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  • White Stone Service

    In-Person and on Live Stream

    Please review our COVID-19 Policies before attending
    Please RSVP below

    We start the year with a fresh, clear outlook on life. During the talk, you are encouraged to think about who you want to be in the coming year. Different from New Year's Resolutions, this process is about discerning a spiritual value or word that you want to express more fully. You receive a white stone and are invited to write your word upon the stone and use it as a reminder of who you've come here to be.

    Masks, proof of vaccination, and photo identification are required to attend in person. Click here to review our COVID-19 Policies

    Please RSVP for the In-Person Services using the Google form here:
    https://forms.gle/vCvDB5hbji7NwNSB7

  • A Season For Nonviolence

    The Season for Nonviolence marks the 64 days between the memorial anniversaries of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. It was co-founded by Arun and Sunanda Gandhi and the Leadership Council of The Association for Global New Thought (AGNT) in 1998. We learn to practice nonviolence one step at a time, one choice at a time, one day at a time. Through our daily nonviolent choices and action, our noble and courageous spirits rise to move the world in the direction of peace.

    Kick-off event on YouTube, 1/30 @ 1:00 pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2aByNE-bs
    Featuring: Michael Beckwith, Roger Feel, Shariff Abdullah, Deborah Johnson, Faith Rivera and Harold Payne.

  • Unity Palo Alto Annual Meeting 2022

    Everyone is welcome to attend this Zoom meeting and members are invited to vote for new Board of Trustees members, ratify the budget, and so much more!

    Voting Members: Due to legal requirements, each member must have a unique registration and login. Each member must log in on a separate device in order to vote. If you are sharing a device with someone else, only one vote will count.

    Register for this Zoom Meeting:

    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrc-mopjkvGtebujg3e4yEd3Nyx0NCM-EL

  • Holy Week Meditation Service 

    With Casey Wicker
    In-person in the Sanctuary and on Zoom (Hybrid)
    Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkduGoqzIoHdzPTXdjd_n17pIPjF3flMG1

    During this meditation service, we will look at Holy Week through metaphysical interpretation. Through readings, music, and times of silence, we will be invited to release erroneous thoughts and beliefs and embrace a new understanding of ourselves as the "I Am," the Christ presence. We will travel with the way-shower, Jesus, on a journey to Jerusalem, our metaphysical “habitation of peace.”

  • Spiritual Center Update

    In the Sanctuary & on Zoom (hybrid) 

    Once a quarter, your Board of Trustees invite you to learn about what's happening at your Spiritual Center. Daniel Frandsen, your Board Treasurer, will present our current and projected financial status, Rev. John will provide an update on our Spiritual Center, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions. Everyone from our spiritual community is encouraged to attend in-person or online and participate.

    Register for the Zoom Event

  • Write Your Story

    An experience of writing your life stories

    This group-led Zoom event will meet on 5/8 & 6/26

    Stories, memories, tales of the past, call them what you will, memories matter. History paints a broad picture of the world, national and local times, and events but says little about the individuals who lived through those times. Memories are not experiences to be relived and constantly aired, but to be looked at learned from, and shared so the future may see how life used to be.

    Each month this group comes together to develop writing skills, inspire each other, and share stories. A topic for writing is chosen by the group at the end of each session. Each session is group-facilitated.

    Register for the Zoom event.

  • The Karyn Bradley Learning Center Dedication

    From 2005 through 2016, Rev. Karyn Bradley served as our Senior Minister with a warm, generous heart. She returns on Sunday, 6/12, to join Rev. John Riley for the Sunday Service. After the service, we renamed what used to be known as the front office to “The Karyn Bradley Learning Center,” honoring her leadership and […]

  • Unity Palo Alto Prayer Service

    This month only, we are moving the Prayer Service to June 19.

    Every 2nd Sunday after the service we come together in affirmative prayer. Infuse our community prayer requests with love and blessings before we send them off to Silent Unity, where they will be held in prayer for 30 days. This meditation service led by Casey Wicker, Licensed Unity Teacher, is the same sacred practice used by Silent Unity. One heart, one voice in prayer, affirming the light within.

    1st Sunday of the month: Spiritual Center Update (every other month)
    2nd Sunday of the month: Prayer Circle Service with Casey Wicker
    3rd, 4th, 5th Sunday of the month: Spiritual Coffee Talk

    Register for the Zoom  (NEW registration as of 12/13/21):
    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpfuuhpjstGdQIQKeGbYNm6I8XKvfAfuwr

  • Healing the Pain of the Pandemic ~ From Despair to Hope

    With Rev. Sheila Gautreaux
    At the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center
    Register for this event!

    A spiritual process for moving through our emotional trauma to the awakening of hope and experience of the power and presence of God.
    Join with others from many walks of life to:

    • Express and experience your pain in a safe and supportive environment
    • Cross the threshold into healing

    And. . .

    • Engage your spiritual power tools that provide ongoing support for creating and maintaining a new Paradigm of Peace, Love, Joy, and an upwardly progressive movement of Spirit in your life and in the world
  • Q&A Sunday Service

    Do you have a question for Rev. John Riley? This Sunday is our annual Q&A service where you can ask your question and he will answer as many questions as he can during the Sunday talk. Perhaps you would like to know how Unity defines nonresistance, divine mind, or the metaphysical meaning of Israel. Submit your question today!

