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• Shelter Lunches

  • Start
    21 Apr 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    28 Jul 2021
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    (PDT)
  • Schedule
    10 sessions

  
  

  There are several ways to help the 2 homeless shelters operated by Interfaith Works:

  • Money donations through www.interfaith-works.org
  • Donating supplies at Interfaith Office 110-11th Ave., basement of United Churches. Monday-Thursday 9-4:00. Call 360-357-7224 first.
  • • twin bed blankets
    • towels
    • personal products like hotel soaps & shampoos
    • Homemade cloth face masks

  • Unity of Olympia donation of meals* will be coordinated through our Community Coordinator. Please let her know if you can do this: at (360) 489-0885 or communitycooridnator@unityofolympia.org

  *Dates listed have lunch donation availability. Once a date has been fulfilled it will be removed from the list.
  

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• Mindful Consciousness Yoga

  • Start
    11 May 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    13 Jul 2021
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    (PDT)
  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Unity of Olympia

  

  Every Tuesday, 10:00-11:15am | Facilitated by Carol Ramstack

  Classes are designed for the senior body but open to all ages. We will focus on a relaxation, mindfulness, along with very gentle yoga poses; all with attention to the breath. This is a combination mat/chair class. If one is unable to safely get up and down from the floor, the practice can be done replacing the mat with a chair. Please bring your own yoga mat to each class along with any other props you use to make yourself comfortable. A small blanket or towel would be helpful.

  Suggested donation: $10

  Please contact Carol directly if you have any questions.

  
  

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• Unity of Olympia's Visioning Group

  • Start
    21 May 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    19 Nov 2021
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    (PST)
  • Schedule
    7 sessions
  • Registered
    22 registrants

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  Unity of Olympia's Future - a Visioning Group

  Please join Reverend Terry in opening to the guidance of Spirit to lead Unity of Olympia going forward. It is not too late to register! We welcome your presence and participation.

  The Visioning Group will be a hybrid meeting on the third Friday of each month at 5:00 PM, May through November. Attendees can register for either in-person attendance or online via Zoom.

  Through these meetings, we will:

  1. clarify and understand the challenges that face our spiritual community;
  2. engage the power of Spirit through prayer to envision the highest and best future;
  3. provide the Council of Trustees recommendations for the future of Unity of Olympia.

  This work will be guided by the Creative Process as described by Reverend Eric Butterworth. Between gatherings, each member of the Visioning Group will be invited to practice this Visioning Prayer work and encouraged to brainstorm with one another.

  Registration is required and we ask that you commit to attending as many meetings as you can, to the best of your ability. If you have any questions, please contact us at office@unityofolypmia.org.

  
  

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• Musical Guest: Kerri Lynn Nichols

  • Start
    30 May 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    18 Jul 2021
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    (PDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions

  Musical Guest: Kerri Lynn Nichols

  Sunday, May 30 and July 18 | 10:00 am

  We are excited to welcome musical guest Kerri Lynn Nichols and her partner, Scott, to Unity of Olympia on May 30th during our Sunday celebration! You can learn more about Kerri by following the links below.

  Artistic Director, The Olympia Peace Choir

  www.theolympiapeacechoir.org

  Tree Frog Music & Dance, Educational Consultant

  www.treefrogmusicanddance.com

  Publications and Recordings:

  www.beatinpathpublications.com

  Kerri Lynn Nichols has been a music and creative dance instructor for over thirty-five years teaching all ages in the public and private sectors in singing, piano, world percussion and composition. She earned Bachelor Degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance at Washington State University and an MA in Music and Creative Arts In Learning from the University of Memphis and Lesley University. Ms. Nichols is a master level Orff-Schulwerk educator, an approach to music focused on improvisation, composition and creativity, studying at the International Course at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Nichols is an author, composer, choral and choreographer. Her compositions, choreography and children’s musicals have been commissioned for community projects with children and dance companies such as Kaleidoscope and Enertia of Seattle. She has published several books and recordings for educators and children. Ms. Nichols has presented multiple workshops for state, national and international conferences as well as designing and implementing courses for educators in music pedagogy, academic integration and brain-based learning. She is the founding artistic director of The Olympia Peace Choir in Washington state and an educational consultant through Tree Frog Music & Dance. The core of her work is to encourage others to become aware of their abilities and gifts through the magic of music and movement.

