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In This IssueDON’T MISS IT! |
2024 Events Calendar NextGen Nehemiah Retreat The Good Friday Project 2024 SUMI Conference News You Can Use Regional Rep Corner
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SAVE THESE 2024 DATESView SUMI’s Calendar of Events |
04.2024 Wed Mar 13 AI Technology, Ministry and You (SUMI) | 10:30 AM Thurs Mar 21 AI Technology, Ministry and You (SUMI) | 6:30 PM Fri Mar 29 The Good Friday Project | Virtual SUMI YFM Fundraiser (SUMI)
04.2024 Fri Apr 5 – Sun Apr 7 Uniteen Spring Retreat (SUMI) Mon Apr 15 – Wed Apr 17 SUMI “Let It Begin with Me” Conference | Virtual Thurs Apr 25 — Sun Apr 28 NextGen Nehemiah Retreat | Unity Village, Lees Summit, MO
06.2024 Thurs Jun 13 – Sun Jun 16 Y.O.U. Summer Connection (SUMI) Mon Jun 17 – Thurs Jun 20 UWM 2024 Convention | Unity Village, Lees Summit, MO
07.2024 Sun Jul 7 – Thurs Jul 11 International Youth of Unity (IYOU)
09.2024 Mon Sept 16 – Fri Sept 20 UMMAS Annual Retreat | Lake Junaluska, NC
10.2024 Fri Oct 18 – Sun Oct 20 Fall Uniteen Retreat (SUMI)
11.2024 Fri Nov 8 – Sun Nov 10 Fall Y.O.U. Rally (SUMI)
For more information, blue underlined items are linked to individual information pages on events. |
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| AI Technology, Ministry & You
Wed, March 13 |10:30 am to 12:30 pm Thurs, March 21 | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Sponsored by UWM Eastern Region and SUMI Facilitated by Reverend Kelly Isola
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Extraordinary Leadership:
Connecting with Your Seven Core Abilities to Bring Out the Extraordinary Abilities in Others
Thurs, April 25 | 6:30 pm to 8 pm
Sponsored by UWM Eastern Region and SUMI Facilitated by Revs. Drs. Bil & Cher Holton | |
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Registration is now open for the first-ever NextGen Nehemiah Retreat, set in the serene Unity Village, Missouri. This exclusive event, tailored for the dynamic 18 to 35ish members of the NextGen Unity community, offers a transformative blend of service and spirituality. Only 25 spots are available for this event. Please share in your community newsletters and announcements! Use the link below to find more info! |
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| 2024 SUMI Conference Keynote Speaker Rev Jim Rosemergy | Rev Jim’s newest book, Gatherings of the Few, A Guide to Global Spiritual Awakening is an invitation to those concerned about the future of humanity and our celestial home, Earth. First, the book reveals the way of individual spiritual awakening and then explores little-known spiritual principles enabling us to be changed “in the twinkling of an eye.” The promise is that it only takes a few of us to reach the critical mass required to ignite a global spiritual awakening. |
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What anchors you? Do you have a guiding word for 2024? Share you story in 200 words or less here in the SUMI Messenger! Click the link below to submit your inspirational words. |
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Ministers’ Discussion GroupWednesday mornings from 9 - 10 AM via Zoom
This group is for ministers, spiritual leaders, and anyone leading a church. Each week we check in, share resources, and discuss possible answers to questions. We welcome new faces and appreciate it when successful, experienced ministers come to share their expertise. |
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Prosperity BoostThursday mornings from 7 - 7 AM via Zoom
This free group is open to everyone. We cover different prosperity books. |
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Most months, the Southeast and Eastern regions present some training. We are looking for suggestions. Is there a topic that you would like us to arrange training about? Is there a trainer or training that you would recommend? Please text ideas to Rev Beth at 321-431-0637. |
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The region keeps a list of people who want to speak on Sunday or who want to visit various churches. The list is not published on the website to reduce identity fraud. Any church may request the list by calling Rev. Beth at 321-431-0637. Anyone that would like to be included on the list can call her.
