September 2019 Newsletter

A Spiritually Empowered Way of Life  •  Positive, Practical Christianity 

Volume 31 Number 9

  

UNITY OF DELRAY BEACH CHURCH 101 N.W. 22nd Street at Swinton Avenue 

Delray Beach, Florida 33444  Office 561‐276‐5796 

Prayer Line 561‐900‐2559 

Website: unityofdelraybeach.org 

Facebook: facebook.com/unityofdelray 

Twitter: twitter.com/delrayunity 

Instagram: instagram.com/unitydelray/ 

YouTube: https://bit.ly/2UZVNks  

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Senior Minister/CEO Gregory Barrette 

President Harvey L. Brown, Jr. 

Vice President Charlene Wilkinson Secretary Lea Anne DeRigne Treasurer Terry Horowitz Director Deborah Ulrich  Director Jill Reid Alternate Director Bob McCann 

STAFF & VOLUNTEERS Senior Minister/CEO Gregory Barrette 

Assoc. Minister/Admin. Director Laurie Durgan 

Head of Unity School Louis St‐Laurent 

Asst. Head of Unity School Laurie Houghton 

Chief Financial Officer Paul Meadows  

Director of Prayer Ministry Linda Hurley  

Youth Education Director Laurie Durgan 

Lessons in Living Rosanna Bermudez‐Edwards 

Music Director D. Shawn Berry  

Logistics/Admin. Assistant Dymin Dyer 

Soloist Daniel Cochran 

   Bookstore Manager Julie Candia 

   Chaplain Coordinator Madaline Lawrence 

Fellowship/Greeters Julia Hart 

Administrative Assistant Kathleen Cronin 

Office Assistant Herlinda Vera 

Webmaster Doug Mattocks 

Maintenance Andre Spedaliere 

Youth of Unity Sponsor Lynn VanDyke‐Lee 

Family/Uniteen Consultant Unity S.E. Region, 

Youth Ed. Assistant, Unity Minister 

Ytonna Finnegan 

Uniteen Co‐sponsors D. J. Lee, Ytonna Finnegan 

Licensed Unity Teachers 

Lynn VanDyke‐Lee, Madaline Lawrence 

Nursery Lynn Leath 

Head Ushers 9:25 Jackie McGee; 11 Liz Shaw 

Social Media Coordinator Julie Platts 

PR/eBlast/Newsletter Editor Brenda Robinson 

A Word Person, a Silence Person by Greg Barrette

He shared with me that many individuals for whom he and the workers at Silent Unity had prayed had healings that the medical community considered miraculous. He also had witnessed this in his younger days, when Charles Fillmore did prayer treatments. But there was a distinct difference in how they prayed when these results occurred. Fillmore would go into deep meditative silence, in which he would center the person for whom he was praying. But Freeman said that he needed to speak his affirmations aloud to get similar results. I remember him saying, "I have found that silent prayer does not have the power to control my mind that speaking aloud does. This is especially true when I am in a troubled or anxious state. When I speak the word aloud, it commands the attention of my mind. Speaking aloud helps me to do what I am trying to do in my praying. It focuses my thought, and instead of letting it turn on itself, moves it to where I want it to go, turning toward God." Both kinds of prayer, spoken and silent, were modeled for me by my dad. Every morning at 7:15 a.m. I would see him sitting on the couch in the living room with his stack of Silent Unity affirmations, whispering them and then closing his eyes and silently meditating on each thought. He did this sacred practice for decades. My mom had used an affirmation from Silent Unity, "You are God's whole and perfect child, aglow with God's light, life, and wisdom", to affect the healing of my sister, who was born with serious birth defects. She was expected never to walk, but using the power of spoken affirmation, my parents were led to a doctor who tried an experimental treatment on my sister that resulted in a complete healing. The doctors said that the treatment alone might have allowed my sister to walk with braces, at best. They had never heard of anyone who had regained their full mobility. And they attributed this to prayer. As a teenager, my Unity minister, Mabel Carlin, gave me a copy of Florence Scovel Shinn's book The Game of Life and How to Play It. From it, I learned how to use affirmative prayer to make contact with my Source. The effects were startling in my life. I had always been shy and withdrawn, but after using these affirmations, spoken mostly as I walked home from school, I found myself coming out of my shell and attracting a new kind of life that was almost intimidating to me in its vibrancy!

