Evelyn Criswell and

                  Donna Crosswhite

Evelyn has been a member of the church for 6 years and brings with her 20+ years of business experience and an extremely positive attitude. Her personal motto is:  "Love one another, have faith and show up! Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!"

Donna has served on many boards in the Greater Kansas City area and is passionately committed to the success of UCOP. She brings to the table 20+ years of business and legal experience, as well as tremendously strong skills in collaborative problem solving.  She lives by her personal motto... "take an active role in shaping the footprint you will leave."

We are fortunate to have two such qualified and spirit-led individuals joining our wonderful board of directors to leave their own unique footprints on the legacy of this spiritual community! Welcome Evelyn and Donna.

Summer may have just started, but kids will be returning to school before we know it, early to mid-August in fact.  And once again, UCOP's Pack -a-Backpack Team is partnering with Community Linc, ReStart, Operation Breakthrough and SAFEHOME to help supply needed school supplies to returning students.  So stop by the tables in the lobby or harmony hall after services and select a tag for a child in need.  Then pick out a super-cool backpack and fill it with all the supplies that child will need for a successful year at school!

All backpacks are due back to the church by July 27th.

 If you would like to serve on our Backpack Team, please contact team leader, Kae Kesler, at backpacks@ucop.org or contact  

Volunteer Coordinator, Rachel Asbury at rasbury@ucop.org or call 913-649-1750 x-3025.     

Bhasweti Gewhas returns to our Spotlight Gallery as the featured artist for the months of July and August. Bhasweti gives the following explanation of her artwork:

Sanctuary of Peace

"My paintings are depicting different environments; beauty of United States. I create my colored papers for making collages. My paintings are mixed media paintings using paper collage, water colors and dry pastel works. Originally from India, now citizen of US, my art, integrates two very rich but different cultures. My work is inspired by a folk art form from India - Sisha Work- where artisans use broken mirrors, sequins in their artwork.  I am experiencing my ongoing spiritual journey through my art. As an energy healer, I work with life force energy. In my art, I use brilliant colored sequins to represent dazzling, alive, fresh healing energy of nature - the life force energy. Symbolically, I blend it with plants, water, stars, sun, birds and raindrops to bring the dynamics of the healing energy of nature. These art works will be able to bring the healing touch in your home and life. They will be your Sanctuary of Peace."  

Rev. Barbara is a certified SoulCollage® Facilitator and has trained with Seena Frost, the originator of the process.  She is an ordained Unity minister and a master teacher who brings creativity, heart and soul to life.  Her passion is to guide individuals and small groups through discovery processes that lead to greater self-awareness, providing tools that deepen students' intuition, insight, relationships and experiences.   You can contact her at www.YourSoulWorks.com.

Child Care is available; please indicate your request for child care with your registration.

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.

Suggested Love Offering: $10

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Suggested Love Offering:      $10   

Register here 

Suggested love offering $10

Register Here! 

Suggested Love Offering: $10

Register here!  

Suggested Love Offering: $30

Register here! 

Now the Poet Laureate of Kansas, Wyatt has been teaching yoga for over thirty years. Her Yoganetics book was deemed an "Editor's Choice" by Yoga Journal and her work has been featured in Self, Dance Magazine, Parents, Body and Soul and The New York Times.  "This work," she says, "saves my life on a daily basis."

For more information, call (913) 381-1984 or visit www.yoganetics.com. (Fee-based class - first class free for new students!)