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A vibrant, thriving spiritual community that celebrates the Oneness and divinity of all creation
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November/December 2010
Unity Santa Fe
News & Events
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Our Vision:
Unity Santa Fe is a vibrant, thriving spiritual community
that celebrates the Oneness and divinity of all creation
Our Mission:
Raise Consciousness - Transform Lives -
Heal the Planet -
One person at a time, beginning with me
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View our calendar of events online
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at Unity Santa Fe in any one or all of the following ways:
- 9:00 a.m."Hour on the Quest" Class - Join us as we explore spiritual principles in an experiential and interactive gathering.
- 10:30 a.m. Celebrative Service Join us in prayer, meditation, music and inspirational messages from Rev. Brendalyn
- Youth Expressing Spirit (Yes!) - Where our children gather to celebrate their spirituality through lessons, art, and music.
- 11:45 a.m. Community Gathering - Where congregants gather for refreshments and conversation
Sunday Service
10:30 a.m.
November 28th, Guest Speaker, Joanne Burns will inspire us to consider a new way of seeing and believing.December 5th - Rev. Brendalyn's message, "Two Stories, One Truth" will explore the two scriptural Christmas stories and the one spiritual Truth.
December 12th - Rev. Brendalyn's message, "Making Room at the Inn" will inspire us to clear our consciousness to make room for the birth of Christ awareness.
December 19th - Rev Brendalyn will share the metaphysical interpretation of the Christmas Story. The message will be interspersed with Christmas story scripture read by Chris Johnson, and singing of our favorite Christmas hymns led by Music Director Brian Bennett and Unity Santa Fe's Joyful Sound Singers.
December 26th, Rev. Brendalyn's message, "Spiritual Intention" will inspire each of us to step beyond New Year's resolutions by catching Spirit's vision for our new year. Special Services
Wednesday, November 24th, at 7pm, Christopher Johnson will lead an experiential Thanksgiving Eve service.Friday, December 24th at 5:00 pm. Christmas Eve Service, "The Promises of Christmas" with Rev. Brendalyn. This special message will include a meditation on the Christmas promises and candle lighting calling forth our 12 spiritual gifts. Friday, December 31st at6:00 pm. New Year's Eve Service, Burning Bowl Ceremony with Rev. Brendalyn. Join us in this ceremony to release the past year's negative thoughts and feelings and to set your positive intentions, goals and hopes for the upcoming year.
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Sunday on the Quest
Sundays: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Metaphysics II part 1 with Rev. Brendalyn
Curious about those intangible, nonphysical aspects of life? Explore how opening your heart and mind to Divine Ideas will bring you greater love, health, and prosperity. This class is available for 10 SEE credits from Unity, and is the third in a 4-part series using the new book, Heart-Centered Metaphysics, by Paul Hasselbeck. Love offering.
Click here for more information!
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HOLIDAY GIFT ANGELS
Unity Santa Fe along with Westminster Presbyterian will join together again this year to "adopt" needy families from the Las Cumbres Community Infant Program for the holidays. Bless yourself and bless others by giving to these little angels, putting a smile on their faces, and demonstrating what an abundant Universe we live in.
All gifts will need to be at the church by Sunday Dec. 12th for timely distribution to the families. If you need a little boost to get into the holiday spirit - this will do it! Contact Tim Schreck or Susan Asher for more information.
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Unity Santa Fe Adventures in Faith
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Unity Santa Fe Poetry Slam
Friday, Dec. 3rd
7pm
You are invited to an evening dedicated to the love of words and for honoring those who listen to their Muse and write what is theirs to uniquely express. Poetry is meant to be read aloud. If you have original writing (poetry or prose) you are willing to share and/or if you wish to cheer on those whose works will be unveiled, please join us as! For information or to sign-up to read, contact Connie (505)-689-2676 or Sparo 989-4433 (admin@unitysantafe.org). Love Offering.
