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April 30, 2014 ~ Weekly Update
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USLC Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday 10am-1pm.
Office Phone: 919-471-3504
Office Administrator email: cagnc@msn.com
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Sunday, May 4, 2014 - 10:30 am
UNITY THEME FOR APRIL: Create Balance
Affirmation: Centered in Spirit, my life is in balance.
Check out unity.org/resources.
LESSON FOR TODAY: YOU HYPOCRITE
In Chapter 6 of the gospel of Matthew, Jesus calls out the hypocrites who show off as they give, pray and fast. He says don't be like them...but give, pray and fast in secret. How does it made a difference and what about the secret?
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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Prayer is the inner vision of harmony. This vision is attained by giving up the desire to change or improve anyone or anything. Joel Goldsmith
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FUN FIRST FRIDAY every month at 7-8:30pm.
SPECIAL EVENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
OUT!RALEIGH, May 3, 11am-6pm. Do you enjoy festivals? Join us at the USLC booth, then enjoy the many vendor booths, music, a carnival style KidsZone and more.
ARMAND AND ANGELINA: MUSICAL SERVICE, May 7th, 7-8:30pm. Come and be inspired by Armand, musical minister, singer/songwriter, native American flautist and Angelina, classically trained vocalist and guitarist as they share their Age of Aquarius Tour, a fusion of music, humor, and faith. Invite your family and friends. $10 at the door.
FUNDRAISER AT THE OASIS IN CARRBORO, Friday May 9th, 7pm. Our Fun Friday event will take place on the second Friday in May. Join old friend and make new friends. USLC will be featured along with Armand and Angelina at the Oasis. Come out for community and connection. A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit USLC.
NEW CLASS: JESUS AND HIS TEACHINGS, BI-802, begins Monday, May 12th, 7-8:30pm. This is a seven week course, ending Monday, June 23rd. Jesus was a Gospel-preaching, radically living, miracle working, disciple making, paradigm shifting, prayer warrior and salvation bringing spiritual leader. What do you really know about who he was, what he taught? How can you use what he taught to enrich your spiritual life today? Text: Bible. New Revised Standard Version preferred but any one will be fine. Love Offering. SEE credit available.
COMING SOON
DINNER AND DISCUSSION, Wednesday, May 21st, 6:30pm. Mark your calendar. Topic: How to practice forgiveness. More details later.
ONGOING
HOME PRAYER VIGIL, Sundays, 5-6:00 p.m. Please consider a quiet meditation at home during this time. Clear your consciousness of any lack or limitation and allow the flow of Spirit to pour forth from you. Our intention is to release any obstacle that is blocking our demonstration of prosperity in all of its forms. Prayer works!
PRAYER AND HEALING MINISTRY GATHERING. Healing prayer, guided meditation, and opportunity for hands on healing. Be still and know. Every 1st Sunday at noon and 3rd Monday at 7pm. Next meeting: Sunday, May 4th at 12N after the service in Filmore Chapel.
BOOKSTORE: Featured Books. Check out our Featured Book table for books referenced by Rev. Paula during Sunday lessons in March and April. Powerful writings to transform your life.
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PAULA'S PERSPECTIVE
The Pace of Life
"More often than not, we have to slow our thinking and feeling and seeing and hearing until they are open to each other."
Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk
Many of us have become aware of the gift of being in the moment. We might remind ourselves and others about how important it is to live in the moment...it is all we really have. No promises about the future and no changing the past. All of life happens in the moment. Remembering to pause and consider this wisdom influences our experience of life.
If we want to experience the richness of the moment, it is necessary to continue beyond the pause of recognition. If we want to experience the fullness of the moment we should string a few of these pauses together...a few breaths to slow it all down. From this place the real noticing and the real living begins. We might notice our body...where it is relaxed and where it is holding tension. We might notice our thoughts...if they are coming from love or from fear. We might notice the myriad shades of green in just one glance out the window. We might feel from our intuition a rising up of a new idea. We might know from our heart that regardless of what is happening in the world right now we have all that we need.
Living in the now moment is more than just acknowledging that it is so. Living in the moment requires that we throttle back and gear down. When we do this, we bring the full awareness of our entire self right here, right now. It is impossible to pull the richness and fullness from life if we live at a pace that makes it all a blur.
