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Unity in Brandon is a church
on the MOVE! Please consult this website continually for EXCITING new upcoming programs and presentations. Please join us for Sunday Services at 10:30 a.m. Rivard-Simmons Rotary Event Center 3007 S Kings Ave. Brandon, Fl 33511 Mailing Address: Unity in Brandon PO Box 283 Brandon, Fl 33509 email: unityinbrandon@gmail.com 
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Our Mission
Is to create a heart-centered spiritual community that joyfully celebrates the presence of God within, supports spiritual, mental, social and physical healing, celebrates diversity, and affirms the healing power of prayer. Our Purpose In oneness, we of Unity in Brandon joyfully celebrate God's presence within and support each other in spiritual growth and personal transformation. Our Values The following beliefs inspire our mission and guide us on our spiritual path:
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Board of Trustees
* * * * * * * * * * * * * Ruth Edmonds President (vacant) Vice President Christine Sauciunac Secretary Christina Saris Treasurer Betty Morrow Trustee We are affiliated with the Association of Unity Churches, Unity, Silent Unity and Daily Word.
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The Unity spiritual movement began in the late 1800s based on prayer and the power of mind over body.
Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, a Kansas City, Missouri, couple with three young boys, had suffered lifelong physical ailments and constantly sought healing. They heard a lecture by a metaphysician named E.B. Weeks, and Myrtle came away with a startling new idea: “I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.”
In two years of prayer and meditation, she healed her body of tuberculosis. Charles also began to investigate spiritual principles and healed a leg that had been damaged in a childhood ice skating accident.
The Fillmores were devotees of Ralph Waldo Emerson and studied with the leading teachers of the day, including Mary Baker Eddy and Emma Curtis Hopkins. To share the exciting spiritual teachings they had learned, the Fillmores didn’t start a church but began to publish a magazine.
The first issue of Modern Thought came out in 1889 and is now called Unity Magazine®. The next year, in 1890, Charles and Myrtle formed a prayer group that is now Silent Unity, a 24/7 prayer ministry that responds to 2 million people a year through letters, telephone, and email.
Book publishing began with Lessons in Truth, still a Unity classic, and Unity Books is still active. A second magazine was initiated in 1924, Daily Word, which now circulates around the globe.
Classes taught by the Fillmores grew into a seminary, Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute, with about 600 churches and study groups worldwide.
The farm they initially established to grow produce for their vegetarian restaurant in downtown Kansas City is now Unity Village, Missouri, a 1,200-acre incorporated town and the world headquarters for the enduring Unity movement.
The History of Unity World Day of Prayer
The idea for a World Day of Prayer was born out of a class assignment given to ministerial students at Unity Village in 1993. Rev. Earl Anderson asked his Prayer and Meditation class students to bring everyone together at one place on campus for the intention of united prayer.
Unity students and employees indeed gathered for what the students called a “World Day of Prayer.” The group joined hands as they stood around the central courtyard fountain and prayed together.
The following year Unity invited the public to its “WorldWide Day of Prayer” on September 1, 1994. For 24 hours, participants lifted up the following affirmation--God’s healing light and love radiate through me, through all those with whom I pray, and throughout all creation—to be held in the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
The event included a 24-hour Prayer Vigil that began at 12:01 a.m., and a Daily Word® service at 7:30 a.m., in the Unity Village Activities Center, where participants completed prayer lists. A 30-minute service at 11 a.m. in the Silent Unity Chapel was followed by a “Hands Around the World” celebration in the central courtyard.
There was a tour of Silent Unity® at 2 p.m., and a “Special Moment of Reflection” broadcast came on the Unity Village public address system at 3 p.m. A Vespers Service was held at 8:45 p.m. in the Silent Unity Chapel, and the 24-hour Prayer Vigil ended at midnight.
Since that first celebration, World Day of Prayer has grown in popularity as people around the world are able to join in prayer thanks to social media platforms and live-streaming events. This year’s 2017 World Day of Prayer on September 14 will inspire people with the theme: “Peace in the Midst.”
In 1997 World Day of Prayer added international participants, including those in Mexico, Germany, Ghana, France, Romania, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. By 2000, the event was becoming a more interfaith event, and organizers also encouraged people for the first time to send reports of answered prayer.
A 2000 survey indicated a change in the start times of the event. So the September 12, 2001, World Day of Prayer began with an opening service starting at 7 p.m. and the 24-hour Prayer Vigil at 8 p.m., that concluded the next day with a celebration at 8:15 p.m.