(Continued on p.4)

"I am a 'word person', but Mr. Fillmore was more of a 'silence person'." James Dillet Freeman, Unity's Poet Laureate and Director of Silent Unity for many years, was explaining to me the methodology of his prayer life and how it differed from that of Charles Fillmore.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                             

          

September 2019Sunday Services

Topics with Greg Barrette

9/1

Making Room for God

9/8 You Have a Right

9/15

Playing Hide and Seek with God

9/22

Standing in Love

9/29 Gratitude

Bookstore Gems By Julie Candia NEW TO OUR SHELVES!  

Bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein is releasing her new book this September entitled Super Attractor, where she lays out the essential methods for manifesting a life beyond your wildest dreams. This book is a journey of remembering where your true power lies. You'll learn how to co-create the life you want. You'll accept that life can flow, that attracting is fun, and that you don't have to work so hard to get what you want. Most important, you'll feel good. And when you feel good, you'll give off a presence of joy that elevates everyone around you. In Super Attractor you'll learn to: • Do less and attract more • Relax and trust that what you desire is on the way • Know that spiritual guidance is available to you at all times • Feel a sense of awe each day as you witness miracles unfold Stop by the Unity of Delray Beach Bookstore to take a peek for yourself!   

LOOKING AHEAD Sunday, October 13: UNITEEN BAKE SALE Sunday, December 8 Guest Speaker: MAY McCARTHY Dates to be announced: 4T PROSPERITY PROGRAM

Have you met... CHARLENE WILKINSON Our current Church Board Vice President, Charlene, was introduced to Unity as a child through a television segment called “The Word” and later through the Daily Word and other Unity publications. She first began attending Unity of Delray Beach in 1988 and

became a member in 1990. She relocated to Washington D.C. in 1995 and continued her participation at Unity of Fairfax in Fairfax, Virginia. She returned to live in South Florida in 2003 and considers Unity of Delray Beach to be her spiritual home. she has served as an usher/greeter, platform speaker and occasional guest speaker. She currently leads the weekly Prosperity Coffee. She has been a long-time meditation and yoga teacher and has led popular meditation workshops and women’s retreats at the church. Charlene has a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Kansas and has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1990. She has held various positions in the technology industry for the last 24 years and currently is commercial counsel for a large technology company.

Lessons In Truth Workshop Tuesday, September 10, from 7 to 8:15

p.m. Lessons in Truth will be the subject of a workshop led by Greg Barrette. It will be based on the classic Unity book, Lessons in Truth by H. Emilie Cady, a 19th-century homeopathic physician and spiritual teacher. “Written in 1892, Lessons in Truth has provided millions with a concise and very understandable presentation of Unity's basic teachings,” said Barrette. “The poet Maya Angelou once said that Lessons in Truth was ‘the single most influential book I have ever read.’” Our topics will include: The Nature of God, The Power of Thought, and The Deeper Spirituality. A free-will offering will be collected. For more information, please call 561-276-5796. _________________________________________________________________________

The Grief Recovery Method® Evidence Based Program Grief Support Group

THE 8-WEEK PROGRAM WILL BE HELD September 5, 2019 – October 31, 2019

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Prayer Room

(No session Thurs., Oct. 17)

The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses

People say you have to let go and move on in your life, but they don’t tell you what you need to do to accomplish that. The Grief Recovery MethodOutreach Program® not only makes that possible, but provides partnerships and guidance to ensure that it happens, whether your loss is from death, divorce or end of a relationship, loss of a career, loss of trust, loss of faith, loss of safety, loss of health.

