Unity Community of Central Oregon is seeking to hire an Operations Manager. This is a new, full-time position for the organization. The Operations Manager role is to implement the right processes and practices across the organization as directed by the Board of Directors. This position will function as the lead implementer for Unity’s daily operations, and will coordinate special events and classes, and support our minister with Sunday service needs. This role would be supported by the Unity board as well as our senior minister. 

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Your Northwest Regional Unity Board is committed to increasing our ways to connect and support each other. One of our new ways is offering monthly meetings that alternate between education, with a time of connection and meetings that are pure connection. These are scheduled on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 1:00 pacific time.

This month our presenter is Rev. Dr. Ahriana Platten, a Unity minister from Unity Spiritual Center in the Rockies.

Rev. Dr. Ahriana Platten is a practical mystic who believes the entire world is an open door to the Holy. Ahriana has traveled the world to explore its cultural differences and human similarities. She has studied a wide variety of religions and spiritual traditions. She is deeply committed to interfaith education and dialogue, has served as an Ambassador for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and is featured as a “Wisdom Keeper” in the acclaimed international film and docuseries entitled “Time of the Sixth Sun.” Ahriana considers herself a ceremonialist and is writing a book on the subject. She will be exploring the expanded possibilities for ceremony in our ministries. We encourage your love offerings to support this program. We hope to see you on Zoom!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5413908244

The spring 2021 issue of EarthCare Connections has arrived! The following is a summary of its contents, along with links to the newsletter itself:

August 14 - 19, 2021

Opens at 12:30pm on Saturday, August 14 and closes at 1:00pm Thursday, August 19.

We will use the Ropes course and all our traditional and some new activities as we journey together at Cispus Learning Center!! This is, as everything is, dependent on the Pandemic numbers. We will make our final decision on June 16.

Please click here to register

With story, self-understanding and listening to ourselves we will explore, "Claiming my Super Power, What is it? Where is it? How do I know it? "  This will lead us into the AUGUST IN-PERSON UNITREAT AT CAMP CISPUS !!   Yes at camp August 14 - 19. 

Costs: 

June Virtual weekend is offered for a love offering

August In-Person Unitreat (8/14-19, 6 days, 5 nights) is $350 per person

Note from Chris:

Thank you for taking extra efforts in reaching out to those having completed 6th, 7th, 8th grades. It's been quite the year for young people as it has for all of us.

Promoting these events can help us reconnect, reconstruct, rebuild, renew and rejoice.

For the 8th graders this is their last Uniteen event with a ceremony to celebrate their passage to YOU.

There are quite a few changes that bring us into alignment with safe practices, state and federal guidelines for gathering.

If you would like to explore these changes or have other questions or concerns about your Uniteens readiness for camp please contact me, Chris Castaldi at cbchris.2010@gmail.com.

Many Blessings to you and yours.

Chris

Click here to register

April 16th-18th was the NW Youth of Unity Spring Rally. The theme for this online event was "Sanctificati Sumus - We Are Sanctuary." 12 people from 6 Northwest Region ministries participated in the event.

We shared an inspiring weekend of connecting and looked at how to create sanctuary for ourselves and how to be a sanctuary for others. Participants reflected that:

"My sanctuary can be created and inspired wherever I choose, it is more about the emotion and the people than it is the actual place."

"Anywhere and anyone can be a sanctuary, and that safety comes in many forms."

Our 2021-2022 Regional Officer is Cody Little-Reece.

Thank you for supporting this event and our youth!

We are holding space and praying for an in-person UNITREAT at Cispus AUGUST 14 – 19, 2021. Adults arrive Aug 13^th for prep, Youth arrive Sat, Aug 14 for start of camp. This is a Saturday – Thursday.

More Information and Registration will be posted on the NW Region website.

This will all depend on what is happening in the NW related to the pandemic. All adult participants will need to be tested within 5 days of our start date. Masks will be used. Dorm use and programs will change for 6 ft distancing. I know we all want to gather and play on the Challenge course and sing around the campfire. This prayerful process will unfold as we draw closer to summer-time.

Decision point for Go/No Go is June 16, 2021

Fall Unitreat – Nov 12-13-14, 2021. Time and Place TBA.

Connection for Spiritual Leaders – April 28^th 1:00

Calling all ministers, spiritual leaders, and board leaders without ministers!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2152347256

Meeting ID: 215 234 7256

Providing spiritual leadership in community is a calling of the heart. Many of us have been stretched and grown in ways we never expected in the past year. Please accept this invitation to come together in a community of leaders to share and connect, to be supported and offer support to one another as requested.

To be seen and heard for who we are is one of our basic needs as humans. Our work as leaders requires us to invite our communities to rely on us for direction in challenging times. Let’s get together and see one another, hear one another, in love and understanding. Unity World Headquarters offers us this affirmation for the month of April:

An inexhaustible stream of divine love pours through me,

blessing others and myself.

Let’s bless one another...

Reverend Terry Murray

Regional Representative, Unity NW Region

minister@unityofolympia.org

Music Videos for Your Easter Services

Becca Palm has created an up-tempo Easter virtual choir video with singers from Unity of Central Oregon and Unity of Bellevue that is available for you to use for your virtual Easter Sunday.

We also have beautiful Easter musical videos created by other Unity communities in the NW for you to use as well. Our hope is that this gift allows your community to have a richer Easter service and maybe the ability to supplement other services as well with these light-filled and joyful creations.  

Please use this link for the Easter videos: Click Here or  https://www.beccapalm.com

Building Bridges: Touching the World with Our Truth

Save the date: September 20-23, 2021

click here to view the call for presenters. 

Want to revisit presentations from the 2020 NW regional conference? 

Share them with your leadership team? The videos are now available! 

Visit https://www.unitynwregion.org/Conference-Videos to purchase!