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June 2021
We are in the midst of a reawakening. one of our prayer chaplains and feel free
Thank God that we have the knowledge of to email me at jcb070750@gmail.com.
Spiritual Truth vis a vis The Five Unity
We would love to hear from you! You can
Principles to guide us as we emerge from
also call Silent Unity for prayer support at
the shadow of the 2021 pandemic! Friends,
816-524-3550.
we are emerging like a bear from
hibernation into a brand-new world, a world
of hope, brotherhood, and sisterhood for
all. Would you please pray each morning
that Unity Community Church emerges as a
beacon of light unto the world?
We can all do our part of this trans-
formation by practicing centering prayer There is really only One Presence and One
and meditation each morning and being Power, God, the Good. Keep your faith in
willing to say Yes to life each day! the love of God strong. Keep your faith in
Charlotte and I will be in Colorado at the the goodness within our world strong. Be
YMCA camp of the Rockies in July, and we open to sharing your love and light with
will hold each of you in prayer every each other, and know the peace of God
morning and know that you will be in good surrounds you, the presence of
hands with Rev. Prentiss and Laura. Should God watches over you. Wherever you are,
you desire specific prayer, please contact God is, and all is well. Love and blessings,
Rev. John
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We Welcome Our New Member, sends them daily affirmations, passing on
Unity to the next generations.
Jody Olson
Jodi is extremely active and recently
Jodi Olson‟s inner guidance led her back to renovated a condominium in Top of the
Unity here in Dunedin. She really connected World by herself. She learned how to do
to Rev John‟s spiritual messge this time. She everything by wathcing YouTUbe videos.
says he gets where she is coming from, and When her condo was like-new, she put it on
Unity is everything she is about spiritually. the market to see if it would sell, being
Jodi grew up in Racine somewhat ambivalent about what would
Wisconsin, near happen. Although she was there only 6
Milwaukee. Her parents months, it sold almost instantly.
dropped their kids off at Her next project was a mobile home and it
Sunday school and the sold one day after being put on the market.
experience did not really
resonate with her. She Jodi‟s partner Keith has been a guest
always felt that god loved musician at Unity and they share their love
her and she was good. At 19, for music and a healthy god-centered
Jodi married in an Episcopal church which relationship.
she attended for a while. She heard In January she met a woman at a garage
something said one Sunday and decided to sale who teaches piano. Jodi actually
not go back. Later her Aunt, Marilyn started playing piano in 3rd grade but put it
Zacharias, introduced Jodi to Unity. Aunt aside with work and children and only played
Marilyn had been a member for 45 years, off and on. She felt guided to take some
beginning in Kenosa Wisconsin. lessons from the woman, but after 3 weeks
Jodi smiles when she reflects on the baptism she told her she had a gift and didn‟t really
of her second son with rose petals in the need lessons. Now Keith and her husband
Unity church. Aunt Marilyn became her are best friends and Jodi is subsituting for
mentor, muse, closest friend, second mother Bob Groves on piano once a month.
and confidant. Marilyn was a motivational Jodi firmly believes that when you are
speaker, author and lived and taught Unity spiritually growing you start to know where
Principles. Jodi misses her very much since you are going. She is inspired to write her
her transition last September. Marilyn‟s music knowing she has a gift and she allows
photos is in the church‟s library overlooking God to express through her. For her it is
the books that she loved and their message powerful and always fun.
she lived every day of her life. Jodi believes
Aunt Marilyn‟s spirit is with her every Sunday Jodi looks forward to her plans to retire to
at church. concentrate on her music.
Jodi moved from Racine to Madison to go to Jodi says it is her intention to live by the
nursing school then worked in nursing homes Sunday Spiritual message through out the
there for 32 years. She finally moved to week. Humbly she laughs and says, “Do I do
Florida in 1995 for better weather! The rests it perfectly? Hardly!” But she says the church
of her family is still in Wisconsin, including 4 is in alignment with her belief that God is
grandchilkeren and 4 great-grandkids. She within, we are good, we are children of God,
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we are all connected, and through love and not be intimidated by that aspect.) We want
grace we following the teachings on Jesus. to be visible!
She says that discipline is freedom, discipline
New restrooms? The Board of Directors are
makes you better, and brigns you to a hihger
planning to renovate our restrooms soon –
place. She gets out of bed each moring,
watch for details as we commit to them!
walks a mile, and has her breakfast shake
and her body feels better. She adds, “the
way you talk to yourself will be the way you Marilyn Renner, President
feel. Everything you say to yourself Board of Directors
manifests in your life.”
I have to say, “Thank you Jodi,” because
your energy is contagious! Financial Summary
1/1/2021 thru 5/31/2021
-Charlotte Garrett, LUT
Board Notes 2021 Income $21.304
Welcome back, Everyone! 2021 Expense $25,762
2021 Net Loss $4,458
What we have is our abundance! We are
blessed with the outpouring of Spirit of our
members and friends and grateful for the
stewardship of our Treasurer, Marge
Klingman, and the Board.
Thank you, God.
There is a joyful sense among us now that
we can relax Covid restrictions and get back
to “normal.” That means we will once again
be able to enjoy fellowship and refreshments
after the Sunday Service, starting on Sunday, New Facebook Page!
