The UNITY Center | Portland Area Spiritual Center | Peace | West Linn Sunday Services http://www.worldhealing.org celebrating spiritual living ~ embracing world healing Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:25:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Event Garden Updates – Sod and Sprinker System Installed! http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/04/25/event-garden-updates-sod-and-sprinker-system-installed/ http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/04/25/event-garden-updates-sod-and-sprinker-system-installed/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:24:36 +0000 admin http://www.worldhealing.org/?p=3673
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Winner of the 2011 best spiritual author competition.  Love offering.

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The whole month of May, the series will be based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s new book: Fear. 10AM and 11AM services.

5/6 – New Class: How to Pray Without talking to God.  7PM
Every other Monday at 7PM learn how to reap the benefits of praying without talking to God.  Starts 5/6.  Love offering.  S.E.E. credit.

5/12 – Mother’s Day Plant Sale 
The youth will be holding a plant sale.  Bring a plant, buy a plant.  Proceeds go to sending the youth to camp.

5/19 – Sound Healing Meditation
After the service, stay and be healed by the vibrations of gongs.  Jon Reinschreiber to perform.

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This series will give you tools to embrace and dissolve any fears that are holding you back from living the life you want to live.

“Essential Wisdom For Getting Through the Storm” is the books bi-line.

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Here is a link to their website and you can listen to the interview and read the article and comments there:

http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/arun-gandhi-discusses-nonviolence-violent-world/

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March 31st – Easter –“The Hidden Meaning Of Easter” 10AM & 11AM

“Death is not the opposite of life.  The opposite of death is birth.  Life has no opposite.” Eckhart Tolle

Be part of this wonderful and inspirational service.  Special music with LaRhonda Steele, Joe Millward, Laila Murphy, Ron Shoals and Catone.  Easter egg hunt and games for children hosted by the teens.  Bring family and friends.

 

April 14th – Garden Play Day – After 11AM

Bring a sack lunch and garden tools and help create beauty and order in our stewardship of this land,

 

April 21st – Annual Vision Meeting – After 11AM

Expanding our vision.

 

April 28th – In Honor of Earth Day: New Garden Blessing – After 11AM

Following the 11AM service we will have a drumming circle led by Wolf Spirit Drum Group.

 

May 12th  – Mother’s Day Breakfast – After 11AM

Stay for a delicious breakfast created and served by the men of our spiritual community.

 

May 26th – Memorial Celebration

Purchase a plant for our new garden in memory of a departed dear one.

 

June 2nd – Miracle Sunday

Every year, the first Sunday in June we pause and acknowledge all the miracles in our lives and this ministry .

 

June 9th – Youth Honoring Day

A special day to honor all the young people and their sponsors in our community.

]]> http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/03/20/here-we-grow-again-2013-spring-events/feed/ 0 Arun Gandhi Visits UNITY http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/03/19/arun-gandhi-visits-unity/ http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/03/19/arun-gandhi-visits-unity/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:01:42 +0000 admin http://www.worldhealing.org/?p=3611 The UNITY Center invited Arun Gandhi, grandson to Mahatma Gandhi,  to speak on February 27th at Marylhurst University.  His talk was nothing short of inspiring, and the room was packed.  Thank you to everyone who helped with this amazing event!  Check out some photos of how it went below:

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The film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, will be screened at The UNITY Center on Friday, March 1st at 7PM.  $5 donation.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call “The Special Period.” The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.

 

]]> http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/02/05/movie-night-march-1st-7pm-the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil/feed/ 0 ARUN GANDHI TO SPEAK AT MARYLHURST MONDAY, FEB 25 http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/01/28/arun-gandhi-to-speak-at-marylhurst-monday-feb-25/ http://www.worldhealing.org/2013/01/28/arun-gandhi-to-speak-at-marylhurst-monday-feb-25/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:40:21 +0000 admin http://www.worldhealing.org/?p=3595 Dr. Arun Gandhi, author, journalist and grandson of the legendary Mahatma Gandhi, will speak at St. Anne’s Chapel at Marylhurst University, Monday, February 25, 7 PM.  The event, being hosted by The UNITY Center of West Linn, will be a highlight of this year’s Season of Peace and Nonviolence, the 64-day period between the anniversaries of the Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations  – January 30 through April 4.

 

Dr. Gandhi and his wife, Sunanda, were co-founders of the Season which is launched each year since 1998 at the United Nations.  The purpose of the Season is to honor the shared vision of Gandhi and King to heal, transform and empower people and communities by creating an increased awareness of their nonviolent principles and practices.

 

Also founder of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, Dr. Gandhi will speak about the lessons he learned from his grandfather as well as his worldwide travels to promote nonviolence and education as tools to promote economic self-reliance. “Poverty is the worst form of violence,” says Dr. Gandhi.

 

Tickets for the event at Marylhurst are $20 and may be purchased by going to www.worldhealing.org/peace or at Sunday services at The UNITY Center, 20255 Willamette Drive, West Linn.  Proceeds will go to the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute toward the building of a school and residential facility for children in the poorest area of rural India. For more information on the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, go to www.gandhiforchildren.org.

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