  • Board of Trustees Meeting on Sunday

    Light lunch will be served!

    This month, we are holding our Board of Trustees Meeting on Sunday after the service, both in-person and on Zoom (Hybrid). Our Board of Trustees serves as a model for putting Unity Principles to work at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. This is a great opportunity to learn more about your Board! Learn more...

  • The Stories We Tell Ourselves

    With Gregg Levoy, author & speaker
    Hands-on workshop in person and on Zoom
    $30 registration fee
    Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-tickets-381871035547

    We're storytelling animals, and we create stories to help us make sense of life and give us a framework for our decisions, whether personal, professional, or spiritual. But those stories can sometimes turn on us—especially the negative ones—and become self-limiting when they come up against life's primary goal: Grow. And when they become lies of identity—I am what I do, I am what I have, I am what other people think of me.

    This presentation—part service talk and part hands-on workshop—is designed to help you identify and reconsider the stories you tell yourself. We’ll work to separate fact from fiction, emphasize the positive in our stories, and understand that they don't keep replaying themselves to torment us, but to offer us opportunities to heal and grow. The soul’s agenda is not punishment, but healing.

  • Richard & Imogene Hilbers Celebration of Life Service

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    During the pandemic, our dear friends and long-time members, Richard & Imogene Hilbers made their transition. On Sunday, August 21, at 11:30 am we come together to remember, honor, and celebrate their life. Please join us in person or online at https://unitypaloalto.org/live for this celebration.

    We would really appreciate receiving pictures and memories of Imogene and Dick to share with everyone at the service. Please send them and any questions to Ann Heile at ann.heile@gmail.com or 408-691-1724.

  • Write Your Story

    An experience of writing your life stories

    Moved in August to Sunday, 8/28

    Group-led. Register for the Zoom event:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcuyvpzkvEtYeWTm-bFptEflBRFLmjK1l

    Stories, memories, tales of the past, call them what you will, memories matter. History paints a broad picture of the world, national and local times, and events but says little about the individuals who lived through those times. Memories are not experiences to be relived and constantly aired, but to be looked at learned from, and shared so the future may see how life used to be.

    Each month this group comes together to develop writing skills, inspire each other, and share stories. A topic for writing is chosen by the group at the end of each session. Each session is group-facilitated.

    Materials; Journal, Life is a Song, Sing It by Joyce Riley (Optional)

  • Unity Palo Alto Pot Luck

    Bring a dish
    Bring a friend
    Enjoy some games

    fun • food • friendship

    Sign up sheet for food to be at the Hospitality table in the courtyard.

  • Spiritual Center Update

    In the Sanctuary & on Zoom (hybrid) 

    Once a quarter, your Board of Trustees invites you to learn about what's happening at your Spiritual Center. Daniel Frandsen, your Board Treasurer, will present our current and projected financial status, Rev. John will provide an update on our Spiritual Center, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions. Everyone from our spiritual community is encouraged to attend in-person or online and participate.

    Register for the Zoom Event:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscuCgrz8uEtNHziCwg8DZgIyzU1mvYbKf

    (Note: This is the same zoom meeting for the Sunday Zoom Experience)

  • Monday Night Music Holiday Toy Drive

    In-Person

    Bring a new, unwrapped, and unopened gift and celebrate the holidays and support local homeless kids with Margo LeDuc and the Unity Palo Alto band.

  • Christmas Day Sunday Service

    In-Person

    Join Rev. John Riley, Casey Wicker, and Russell Norman for a special, contemplative Christmas Morning Service.

  • Unity Palo Alto Connections – Final Meeting

    With Karen Friedman on Zoom
    Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdu2vqz4oE9xu5bmRrw_1RXgzhCkS7xTc

    We will be gathering on Zoom for a final time on Tuesday, January 24 @ 7:30 PM to reflect on our three years together, the experience we shared, and what might serve each of us and our community going forward. Mark your calendars if you would like to join us. I will send a reminder with the Zoom link as the date approaches.

  • Words That Made the Difference: Brown vs the Board of Education

    To commemorate Black History Month in 2023, UPA’s DEI-BElonging Team is pleased to announce a live performance of:

    Words That Made the Difference:
    Brown vs. the Board of Education

    Saturday, February 11, 2023, in our sanctuary
    6:15-6:45 PM - Q&A with the playwright
    7:00-9:00 PM - Performance (no intermission)
    9:00-9:30 PM - Q&A with the cast

    Tickets are FREE and available only through Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/UnityBvB
    Donations are welcome and will go to the UPA’s General Fund.

    Learn more

  • Prayer Chaplain Orientation

    Imagine this: "It's the end of 2023, and your prayer life is deeper and richer. Plus, you have supported other people on their spiritual journeys through prayer." At the Prayer Chaplain Orientation, you learn more about:

    • Who are the current Prayer Chaplains?
    • What is a Prayer Chaplain?
    • What are the responsibilities, requirements, and expectations of being a Prayer Chaplain?
    • What is the schedule for the training and the interviews?

    Indeed, "We pray with one heart and one mind as we are held in the love of Spirit."