Unity Palo Alto Annual Meeting 2025
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesEveryone is welcome to attend this In-Person meeting to celebrate our spiritual Community!
Voting Members are invited to vote for new Board of Trustees members, ratify the budget, and vote on any other business.
Presence & Potential Tuesday Group
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesA 7-Week Small Group
With Rev. John Riley
Tuesdays @ 7:00 - 8:30 pm, 2/25 - 4/8
In the Learning Center or Zoom
Space is limited. Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presence-potential-tuesday-small-group-tickets-1235177893329?aff=oddtdtcreator
During the six weeks, Rev. John's Sunday Service talk will be about the book "Presence & Potential - Experiencing Your Higher Self and Live in Wholeness" by Martha Creek, available in the Unity Palo Alto Bookstore. Rev. John will provide a reflection guide, and we will come together to share our insights from the book.
- More deeply engage in our spiritual teachings
- Support each other in our personal and spiritual growth
- Practice loving-kindness by serving others together
Presence & Potential Wednesday Group
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesA 7-Week Small Group
With Rev. John Riley
Wednesdays @ 2:00 - 3:30 pm, 2/26 - 4/9
In the Learning Center or Zoom
Space is limited. Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presence-potential-wednesday-small-group-tickets-1235198083719?aff=oddtdtcreator
During the six weeks, Rev. John's Sunday Service talk will be about the book "Presence & Potential - Experiencing Your Higher Self and Live in Wholeness" by Martha Creek, available in the Unity Palo Alto Bookstore. Rev. John will provide a reflection guide, and we will come together to share our insights from the book.
Community Member Orientation
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United Stateswith Rev. John Riley
Are you ready to take the next step? Come to the Community Member Orientation with Rev. John Riley. In this round-table style discussion, you will learn more about Unity, Unity Palo Alto, and how to deepen your connection with our spiritual community.
Nursery Grand Opening
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesPlease join us for Sunday service at 10 am and meet with our friendly community. After the service at 11 come see our nursery and meet our caregiver, Lisa.
Lisa has been an infant toddler teacher since 2002, she has CPR training and licensed with social services. Her family has been attending Unity 10+ years and is very excited to get the nursery up and running. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you into our spiritual community.
Prayer Chaplain Orientation
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesEver wondered what a Prayer Chaplain does? Or better yet, are you getting a nudge in your heart to become one for our spiritual community? If so, come and join the UPA Prayer Chaplain Team at their Orientation on Sunday, 3/9, from 12 pm to 1 pm. You can attend in person at the Learning Center or online through Zoom.
During the 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?
Most importantly, you get to experience divine connection and communion with God and others in prayer.
UPLIFT Prayer Circle ** Cancelled this week **
We'll be back next Wednesday
Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. We meet monthly, alternating between a Business Meeting and a Visioning Meeting. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
Metaphysical Bible Interpretation Workshop
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesA Workshop with Rev. John Riley
Sunday, 3/30 @ Noon - 2:00 pm
In person or on Zoom
Register Today!
Unity considers the Bible to be its basic textbook for the teaching of Truth and a manual for unfolding the human soul. While Unity encourages readers of the Bible to study it as a historical document, our main approach to biblical study is metaphysical. In other words, we look for the spiritual meaning underlying everything. In doing so, we see the people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible as representative of an idea or a state of consciousness.
This workshop will introduce you to a step-by-step method for metaphysically interpreting and applying the meanings to your life. It is a prerequisite for our upcoming monthly Metaphysical Bible Interpretation group.
Presence & Potential with Martha Creek
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a special visit with Martha Creek, Unity minister and author of Presence & Potential: Experience Your Higher Self and Live in Wholeness. Her book guides our Winter Spiritual Enrichment and small group program. This is an opportunity to hear Martha's wisdom and ask questions.
Zoom Meeting ID: 886 6704 2253
Passcode: 401909
or click
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88667042253?pwd=ZQcbDdnFHiwDCfcyPKEKJzHXLP8PEs.1
Sing-a-Long Sunday
At the UPA Courtyard Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin your Spiritual songbirds in the Courtyard (or Fireside Room, depending on the weather) after the service for a community sing-a-long feature of your favorite Unity or folk song.
Palm Sunday Service
"Hosanna!"
Celebrate Palm Sunday with Rev. John Riley, and music by Margo LeDuc, Russell Norman, and Ron E. Beck.