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Brunch with Brendalyn
at Tesuque Market
Sunday, Dec. 5th
@12:30 pm (immediately after service)
If you're relatively new to Unity Santa Fe, join Rev. Brendalyn in a fun and friendly gathering. Enjoy lunch at Tesuque Market, get better acquainted with Rev. Brendalyn and other congregants. This is a no-host brunch (order from the menu) and is limited to 5 people (plus Brendalyn.) Please sign-up with your name and contact information at the activity center or e-mail admin@unitysantafe.org.
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Being One Together - Day Retreat w/Rev. Brendalyn
Saturday, Dec. 11th
@9am-4pm
We will "come apart awhile" to bring ourselves fully to God Consciousness in silent prayer and meditation.
Bring your: lunch, mat, cushion or back-jack, shawl or blanket, & journal. Love Offering.
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Classes & Groups
Mondays, 9am - 11am: A Course in Miracles as Spiritual Practice.
Join this group at any time throughout the year. For more information, contact Priscilla Cole, teacher/facilitator at (505.988.9561) and/or e-mail (priscillacole@earthlink.net). Love offering.
Mondays, 6:30pm to 8:00 pm: "A Course in Miracles."
A Course in Miracles has touched the lives of millions. It is a self-study course that combines spiritual wisdom with psychological insight and teaches the process of removing blocks to the awareness of love's presence. Meets weekly. Open to everyone and can be joined any time. Love offering.
Saturday, December 11th, 2pm-4pm: A Sacred Circle of Creativity. This inspiring group is based on the book The Artists Way by Julie Cameron and is facilitated by Bill Sailor. Bring pencil, paper & be ready to write. Love Offering.
All classes are held at Unity Santa Fe click here for more details.
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Support Unity Santa Fe Rentals:
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December 6th
Life Line Screening
REMINDER: Life Line Screening will be at Unity Santa Fe on Dec. 6. Call 1-888-653-6441 or visit www.lifelinescreening.com to make your appointment now. Life Line Screening is the nation's leading provider of preventive health screenings and offers tests for stroke prevention, vascular disease, and osteoporosis. Don't wait. Protect your health and your loved ones by getting screened.
December 11th from 4:30pm - 7pm
Bruno Groening Circle of Friends
For more information, e-mail admin@unitysantafe.org and your questions will be forwarded to the circle of friends.
December 31st at 7:30pm
Dances of Universal Peace
This is the annual fundraiser for The Dances of Universal Peace, minimum $20. The dances are always inspiring and rewarding!
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Clothing for "Cool Closet" Drop off at TaHa Mosque, 302 E. Barcelona Street, Santa Fe NM 87505 (off of Old Santa Fe Trail). Leave bags on portal or in front of garage door.
Other clothing and shelter supplies
Bring to Faith at Work Community Outreach, 3204A Mercantile Court, Santa Fe NM 87505. Monday through Thursday, 9am to 3pm.
Checks and Cash
Make payable to: Faith at Work/ICSG, P.O. Box 22653, Santa Fe NM 87502-2653 (Faith at Work is the Fiscal Sponsor of ICSG)
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Please Pray For:
Please hold Johnny Martinez' father, Joe Martinez, in your hearts and prayers for divine health and healing.
Please hold Shirley Shoop's son, David in your hearts and prayers for divine health and healing.
Please hold Jude Byrne in your hearts and prayers for comfort, strength, peace, love, and light.
Please hold East Mountain Unity Center in your hearts and prayers for divine abundance, divine order, and divine well-being.
Please hold Ali and Mecca in your hearts and prayers as they traverse the tricky waters of parenting a teen and being a teen.
Please hold Chuck Beals in your hearts and prayers for divine health and healing.
