.
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In 1991, Rev. Greg was guided to Unity Church of Christianity in Houston, TX, a vibrant spiritual community of about 2,000 members led by senior minister Reverend Howard Caesar.
Rev. Greg knew he found his spiritual home. Among the many volunteer roles that Rev. Greg served during his years at Unity of Houston, he says the most personally rewarding were Prayer Chaplain, Platform Assistant, soloist, and Director of the Unity Players for an alternative service,
Wednesday Night Live.
In 2005 Rev. Greg moved to Kansas to serve as the Director of Volunteers and Worship of Unity of Overland Park, coordinating the Sunday experience for more than 700 people each week.
Rev. Greg earned his Master of Divinity in the Ministry and Religious Studies program of Unity Institute in December 2009 and was ordained by the Association of Unity Churches International in February 2010. Through the divinely guided ministerial search process in 2010, he found a new spiritual home with Unity of Bay City in Michigan, where he served as the Senior Minister through February of this year. He and his husband, John McMahon, are just hours away from their family in Canada. They are proud grandparents of two granddaughters, Brianna and Lauryn.
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A Few Notes About
"HOPCOF":
- Please plan to arrive between 8:30 and 8:45 a.m.; a continental breakfast (bagels, pastries, sliced fruit, juice, coffee) will be provided by the Board of Trustees.
- We will start on time at 9:00 a.m.
- Please plan to stay on-site for the duration of the workshop; lunch (cold cuts, sandwich bread/buns, chips, hummus) and beverages will be provided.
- Snacks (chips, party mix, veggies) will be provided throughout the day.
- Your presence and active participation are welcome, supported, and encouraged. In order to honor this sacred work, as well as the time and commitment of our presenters and attendees, no latecomers will be admitted. If you know you will not be available at the scheduled hour, within at least a few minutes of the scheduled start time, please do not plan to attend.
- Rev. Carrie and Rev. Greg will facilitate a Healing Circle Experience after Sunday's service, which you are lovingly invited to attend, as well.
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This Pride Month at Unity of Columbus
The Scrolls Revealed: Homosexuality and the Bible. An In-Depth Study June 8, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Myrtle Fillmore Chapel
A day-long seminar exploring the Bible. Lunch included.
Registration Fee: $20.00 To Register, please click HERE, sign up while our church is open, or call the church office at (614) 267-4959.
DON'T DELAY - REGISTER
TODAY!
SPACE IS LIMITED!
About the Workshop:
For far too long, some teachings about the Bible have diminished individuals of the GLBTQ community. And, because of such teachings, some LGBTQ people have come to believe that they are not loved by God. This amazing workshop will look at the myths and truths of these ancient scrolls. The workshop is geared toward members, friends, and allies of the LGBTQ community. We will look at the scrolls through the influences of ancient Middle Eastern, Hebrew, Greek and Roman traditions, as well as some early Christian traditions. We will hear true translations of the following scripture passages:
Deuteronomy 23:17-18
Genesis 18, 19 - Sodom story
Leviticus, "The Holiness Codes"
1st Corinthians 6:9-10
Romans 1:21, 26-27
This workshop will be conducted by Reverend Harry B. Stock. Sponsored and hosted by Unity of Columbus.
About the Facilitator: Rev. Harry completed a 5 year study program through the West Virginia School of Religion, and earned a Masters of Divinity Degree from Virginia Theological Seminary. In 1981 he was ordained an Episcopal Priest, and in 1991 he transferred his credentials and was ordained in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC). He served as Pastor of the MCC Church of the Disciples for 14 years. Harry served on the faculty of Samaritan Institute of Religious Studies for 10 years where he taught "Homosexuality and the Bible" and "Introduction to Sexuality Studies." He currently serves as Parish Partner at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. and lives with his partner Mark in Waldorf, Maryland. Rev. Harry will be our guest speaker on our Sunday, June 9 Service - Don't miss it!
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We are SO grateful to the generous donations so far to our "Drop In the Bucket" campaign!
***NOW EXTENDED!***
We've collected over
$4,000.00
towards our roof
! There are still some envelopes remaining - take advantage of this opportunity while you can.
Here's how it works:
Choose an envelope, or several, to match the
amount of your desired donation. Insert a check
with that amount, payable to "Unity of Columbus," noting it is for Unity roof repairs.
If donating by cash, or if your check does not provide address and phone, please write that information clearly on the back of the envelope for donor credit. Seal, then double-fold the envelope and insert it gently in the clear lockbox.
Thank you, and
bless you for your generosity!
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