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Unity Spiritual Life Center
August 14, 2013 ~ Weekly Update
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Sunday, August 18, 2013, 10:30 am
Herb Pierson Speaks
After 30 years in management and community organizing, 15 years teaching in Universities and sharing the Unity message, Herb Pierson is at home "on the road again." Herb's enthusiastic style and well considered viewpoints open his audience to their splendor and Grace. Herb helps us feel the God of our Being now and inspires us to recognize God everywhere Present.
Truth Talk: "Experiencing God Now". God is not an abstract idea or some future delight. God is an experience and it is always available...toll-free, without exception. The Experience of God is often so simple, we have it and don't even recognize it. Here's to noticing our Blessings!
Special Music: Sandy Hemenway
Childcare provided for the service
MEET & GREET follows the service ~
spend time munching and mingling,
as you greet old friends and meet new ones!
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 PAULA'S PERSPECTIVES
Hello Unity Spiritual Life Center! Hello Durham! Hello Unity Truth students! Hello children of God!
I am excited about the journey we are beginning. It is a path that we have been walking all of our lives...and now in this precious moment we get to walk along together. I hope that you all feel a renewed sense of possibility and a confidence in a greater power to guide us along the way.
One of my favorite and most memorable quotes from Charles Fillmore is "I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm and I spring forth with a mighty faith to do the things that ought to be done by me."
Wow...are you ready to sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm? Are you committed to putting that mighty faith to work to do what is yours to do? USLC is about Building Community and Transforming Lives. This community is YOUR community and the life you are transforming is YOUR life! If this is really what we are about...then I am extending an invitation to you to SHOW UP and OPEN UP. Show up...engage in a new possibility for your life and commit yourself to being a part of a vibrant and positive community. Open up...let your heart open wide to unlimited potential, growth, and challenge.
Don't do this for USLC...or for me...do it for you! Do it because, as a dear friend once said to me, you are tired of being moved but not changed. Do it because you know that there is a greater way to be in the world. Do it because there is something missing in your life. Do it because you are ready for a change. Do to because you don't want to travel the path alone. Do it because every fiber of your being is urging you to do it! Show up and open up! You will be so glad that you did...and the rest of us will be ever so grateful for your willingness to be your magnificent self!
Our first opportunity to be together, your first chance to show up and open up, will be at our opening service for World Day of Prayer on Wednesday, September 11, at 7pm. We will light candles, set a sacred intention, pray and meditate. During the service we will create a sacred altar. You are invited to bring one item to place on the altar that holds a spiritual significance for you...a photo, statue, feather, stone...anything that you acknowledge as representing spirit. The altar will stay in place until our closing service on Thursday evening. Beginning at 7am on Thursday, September 12, we will hold a 12 hour prayer vigil in the sanctuary. Plan to stop by for thirty minutes, an hour or more during the day to pray, meditate and to hold sacred space for peace, wholeness, and abundance. At 7pm we will close our vigil with praise and thanksgiving for all that is happening as a result of our faith and commitment.
Show up and open up...and be transformed by the presence and power that is God in you, through you, and as you. I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm, and I spring forth with a mighty faith to do the things that ought to be done by me.
And so it is.
Peace always.
Paula Zabkar, MS, LUT
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BUILDING COMMUNITY; TRANSFORMING LIVES
Mark Your Calendars Now
So You Don't Miss Out!
REGULAR EVENTS
- Mondays, ~ Integrative Healing Circle
- PLEASE NOTE~ the healing circle will NOT be meeting during the summer (beginning in May). The healing team will, however, continue to handle prayer requests and are willing to mak
- Ministerial calls are made to those who are hospitalized or otherwise "shut-in". Please contact our church office for information on contacting our Healing/Prayer team.
- First Friday of every month: 7 PM ~ Fun First Friday
SPECIAL EVENTS
YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO USLC TREASURE MAP!
