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The tradition of the White Stone Ceremony started thousands of years ago during the time of slavery in the Holy Land. When slaves or indentured servants were released from servitude, they were given a single white stone. On the white stone would be written a new name that they would assume now that they were free.

 The White Stone is also a symbol for freedom found in the Bible.

"If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To everyone who wins the victory, I will give some of the hidden food (nourishing spiritual wisdom). I will also give each one a white stone with a new name written on it. No one will know that name except the one who is given the stone." Revelations 2:17 (CEV)

 In Unity we use the White Stone Ceremony to indicate our freedom from the past and as an opportunity to claim the new name, given by our higher Self, that is symbolic of an inspired focus for the upcoming year.  Join us on Sunday at 9:30 am.  Make a stand and declare what your focus will be for the coming year by calling forth a new name in this unique ritual.

Sunday Service
January 10th
Fancy Ruff-Wagner
White Stone Ceremony

Board Meeting
Today, after service
Fancy's Home
Contact the Board to be placed on the agenda
 
Interfaith Social Action Opportunity @ Woods End Church
3rd Friday, January 15th, 3:00 pm - 6:00ish
Help distribute food to the hungry in our community.  For more info, contact Eugene at geniejoe@earthlink.net or 286-4981
 
Sunday Service
January 17th, 9:30 am
Robert Spiegel
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Music Ministry - Second Saturday Community CoffeeHouse
SSCCH
Saturday, January 9th, 6:00 - 9:30
Headliner:  Holy Water & Whiskey
Opener:  Cassette
MC:  Bill Moffatt
Sponsor:  We are still looking for a sponsor for this event - $25 will make you famous for a night!

Join us for this great night of music and fun!


Come on down for coffee or tea, treats, and a wholesome family night in a listening room environment where new and seasoned performers can offer up their songs and stories to an attentive, all-ages audience. The House opens at 6 pm, music begins at 6:30.

FREE! Love Offerings will be accepted.


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Support Anne-Marie!
Anne-Marie Lax  is a singer/songwriter from New Mexico.  She is a regular speaker at Unity Spiritual Center East Mountains and has been a featured performer at Second Saturday Community CoffeeHouse. Her first album
Dancing in the Light is due to be released in the next few months. It was produced and partially co-written by the phenomenally talented Katie Gill, recorded, engineered and mixed by John Wall at Wall of Sound Studios, and will be mastered by Jason Blum of Sigil Media. This collection of 12 positive and inspirational  songs, covering
 genres from rock, blues, jazz and pop take you on a spiritual journey from the ridiculous to the sublime.  It features the talents of a multitude of amazing musicians including Jazz guitarist Michael Anthony and piano virtuoso Susan Clark. It's almost complete, with only  a couple more tracks to record, then mixing, mastering, album artwork and printing, as well as advertising. Anne-Marie has funded most of the project for items such as recording and paying the musicians, out of her own pocket, but NOW, with the project so near to completion, SHE NEEDS YOUR HELP!  Your contributions will go for finishing these last few tasks, as well as promotional items such as music videos and website design.
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Inspiration
New Year's Revolutions
by Kelly Isola

At the end of each December, I think about intentions I may want to focus on for the next 365 days because I don't like resolutions. However, I definitely like revolutions. That's what these questions, What if? and Why not? help create for us. I always have the feeling that maybe, just maybe, I am on to something new-a revolution for a better and brighter world. Perhaps some of my imaginings will come true! It's generally a hopeful and enthusiastic feeling-yet there is a caveat: It all depends on what I do. More to the point: It depends on what we do. Mixed in with this feeling of eager anticipation for a different new year comes a variety of life-giving questions that emerge as I imagine what may unfold in the coming months. Questions like, "Who do I need to learn to love?" or "What if I began to really listen to you?" And what follows in my mind is Can I really love or listen that much? And finally, the last thought is, Well, honestly, I have no idea-so why not?
 
What is a life-giving question? They are the queries that draw me into a conversation with myself, friends, family members, loved ones, and even potentially with strangers. They are a way to explore the thresholds common to all of us as we trek across this landscape we call life. Life-giving questions invite us to explore challenges, search for purpose and meaning, examine our identity, and navigate unchartered territory-its joys and sufferings, its love and despair, its peace and violence, its certainties and mysteries.
 