July 4. What a perfect day to restart one of
Our Facebook page is refreshed and waiting for
our favorite activities! The plan is to continue
you to visit!
to have Fellowship on alternate Sundays
https://www.facebook.com/unitydunedin
through the summer months. Please plan to
join us!
Enjoy Photography, anyone? If you are The Newsletter is now E-
willing to take photos occasionally at Sunday mailed to everyone on
Services and other church events and post our list for whom we
them on our Website/Facebook page, please have an email. Please
let Rev. John, Charlotte, or Marilyn know. check with Laura Ronan at 727-734-0635 to
(Help is available for the posting so please do
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make sure she has your email. No worries, if we Upcoming Services Schedule:
do not have your email, we will mail it the old-
fashioned way. June 6 Rev. John Beerman
June 13 Rev. John Beerman
Centering Prayer and Inner June 20 FATHERS DAY Terrence Young
June 27 Jan Larsen
Awakening
Prayer Chaplain
During our Centering Prayer Training, Leader
class in April and May, we Sharlene Hale
learned that everyone has a
monkey mind, even those
who meditate for many
years. Centering prayer is a
practice of sitting in silence,
with the only intention of
being open to the movement
of God within. This practice often results in
fruits that are noticed not during the
July 4 – INDEPENDENCE DAY Rev. Elaine
meditation, but during daily life! Having a Silver
group with which to meet and practice only
accelerates the good results. July 11 – Rev. Prentiss Davis
Some of the fruits that the class acquired July 18 – Rev. Prentiss Davis
from daily practice were a desire to continue
meditating, more calmness, feeling closer to July 25 -- Rev. Prentiss Davis
God, and being able to tap into intuition. This
September we will begin a monthly get-
together to continue teaching Centering
Prayer and provide a time where we can sit
in silence together.
Of Note
We congratulate our „graduates‟ and confer
upon them the title of Unity Prayer Warrior! A Course in Miracles meets Fridays
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. led by Martha Landry.
- - Charlotte Garrett, LUT Love Offering.
Unity Prayer Warriors and Graduates Dunedin Toastmasters Club
of the Centering Prayer Class: meets Tuesdays, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Toni Cina, Katena Demas, Laura Ronan,
Marilyn Renner Prayer Box
Every written request you place in the
prayer box at church will be given prayer
treatment at Unity Community, then sent to
Silent Unity for an additional 30 days of
prayer.
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Prayer Chaplain Ministry
Our Prayer Chaplains are the ears and heart
of our community, there for you each Sunday
to pray individually after the service. They
also have a call list and make monthly Stamp Project
wellness calls to offer an affirmation if your Bring your used postage Income from
voicemail answers or pray with you if you are stamps goes to prepare, publish, and
available. Please call Charlotte Garrett, our distribute Spanish Sunday school programs
Prayer Chaplain Leader to be added to the in Latin America.
monthly call list.
June 4 -Bob Groves
Pilgrimage Healing June 28 -Gloria Cunningham
Healing treatments have resumed. Please July 5 -Katena Demas
contact Toni Cina to schedule a session. July 7 – Rev John Beerman
Dunedin Cares Food Pantry July 16 -Toni Cina
Please bring donations of unopened July 23-Lynotte Cruikshank
packaged and canned food of all kinds. July 25-Harry Kletcher
Leave in the Aug 15-Sarah Rautio
baskets in the Aug 18- Mary Lou Thomas
lobby or fellowship
Aug 20-Kim Plazewski
room. We
appreciate Bill
Aug 21-Mary Schroeder
Baird for delivering Aug 24-Skip Quinn
our donations to the Pantry. Aug 27-Carol Howell
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Serving with Love
Board of Directors
Grief President: Marilyn Renner
Support Vice President: Pat Crogan
Treasurer: Margaret Klingman
Group Secretary: Pat Rivera
Every other Directors: JM. Gibbons
Saturday 10 a.m. Director: Barbara Burns
Minister: Rev. John Beerman
Jun 12 and 26, Jul
10 and 24, Aug 7and 21 Licensed Unity Teacher
Charlotte Garrett
You are not alone! Grief and loss are part of Hospitality
our human experience, and they can be Pat Crogan & Toni Cina
devastating emotionally, psychologically, and
Music Ministry
spiritually.
Diane Starr, Bob Groves, JM and Marge Gibbons,
“This group is open to everyone Marta Kellam, Kathy Smith
who has experienced loss. I
highly recommend this group for Building & Grounds
our congregation, especially Theresa McComber Baird, Marilyn Renner, Dan
those who are grieving the loss Stemmler
of our beloved minister, Elsie Prayer Chaplains
Huebner, and all others who are Marilyn Renner, Diane Starr, Pat Riviera, Pat Crogan,
grieving. “ Sharlene Hale, Laura Ronan, Bette Wood (on leave)
– Rev. John
Housekeeping
Diane Starr
The purpose of this group is to create a safe
place to share our feeling and to explore grief Unity is a positive, practical, and progressive
and loss from a spiritual perspective. Feel approach to Christianity based on the teachings
free to come whenever you can. There is no of Jesus and the power of prayer. Unity honors
the universal truths in all religions and respects
pre-registration.
everyone’s right to choose a spiritual path.
Facilitator: Rev. Carole O‟Connell
Cost: Love Offering
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