Our reward? We can experience some of the greatest gifts of life...connection, gratitude, peace, wonder, appreciation, hope and possibility.
Peace always
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SURRENDER
Whatever happens will happen because it must. Our task is to enjoy our life more and to express what is inside us to bring about the new humanity. If we have hate inside us, we share hate. If we have sadness, we share sadness. We can only share happiness when we are happy. We cannot share love unless we love ourselves first.
Don Miguel Ruiz
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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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YOU CAN HELP USLC GET FREE MONEY!!!
Pick up a gift card from Carla; $5 is already on it to get you started.
Take the card to Kroger Customer Service Desk and put your grocery money on the card. (Be sue you do this at least 12 hours before you plan to use it. It takes time for it to be put in Kroger's system.)
Do your grocery shopping with the gift card. This does not affect your regular rewards from Kroger.
Every time you use your card to by groceries or gas at Kroger, the amount is credited to USLC toward a 5% reward when our total reaches $5000...that's $250 for the Center.
NOTE: You continue to recieve all your regular Kroger rewards.
Encourage friends and family to join our fund drive.
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Join us on Meetup.com
And forward this newsletter to your friends!
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COMMUNITY ZONE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
President: Ginny Brendlen
Vice President: Janice Escott
Treasurer: Jeanie Rodgers
Secretary: Mary Lea Richards
Member at Large: Jim Kimbrough
Volunteers Needed
We are looking for volunteers to help us provide light refreshments for the upcoming Armand and Angelina musical service on May 7th. See the sign-up sheet at the back of the sanctuary for details. Thank you!
Join Unity Church of Raleigh for a Funtastic Summer Social Cookout and Comedy Concert, Saturday, May 31st, 6-9pm. The concert features the internationally beloved Unity favorite, Greg Tamblyn. Greg has beern an award-winning speaker-humorist-singer-songwriter for over 20 years and brings wit, wisdom and a sense of fun. Burgers and hot dogs...and ice cream. $15/person. Kids under 15, free. Childcare $5/child+$2.50additional child. Save: Table for 8: $140 for cookout/concert; $105 for concert only.
SERVICE PROJECT: The Prison Books Collective
is a Chapel Hill based group whose purpose includes "getting reading materials into the 'gulag archipelago' that is the US prison system". Our April/May Community Service and Social Action Project is collecting books to support their Free Books Program that reaches prisoners in Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina. All adult books are welcome. High demand books include: dictionaries, African American/Latin American history, politics and biographies, how-to books on carpentry, art and other trades, running your own business, yoga, spiritual, meditation and others. Check out their website (prisonbooks.info). Bring in books before May 26th.
Workshop: Healing the Past, Building the Future, April 26, 9am-4:30pm. Popular A.R.E. speaker Peter Woodbury, MSW, will explain Edgar Cayce's concepts of karma, grace, and reincarnation, as well as discuss tools for forgiveness from the Cayce readings. Attendees will experience guided imagery and past-life regression, leading to understanding the soul's purpose and the limitless potential of your incarnation in this lifetime. Commons Room, ERUUF, Durham. $50. Scholarships available. Registration: Linda 919-790-9130.
Food & Fellowship. Sign up to provide a snack for our time of fellowship after the service. A great way to build community and support your spiritual home.
CD's of Sunday Lesson available for $3.00. Check at the Sound Booth after the service.
Financial Report
Income March $6,879
Expenses March 6,771
Profit (Loss) $ 108
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
THE FULLNESS OF LIFE
You know that Life cannot withhold Itself from you. All that Life is and has is fully given to you to enjoy. The Life of God is perfect and eternal. It is the essence of everything that is. Life is God's gift to you. It is always ready to manifest Itself through you in Its entire fullness.
You are a self-choosing mind in a Divinity which permeates everything. You are always in the midst of Life; a Life that lives eternally and lives through you now. Therefore, you need not be disturbed by the passage of time, the movement around you, nor the variations of experience through which you go.
There is something within you that remains unmovable, that always speaks directly to you, saying, "Be still, and know that I am God..."
Ernest Holmes
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