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• Women's Book Study Group

  • Start
    9 Jun 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    11 Aug 2021
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    (PDT)
  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  New Women’s Book Study Group

  Every Wednesday, 4:00p Beginning June 9th

  
  

  Join Reverend Terry for a weekly book study. This group will focus on “Spiritual Not Religious” books beginning with The Fifth Agreement. Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz published this book in 2010 as a follow up to The Four Agreements, calling it “A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery.”

  
  

  The Sunday lessons in June will address each of the first Four Agreements and their relationship to Unity and New Thought teachings. Register now!

  • June 6th – Be Impeccable with your Word – Audrey Pitchford, Licensed Unity Teacher. 
  • June 13th – Life is but a Dream – Reverend Terry Murray. 
  • June 20th – Our Magical Meaning-Making Minds – Reverend Terry Murray. 
  • June 27th – Practice for Progress – Reverend Terry Murray.

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• New Members Class

  • Start
    10 Jun 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    8 Jul 2021
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    (PDT)
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Hybrid: In-Person or Online via Zoom
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  We'd love to welcome you!

  Looking to join Unity of Olympia?

  Consider signing up for a New Members Class.

  Class dates: 6/10, 6/24 & 7/8 from  5:30 - 7:30 PM

  Facilitated by Rev. Terry Murray

  This New Member orientation is an opportunity to learn more about Unity of Olympia and the history of the Unity Movement. New members will get to spend time with each other and some of our church leaders. This is a sacred time of renewal and community.

  Participation in all three sessions is required. Attendance will be offered for both in-person and online via Zoom registration. Please specify during the registration process.

  If you have any questions, please contact us

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• The Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls

  • Start
    11 Jul 2021
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    (PDT)
  • End
    18 Jul 2021
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    (PDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Unity of Olympia
  • Registered
    11 registrants

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  The Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls

  with Ian Werrett, Ph.D.

  Sundays, July 11 and 18 | 11:30 am

  
  

  Please join us in welcoming guest speaker, Ian Werrett, Ph.D. to Unity of Olympia. Ian will be speaking during Sunday service and then presenting two lectures to our community about the Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls. We hope you will join us for this very special event. Cost: $100 per person. Please bring a brown bag lunch.

  
  

  Lecture One – Sunday, July 11, 11:30 am

  “Caves and Questions: The Discovery and Contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

  
  

  Lecture Two – Sunday, July 18, 11:30 am

  “Sects, Movements, and Scripture: The Greco-Roman Context of the Scrolls”

  
  

  Course Description: In 1947, in a cave along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a young Bedouin shepherd from Bethlehem made one of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century – the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls. In the ensuing years, archaeologists and Bedouin succeeded in recovering over nine-hundred scrolls from a total of eleven caves near an ancient site known as Khirbet Qumran. The discovery of these ancient Jewish texts, which include the oldest known copies of the books of the Old Testament, have completely revolutionized our understanding of Second Temple Judaism, the compositional history of the Hebrew Bible, and the era in which the early Christian community came into existence. As a brief introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls, this two-part lecture series will focus on the discovery of the scrolls, their contents, major themes, and the larger world in which these texts were collected and composed.

  
  

  Biography:Ian Werrett is a Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Martin's University and an internationally recognized expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews in Biblical Studies and Second Temple Judaism (2006) and has published articles on Jewish purity practices, Greco-Roman libraries, and literacy in the ancient world. Werrett has worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem, acted as a member of the Pacific Science Center’s Dead Sea Scrolls Speaker’s Bureau, and published a monograph with Brill Academic Publishers entitled Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2007).

  
  

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• Clean & Easy | Annual Summer Picnic

  • When
    22 Aug 2021
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    11:15 AM (PDT)
  • Location
    Unity of Olympia

  

  Sunday, August 22 | Annual Summer Picnic

  This year’s summer party will be "Clean & Easy" for our annual picnic on Sunday August 22, right after the church service. Join friends, family and meet others for lunch. Tables will set up inside and out so people can distance as necessary for personal comfort and safety. 

  A buffet of sandwiches, salads, chips, drinks and cake will be served. A donation of $5.00 is requested for each person, but you are invited to give as much as you want. There is no need to bring anything except for your open heart and hopefully your sunglasses. 

  Mark your calendars, you don't want to miss it!

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