Announcements ~ at Unity Spiritual Life Center

The Unity Spiritual Life Center is a center of positive, practical, progressive Christianity devoted to helping people awaken to the Spirit within and to inspire one another into a greater experience of God and life through prayer, meditation, education, and service to others.

 On this page, you will find:
  • Regularly Scheduled Weekly Events;
  • Information about our Upcoming Sunday Celebration Service; and
  • Our Calendar of Events
Regularly Scheduled Weekly Events:
Every Monday ~ Integrative Healing Experience, Sanctuary
From 7:00-8:15 p.m., we hold our Sacred Healing Circle. Following that, for those who are interested, we will have certified healers available to provide one-on-one healing therapy. Contact Rev. Vi Schonhardt, our Integrative Healing Ministry Director, for more information. Love Offering.

Every Wednesday, 12:00 noon, Fillmore Chapel ~ Noon Meditation and Prayer Service
Every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. ~ Synchronicity Choir Rehearsal, Sanctuary

First Saturday of each month: Serve lunch at Durham Rescue Mission
Our Winter Weather Policy: While it is very rare, the weather occasionally has an impact on our schedule! If we need to cancel a service or class due to weather, we will have a message posted on our office phone (471-3504). Information will also be submitted to all three major television news stations.

This Coming Sunday:

Sunday, January 17~ Continuing our PowerUp Theme for 2010, with a focus on FAITH
9:30 a.m. — Meditation/Prayer Service, Fillmore Chapel
10:30 a.m. — Celebration Service: Who Needs a Faith Lift?
We all know the power of Faith, and we are using it every day. The key is: where are we placing our faith? Do we believe in our fears, or do we put our faith in th elevated consciousness of Truth? Discover the tools to help you have a Faith breakthrough, as you join Revs. Bil & Cher for this inspirational, life-transforming service.

To prepare for this week’s Truth Lesson, repeat this affirmation several times daily: I can do all things the the Christ of me.

Special Music: This Sunday our special music is provided by our own amazing Jim Cox. 

Join us for spiritual growth, life enrichment, and fellowship!

DIRECTIONS: Unity Spiritual Life Center is located at 2604 Carver Street, 27705 (From I-85, take Guess Road exit (#175). Turn right at the second light, onto Carver. The church is in a small business park on your left, about a tenth of a mile. You will see our banner at the entrance.)
Click here for a map.

(Child Care available during service~in nursery; YOU and Uniteens meet in the Youth Education Center)
We look forward to seeing you there!!
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Other Upcoming Activities (Mark Your Calendar):

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In addition to the regular weekly meetings listed at the top of this page, we have lots of great events coming up in the next months. Take a look at the calendar and save the dates now! (You can also download our monthly calendar pages here.)

Anyone for Chess?
USLC has started its first "informal and fun" chess club. Beginners and advanced players are all welcome! The group meets on Sundays at 12:30, so contact Avery Henderson or Eric Donaldson if you are interested. 

Upcoming Classes & Events ~ Mark Your Calendars:

Wednesdays, Jan. 13-27 ~ Setting Yourself Up for Success, 7-9 pm ~ Interactive, practical workshop series led by Ginny Ivanoff:
  • Jan. 13 ~ Spiritual Goal Setting Exercises in 5 Key Life Areas
  • Jan. 20 ~  Treasure Mapping/Pictured Prayer Workshop
  • Jan. 27 ~ Creating a 90-Day Prayer & Action Planning Session (with exercises from Marc Allen, student of Shakti Gawain)

Saturday, January 16 ~ Quilling Craft Class, 10:30 a.m. with Michele Grunwald

January 24 ~ Special Guest, David Hiller, presenting his workshop, Dare to Dream, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
This dynamic, life-transforming class includes: Shifting from Fear perspective to Heart perspective; Inspirational Skills to “Go For It” and take action in creating your dreams; Empowering Vision Teams for Self, Family, Community & Planet; Angel Wash Healing Process; Transformation from self-defeating thoughts to Positive self-enhancing Thoughts. Love offering, suggested $20.

Monday, January 25 ~ One-on-one counseling and healing sessions with David Hiller, featuring his Psych-K techniques. (By appointment only, $65/hour; contact USLC office to schedue your appointment)

Saturday, February 13: Five Languages of Love and Couples Recommitment Ceremony, followed by a potluck lunch, 10:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m., plus lunch. This is a great class for any couples who want to strengthen and recommit to their relationship. Rev. Bil & Cher will be using Gary Chapman's Five Love Languages as the basis for the content, combining it with Spiritual Truth Principles. Included is a special instrument to identify your preferred language of love, and how to use that information to enhnce a relationship. Class will conclude with a very special recommitment ceremony, followed by a potluck lunch together. Love offering.

Wednesdays, Feb. 3, 10, 24, Mar. 3, 10 ~ Metaphysics 2, Part 2, 7-9 pm (led by Revs. Bil & Cher) NOTE DATE CHANGE!
This powerful series is the final of four classes, focusing on Metaphysics as interpreted by Unity. 

