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Unity Center

in western North Carolina

Rev. Chad O'Shea, Minister
Lytingale, Minister of Music

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Unity Center of western NC - World Globe with seagull

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
~ G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908)

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Unity Center of Christianity is an inspired community
joyfully practicing Universal peace, love, and acceptance.

Welcome to Unity!    Thank you for the gift of your time and attention.
We hope you'll find information on our Unity church website & online spiritual journal
that is interesting, amusing, inspiring, or thought-provoking!

We invite you to visit our church in person - we are 5 minutes from the Asheville airport.
Sunday Celebration Services: 9:30 & 11:00 am

Unity Center ~ 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd, Mills River NC 28759 ~ (828) 891-8700, 684-3798

Contents of our Unity Center Website:

The Sacred Cow
our online spiritual journal

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." ~Mark Twain

Click here for the
List of Articles
an abundant archive of writings from the Unity News & Views,
our quarterly printed Newsletter/Spiritual Journal.

ARTICLES By:


Short Subjects
miscellaneous short writings


Poetry


Symbolism of the
Unity Wings &
Fast
Facts about Unity


Questions on the Path
Faithfully Answered Questions


Jokes & Funny Stories


Quotes & Quips
for conscious living 


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ABOUT our Unity Center
~ WHO we are ~
~ WHAT we're about ~
~Unity around the world~
~MAP/WHERE we are~

SCHEDULE

AUDIO ~ Listen to some of Rev. Chad O'Shea's Sunday talks!

VIDEO ~ Available by mail now... Coming soon to YouTube.

Community Labyrinth at Unity Center ~ Brick by Brick ~ We are constructing a Labyrinth for contemplation, healing, and transformation! You may provide Memorial or Honorarium Bricks for a donation of $50 per brick. Choose the engraving - names, sayings, etc. (3 lines, 18 characters per line, all CAPS). Fill out a form at church, or order online (check/VISA-MC/Paypal): www.bricksrus.com/order/unitycenter

Prayer at Unity

 Weddings

  • with Rev. Chad O'Shea and/or Lytingale
  • at Unity Center or at other locations in WNC and beyond 
  • Check out our Wedding planning resources!
Our Favorite LINKS:
Unity Facebook Group
LOCAL Links
: useful info about our area in western NC
~ Spiritual ~
~ Environmental ~
~ Social Action ~
~ Variety Links:
Health, Food, Internet, Children, Money, Misc
SHOP with our affiliates!
Thanks!

Rental of Unity Center

  • for your special occasion
  • by other groups for meetings, workshops, etc.

Unity Marketplace Page
~ SHOP On-line at our affiliated merchants - thanks for your support!


Unity's MyPowerMall:
Spiritual Cinema Circle
~ movies with heart and soul;  DVDs by mail - you keep the movies!
"A Taste Of Unity" ~ Our Unity Cookbook ~ Our Unity Cookbook
~ Great recipes!

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Give!
Every search you make earns a penny for Unity!  Powered by Yahoo!
Make it even easier: download the free GoodSearch Toolbar.

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~About our Unity Center~

Unity Center in western North Carolina serves as a vehicle to awaken the planet
and is a wellspring of spiritual enrichment, fellowship, personal growth, and human comfort
through worship, education, and programs which demonstrate the practical application of spiritual truths
to all who come our way.

Location

Unity Center
2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd
Mills River, NC 28759
(828)891-8700, 684-3798 

Use the MAP and driving Directions to visit us in person... for a Sunday Service, a special Workshop, a Concert, a weekly Class, Counseling, Wednesday night Soul Series, our Bookstore... all complete with hugs.  We are a scenic 5-minute drive from the Asheville airport.
Activities
  • Sunday Celebration Services are held at 9:30 and 11:00 am

    Nursery care is available at both services.  Youth Education & Y.O.U. (birth thru age 18) is at 11:00am.
    Directions

  • Schedule of Special Events, Workshops, Ongoing Classes, Special Services, and Concerts at our Unity Center. There's a lot going on here!

