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This Sunday @ UCC:
Yes, You May - Leddy Hammock
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I am standing at the gate of unlimited possibility, ready for the blessing only Spirit can bestow.
Faith is the power to receive and to give form.
It takes hold of desire when I believe. I hold onto my faith. The Truth will be revealed.
Nothing’s incurable. All things can be healed. What I believe I can conceive, and, in faith, I will receive.
Nothing is impossible. It is never too late.
Nothing is too much for God, no challenge too great. |
| | New Class Series: Unity 101
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Tue, May 2, 9, & 16
7:00 PM
Café
Join our Ministers (Associate Ministers, The Reverends Judy Tafelski, Rob Hammock, and Leddy Hammock) for this 3 session series about Unity.
No preregistration is required; all interested adults are welcome on a love offering basis.
We plan to offer the series twice a year, in Spring and Fall, so students in our Prayer Chaplaincy series can always take any missed sessions the next time around. No worries: "Homework" is easy and fun, and done in class together by students taking the class as a requirement for Prayer Chaplaincy or for personal enrichment.
I. 5/2: "Unity & History" – Lead Teacher – Rob, assisted by Judy and Leddy. Find out where Unity came from and how it developed!
II. 5/9: "Unity's Foundational Teachings" – Lead Teacher – Judy, assisted by Rob and Leddy. Learn about Unity's basic principles and how they work in our lives!
III. 5/16: "Living the Life" – Lead teacher, Leddy, assisted by Judy and Rob. Role playing and lively demonstration of practical prayer treatment! |
| | Class Series: Living the Twelve Pathways
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| Wed, May 3 - June 7
7:30 PM
Peace COTTAGE
Six Weeks on the Happiness Highway
Everybody talks about being happy.
Now you can do something about it, too.
Six Wednesday evenings will give a first-hand experience of the power of the Twelve Pathways. Then you can use the tools on your own for the rest of your life to:
- Reduce or eliminate stress
- Change unconscious limiting beliefs
- Interact positively with more people
- Achieve peace of mind
Gregg Sanderson will facilitate the group. He studied with Ken Keyes, and has taught the Science of Happiness for over 40 years. He is also a licensed practitioner with Centers for Spiritual Living, and a Certified trainer with Infinite Possibilities.
Fee: $50.00 tuition plus $50.00 Attendance bond to be returned at the last session for perfect attendance.
FIRST CLASS IS FREE SO YOU CAN SEE IF THE CLASS IS FOR YOU RISK FREE!
As always, Gregg's classes carry a guarantee. If the class doesn't meet your expectations you get you tuition back.
Advance registration not required
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| | Spring Garden Party & BBQ
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| Sat, May 13
4:30 PM
Peace COTTAGE
You're Invited!
Our First Spring Garden Party & Barbecue on the Peace Cottage Grounds by the Peace Pond
Food, Fun, Music and Laughter!
Have the Time of Your Life at Unity!
FRIENDS & FAMILY ALL WELCOME!
UCC will provide all the food.
We're suggesting $10 per person donation ($20 family), but no one will be turned away
Please RSVP by May 5
Sign up at church or call the office (727) 531-0992
Hope to see you there! |
| | Vesak 2561/2017 - Celebrate Buddha's Birthday
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| Sat, May 20
5:00 PM
Sanctuary
You are cordially invited to join us in this most auspicious interfaith observation of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death (parinibbana).
This year's event will be attended by monks and leaders from a variety of spiritual traditions and will include:
- Dhamma Talk by Bhante
- Bathing of Baby Buddha
- Various Performances
- International Vegetarian Dinner
- Chanting for World Peace
DWMS.org
Suggested $20.00 donation to help cover expenses.
You may donate via PayPal at DWMS.org, by check payable to DWMS,
or cash the day of the event.
Anyone willing to help out in the café please sign up in the bookstore!
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| | | WINGS Book Study Group
Tue, 11:30 AM Café
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| Unity 101: Class 1
Tue, 7:00 PM Café
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| Prayer & Meditation Service
Wed, 7:00 PM Peace CHAPEL
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| Unity Singers Rehearsal
Wed, 6:00 PM Sanctuary
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| Living the Twelve Pathways
Wed, 7:30 PM Peace COTTAGE
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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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| Service Saturday
Sat, 9:00 AM UCC Campus
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| | | Unity 101: Class 2
May 9, 7:00 PM Café |
| Half Hour Hebrew
May 11, 7:00 PM Café
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| Torah Study
May 11, 7:30 PM Café
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| Garden Party & BBQ
May 13, 4:30 PM Peace COTTAGE
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| | Unity 101: Class 3
May 16, 7:00 PM Café |
| Express Saturday
May 20, 9:00 AM UCC Campus
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| Vesak/Buddha's Birthday
May 20, 5:00 PM Sanctuary
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| New Member Meet n Greet
May 21, 12:00 PM Peace CHAPEL
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| Half Day Meditation Retreat
June 17, 8:30 AM Dhamma Wheel
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| | | | | May Heart of the House - Karyn Lehman-Russo |
| She opens the café every other Sunday morning, faithfully attends the weekly prayer and meditation service, enjoys Peace Cottage workshops and Peace Chapel concerts, volunteers in the bookstore, assists on Service Saturday, and will be taking the chaplaincy program classes this month. In just two years, Karyn Lehman-Russo, realizing here her spiritual destiny, has assimilated naturally into a church home that took her a long time to find, she says.
Born in Jersey City, the 5th of 7 children, Karyn is one of four surviving daughters. She attended Catholic schools for 12 years, graduated from a New York career academy and worked in a hospital lab before coming to Florida in 1979. Here, she worked as a medical assistant, in customer service, as project manager for an air conditioning firm and, with a friend, later began a housekeeping service.
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| | | Our beloved Board Member (President of Prosperity) and volunteer, Mary MacKenzie, was recently honored at the City of Pinellas Park's volunteer awards banquet for her dedication to maintaining city gardens and raising Monarch butterflies every year.
Mary was presented with a beautiful orchid plant and had her picture taken with the mayor (left).
We're grateful that Pinellas Park is willing to share Mary with us!
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IF YOU WANT TO BE FREE, SET OTHERS FREE.
“A professional woman was quite concerned about her bachelor son. He was very successful in his work but had never married, and still lived wit his mother. A widow, she devoted many years of her life to rearing and educating her son. Now the time had come when she wished to be free to travel and perhaps to work elsewhere. She also longed to see her son happily married. She realized that her own freedom and well-being depended upon emotional release of her son.
Then it seemed that her dreams were coming true: her son met the [partner] of his choice. But instead of being happy about it, his mother became upset and resentful, constantly finding fault with the [new partner]. Soon she became ill, and her physician told her that she was suffering from hypertension caused by some secret anxiety.
She then realized that in order to be free from illness, in order to live a happy, balanced life, she must free her son to live his life as he wished. She realized that setting him free meant setting herself free. For this purpose she constantly affirmed: ‘I fully and freely release you. I loose you and let yo go to your good The good of one is the good of all.’ Before long all anxiety left her, her health improved, and her son was married. This left her free to travel, to seek new work, and to develop a whole new, freer way of life that she had long wanted.”
(Catherine Ponder in The Prospering Power of Love [Unity School of Christianity, 1966]
Your Weekly Prosperity Affirmation:
“I FULLY AND FREELY RELEASE YOU. I LOOSE YOU AND LET YOU GO TO YOUR GOOD. THE GOOD OF ONE IS THE GOOD OF ALL.”
THANK YOU, GOD!
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