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THEME FOR JUNE
Our theme for June is:
When It's Time for a Change
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BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH
Please keep in mind, purchasing through this link or the link on our web page (by clicking on the book title) will benefit our center.
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A MESSAGE FROM REV. NICOLE
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
~Benjamin Franklin
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Most people been raised to expect stability and certainty in life. It’s easy to believe that there will come time when everything gets good and stays that way. However, if we truly make ourselves receptive to the Divine plan for our lives, rather than steamrolling ahead with ego-based plans, we find that the path to our destiny is filled with necessary changes. Though we might try to resist, we ultimately come to embrace change as the ultimate catalyst for our spiritual growth and personal transformation.
At this time, I have an opportunity to make a change that would allow me to move toward the fulfillment of my calling to establish a learning center for exceptional children with learning differences. As many of you know, I have spent the last two years building a similar program at a charter school in the Pasadena Unified School District. God has blessed it with a strong reputation that has quickly expanded enrollment. For more than a year, I searched for a location to house an independent learning center where I could also develop spiritual support programs for parents. Last month, I was offered an opportunity to house my vision at The Church of Truth in Pasadena, where I received my ministerial ordination.
While I am extremely excited about the possibilities, I have had to face the realization that as a wife, mother of three young children, a minister and an educator, it is not humanly possible to give the best of myself in all of these roles. In an attempt to consolidate my professional and personal commitments, I recently made a difficult decision to resign from my role as Spiritual Leader at the Unity Burbank Center for Spiritual Awareness.
The past three years at Unity Burbank have been an absolute blessing. I have enjoyed being a part of the stabilization and evolution of our ministry. You have been so supportive of my growth as a minister; for this I will be forever grateful. Because of you, I now embrace my life calling as a minister and spiritual teacher and look forward to serving the spiritual needs of the children and families that God has trusted to my care.
Although my resignation ushers in a season of change for Unity Burbank, I feel certain that Spirit has a plan for this ministry that will take it even further than any of us can presently imagine. As I depart from the center to build my learning program, please know that I have full confidence in the ability of our board of directors to identify a new spiritual leader for the church. Our team of speakers (Rev. Jenenne Macklin, David Brown and Jimmy Burns) remains committed to leading worship services each week. I trust that God will continue to deliver a blessed and inspired word through each of them.
Since my new program, Innerlight Children’s Collaborative, will open for business in August, my last Sunday at Unity Burbank will be July 3, 2011. Please plan to worship with us that day. A farewell luncheon will be held in the fellowship hall immediately after service. I plan to personally address each one of our members and visitors that day to let you know the ways in which you have touched my life.
Thank you for your support and vote of confidence over the past three years. I pray and affirm that God will continue to bless and expand this ministry in the coming years.
Rev. Nicole
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JUNE SPIRITUAL ATTRIBUTES
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Disciple: Bartholomew
Faculty: Imagination
Location: Between the Eyes
Color: Light Blue
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JUNE 5: Rev. Nicole Elliott Murray
JUNE 12: David Matthew Brown
JUNE 19: Rev. Jenenne Macklin
JUEN 25: Jimmy Burns
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JUNE EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
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- Sunday, June 5th Transparency Meeting follows service.
- Sundays, June 5th & 19th Oneness Blessings after service. Your offering of $10 stays fully with Unity Burbank. More on Oneness Blessings can be found at www.unityburbankbnh.org/oneness .
- Sunday, June 19th join us for A “My Father’s Favorite Dish” potluck luncheon after service. Please sign up at church or call the office.
- Sunday, June 19th at 4:00 pm Introductory Pranic Healing® Workshop. Free, love offering will be collected.
- Sunday, June 26th our Book Club Meeting takes place during fellowship time. Join us to discuss Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes.
- Every Thursday night from 7:30 to 9:00 pm., A Course in Miracles study group. Call the office for more information.
- A Journey of Discovery support group meets on June 6th at 7 pm and June 19th at 1 pm. We would like to remind you that we have AA meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from noon to 1:00 pm (Friday is a women's group), and a Big Book Study meeting on Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
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"MY FATHER'S FAVORITE DISH"
POTLUCK LUNCHEON
JUNE 19TH
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This is the month of Father’s Day, so out potluck theme is, “My Father’s Favorite Dish". Please, make or buy something that your dad enjoyed, bring it, and join in the potluck on June 19h after service. Please stay for fun, fellowship and our usual great food.
As always, there is a sign-up sheet in the back of the sanctuary, or you can call the office to sign up.
Please plan to join us!
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IN CHARLES FILLMORE’S WORDS:
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"When the faculties of the mind are understood in their threefold relation--spirit, soul, body-- it will be found that every form and shape originated in the imagination. It is through the imagination that the formless takes form. It is well known that the artist sees in mind every picture that he puts on canvas. Man and the universe are a series of pictures in the Mind of Being."
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ALL ABOUT FATHERS
In honor of Father's Day, we present some quotes about fathers and fatherhood.
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"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
-Anne Sexton
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
-Mark Twain , "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You're tearing up the grass.’ ‘We're not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We're raising boys.’"
-Harmon Killebrew
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About the Prayer Ministry of Unity Burbank Center for
Spiritual Awareness
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Our prayer circle may be activated by calling Phyllis Marks at 818-241-7922. Email prayer requests will be forwarded to the prayer circle as well. All prayer requests are confidential.
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“We welcome all who enter. We energize, inspire and transform ourselves, our community and the world, by nurturing a miracle-minded consciousness.”
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The Unity Burbank Center for Spirital Awareness
637 South Victory Blvd., Burbank, CA 91502
818-481-4037
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by William Bridges