  • Unity Concert Series ~ monthly concerts held at Unity, featuring a wide variety of musical styles and performers.
  • U.M.M.A.S. Retreat ~ annual retreat for Unity people from all over NC, SC, GA, TN, and beyond! Held at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville

  • Weddings with Rev. Chad O'Shea and/or Lytingale, with information & links to local services for your special celebration.  (Holy Union services are also available.) 
People
What Is Unity?  
"Unity is trans-denominational and welcomes in dignity and love,
people of all races, colors, religions, social background and economic levels."

~Rev. Howard Caesar, Unity minister in Houston, TX

Interactive opportunities...

Website Email List ~ Sign up to be notified when new articles are posted to this website... you'll receive an email about every 3 months, and your privacy will be protected!

Local Email List ~ Sign up to be notified about LOCAL EVENTS at our Unity Center... you'll receive one or two emails each week, with info on our events or other local church news. Your privacy will be protected!

Unity Center Facebook Group: join us on Facebook!  Lots of photos are posted on our Unity Center facebook group.

Share on Facebook - many of our articles have this button so you can easily share that article with friends on your Facebook page.

Unity Center is on UnitySocial.com: join this new global social network for Unity people... then look for Unity Center in Mills River (Asheville) and make us your Unity friend!

  Button to subscribe to RSS feedSubscribe to our podcasts

Discussion List ~ For spiritual discussions & networking, join the yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitics_wnc/ 

Unity Vision Forum ~ take the survey to let us know your visions for our Unity Center.

Concerts Survey ~ tell us who you'd like to hear in our Concert Series.

Music ~ 

unique, original, dynamic...
with Lytingale & The Unitic Band

Photos ~
Prayer: Unity was founded on prayer, and prayer is always available at Unity
  • Submit your Prayer Requests to our Prayer Team & Silent Unity
  • Prayers you may wish to use, contributed by our Chaplains 
  • Unity Chaplains are available to pray with you after each Sunday service.
  • Community Labyrinth - on our Unity land, to be complete in September 2009 

  • Learn about Silent Unity - continuous prayer 24/7 for over 100 years.
  • Read the Daily Word from Unity Village.
Questions on The Path: answers to some of the questions you send us
  1. How do your prayers work?
  2. I'm interested in hands on healing, using prayer to channel healing energy...
  3. My marriage is on the brink...
  4. I'd like to explore Unity's principle of looking on the bright side... Can you be realistically positive?
  5. What are your views about homosexuality?

Vision & Mission of our Unity Center

Donate Online at:  Network for Good.org logo Network for Good.org.

or Donate by mail:  Unity Center
     2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd, Mills River, NC 28759

Opportunities to help raise funds for Unity...
  • Shop at the Unity Power Mall - www.unitypowermall.com ~ shop at over 1,000 stores and earn rebates for Unity!

  • MyPowerMall ~ this is a very cool business opportunity for you that helps us all!  You get an online shopping mall for FREE!... and we both get a share of the commissions on anything you or your friends buy there.  And you can give away PowerMalls to others!  Check it out here:  mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/77465

  • Spiritual Cinema Circle ~ movies with heart and soul ~ you subscribe and a DVD with 4 features & shorts is sent to you each month by mail.  You keep the movies! Founded by legendary film producer Stephen Simon ("What Dreams May Come", "Somewhere In Time", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"), the CIRCLE is a wonderful new way to advance the cause of spiritual cinema. The movies represent the best of spiritual cinema and art, and are new films you're unlikely to see anywhere else. Only $21 per month (plus $2.95 shipping in the USA).  FREE Trial Subscription!

  • The Unity Marketplace ~ SHOP On-line at our affiliated merchants. Thank you for your support!

  • "A Taste of Unity" Cookbook ~ Great recipes from our members... a delicious, eclectic collection... all proceeds benefit Unity!