Saturday, Feb 6 ~ New Member Orientation, 9:30-noon

Sunday, Feb. 14 ~ Member Recommitment Sunday and Annual Meeting

Wednesday, Feb. 17 ~ Ash Wednesday Soup and Service, 6:30 pm

Saturday, February 20 ~ Will Bowen, from Complaint-Free World Fame, will be speaking at UCT ~ Save this date!!
2:00-4:00 p.m. ~ Presentation and book signing of his new book: Complaint Free Relationships: How to Positively Transform Your Personal, Work, and Love Relationships. $10 in advance; $15 at door. Tickets available in USLC office. (Childcare available by pre-registration, by calling 919-832-8324)
In July 2006 Rev. Will Bowen (Unity minister in Kansas City) suggested his congregation use purple bracelets to monitor their success at eradicating complaining from their lives. His idea exploded around the world and more than 6 million purple Complaint Free bracelets have been sent to people in over 106 countries.

Did you happen to miss last week's message? No problem! Check out our Podcast.
You don't have to miss a single Truth talk, because it is now available easily on the web. Just visit http://uslc.mypodcast.com and put on your headset. You can also subscribe to receive the message by podcast each week by clicking on one of the "Subscribe With" links in the right column.

CDs and DVDs are also available of many of our Sunday Celebration services, for a love offering. Check out our Wisdom Shop bookstore.
 
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Special announcement about the Justin Dufur Memorial YOU Scholarship:

This past weekend Justin Dufur, a 2007 YOU graduate from Unity Church of Raleigh was killed in an automobile accident."Dufur" will be greatly missed and remembered with great love.  In his memory and in honor of his spirit, a Justin Dufur YOU Memorial Scholarship is being created.

Justin was an active member of the Youth of Unity (YOU) at Unity Church of Raleigh and enthusiastically attended youth rallies with the program. Several of our YOU-ers knew him well, and worked with him in the region. This scholarship will be administrated by UMMAS (Unity Ministers of the Mid Atlantic Region) and will provide monies for needy YOU-ers to attend their beloved rallies. How many scholarships we can award will depend on how generous we are.

If you would like to donate to this scholarship fund, please make your checks out to UMMAS and write in the memo line, "Justin Dufur Memorial
Scholarship." (This donation is tax deductible).

Please mail your donations in Justin's honor to:
Sharon Hill
620 Inverlochy Drive
Fallbrook, CA 92028

Yours in love and light,
Sharon Hill, Tom Sherry, and Sarah Colwell

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Opportunities for Service representing USLC:
  • Durham Rescue Mission —
    • First Saturday each month ~ Serve lunch to male residents;
    • Food & Clothing Drive (January, April, August, & December) ~ bring non-perishable food items, toiletries, and gently-used clothing to the Education Center by the 25th of the month, and place them in the designated bins.
  • Habitat for Humanity – (Our Youth's Project)
    • Aluminum Can Collection: In conjunction with The Habitat for Humanity's Youth United Project, we are participating in this collection. Bring aluminum cans to the Education Center (ask your friends and family to help).
To sign up or receive additional information, contact our Community Service Director, Avery Henderson (ahenderson30@nc.rr.com – (919) 382-0634)
 See our Community Service page for a monthly report on our Community Service projects.

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News From Unity Village:

Unity Village Retreats Unity's Retreat group, Spirit Path, offers a variety of incredible retreats, allowing you to visit Unity Village, and receive a spiritual experience with like-minded people at the same time. Click here for a schedule of events.

2010: The Year of the Twelve Powers. Next year, Unity will highlight faith, strength, wisdom, love, power, imagination, understanding, will, order, zeal, elimination and life-the divine gifts Charles Fillmore called the Twelve Powers. Unity's 2010 calendar, A New Year, A New You, will focus on one power each month. Visitors to unity.org will find a wealth of resources throughout the year including affirmations, prayers, music and a new 12-part Webinar, PowerUp!, taught by Rev. Paul Hasselbeck, Unity's Dean of Spiritual Education and Enrichment. Check out the great new inspiriational/educational card deck created by Rev. Paul Hasselbeck and Rev. Cher Holton, called PowerUp!™ The Twelve Powers Revisited as Accelerated Abilities...available in the USLC Bookstore for $14.95. Perfect gift idea!

 Feeling Spirit's nudge? Talk to Mark Fuss, Unity Institute's new admissions rep. Mark can help put you or someone you know on the path to a degree or certificate in ministry. Call Mark at 816-251-3535 Ext. 2110 or email admissions@unityonline.org.

News From the Association of Unity Churches, International:
2009 Parliament of World Religions ~ For the first time in history, 10 major New Thought organizations will join together to represent the New Thought movement at the world's largest interreligious gathering—the Parliament of the World's Religions (Parliament). This year's event will be held in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 3-9, 2009. By attending as a united movement, leaders plan to convey New Thought perspectives on many of the critical social and environmental issues being probed at this year's Parliament and to present a unified identity on the international stage. Read more . . .

Link for special broadcast page of James Trapp presentation at the Pre Parliament New Thought Conference: http://www.unity.fm/program/SpecialBroadcast.  Capturing this was an unexpected surprise. It's not available anywhere else that we know. Hope it lifts your spirit to hear our CEO speaking to this distinguished international audience about Unity and New Thought's role in the world.
 
The Annual Report Form for Churches is now available online for the year ending December 2009. Please complete the form and return it to the Association offices by mail, FAX or email by January 31, 2010, to be included in the Association's annual report to the IRS. You can find the report at www.unity.org select Ministries & Leaders. In the box labeled Ministry Support, click on Ministry Operations, then scroll down until you see the link to the form.
 
Please hold our Association in your prayers, as they are moving through a  time of adjustment, as a result of eliminating or reducing 15 positions. We join them in this affirmation: "God is our source. Channels of divine supply are now opening to create a flow of abundance that supports our entire movement."