Judy Stevens has a request of the Unity Santa Fe CommUnity: Hi - If you are interested, would you please email me (at riveroceanwoman@gmail.com) any specific information regarding the following: I'm focusing on regenerating strong new bone, all my bones being strong hard and healthy, and integrating the stainless steel titanium plates, screws and pins supporting my ankle into my body. All within a mind body spirit balance of vibrant wellness. I'd also like to have a really clear visual image of what totally strong healthy bone looks and feels like.I would also appreciate prayer support.I'll share whatever I learn on any dimension with whoever it could help.May all beings awake to the present moment of highest good.Thank You, God, that Tim Mioduchowski is comfortable and pain-free as You do Your mighty healing work on the levels that are for his highest good. Thank You, God, that Keri-Lynn McBride is practicing self-care as she supports and nourishes Tim with the love they share. Thank You, God, that Tim and Keri-Lynn are centered in the peace, wisdom and love in which they are One with You, with each other, and with all that is.
Please hold Mareta Bell in your heart and prayers for divine health and healing.
Please continue to hold Catte Gutierrez in your heart and prayers for divine health and healing.
Please continue to hold Kathleen White in your heart and prayers for divine health and healing.
Please continue holding Nancy Holtzman's sister-in-law, Sylvia Pajer, in your heart and prayers for divine health and healing.
Please Continue Holding
LYNNE MURRAY & LIANNE KRATZER DI MORALES
IN YOUR HEART AND PRAYERS FOR DIVINE HEALTH AND HEALING
Website for updates & support for Lynne Murray:
http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/612622/
Website for updates & support for LiAnne Kratzer de Morales:
http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/614510/
Please continue holding Tomas Vieira, his family and friends in your heart and prayers for divine health, healing and comfort.
All those who quietly do what they do to make
Unity Santa Fe a CommUnity of love
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Prayer for the Gulf Created by Dr. Masaru Emoto:
To whales, dolphins, manatees, pelicans, seagulls and all aquatic bird species, fishes, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae and all creatures in the Gulf of Mexico, I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.
Additional Prayer Support:
Prayer Request Line: 505-989-3643
Choose Mailbox 2
After hearing the Daily Word, you may leave a prayer request on our voicemail
If you wish to speak to someone directly, call Silent Unity at 1-800-NOW-PRAY (1-800-669-7729). More information on Silent Unity can be found at http://www.unity.org/prayer/index.html
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A Call for Assistance!
We are in need of one or two individuals to help return the sanctuary chairs back to their proper placement (after the Dances of Universal Peace rental) on Saturday, January 1st at 7a.m. or 8a.m. before the silent day retreat begins. Please let Sparo know if you are interested and available at 505.989.4433 or admin@unitysantafe.org. There is a modest payment available for the one or two people who do this.
SUPPORT UNITY SANTA FE ALL WEEK
The Facilities Team is requesting a small backhoe to dig 5-10 holes (2'x4'x1.5' deep). Our intention is to create straw bale French drains to capture runoff and eliminate the erosion of our driveways and lower parking lot. Please call the appreciative and grateful Janine Jones at 867-5495.
SUPPORT UNITY SANTA FE WHILE YOU SHOP!
It's Easy with Albertsons' Community Program!
Let's make sure that when our children are here we have the supplies and materials to create inspiring, fun and memorable times for them! YOU CAN HELP by participating in Albertsons' Community Program. Just pick up a community card from the Activity Center and USE IT every time you shop at Albertsons. Unity Santa Fe receives a check each quarter and this money is budgeted for the children. WATCH for more information about this program, but right now, pick up a card at the Activity Center and use it on your next trip to Albertsons. With your help we can purchase needed art and music supplies and toys for the toddlers. The children say thank you!
AMAZON
When shopping on line, go to www.unitysantafe.org and
click on the Amazon button. With every purchase, Unity receives a percentage of the sale. They have excellent buys on books and lots more!
FUN, LAUGHTER, EXPLORE, DISCOVER
Youth Director, Lori Spillman, invites you to join her on Sundays as she leads our children in sharing, singing, creating and praying. No previous experience required, only a love of children and Unity! Contact Lori at loriespillman@yahoo.com or call her at 795-3170.