Ytonna Dyess Finnegan Certified Grief Recovery Specialist® and Unity Minister

561-379-8153 or email at Ytonna@yahoo.com  

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The Healing Journey This seminar will be led by Greg Barrette 7 to 8:15 p.m., Tuesday, September 24

“All healing is spiritual,” said Greg Barrette. “When my newborn sister received her miraculous healing from birth defects, it was a prayer from Silent Unity recited by my mother over the course of a year that made the difference, according to the doctor. Even when it appears that setting a broken arm in a cast is a purely physical treatment, it is the vital life-force of the body--which is spiritual in essence--that always does the healing. We will explore how to maximize our potential to be healed using methods of healing, all of which are truly spiritual at heart. Visualization, affirmation, energy, guided imagery and prayer will all be explored in this class. Special emphasis will be given to Unity's methods of healing." A free-will offering will be collected. For more information on this class, please call 561-276-5796.

Amazing Seeds! By Laurie Durgan

Have you ever planted a seed…and watched it grow? Think about how amazing a seed is. Everything the

seed needs to grow and become its best…is inside of it. A pumpkin seed becomes a pumpkin because the pumpkin is in the seed! That little seed is filled with pumpkin plans…pumpkin wisdom…pumpkin color…and pumpkin taste! All that is needed is some dirt…some water…some sunshine and a loving

hand to plant it…and it becomes a beautiful creation of God.

Sunflower seeds become sunflowers…apple seeds become apples…palm seeds become gigantic palm trees…because the flower…the apple and the TREE are in the seed. How awesome is God! How awesome are you! Did you know that you are a seed of God? You are growing God in this world every day! God is in you…and you are in God. Within you is all love, all peace, all strength, all beauty. Within you is infinity and beyond! Within you is endless possibility…healing light…and very bright ideas. Within you is super power to become God’s best as very special you. Your prayers, your affirmations, your mediations, the people who love you, your heart-filled giving…these all help you grow God; they are like the water, soil and sunlight! You have everything you need within you to be all that you were created to be. You had everything you needed within you the day you were born! There is no need to worry or fear…God is always near. You are a beautiful seed of God…growing love…creating beauty…blessing everyone and everything on your path! Thank you for blessing me, little seed!

Roasted Pumpk i n S e e d Re c i p e Remove seeds from pumpkin and separate from pulp. Wash your seeds to remove the remaining pulp. Pat them dry.Spray your pan with olive oil, spray the seeds with olive oil and sprinkle with

sea salt. If you want a “sweet and salty” version, sprinkle a very light dusting of brown sugar on them. Place them in the oven at 200 degrees. Cook for about 5 minutes, stir them so they don’t stick to the pan. Roast for another 5-ish minutes, till the seeds are golden. Let them cool.

Enjoy!  

Recipe from:  kidsactivitiesblog.com 

A Word Person, A Silence Person (Continued from p. 1)

Meditation, which is the silent kind of prayer, came later to me when I was elected to a position in the International Youth of Unity that required me to write meditation guides for the groups. At first, when I put my pen to paper, the words came out stilted and trite. Then I realized that I needed to intuit what I wrote from an inner source. I rode my bicycle to a nearby park each day, where a creek meandered through eucalyptus and bay laurel trees. The scent in the air was intoxicating and the sound of the water was melodious. Later in life, I learned that this had been a sacred place for the Ohlone tribe. I took a book that I borrowed from my dad's library of spiritual books and would read a paragraph or two and then close my eyes and feel into the sense of what I had read. I did this there for years. This kind of passage meditation allowed me to enter a silent reverie out of which the insights would flow. Like Freeman, I am primarily a "word person" and sometimes struggle mightily to quiet my mind. Still, I meditate every day and often feel the Presence and touch the hem of the divine garment. I use both silence and spoken prayer, depending on my need. It must be like what the physicists say about subatomic particles. If you try to observe an electron as a particle, it behaves as a particle. And if you try to observe it as a wave, it behaves as a wave. Both are paradoxically necessary and true. And so I am grateful for both the silent meditation and the spoken word, the two sides of the divine equation.

BECOMING A PRAYER CHAPLAIN

Informational Meeting Sunday, September 15

12:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary With Madaline Lawrence

Required chaplain training dates: Fri., 10/11, Sat., 10/12, Sun., 10/13

For more information, please call the Church Office at 561-276-5796