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

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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!

Online Youth of Unity Rally

April 16th-18th

Our online YOU Rally is coming up in April. The theme is "Sanctificati Sumus - We Are Sanctuary," and registration is now open. Please let your YOU community know about this opportunity for greater connection with YOUers from around the Northwest Region.

YOU Rally "Sanctificati Sumus - We Are Sanctuary"

Online April 16th-18th

Registration closes April 2nd.

Click here to learn more and to register

Start Your Spring with a Movie!

March 27, 2021, 7-9:30 PM

What’s the Movie? – We are taking requests, leave a message for Chris @ cbchris.2010@gmail.com or text 503 913 0898.

Give us the tile of the movie and WHY you think it would be a good one to watch together. The Uniteen Movie group is listening.

1.   We will plan a VIRTUAL UNITREAT March 13, all Uniteen Sponsors welcome! Please register on the NW Region website to receive a link.

2.   We are holding space and praying for an in-person UNITREAT at Cispus AUGUST 14 – 19, 2021. 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.

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

~ Conscious Collective Spiritual Connection ~

with Rev. David McArthur

Save the date: April 8th, 1-3 PM PT

Log-in info will be included in next month's newsletter.

The Spiritual connection we seek in our churches is not from on-high, it is from the awakening of our hearts.

As Unity ministers, Licensed Teachers and Spiritual Leaders, we have each felt the amazing moments when we seemed to open and Spirit took over, flowing through us. We experienced the clarity, the power, and the harmony. We saw our people were inspired. 

I have also held services, board meetings, and classes when that flow of Spirit was definitely not what happened. What makes the difference? I have been blessed to discover some answers to that question through both science and experience. The science is from my years at the HeartMath Institute. The experience is from my forty years of Unity ministry and from many ministers sharing their experiences with me.

Spirit flows when we activate our hearts. Spirit flows through our gatherings when we lead our people into a collective connection with their hearts. Let’s explore how to do that for our churches. Its bound to be fun! – David McArthur

Rev. David McArthur, J.D. has been a Unity minister for over forty years. He served on the staff of the HeartMath Institute as Director of their Religions division working with clergy of many religions and denominations. He has trained hundreds of Unity ministers, and thousands of people plus teaching the HeartMath discoveries to many Unity churches. He has keynoted spiritual conventions including Unity’s. Sharing how to bring the flow of spirit into the church community by activating the heart of the church is one of his greatest joys. He is author of three books on the spiritual wisdom and intelligence we access through our hearts, The Intelligent Heart, The Spiritual Heart, and his newly released, The Monk’s Choice.