Following in the vein of Catherine Ponder's treasure mapping, help us celebrate the treasures of USLC and visualize the bountiful prosperity yet to come. Creativity & Play Ministry director, Robin Johnson, will be creating a collage Treasure Map for USLC. In order to do this, she needs the visions and goals of all USLC members and friends. Share any words (e.g. love, peace), images :-), or concepts (e.g. hundreds of members) that best represent what you want to see in USLC's future in the way that is easiest for you...via e-mail to reallyveryhappy@gmail.com, snail mail to USLC, or in person at USLC (you can give them to Carla Garcia or Robin Johnson or place
them in the Creativity & Play Ministry box in the hospitality area).
Limit submissions to 3-5 per person (extra items will be considered if space is available). Submit your treasures no later than Sunday, August 18
Let's create the brilliant future of USLC!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
 September 11 - World Day of Prayer Service at 7pm. Please submit your prayer list for those who will be holding the vigil of the 12th. You only need to provide names, issues, concerns, etc. No details are necessary. Blank forms will be provided as inserts in the bulletin and on the table in the sanctuary.
September 12 - All day World Day of Prayer Vigil from 7am-7pm.
September 15 - Pot Luck Luncheon to welcome our new minister, Paula Zabkar, MS, LUT. Sign up at the back of the sanctuary or email Carla at cagnc@msn.com
September 22 - After the Service, there will be a meeting with Paula for anyone interested in sponsoring a home book-study group. Curious? Come to the meeting and find out what this is all about. The home study will correlate with the Sunday talk series based on The Four Agreements. Please sign up in the back of the sanctuary so we can have books available in the bookstore.
September 29 - A home book-study using the book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz will begin the week of the 29th. Sunday talk series on September 29 and October 6, 13, and 20 will be about these agreements.
September 29 - After the service, there will be a meeting of all who are interested in serving in our Youth Education Ministry. More details later.
On Tuesday's from 7-8:30pm, October 8-November 19, a 7 week class based on the book Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth will meet in the USLC sanctuary. Instructor: Paula Zabkar, MS, LUT. The class will be available for SEE credit. Love offering. Please sign the Sign-up Sheet in the back of the sanctuary or email Carla at cagnc@msu.com
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WOW!
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The reason we have seasons, and perhaps the reason we have life at all, is because the planet is tilted on its axis, at 23 and 1/2 degrees. Fortunately, we inhabit a world that's cockeyed, off center, more than slightly askew. Half of each year, we lean toward the sun; the other half, we're tipped away...If the planet were vertically centered, straight up and down, there would be no change, no seasonal variation, no recurring dance between the blossom and the bee.
Rev. Gary Kowalski
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MINISTRY NEWS
The CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY is in need of teachersfor the youth program. We now have several age groups attending on Sundays. We have a regular assistant on Sundays for the nursery. The immediate need is for four volunteers, each to assist with the children one day a month. We also need a Teacher/Assistant for our children in the Unikids group. All lesson plans will be provided for you. Please contact the office if you would like to volunteer for this very important Ministry. For information please contact Elise VanBuskirk at elise1128@gmail.com or 908-892-7341 or Annie Whitney at annie.g.whitney@gmail.com or 919-416-1863.
Please remember to sign up in the back of the sanctuary to bring goodies one Sunday. Cash donations are also welcome anytime!
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Resolve to Serve!
Put your talents to work. Review the following opportunities and see which ones will be a good fit for you in 2013.
- Platformers needed~ Want to help keep our services going? Consider becoming a platformer. Scripts and training are available. Contact Renee Piere to sign up
- Greeters needed~ Sign up in the back of the sanctuary to become a Greeter- welcoming members & guests to our Sunday service, providing name tags, bulletins, and general information about USLC.
- Loving childcare and youth teachers needed~ See our Ministry Director, Jill Lewis, if you are interested in working with any age group.
- Prayer Partners needed~ If you feel that inner urge to deepen your prayer life, become a member of our Prayer Partner Team. Training is available.
- Hospitality~ Remember to sign up to provide goodies for our Sunday Hospitality table.