Holy Week Meditation Service
At the UPA Sanctuary & on ZoomWith Casey Wicker, Licensed Unity Teacher
In-person and on Zoom>
During this meditation service, we will examine Holy Week through the lens of metaphysical interpretation. Through readings, music, and times of silence, we will be invited to release error thoughts and beliefs that hold us back from opening to the fullness of our divine light. We will travel with the way-shower, Jesus, on a journey to Jerusalem, our metaphysical “habitation of peace.”
Zoom Information
Meeting ID: 825 7415 5072
Passcode: 302489
or click:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82574155072?pwd=WzLxbUmyZnBdFvoN4Jutv89f0VI6pl.1
Blessing Easter Flowers & Brunch
At the UPA YES Hall 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United StatesJoin Rev. John Riley as we cut, assemble, and bless the flowers for our Easter Sunday flower-cross experience. Please bring your favorite pair of pruners to the YES Hall (we'll have extra). When we are finished, we will be treated to a delicious brunch. Everyone is welcome! Please RSVP by 4/16
Easter Sunday Service
At Unity Palo Alto & Live StreamEaster Sunday Service 2025 Join us for a unique Easter Sunday Service. We welcome you to build a living Easter cross of flowers together, symbolizing our shared rebirth and blossoming […]
Easter Sunday Service
At Unity Palo Alto & Live StreamCelebrate Easter and help create a magnificent flowered cross to symbolize our eternal shared Christ Spirit with Rev. John Riley and music by Deborah Winters, Russell Norman on piano, Rick […]
Easter Brunch
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesCelebrate Easter with your spiritual community! After the service, you are welcome to brunch in the Courtyard and YES Hall, courtesy of the UPA Easter Bunnies.
Envision with the Board of Trustees
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. We meet monthly, alternating between a Business Meeting and a Visioning Meeting. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
Dinner With Friends
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesYou are invited to dinner! Celebrate our spiritual community. Whether a long-time member or a first-time visitor, you are welcome as we celebrate our spiritual community. Chef Paul Wcislo will be cooking lasagna! Love offerings will go to support our Center.
Chef Paul Wcislo will be cooking lasagna! We hope everyone will come.
The Power of Profound Gratitude
A state of profound gratitude is a joyful, connected state of being. In this interactive workshop, you discover how it feels, practice reaching it, and experience the tranquility, peace, and joy it brings. Sign up today!
*New* Women’s Group Brainstorming Meeting
At the UPA Fireside Room Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesUnity Palo Alto Women are invited to a brainstorming meeting in the Fireside room to talk about forming a UPA Women’s group.
We’ll meet to talk about:
What, When, Where, Why,
and volunteer leaders for the group.
Interested? Please join and invite your friends.
See Frances in the bookstore if you have questions.
Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
Special Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesDuring this special Board of Trustees meeting, we will be reviewing the proposed Marketing Plan and discussing Fundraising.
During the Business Meeting, you have two opportunities to participate: at the beginning, after the approval of the previous meeting's minutes, and towards the end, after the action item review.
Community Member Orientation
At the UPA Fireside Room Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United Stateswith Rev. John Riley
Are you ready to take the next step? Come to the Community Member Orientation with Rev. John Riley. In this round-table style discussion, you will learn more about Unity, Unity Palo Alto, and how to deepen your connection with our spiritual community.
Unity Women’s Group Gathering
At the UPA Learning Center Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesBring Your Lunch
Get acquainted!
In the Learning Center
Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
ACIM Group Brainstorming
Are you interested in forming A Course In Miracles group at Unity Palo Alto? We are having a group brainstorming meeting in the Learning Center. Join the discussion!
UPA Day!
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesBBQ | Games | Music | Raffle
...and more!
Trust & Forgiveness
Living Your Spiritual Wholeness
With Rev. John Riley
In the Learning Center & Zoom
Love Offering
Two class options:
- Tuesdays, 7/15 thru 8/26 @ 7:00-8:30 pm
- Wednesdays, 7/16 thru 8/27 @ 2:00-3:30 pm
Both classes will be in the Learning Center and on Zoom (same Zoom for both):
Meeting ID: 859 4469 0841
Passcode: 189656
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85944690841?pwd=ONBoeFs84vovCTAVMIq0EieOkbTyWa.1
Sinking Into Spirit
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States<emA Music Meditation Experience
with Margo LeDuc & Rev. John Riley
Sink into an experience of Spirit with Rev. John Riley & Margo LeDuc. During this meditation experience, we will have four meditation segments, each with a guided meditation, original chants written by Margo, and time in the Silence. The entire experience will last approximately 45 minutes.
