We celebrate the birthdays of our church family members on the second sunday of each month. Please join us, especially if you have a birthday during the month.
We have the opportunity to become a "prayer pal" with someone in our church.
Each person will be given a prayer request to fill out. Later everyone will draw a name of a "pal" to pray with for the following month.
Look in your Sunday program on the third Sunday of the month for a sticker. The person who receives the program with the sticker will make arrangements with Dona to meet for lunch. This gives the person and Dona an opportunity to visit and get to know each other.
Are you ready for a blessing? God does not shut one door without pointing us to another door waiting for us to open and walk through. Often we miss the opportunity because we turn our backs on the new door and stand grieving the past and our bad fortune.
Remember the POWER OF LOVE as love has not gone just because someone or something failed to work out. The instruction is “come ye apart and rest a while”. Give yourself time to adjust, to get ready for change. Believe in yourself and the POWER WITHIN.
The Master Teacher lived a very simple life walking the dusty roads to help a wondering son, a shepherd seeking out the lost sheep, or a woman freed from yeas of suffering. Learn to trust the Spirit within as you are led out of the complications of life to live according to a higher plan.
You are no longer a prodigal running away from life, but one returned to “The Father’s House” to experience abundance, peace and wholeness. Let us prosper as we surrender to the “inner voice” and return from the far country.
Our affirmation is “God in the midst of me is mighty. Spirit guides and governs the thoughts of my mind, the feelings of my heart and establishes joy, health and abundance in my life and world”.
Bring in your faith banks so we can bless them. You may pick up another one in the Narthex.
Tuesday Afternoon Study Group
"Twelve Powers of Man" by Charles S. Fillmore
This is an on-going class, so join us anytime, Each class is complete. Our course of study is always good basic Unity principles.
While it was on hiatus through August, it will resume September 7th. Every Tuesday at 1:00 PM. Please join us!!
Sunday Discussion Group12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Third Sunday of the Month - Resumes in the Autumn
Discussion of the lesson and answers to questions about Unity. Held in the Youth Education room downstairs. Everyone is welcome.
Meetings
AA/ALANON Meetings at Unity Church of Rochester
Alcoholics Anonymous Tuesdays 8:00-9:00 PM
AA/ALANON Fridays 11:00 AM-Noon
Meetings are held in the basement classroom. Parking is in back of church.
Attitudinal Healing
Second and Fourth Thursdays of the month from 7 to 9 PM
The Attitudinal Healing Personal Growth (support) Groups are safe places to talk about your human challenges from the perspective of the 12 Attitudinal Healing principles. They are for individuals and families facing everyday challenges relationship issues, or crisis.
The group creates an environment of mutual “teaching and learning” for all, and is facilitated by trained staff.
Metaphysical Poetry Discussion Group
Held the third Wednesday of the month from 7 to 8 PM
Interested in Metaphysics? Write poetry? Write metaphysical poetry? This might just be the group for you.
We will have our first meeting on Monday, September 20th, 2010. Please join us and bring one of your metaphysical poems to share and discuss.
Special Events
Unity Church of Rochester Rally Day Picnic
Sunday, 12 September, After Service from Noon to 3pm
Join us on Sunday, September 12 at noon, for an enthusiastic afternoon of good conversation, food, music and games for the kids. This event will be outside, behind our church, so bring blankets or chairs to sit on the grass. The “Straw Hat Band” will begin playing for our pleasure at 1:00 pm.
The church will provide hamburgers, hotdogs and drinks. This is always a terrific time and we hope you will be there. If you would like to contribute to the side dish potluck please call and let us know what you’re bringing or just bring a dish to share. Office number is 248-656-0120.
Sign up sheets for volunteers and potluck are in the Narthex.
Potluck and Movie Night
Saturday, 25 September, 6:00 PM
“Defending Your Life”
"Defending Your Life" is a comedy starring Albert Brooks, and Meryl Streep, in which the recently departed are put on trial to determine if they lived their life without fear and insecurities, which would allow them to move on to a higher plane of existence. Otherwise, they must return to Earth to try again. Also stars Shirley Maclaine.
Pet Blessing
Sunday, 02 October, 11:00 AM
Unity Church of Rochester will be having their sixth annual Pet Blessing ceremony on Oct. 2nd. We love our pets and this event seems as meaningful to them as to us.
Join us and invite your neighbor for this special day. It doesn’t matter if you have a dog, cat, rabbit or gerbil. All are welcome. This special day is just for you and yours, to bless them and to acknowledge the unconditional love we share.
We will be accepting cans of pet food to be donated to local animal shelters. And of course Nancy Redilla will be making her special pet goodies again for our four-legged family members.
Please let us know the name(s) of the “special ones” you are bringing, so we can have a blessing certificate ready. 248-656-0120 office
Soup and Spruce
Sunday, 31 October, 12:00-3:00 PM
Yes, it is that time again. It's time to do the autumn cleaning, take out the window air conditioners to store them, and generally get the church ready for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and all the holidays coming our way. So, come in your grubbies on this particular Sunday.
The board will provide lunch for those working. (That's the soup part!) Sign up sheets will be in the Narthex, of course. The board members need to know how many to feed.
Community Outreach
Projects
Unity World Day of Prayer with Two Services
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Please join us as we pray with thousands around the globe during Unity Church's 17th annual World Day of Prayer. This year is a double blessing as WDOP coincides with Silent Unity's 120th anniversary! Silent Unity has been there for us for 120 years, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On this day we make a conscious choice to do our part in praying with our entire human family.
Unity School's theme this year is: "Living in the Flow." Our affirmation this year (from Eric Butterworth) is: "You are in the ceaseless flow of transcendent life."
You can be part of this inspirational day, through our church, in 2 ways.
- First, be sure to stop by the church with your Prayer List. This is a list of names that you would like us to read aloud during our daytime prayer vigil which will begin at 11:00 and end when ALL names have been read and prayed over. This list can be written on any kind of paper (we do have slips available at the church). Please be reminded we do not need the reason for the request. We trust in God and His awareness of what is needed for every soul. You do not need to attend the 11:00 reading for your list to be read; however, if you would like to join us, ALL are welcome.
- Second, at 7:00 pm we will have a special Unity World Day of Prayer service that will consist of a sermonette and a guided meditation. Danielle Boes will facilitate both services.
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