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.

Suggested love offering $10

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Suggested Love Offering: $10

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Suggested Love Offering: $30

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UCOP Night at Theatre in the Park

Sunday, August 3rd

at Shawnee Mission Park 6:30-10:30 pm

Enjoy a beautiful night under the stars watching fantastic entertainment in the company of your UCOP family and friends!  The Y.O.U. and the Men's Group are partnering up to provide a fun opportunity to build community and support the church at the same time!  100 tickets to the Sunday, August 3rd  performance of the Tony award-winning musical, "Ragtime," will be available to purchase at a reduced rate of $7 per adult or $5 per youth (4-10 years old) after Sunday services down in harmony hall and throughout the week in the bookstore. Tickets may also be purchased HERE on our website and may be picked up in the bookstore during regular business hours.  Half the proceeds will go to UCOP and the other half will go to a charity selected by the Y.O.U.   So buy your tickets, bring a blanket or lawn chair, a picnic dinner and relax with your spiritual community in this fabulous summer weather we've been having while the talented folks on that stage bring you the magic of "Ragtime!"

www.theatreinthepark.org  

Suggested Love Offering: $10

 Visit our Events and Classes page to register for the meditations you'd like to attend. 

Practicing the Silence as part of both the prayer and meditation process is fundamental to Unity teachings and essential for the development of spiritual understanding. During this course, we will focus on the meditation process. We will learn about and apply different meditation practices and explore the benefits of, and obstacles to maintaining and deepening our own meditation practices.  

This course is being offered for SEE credit. 10 Core Credits

Required Text: Meditation for Dummies: 2nd Edition CD by Stephan Bodian.   

Wiley Publishing: Indianapolis, 2006.           

Suggested Love Offering: $10

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Our monthly Guided Meditation class has been cancelled for August, but will return September 2nd.  

Please consider attending one of the Practical Spirituality meditations from 7:00 to 7:45 pm. 

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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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!)  

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."