Vocal Connection Workshop
At the UPA YES Hall 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United StatesPresented by Voice by Margo
$165 Registration - Sign up today at Eventbrite
A workshop to help you discover freedom in your speaking and singing, and a deeper connection with yourself and others
"Thank you!!! It was amazing. Everyone ADORED you!! Everyone felt really good and empowered. So many of these folks would never have thought to do something like this and definitely would not have thought they could."
Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch
At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesThe Fourth Sunday of the month after Sunday Service
One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations
Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way.
Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. We meet monthly, alternating between a Business Meeting and a Visioning Meeting. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
Voting Member Special Meeting
The Board of Trustees approved adding two seats to the Board, bringing our total to seven members. In alignment with our bylaws, we are holding a special Voting Members Meeting to vote in two new Trustees brought forward by the Nominating Committee to 18-month terms ending in February 2027. This will be a short meeting beginning immediately after the service and will conclude in time for coffee!
Everyone is welcome, and Voting Members are invited to vote for new Board of Trustees members.
Art & Lunch
At the UPA YES Hall 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United StatesWith Christine Oliver
Click here to sign up on Eventbrite or in the Courtyard on Sunday
Cost: $25 or Love offering
Create your own personal postcards and/or notecards. Just imagine sending your friends and family a work of art that you have created yourself. Challenge your sense of humor or add your poetry to the card. All art materials will be supplied – you just have to bring your creativity! We will provide lunch at 11:30 am after the Sunday Service in the YES Hall, and you can create your masterpieces until 2 pm.
Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
Experiencing Affirmative Prayer
On ZoomWith your Prayer Chaplains
Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
Love Offering
Register on Zoom
To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.
Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.
Unity and A Course in Miracles
At the UPA Learning Center Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesWith Rev. Paul Hasselbeck
In the Learning Center
$25 Suggested Love Offering
Reserve your seat today!
Finally!!! A way to understand and align the teachings of Unity and A Course in Miracles. Explore their similarities, distinctions, and synergy with Unity’s leading metaphysics authority, Rev. Dr. Paul Hasselbeck. Whether you are a student of Unity, A Course in Miracles or both, you are sure to learn something for your own spiritual awakening.
World Day of Prayer 2025
Be Still and Know
With Your Prayer Chaplains
In the Learning Center and on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86270232857?pwd=tuCAH74mT19qdlaaxab1UkSchsfc5J.1
Affirmation: As we unite hearts and minds with others from around the globe, we affirm together: In the stillness, I awaken to divine wisdom.
It is in this stillness that we pause…we rest.
Join your Prayer Chaplains in the Learning Center or on Zoom for an hour of prayer, music, and stillness where we gently quiet our minds and settle our hearts, opening to divine wisdom and love. Come immerse yourself in an oasis of calm, leaving the world outside.
Thresholds of Becoming
With Rev. Dr. Paul Hasselbeck
$25 Suggested Love Offering
Reserve your seat today!
You are not fallen—you are forming. Join us in a sacred exploration of what it means to live as fully human / fully DIVINE, where every breath becomes an invitation, and every moment a threshold. Together, we’ll awaken to the beauty of consciousness unfolding, not as something to attain—but as who we already are, becoming more fully expressed. This workshop is based on some new material Paul has created.
Moving Prayer
At the UPA Learning Center Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesWith Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
$25 Suggested Love Offering
Reserve your seat today!
Reimagine Unity’s Affirmative Prayer not as a formula or set of steps but as a flow or a spiraling out or an expansion of consciousness. Rev. Linda, author of prayer texts and former leader of Unity’s global prayer ministry, Silent Unity, shows you how to move and to be moved every time you pray. Based upon Discover Your Divinity: A Modern Guide to Affirmative Prayer, available in the Bookstore.
Discover Your Power, Claim Your Wholeness, and Heal Your Life
With Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
$25 Suggested Love Offering
Reserve your seat today!
That nagging feeling of something wanting to come out into the light of day to be noticed, honored, and healed? We will encourage you and convince you that you are never powerless; you are powerful. You can distinguish between “I feel” and “I am.” You can heal at the level of thought. You can pivot between intellectual and intuitive wisdom. You can discover your power, claim your wholeness, and heal your life. Let’s begin.
Board of Trustees Business Meeting
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesOur Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. We meet monthly, alternating between a Business Meeting and a Visioning Meeting. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.
Community Member Orientation
At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United Stateswith Rev. John Riley
Are you ready to take the next step? Come to the Community Member Orientation with Rev. John Riley. In this round-table style discussion, you will learn more about Unity, Unity Palo Alto, and how to deepen your connection with our spiritual community.
