It is such a blessing for all of us at Unity East of Clinton Township to be one of a limited number of churches to remain open during these challenging times. Extra precautions continue to be taken to ensure everyone’s safety. We offer Sunday services at the church (10:00 am) and via Facebook.
Programs such as Keep a True Lent, Women in the Bible, and New Membership Classes open the door to spiritual growth. One of the most recent has proven itself to be a big success, Stress Relief in Challenging Times.
As many churches are closing their doors for good across America, we are instead focusing on the future of Unity East. With this in mind, we recently had a workshop entitled Healthy Congregations, on being a spiritually healthy congregation.
For those of you who have been able to join us for service in person, we are very happy to see you. We are also grateful for those who continue to view our services and classes online and look forward to the day when we can all be together again.
In Unity we believe: There is only One Presence and One Power active in our lives and in the Universe … God, the Good— All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Everywhere Present.
Right here … right now … we are surrounded with everything we could possibly need or want. Our co-founder, Charles Fillmore, tells us prosperity is “the consciousness of God as the abundant, everywhere present resource, unfailing, ready for all who open themselves to it through faith.”
Through faith we accept that good … and give ourselves permission to receive it. Through faith we also embrace a lifestyle of true generosity. Do you receive “spiritual food” from Unity East Church? Have you brought your “whole tithes to the storehouse?” As grateful recipients of God’s blessings, we are called to share a portion of our gifts.
“One gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what they should give, and only suffers want.
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,
and they who water will themselves be watered.”
Proverbs 11:24–25.
1 Kings 17 tells us the story of a poor widow and her son when they met Elijah. The prophet had been sent to an area stricken by drought. The lack of rain resulted in a famine, and many people had little or nothing to eat. When Elijah came to the gate of the town, he saw a woman gathering sticks for a fire. He called out to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” As she was going to bring it, he added, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
The widow, who was practically starving as was her son, replied, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks, so I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
But Elijah knew something she didn’t. He reassured her saying, “Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.”
So the widow did what Elijah asked her to do. And what happened? Verse 16 tells us, “The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail…”
Give, and it will be given to you.
A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over,
will be put into your lap;
for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”
Luke 6:38