In January 2001, Unity received more than 600 reports of testimonials of healings, special insights and guidance, new prosperity, peace of mind, and profound joy.
In honor of the 2002 World Day of Prayer, Unity School of Christianity sponsored a Youth and Teen Peace Essay Contest for ages 8-18 on the theme “Peace Begins With Me.” Winners were awarded $100 savings bonds. Contest activities were held on September 11, the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
The 2003 World Day of Prayer made note of 1.3 million people being acknowledged during the vigil that year. In 2004 the theme was “United in God’s Presence,” with as many as 900 Unity churches and study groups hosting World Day of Prayer events.
Best-selling poet and author Mark Nepo launched the Prayer Vigil for the 2014 World Day of Prayer, held September 11.
In 2015 World Day of Prayer focused on affirmative prayer, and that year the event also commemorated the 125-year anniversary of Silent Unity.
Following the 7 p.m. opening service with Charline E. Manuel, author of Pray Up Your Life (Balboa Press, 2012), congregants joined in a candlelight walk from the Activities Center to the Silent Unity Chapel.
All said, World Day of Prayer stands by the intention of that first event in 1994, when organizers Mary-Alice and Richard Jafolla said, “We believe prayer can raise the consciousness of the world. Prayer changes lives. Prayer heals. Prayer can bring peace to individuals and to nations.”
The idea for a World Day of Prayer was born out of a class assignment given to ministerial students at Unity Village in 1993. Rev. Earl Anderson asked his Prayer and Meditation class students to bring everyone together at one place on campus for the intention of united prayer.
Unity students and employees indeed gathered for what the students called a “World Day of Prayer.” The group joined hands as they stood around the central courtyard fountain and prayed together.
The following year Unity invited the public to its “WorldWide Day of Prayer” on September 1, 1994. For 24 hours, participants lifted up the following affirmation--God’s healing light and love radiate through me, through all those with whom I pray, and throughout all creation—to be held in the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
The event included a 24-hour Prayer Vigil that began at 12:01 a.m., and a Daily Word® service at 7:30 a.m., in the Unity Village Activities Center, where participants completed prayer lists. A 30-minute service at 11 a.m. in the Silent Unity Chapel was followed by a “Hands Around the World” celebration in the central courtyard.
There was a tour of Silent Unity® at 2 p.m., and a “Special Moment of Reflection” broadcast came on the Unity Village public address system at 3 p.m. A Vespers Service was held at 8:45 p.m. in the Silent Unity Chapel, and the 24-hour Prayer Vigil ended at midnight.
Since that first celebration, World Day of Prayer has grown in popularity as people around the world are able to join in prayer thanks to social media platforms and live-streaming events. This year’s 2017 World Day of Prayer on September 14 will inspire people with the theme: “Peace in the Midst.”
In 1997 World Day of Prayer added international participants, including those in Mexico, Germany, Ghana, France, Romania, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. By 2000, the event was becoming a more interfaith event, and organizers also encouraged people for the first time to send reports of answered prayer.
A 2000 survey indicated a change in the start times of the event. So the September 12, 2001, World Day of Prayer began with an opening service starting at 7 p.m. and the 24-hour Prayer Vigil at 8 p.m., that concluded the next day with a celebration at 8:15 p.m.
In January 2001, Unity received more than 600 reports of testimonials of healings, special insights and guidance, new prosperity, peace of mind, and profound joy.
In honor of the 2002 World Day of Prayer, Unity School of Christianity sponsored a Youth and Teen Peace Essay Contest for ages 8-18 on the theme “Peace Begins With Me.” Winners were awarded $100 savings bonds. Contest activities were held on September 11, the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
The 2003 World Day of Prayer made note of 1.3 million people being acknowledged during the vigil that year. In 2004 the theme was “United in God’s Presence,” with as many as 900 Unity churches and study groups hosting World Day of Prayer events.
Best-selling poet and author Mark Nepo launched the Prayer Vigil for the 2014 World Day of Prayer, held September 11.
In 2015 World Day of Prayer focused on affirmative prayer, and that year the event also commemorated the 125-year anniversary of Silent Unity.
Following the 7 p.m. opening service with Charline E. Manuel, author of Pray Up Your Life (Balboa Press, 2012), congregants joined in a candlelight walk from the Activities Center to the Silent Unity Chapel.
All said, World Day of Prayer stands by the intention of that first event in 1994, when organizers Mary-Alice and Richard Jafolla said, “We believe prayer can raise the consciousness of the world. Prayer changes lives. Prayer heals. Prayer can bring peace to individuals and to nations.”