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This Sunday @ UCC:
Good Morning! - Leddy Hammock
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The sunrise is like fire and gold, spilling out on the water while the land’s still dark and cold. It’s morning! I wake up breathing in faith, seeking to find the Christ that I was missing.
I wake up breathing a prayer: “I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses. And the voice I hear . . .” is the voice of Truth. I believe that the Christ I was missing is here.
I wake up breathing with joy. Let the tears be wiped away, for I feel that the Christ I was missing is here.
With every new sunrise, I wake up breathing life! It’s a wonderful morning, and I know the Truth that the Christ I was missing – my teacher and my Friend forever -- is always here with me.
Good morning! |
| | Our Music Ministry shares awesome music during both services in our Sanctuary!
On Easter Sunday, "Happy Hour" including Nursery care for infants and toddlers, crafts for elementary school aged children is held during the early service (9:30 - 10:30 am). Then, a Continental Breakfast is served on a love offering basis in our Café between 8:45 AM and 9:15 AM and between 10:30 and 11:00 AM.
During the second service a positive lesson time will be presented for children of all ages in our Youth Wing, starting with Assembly in the Peace Chapel, including a beautiful Easter Flower Service (especially memorable and much more meaningful and relevant to our Unity teachings than an "Easter Egg hunt"). School age children will join us in the Sanctuary at the close of our Worship Service.
We will close our Café early that day so our volunteers can celebrate with their families.
Thanks to all our helpers! Happy Easter!
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| | Shortened Coffee Hour on Easter
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| The community that we create in the café after church on Sundays is an important part of church life at UCC.
However, our wonderful café volunteers will be looking forward to
getting home to spend Easter with family and friends, so we're asking
everyone to allow them to get things wrapped up shortly after noon.
They would also welcome any extra helping hands with cleanup! |
| | | Fri, Apr 14
2:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
Chapel Open for Meditation
Noon - 2:00 PM
Guided Meditation
2:00 - 3:00 PM
For more than three decades here, we have set aside a time of contemplation on Good Friday between noon and 3:00 PM - the hours when, according to the Gospels, Jesus spoke seven times from the cross in preparation for His great demonstration over death.
At 2:00 PM, seven votives shall have been lit, which will be extinguished, in turn, as we contemplate the profound spiritual meaning of each of the Master's seven last statements from the Cross.
Come, let us honor the Silence as we share in this powerful and transformative spiritual preparation for Easter. |
| | Please Plan to Attend this Important Social Justice Event!
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| F.A.S.T. Nehemiah Action
Mon, Apr 24
7:00 PM
Tropicana Field (map)
(we expect some 3,500 people!)
Faith
and Action for Strength Together (FAST) is a justice ministry
organization made up of 38 religious congregations throughout Pinellas
County who band together to create positive change in our community.
FAST
is a congregation-based 501(c)3 non-profit whose purpose is to work
with diverse congregations to identify root causes of community problems
and take action on these problems.
Through FAST, diverse people come together to powerfully address the needs in their own communities.
If
you plan to attend, please email info@unityofclearwater.org to let us
know or sign up on the Info. Counter or phone the UCC office (727 531
0992)!
Fast Website
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| Get your UCC t-shirt so we can show our UNITY at the event!