Even if I'm not successful all the time, it doesn't mean I can't entertain these inquiries, chew on them for a while, and begin my revolution. The better world I long for, the better world I need, is most likely to come into being if I live my way into these questions, as well as the answers that come. Yet I can't do it alone. We must act our way into these questions-not just shift our thinking and pray or speak different words. We must do whatever answer emerges if this better world is to come into being.
 
Sufi poet Hafiz wrote, "My Beloved said, 'My Name is not complete without yours.' I thought, 'How could a human's worth ever be such?' And God, knowing all our thoughts-and all our thoughts are innocent steps on the path-then addressed my heart. God revealed a sublime truth to the world when he sang, 'I am made whole by your life. Each soul, each soul completes me.'"
 
What if I welcomed these life-giving questions into my heart and mind in order to be made whole by your life? Why not close my eyes and leap? Leap into the unknown, the light, the dark, the joy, the suffering? What if I were able to sit across from you and listen closely to your counsel for me? What if the guidance you offered me drew me nearer to you? What if I disagree with you and still allow myself to be changed by you? What if I act on the passion that stirs inside me, even if I don't know how? What if I acknowledge our faltering humanity and continue to reach out toward one another because my soul knows our inherent goodness?
 
Why not ask yourself these questions? Why not ask them with others? Start your new year with a revolution for a better world that is emerging. Here are some what ifs to ponder.
 
What if you:
 
... connect your heart to mine, to all that I am, and find your strength there?
 
... embrace your sorrows with mine so that we might each experience solace?
 
... listen to my concerns and fears as a devoted, faithful companion in this life?
 
... join your prayer with the world as an expression of the hope that we might give ourselves more fully?
 
... take on another's desires and responsibilities in order to know a generous spirit in the world?
 
... delight in my joys, and I in yours, so we may be comforted together when difficult times arise?
 
... embody the peace that surpasses all understanding, in order to awaken, nurture, and sustain a world desperate for the endless song of light and hope?
 
Why not live into these questions? Through your revolution, a better world is coming into being. We are the dawn after the longest, darkest night. We are the splendor peaking its face over the horizon each morning. We are the vivid, colorful eternal source of hope during the darkest moments in our world. We rise more resplendent, dazzling, and brilliant than the flaming, fiery sun each morning. We are the infinite possibilities shining down on the world, lighting the way. We are the restoration of our original goodness.
 

A Course in Miracles
Our Movie Screening of A Chorus in Miracles went very well.  After the movie there was a discussion about starting A Course In Miracles Study Group.  If you are interested in this, please email Fancy at admin@unityemtns.org.  No details have been decided and we are going to use email to set a date and time that works for all.

This is still on the To-Do list.  In the meantime, check out A Chorus in Miracles, The Musical Experience where you can get the text with music (paid item) or the Workbook with music (free item).

Community
ESSENTRICS
Essentrics is a unique program that rapidly changes the shape of your body through simultaneous stretching and strengthening exercises.  This workout develops strong and flexible muscles with immediate changes to your posture.  ESSENTRICS is even smarter than that - it goes beyond changing just the look of your body; it also cares about how you feel in your body.  With a combination of dynamic and fluid movements, ESSENTRICS improves circulation, promotes rehabilitation, and unlocks tight muscles.  If you want to feel energized, positive, and healthy, then ESSENTRICS is for you.  Meets at the church M/W/F from 5:30 - 6:30.  Contact Kimberly Woodring for more information (or call 575-749-0025). 

Massage Services for Members:
Licensed massage therapist Kara Skeberdis is offering massage sessions at her studio in Cedar Crest.  Hour and half hour sessions are $40/$25 for church members and friends, and $50/$30 for the general public. Please call Kara to schedule your session at 443-745-0406, or email her at shiatsu.Kara@gmail.com.  Kara has over 25 years of experience and specializes in relaxation, deep tissue and acupressure techniques.
Interfaith Social Action Opportunity @ Woods End Church
3rd Friday of each month 3:00 pm - 6:00ish
Help distribute food to the hungry in our community.  For more info, contact Eugene  (or call 286-4981).

UU Dinner & Movie Night @ Church
Third Tuesday of each month
Potluck at 6:00pm, movie at 7:00pm.