STAY CONNECTED
Visit www.unitysantafe.org and see our new events calendar. This calendar provides the most up-to-date information on all the happenings here at Unity Santa Fe. Check it out! And thank you Sparo for making this happen!!
ANOTHER'S TREASURES
We have a great opportunity for you to donate gently used, high quality knick-knacks or gift items for "Another's Treasures" in the Revealing Word Bookstore. All proceeds go to Unity Santa Fe.
Unity CommUnity If you have a car to sell, house for rent, seeking a job or something similar, send us an email and we will post it here!
- STILL SEEKING HOUSE SHARE: Beginning as soon as found- I want a house share which will provide me with a month-to-month agreement, a bedroom and a small second room to be used as an office, or a shared office in which I may place a work table for small art projects; in Santa Fe, with private or shared bath and wireless Internet. Clean, non-smoking. Furnished or not. I am a responsible, conscientious, youthful 51 y.o. woman who needs a situation in which to live and see some clients. You are a mature mellow single person who is employed in a day job, or a retired person who will respect the confidentiality of my clients. I will agree to pay $400 - $500 flat monthly fee depending on the situation. Please call me at 505-474-6978. Thank you.
- Rental Opportunities:If you or anyone you know is looking for a home rental please contact Susan Hadley, Santa Fe Realty Group.... susan@susanhadley.com 505-660-3633 for information on many wonderful properties that are available immediately ranging from a gorgeous casita at $950/month up to a luxurious vacation rental at $3700/month.
- Do you need a wonderful, loving, conscientious House/Pet Sitter? Kristine Baker is offering her services for a reasonable fee in the Santa Fe/Eldorado Area. Please contact her at 577-5858.
- I can help you with Basic Computer Training, Slow Computer, Antivirus/Spyware problems, Computer won't start up, Purchasing, Retrieving data, Internet related problems. Call Jan Bishop at 995-8710.
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REVEALING WORD BOOKSTORE
Holiday Sale!
Revealing Word Bookstore 25% off all purchases on Sunday December 5th and Sunday December 12th.
Gift Certificates make the perfect holiday gift for friends and family! (Gift certificates do not qualify for discounts.)
Request for donated items for bookstore
Please bring us your gently used books, CD's or DVD's with a spiritual theme. We will sell them in our used book sales, add them to the lending library, or set them out in a "Free " basket. Your contributions add to bookstore profit! Re-circulate items for the enjoyment of others!
We invite you to write a review for a book you believe will support our mission: Raise Consciousness - Transform Lives - Heal the Planet one person at a time beginning with me! Send your book reviews to Sparo at admin@unitysantafe.org.
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Weekly Quote:
The Significance of Stillness
The ability to be very still is foundational to the spiritual path, because it is the perennial portal that gives us access to the dimension of ourselves and of life itself that has always been the source of traditional enlightenment. In learning how to be still, you are choosing to take a position of standing for and expressing that deepest part of yourself-that empty no-place before the beginning of time, before anything ever happened. That formless Ground of Being is always the deepest dimension of who we all are, and it is the ultimate source and wellspring of all that is. In that Ground, nothing ever moves, because there is no time, no form, no subject or object. There is only One, eternally at rest and at peace. So through assuming the inner and outer position of stillness, you are bearing witness to that deepest part of yourself in the world of time and space.
~Andrew Cohen~
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OFFICE HOURS
For your convenience, the Unity Santa Fe Office and the Revealing Word Bookstore are open Tues. - Thurs. 10am - 2pm. Messages received Monday will be returned on Tuesday.
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Directory
If your contact information or the information you
listed in the Unity Santa Fe Directory has
changed, please send an e-mail to the office at admin@unitysantafe.com to keep
us up to date!