You can pick em up in the bookstore!! |
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| | | WINGS Book Study Group
Tue, 11:30 AM
Café
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| Lenten Prayer Service
Wed, 7:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
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| Unity Singers Rehearsal
Wed, 7:00 PM
Sanctuary
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| Tai Chi
Thur, 6:00 PM
Peace COTTAGE
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| AA Meeting
Thur, 7:30 PM
Peace COTTAGE
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| Open for Silent Meditation
Fri, 12:00-2:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
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| Good Friday Service
Fri, 2:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
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| Half Day Meditation Retreat
Sat, 8:30 AM
Dhamma Wheel
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| Easter Sunday
Sun, 9:30 & 11:00 AM
Sanctuary
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| | Half Hour Hebrew
Apr 20, 7:00 PM
Café
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| Torah Study
Apr 20, 7:30 PM
Café
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| Express Saturday
Apr 22, 9:00 AM
UCC Campus
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| FAST Nehemiah Action
Apr 24, 7:00 PM
Tropicana Field
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| CPR Class
Apr 29, 10:00 AM
Peace COTTAGE
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| Chair Massages for Volunteers
Apr 30, 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Peace COTTAGE
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| Concert: Sloan Wainwright
May 1, 7:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
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| Unity 101: Class 1
May 2, 7:00 PM
Café
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| Prayer & Meditation Service
May 3, 7:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
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| Living the Twelve Pathways
May 3, 7:30 PM
Peace COTTAGE
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| Service Saturday
May 6, 9:00 AM
UCC Campus
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| | Unity 101: Class 2
May 9, 7:00 PM
Café |
| Garden Party & BBQ
May 13, 4:30 PM
Peace COTTAGE
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| | Unity 101: Class 3
May 16, 7:00 PM
Café |
| New Member Meet n Greet
May 21, 12:00 PM
Peace CHAPEL
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| | | | | April Hearts of the House - Mary & Richard Fisher
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| Rich and Mary Fisher of Weimar, CA and Largo, FL, on average, spend about six months in each state. Of the couple’s six children, one son lives in Eugene, OR, a daughter and son-in-law live next door in Weimar, and the others are all in Florida. There are 12 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Rich’s family moved to Florida in 1954 and lived on Gulf to Bay, and Mary, who was born in Atlantic City, came here, where she met her future husband, in 1977. They were married at sunrise on Oct. 22, 1981 at Philippe Park in Safety Harbor. In 2006, they moved to Hawaii and lived on the Big Island, eight miles from an active volcano. Recalling their time there, Rich and Mary noted that seniors were viewed as a source of knowledge, guidance, and inspiration to the next generations. They cited the term Kupuna, widely understood to mean elder, grandparents or elderly persons and considered the embodiment of natural respect.
Read more
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| | Our New Canopies Are Here!
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| | It's intriguing to realize that, by the guidelines of feng shui, our main building, viewed from Nursery Road, seems to have "hidden doors."
Hmm.
Since your Board of Directors knows that we all want people to find us
and feel welcome, they decided to go forward with the plan of adding a
lovely royal blue awning to the East lobby entrance and a soothing sage
green awning to the Bookstore entrance.
We give thanks in advance as funds manifest for this exciting new addition to our Church Home!
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| | New Welcome Counter Coming Soon
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| Be on the lookout for our new welcome counter which will appear in the lobby soon. Once the counter is in place we'll be turning its former home into a beautiful new conference room.
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ST. PAUL’S IDEA OF “THE MYSTERY” OF LIFE
“Paul said that this resurrected Christ nature in [hu]man[kind] is the mystery that has been hid for generations, and he described it as [our] hope of glory . . . .
Charles Fillmore described resurrection as the ‘raising up of the whole [person]–spirit, soul, and body–into the Christ consciousness of life and wholeness.’ He wrote in keep a True Lent:
‘The time is ripe for the advent of a new race, the advent of the spiritualized [person]. This will be brought about . . . by the gradual refinement of the [person] of the flesh into the [person] of Spirit. The true overcomer is qualifying himself [or herself] to become a member of the new spiritualized race. ‘
Just as Jesus, through His resurrection of His spiritual nature, brought back into notice t his spiritualized man, so we can bring alive the divinity within us, and in other people. As we do, we become a part of the spiritualized race which overcom3es or ‘comes up over’ the negative experiences of life . . . .”
(Catherine Ponder in The Prospering Power of Love [Unity School of Christianity, 1966]
Your Weekly Prosperity Affirmation:
THROUGH CHRIST WITHIN ME, I AM AN OVERCOMER.
THANK YOU, GOD!
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