Prayer
Upray
Silent Unity
Please add the following people to your prayer/meditation practice:
(updated weekly)
  • USCEM  
  • Jessica Kraf's family and friends
  • Ben H. (healing)
  • Dawn H. (healing)
  • Dillon A. (healing)
  • Jeannette P. (healing)
  • Mary Ann's mom (healing)
  • Tyler (guidance)
  • Bud C. (healing)
  • Charles' mom (healing)
  • Anne B. (peace & comfort)
  • Deborah F. (healing & peace)
  • Anne-Marie (perfect employment)

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uPray
uPray, a free prayer app from Silent Unity, is now available.  uPray is available for Apple iOS 7.0 or later and Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) or later.  With the app you can submit a prayer request to Silent Unity, listen to the month's meditation and the Prayer for Protection, and read affirmations across a
broad list of topics.
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"Silent Unity. How may we pray with you?"
Do you have a prayer request? There are several ways to contact Silent Unity, the 24/7-prayer ministry:
Call: 
1-800-NOW-PRAY (669-7729)
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Silent Unity, 1901 NW Blue Parkway, Unity Village, MO 64065-0001
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Support Your Spiritual Center

Community Rewards
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Smith's Community Rewards
Smith's Community Rewards makes fundraising for USCEM easy...simply by using your Smith's Rewards Card at any Smith's!  There is no cost to enroll, and enrollment will not affect your fuel points or coupon discounts.

You must have a registered Smith's Rewards Card to participate.  If you do not, you can apply for one at Customer Service.  If you don't know your number because you use your phone number at the register, you can call 800-576-4377 and select option 4.

You must link your card to USCEM online.  If you have an online account already, go to the website below, sign in, and click on your name to go to your account.  Scroll down and edit the Community Rewards section.  Enter our NPO number or our name and select us from list and click on "Enroll".

If you don't have an online account, you must click "Register" in the upper right corner on the website.  Sign up for a Smith's Rewards Account by entering your email address, creating a password.  Enter your zip code in the "Your location", then by selecting your favorite store, and agreeing to the terms and conditions.  A message to check your email inbox will appear, Check your email account, you must click on the link within the body of the email.  Click on "Sign in" located in the upper right corner and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.  Click on your name to go to your Account.  In Account Summary click on "Edit" Rewards Card and input your Smith's rewards card number. Confirm your information. Scroll down and edit the Community Rewards section.  Enter our NPO number or our name and select us from list and click on "Enroll".


 Our NPO number:
24564
Let Your Online Shopping Support Us
Whether you shop at Amazon, Walmart.com, Itunes, or many other online retailers, your purchases can help support USCEM.

Always start on the USCEM Shopping Site.  From there you go to your favorite retailer and a percentage of your purchases will be sent to us later - at no extra cost to you.  The average amount paid to us is a little more than 5% of your purchases.

NEW INFO:  
The Reminder App is being discontinued as of July 1st.  Please UNINSTALL it if you have it (contact Fancy if you need help with this).  If you don't uninstall it, you may end up supporting other causes such as sports teams, etc.  We are looking at other ways to automate this system.

Bookmark this URL and always start here.  Then go shopping.


In 2014 we earned $96.49 through Impact Shopping.  Let's beat it in 2016!

We didn't earn anything in 2015 - probably because people weren't starting at the shopping page.  Please do this - it costs you nothing extra and is an easy habit to adopt.



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Stewardship

Unity is a center of spiritual light. We are dedicated to letting this light shine so brightly that people become more aware of their spiritual nature and express it in their daily lives. We address physical, mental and emotional needs through affirmative prayer and spiritual education. We serve those who seek inspiration and prayer support as well as those who use Unity teachings as their primary path of spiritual growth.

We ask for your generosity in sharing your time, talents, and treasure with USCEM so that we can share this light with many.  We affirm that God is the source of our supply and that we all are good stewards of self, family, community, congregation, and the Unity faith. Successful stewardship involves not only protecting the resources that exist, but also nurturing growth to ensure the future. Stewardship invites each person to balance spiritual development with good works in the wider world, enabling us to put our faith in action.

2016 Stewardship information will be here soon.


Thanks for Reading!
Have a great week!

In love and gratitude,

Fancy Ruff-Wagner
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