Dedicate Flowers
for Sunday Services
Each week our sanctuary is graced with beautiful
flowers that can be dedicated to someone special, in memory of a loved one, as
a tribute, or just to say "Thank you." The cost is minimum $40. A short acknowledgment will be announced during Sunday service. Call the office to
reserve a date (no later than Tuesday afternoon for the following Sunday):
989-4433.
Your
Albertson's Card
Albertson's CommUnity Partners
Program cards are available! Please
use your card each time you shop at Albertsons and a portion of your sales will
benefit the Unity Santa Fe youth program! Thank you!
Want To Offer a Class, Workshop
Or Event?
Our Events Team reviews all proposals for classes,
workshops, concerts, and other events and manages the events calendar. The
Events Team must review all events that are sponsored by the church, even if
you've presented them here before. It works best if your completed proposal is
submitted at least 2 months prior to when you want to offer your event. Contact Ken Creek
for more information 505-471-6911 (kencreek@yahoo.com).
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Contact Info
MINISTER:Rev. Brendalyn Batchelor - 989-4433 (w) 989-7699 (h) brendalyn@unitysantafe.org
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
Lynne Murray (President) 231-2136 thefuncoach@aol.com
Ken Creek (Vice President & Asst. Treasurer) 471-6911 kencreek@yahoo.com
Bob Young (Treasurer) 505-466-4328 bysantafe@gmail.com
Judith Sailor (Secretary) 455-3681 judy.sailor@mindspring.com
Connie Salles (Asst. Secretary) 505-689-2676 mountaintopbeader@yahoo.com
Mollie Hoover (Asst. Secretary) 505-988-9874 molliesantafe@gmail.com
Steve Blumberg (Alt. Member) 858-755-2241 / 505-989-7138
SACRED SERVICE COORDINATOR: Nancy Holtzman 505-989-4433
ADMINISTRATOR: Sparo Arika Vigil 989-4433 admin@unitysantafe.org
MUSIC DIRECTOR:Brian Bennett 983-6714 home/603-2138 cell
YOUTH AND FAMILY MINISTRY DIRECTOR:Lori Spillman 505-795-3170 loriespillman@yahoo.com
BOOKSTORE MANAGER:Connie Salles 505-689-2676
CHURCH ADDRESS:1212 Unity Way, Santa Fe, NM 87506
TELEPHONE:505-989-4433
FAX:505-983-4443
AUTOMATED MESSAGES:989-3643
MAIN LINE: 989-3643
BOX 1:Information and directions
BOX 2:Daily Word reading and prayer requests
BOX 3:Events
E-MAIL:admin@unitysantafe.org
WEBSITE:www.unitysantafe.org
SILENT UNITY (24-hour prayer line):(816) 969-2000
DIRECTIONS TO UNITY SANTA FE (click here for more details)
From Downtown Santa Fe & South:From Highway 84/285 (St. Francis Drive),
go north past the Veteran's National
Cemetery. Exit right onto
NM 599 South (Santa Fe Relief
Route). Go 2.4 miles. Just past the intersection
sign and mile marker 12, turn right onto Camino de los Montoyas. Make an
immediate left. As the road bends, it becomes Unity Way. The church is the only
building on this road.
From Espanola & North: From Highway 84/285, exit onto NM 599 South (Santa Fe Relief Route). Go 2.1 miles.
Just past the intersection sign and mile marker 12, turn right onto Camino de
los Montoyas. Make an immediate left. As the road bends, it becomes Unity Way. The
church is the only building on this road.
From Albuquerque & West: From I-25 North, exit onto
NM 599 North (Exit # 276-B, Santa
Fe Relief Route). After crossing Airport Road
intersection (stop light), continue 8.8 miles. If it's light, you'll see the
church (steeple, adobe-looking) ahead and off to the left as you approach. Get into the left turn lane, and
turn left onto Camino de los Montoyas. Make an immediate left. As the road
bends, it becomes Unity Way.
The church is the only building on this road.
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