- Daily Word - sign up to read the Daily Word during our Sunday services.
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9:30 Silent Meditation
Fillmore Chapel
10:30
Celebration Service & YOU/Uniteen classes
(Childcare available)
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Directions: Exit 175 off of I-85. Turn NORTH on Guess Road; Turn right onto Carver Street. Go approximately half a block; USLC is located in the small business park on your left.
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COMMUNITY ZONE
 LOOKING FOR PICS!
DON'T FORGET! Do you have photos taken during USLC activities or events, such as talent shows, bingo night, potlucks, fundraisers, etc.? Carla is putting together the minister's folder and would appreciate your sharing them with her. Bring them on Sunday, drop them off at the office in the am on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday, or email them. Thanks.
Sandy Hemenway will be performing at The Oasis in Carr Mill Mall, Carrboro, NC, on Friday, August 16th from 8-11pm. The
Oasis is located inside the Carr Mill Mall (behind the Weaver St. Market) between Elmo's and Panzanella. During the daytime hours it is a traditional coffee/tea/wine lounge, serving the finest or
ganic coffee, tea & wines and delicious pastries, vegetarian meals and other treats. At night the Oasis transforms into an environment of entertainment, connections and inspiration. All their events are free. After a long and stressful work week, the Oasis is the perfect place to unwind and reconnect with Spirit.
Greetings my Unity Family, I am writing to share some exciting news. I have been accepted into a 10 month program to receive my certification as a Spiritual Life Coach. It is through the Institute for Spiritual Development founded by Iyanla Vanzant. Unfortunately, financial aid is not available and I am in need of support in order to meet this financial obligation. I have created an account on Go Fund Me to campaign for scholarship funds. Take a look at the link below and support my cause if you can. www.gofundme.com/LifeCoachScholarship
Love, Light, and Liberation: Sandra Dubose-Gibson
If you love THE 12 POWERS, check out this 7-day Retreat! Held at Unity Village, sponsord by Awaken Whole Life Center, the new holistic healing center located in the renovated Unity Tower at Unity Village. Revs. Drs. Bil & Cher Holton will be facilitating this incredible, experiential retreat.
Check out everything it includes: workshops, group activities, meditations, labyrinth walk, tour of the new 12 Powers Sculpture Garden, material grounded in Positive Psychology and neuroscience, together with Unity principles, opportunities for self-care treatments at Awaken Whole Life Center...and food, fun, and inspiration. Located at Unity Village with an all-inclusive price, staying at the Unity Inn Hotel & Conference Center!
KEEPING UP: What's happening in your neighborhood? Are you traveling, hosting visiting friends or relatives, having a yard sale, announcements, other activites? Send your information to rodgers.jean@gmail.com by Tuesday of each week.
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FEATURE
Meet It With Faith
An excerpt from Meet It With Faith
by Martha Smick
We may say: "But where is the supply to come from? How can my good be increased?" The supply of Spirit, the riches of the kingdom, come through us, not to us. This is one of the most important truths that we need to realize. The way of increase and enrichment is through expanding our consciousness of God as provider, through expanding our consciousness of ourselves as inheritors of the kingdom. This expansion does not come by just wishing for it. It comes through prayer, through enlarging and increasing of our awareness of the power of God within us, through the awareness of our oneness with our source, our oneness with supply.
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USLC Kroger Cards!
Please consider a USLC Kroger gift card for yourself or for gift giving! They are a great way to say "thank you" to a teacher, neighbor, or family member, to give to a needy family you may know, or to donate to a local shelter.
To get USLC Kroger gift cards, contact Carla Garcia to order them and they will be available within a few short days. As always, you can purchase them for an initial startup amount of $5.00 and load any additional amount you would like at your local Kroger store.
It's easy gift giving and a great way to support USLC for no additional cost to you!
Please remember to recharge your Kroger card each month so we can reach our $5,000.00 goal in order to be eligible for our 5% bonus.
Questions? Want to get a card? See Carla Garcia!
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