Rev. Nancy J. Oristaglio has served for ten years as the Sr. Minister of Unity Church of Antelope Valley in Palmdale, California. (www.unityav.org) From 2006-2013, she served as the elected regional representative of all the churches of the Southwest Region of Unity Worldwide Ministries. She also served as a member of the National Standards Ministry Team of UWM. In 2009, she was chosen as one of five candidates selected internationally for the Unity Worldwide Ministries Board of Trustees. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Unity Alhambra Foundation in Alhambra, California from 2007 to the present. She is also a member of the Licensing and Ordination Team of Unity Worldwide Ministries. In June, 2014, her ministry received a large Google Adwords Grant for the online audio meditation series she wrote and recorded. Her meditation series, "Your 12 Powers," contains fourteen articles and audio meditations based upon the book of the same title written by Charles Fillmore. The meditation series is a free course on the church website and has been visited by thousands of people from all around the world. She also writes a column for the religion page of the Antelope Valley Press.      

 Reverend Nancy entered Unity School of Religious Studies in 1996 and was ordained and licensed as a Unity minister in 1998. During seminary, she was honored as one of five recipients of the Unity School Merit Scholarship Award for ministerial excellence. She also worked at Silent Unity, was a faculty research assistant for the Unity course, "Bible Overview," was one of the chairpersons for World Day of Prayer, and a counselor at Unity Village Chapel.

Our second candidate for the position of Lead Minister 

at Unity Church of Overland Park  

is Rev. Brandon Nagel.

Brandon graduated in June of 2014 from Unity Institute and Seminary with a Masters of Divinity and was ordained by Unity Worldwide Ministries at that time. While at Unity Institute, Brandon was an integral part of many student activities including student chapel services and the annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration. He was honored to get to 'be the voice of Dr. King' and read the words spoken by Dr. King during the civil rights movement of the 1960's at the annual student led service. During his time at Unity Institute Brandon was fortunate enough to be a part of the Lyceum held every year at Unity Institute volunteering his time to work with speakers as they presented their     papers. In addition to extracurricular activities Brandon focused the final year of his education on studying and learning how to develop community based ministries following the Me to We model of ministry development. He considers himself fortunate to have been employed in a ministry while in school as this gave him the opportunity to put into practice the skills that he was learning as he learned them.

Having grown up not just in Unity, but at Unity Church of Overland Park, Brandon is passionate about fostering a strong community-based family environment here at Overland Park. He believes whole-heartedly that through his leadership we will create the sort of fun and dynamic family environment we need to attract the vibrant family community that this congregation has been calling for. He currently lives in Spring Hill, KS with his wife, Sara, and their new baby daughter, Harper.