If you can recommend anyone please send their name, contact phone and email, and the area where they might be a resource such as: Google, live streaming, Facebook, Instagram, databases, mail programs, accounting programs or cyber security to Rev. Beth at 321-431-0637. |
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by Deni Miller Ralston, LUT Rep, Southeast Region Unity |
If there is something in our life that is constant, it is change. As LUTs, we are used to change, in our personal lives, and in our LUT life in a church. Changes are made in the minister or board, and in our spiritual life as we change, grow, or figure out that life isn’t always as easy as we might have thought it could be. Even with a dedicated church and minister, finding a place we COULD call home is sometimes a challenge.
For LUTs, life as we know it is happening in ways we might not have imagined, as we move forward with all the changes in what we LUTs do in our responsibilities, how we are regarded, and how we live up to that calling. For many of us, some of the changes have been a long time coming, and for others, LUTs are concerned and not quite so happy with the changes. With all of it comes new responsibility for our LUTs to make sure we stay abreast of changes at the national level with UNITY, to be able to utilize the new vote that each of us who stay active and up to date with our credentials automatically have. Having a vote, whether it is for a board member for UWM or for a change in policy is just as important for us LUTs to understand as for the ministers to understand. We are on an equal voting platform. We have the opportunity to show that we are up to the task, or we can shrug it off, and not take our responsibility. There will be LUTs who may not be interested in what is happening, with ALL the changes, and I hope that is NOT true. WE have been given an opportunity that has not been offered before. This is a time for us to shine.
Some of us, though, have not always been given an opportunity to shine. LUTs can be a wonderful, helpful, and beloved part of our church communities, and surprisingly, some LUTs are very underutilized, or not used at all. Many times this happens when a minister at the church they have been attending was never an LUT, so they do not understand the amount of time commitment, and financial commitment that we worked through, and many times with a spouse who agreed to spend thousands of dollars, and hundreds of hours on the calling of the one to LUT ranks. LUTs in many instances have made little money, as we may have been limited in what we could do at the church we attended. Some LUTs are not compensated for Sunday Talks. An LUT should be compensated as any guest speaker would be compensated.
I see lots of possibility for us, as we understand all of the changes, and how we can show up to the table with curiosity, with support from our churches, and the knowing that we will be the best we can be. Hopefully these changes will allow LUTs to shine, with leadership, and dedication to a church that allows us to be an asset to the movement. An LUT with time, talent, and treasures, who is NOT utilized to help move our spiritual communities ahead is a poor use of someone who could make an enormous difference with their service. |
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LUT & TNT Check-In
The next LUT meeting is Sunday, March 3, at 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET. With Jim Blake of Unity World Headquarters.
If you are unable to join us, please send any ideas for LUT meetings to Deni Ralston at: deniralston@gmail.com. |
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Click each image below to find registration details, including deadlines and fees. |
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Prosperity Corner |
"Get into the prosperity thought and you will demonstrate prosperity. Cultivate the habit of thinking about abundance everywhere present, not only in the forms of imagination but in forms without." Charles Fillmore, Prosperity |
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It’s our intention that you are inspired and spiritually fed by the transformative work of Southeast Unity Ministries, Inc. (SUMI). Our shared commitment to empower ministries and nurture Unity leaders drives our work as a region.
Take action today and make a tremendous impact on SUMI’s efforts! Include Southeast Unity Ministries, Inc in your tithing and charitable giving. Encourage your church to do the same. Use the link below! Follow SUMI on Facebook and Instagram with both your church and personal accounts. Like and Share posts from SUMI’s Facebook page and Instagram account. Reprint newsletter articles (with by-line) in your congregational communications. Share with our communications team any online classes being presented; share these online classes with your congregation. Click the link below and contribute to SUMI to acknowledge and support our regional work. It’s easy to set up monthly contributions!
Together, let's empower our communities, nurture our leaders, and spread the light of Unity and Love. |
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Submissions Corner |
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Share your inspiration! Write for the SUMI Messenger!Thank you for sharing your talents with the members of SUMI! |
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President, Donna Loflin. Vice President, Vacant. Secretary, Jan Gurr. Treasurer, Mo Driscoll. Corresponding Secretary, Todd Humphrey. At Large, Carla Palmer. Regional Rep., Beth Head. LUT Rep., Deni Miller Ralston. Youth & Young Adult Ministries, Ytonna Finnegan. |
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