  • WNC Insider Savings Club - Over 100 2-for-1 Offers, plus Save Up to 50% Off at over 200 Local Businesses! Thousands of Dollars in Savings... No coupons! Just show your card at local businesses, from restaurants to car repair. $35 for a one-year membership (and $12.50 goes to Unity!). Buy your Membership in the lobby at Unity, or mention Unity when you buy by phone or online. Makes a great gift too!

  • Community Labyrinth at Unity Center ~ Brick by Brick ~
    Join us on a journey of contemplation, healing, wholeness, and transformation! A labyrinth open to the community (and handicap accessible) will be constructed of bricks and gravel on our Unity property by Sept 2009.  To raise the funds, we offer you to opportunity to purchase Memorial or Honorarium Bricks, for a donation of $50 per brick ($75 after July 27).  You choose the engraving - your choice of names, sayings, etc. (3 lines, 18 characters per line, all CAPS).

Financial Fundamentals
Love In Action Expressing our God essence through Service...
Unity Media Clubs Experience our Sunday services on Audio CD or Video DVD, mailed to your home
Unity Youth
Location of our Church: use the MAP and driving Directions to come visit us in person... for a Sunday Service, a special workshop, a Concert, a weekly class, counseling, Wednesday night Soul Sessions, a spiritual film, our Bookstore... all complete with hugs.
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Our church is one of hundreds of Unity churches across the world.
Our Unity Wings in stained glass
The Unity Wings - the meaning of this Unity symbol & Fast Facts about Unity
Unity School of Christianity is a religious, educational organization based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, co-founded by Charles & Myrtle Fillmore in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1889.

Visit Unity World Headquarters:

  • Read today's Daily Word
  • Find out about retreats at Unity Village in Missouri
  • Request prayer from Silent Unity, confidential prayer support, continuously for over 100 years.

~ An Important Message ~
Unity Center is supported entirely by love offerings
from people like you who find our ideas and services
beneficial to self and/or to the community.
This Unity website is our offering of love to you, made possible by the generosity of the people who share time, energy, and money to make it happen. If what we are doing is valuable to you, please help keep it alive and growing!.

You can make a difference in helping this work to grow so that our message may reach out in ever-widening circles, to a world that so needs healing and transformation!

All donations are tax deductible (in the U.S.) and are deeply appreciated.

Donate by Mail:
Unity Center
2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road
Mills River, NC  28759   U.S.A.

Checks payable to "Unity Center"
Donate Online:
by credit card at secure site
Netword for Good
Network for Good.org

We appreciate every donation, of every size, and
We thank you for your love and support.

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Unity Center
2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road
Mills River, NC 28759
(828) 891-8700, 684-3798

Note: We haven't moved!  In 2008, the Post Office changed our mailing address: new Town & Zip .  Our old address will NOT work after July 1, 2009!

Email: unity(at)unitync.net

Affiliated with Unity School of Christianity
Member of the Association of Unity Churches

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 Unity's MyPowerMall:

Spiritual Cinema Circle
Spiritual Cinema Circle
~ movies with heart and soul;  DVDs by mail - you keep the movies!

Search the web with GoodSearch.com GoodSearch: You Search...We
Give!
Every search you make earns a penny for Unity!  Powered by Yahoo!
Make it even easier: download the free GoodSearch Toolbar.

Link Synergy LinkShare ~ a wealth of affiliate programs!
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~ Our Awards ~

We won the first Golden Unitic Award!
We're the first winner!

The Open Directory project
The Open Directory Project
~ a comprehensive search directory, using volunteer editors.
Lotus Light Award

        Unity in western NC was named in the Top One Percent of the Web by 21st Century Renaissance

In loving memory of Scott Morrison, teacher, author, friend (who helped create our first website in 1996.)

© 1996-2009 Unity Center of Christianity, Inc., Mills River NC

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~ Thanks for the gift of your time & attention! ~

Last modified: 2009-06-03
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