Dear Friends,

While it is beginning to look and feel like spring, one look back on the last 3 months shows us that the harsh winter affected our church revenues.  We have been hit hard by the weather with Sunday attendance and offerings down by 40%.  At the same time, our utilities and snow removal expenses increased by 36% and 51% respectively. 

We are writing to ask if you would consider making a special contribution to help in these extreme circumstances. If everyone contributes what they feel comfortable in giving, I believe we can rise above this temporary setback and move through the year on solid financial ground.

I thank you for your consideration in this matter and I feel blessed to be a part of your spiritual family.

Love and blessings,
 

On  Sunday, May 4, 2014, Unity Church of Overland Park warmly welcomes Rev. Eileen Stulak back to our platform.  She will be guest speaking about letting go of our assumptioms and embracing life's opportunities in her talk, "Trading History for Mystery," at both services.

Rev. Eileen Stulak moved to the Kansas City area in 2006 to enter seminary at Unity Institute.  During that time, she served on staff at Unity Church of Overland Park.  She was ordained in June 2009.  She then served as Associate Minister of Congregational Care and Ministry Programs at UCOP. In March 2013, she moved to Traverse City to serve as Senior Minister at Unity of Traverse City.  

This meditation provides the opportunity to go into a deep, deep experience of the Presence. Meditation does wonderful things to our human bodies, giving them time to revitalize and heal themselves. At the same time, our souls experience their real, true selves, going to the place inside that is timeless and eternal. After the meditation, there will be a sacred prayer circle to share and honor one another's prayer intentions. You'll experience such serenity you'll want it to go on forever.

This month, the class will be offered on the fourth Tuesday of the month, rather than the third Tuesday.

Register here!

Join our Men's Group on Saturday, May 3 from 8:00am to 10:00am for their monthly breakfast.   

"American Indian Spirituality" combines two major topics of special interest to Men's Group members: aspects of American Indian culture with other spiritual traditions, including Unity. Rev. Dr. Kara Hawkins, the director representing American Indian Spirituality on the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council (GKCIC), will be the presenter. 

She is also an ordained minister of the Alliance of Divine Love.

She will present the Native American cultural view with regard to spirituality and its intrinsic connection holistically in all aspects of life. She will discuss aspects of the faith that have commonality with other faiths as well as present some unique cultural views that could enrich each of us, regardless of our faith tradition.  In addition, Rev. Dr. Kara Hawkins will discuss how being born and spending much of his childhood on an Indian reservation in Minnesota may have influenced our co-founder, Charles Fillmore, and the teachings of Unity.

"When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience before her and enters her own image." - Meister Eckhart

During this 3-hour workshop you will release the transformative power of intuition as your soul gravitates to images that have meaning for you.  SoulCollage® is a process for creating a personal card deck that you can use daily to listen to your soul wisdom.  Making and using SoulCollage ® cards, you gain insight and answers for whatever questions you have, wherever you are on your journey.  This is a profound practice that gives you access to your inner compass and your highest wisdom.

Invite a friend to join you for the workshop or come and make a new friend who shares your interest in the mystical and magical.  You don't need any artistic ability; the cards are made with simple cutting and pasting skills.  Everything you need is already within you, waiting to be discovered through this simple "soul-tending" process. 

Rev. Barbara Hadley is a certified SoulCollage® facilitator and has trained with Seena Frost, the originator of the process.  She is an ordained Unity minister and also works as a professional chaplain at Overland Park Regional Medical Center, serving in the Neonatal Intensive Care and Mother & Baby units.  In addition to chaplaincy, Barbara speaks in Unity churches on a regular basis, teaches spiritual education classes and facilitates the Alternatives to Violence program in state and federal prisons. A native of Kansas City, she has been a member of Unity Church of Overland Park for over 25 years.  She and her husband, Tom, have two grown children and two tiny dogs.