Our Vision

 There is only one Power and one Presence in which all are united in one Purpose, to thrive in the robust, eternally abundant environment that God’s peace and good will extends to everyone, everywhere.

 Our Mission

 We provide an environment wherein all may explore, through spiritual services, education, and retreats, the universal principals of Truth that awaken all of us to the Unity expressed in each of us.   

shared leadership:

Barbara Eckhardt is the Spiritual Leader for Unity Church of Peace.  Barbara is a graduate of Unity School of Christianity and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.  

The church is governed by an open, self-appointing council which maneuvers within a system of "prayerful consensus" with regard to decision making.  

Sunday Service messages are delivered by guest speakers from outside the church or by members of the congregation who feel led to speak.  In Unity we honor all paths to God.  Periodically people  from different faiths are invited to speak, including followers of Native American spirituality, Sufi and Buddhism, to name a few.  Quarterly we host a Native American ceremony to honor the changing of the seasons.

unity leaves no one out:

By James Dillet Freeman

People often ask, "Is Unity a church?" 

I usually answer, "What is a church?"  Your idea of what a church is may determine what you think Unity is.

We get our English word church from the Greek word kyriakon.  If you mean by church what the Greek word means, then Unity is a church, for kyriakon means "the center or seat of the Lord's power."  And Unity certainly is this.

The word kyriakon, from which church is derived, does not appear in the Bible.

The word that is translated as "church" in the New Testament is another Greek word, ecclesia.  It merely means "the called-out ones," and Jesus used it to refer to those who were following in the way and doing the work of  Christ, carrying His message of Truth to the world.  Unity is doing this too.

In the first days of Christianity, church could not possibly have referred to a place because there were no places in which Christians were established.  The Christian church consisted simply of a group of dedicated people who wandered about, teaching the truth as they had found it.  After a while they established places and built buildings that they usually called churches, where they could get together with one another to meet, discuss, and practice their religion.  This is a natural thing for people to do.

In the same way, people in Unity have assembled and set up places they call centers, churches, temples, societies, and the like, where they can meet, exchange their ideas of truth, and help one another develop their divine potential.

But this has not been a principal way that Unity has found expression.  Unity is as much an attitude as an idea, and it is a religious movement that is not limited to any particular place or denomination.

Perhaps Unity is a new kind of church.

All churches, all religious movements, are based on beliefs.  Most Christian churches share most of their beliefs.  They do not differ because they have different beliefs but because they emphasize different aspects of their beliefs.

Unity emphasizes the belief that God is good, God is love.  Therefore, God's will for you is good - happiness, health, supply, whatever contributes to your growth and unfoldment.

Also, Unity emphasizes God's impersonal aspect, God as principle.

Above all, Unity emphasizes the belief that God is within you.  You have a divine potential.

Unity does not demand that you subscribe to a creed.  Unity does not ask whether you are a member of some particular religious organization.  Unity does not require you to perform certain rites and practices.  In all these matters, Unity leaves you free.

This is one of the great characteristics of Unity:  it leaves you free to practice your religion at whatever level you have reached and to do whatever you feel is right and necessary to establish your own right relationship with God.

The church that is Unity crosses all religious bodies and all denominations.  It does this not as a separating, divisive force, but as a harmonizing, strengthening spirit.  The work of Unity - its religious activity as a church - is carried out with no regard to sect or denomination.

The ministry of Unity is one of prayer.  The prayer work is centered in Silent Unity.  Here a vigil of prayer is maintained night and day, seven days a week.  It has been going on for over one hundred years.  Millions of people have turned, and are turning, to Silent Unity for prayer help.  Last year more than 730,000 people telephoned from all over the world.  More than 2.7 million people wrote.  Silent Unity prayed with all these people.

Silent Unity never asked any of these people, "Are you a student of Unity?"  It never asked whether they were Lutherans or Presbyterians, Catholics or Jews, Buddhists or Moslems.  It did not try to induce them to change their religious affiliation or to enter one if they had none.  Silent Unit prayed with them.

Then, too, Unity is the church of the written word.  Today, the written word includes cassettes and radio and television programs.  But throughout its existence, Unity has conducted its ministry mainly by means of the printed word - magazines, books, pamphlets, cards, and other kinds of printed materials.  It is impossible to estimate how many millions of people have read Unity literature, for it would be many, many millions.

Again, as with its prayer ministry, Unity has not tried to make these millions of readers members of a particular denomination.  Unity does not say, "Here is a creed.  You must subscribe to it."  Instead it says, "Here are ideas that we feel are true about God, about yourself, about life.  If you feel that any of these ideas are acceptable and useful, then use them."  Unity does not offer teachings as final  truths that you must accept or be lost.  It offers teachings as a set of directions that will help you find your way.

Unity is the church spiritual, the church of the growing, seeking, unfolding individual.  It was not founded to separate people into another body, bound by religious laws, doctrines, practices, and rituals.   It was founded on the idea that God is within you and, therefore, your purpose in life is to express your divine potential  Everything Unity does as a church is to help you achieve this purpose.  It accepts you where you are and for what you are, and it helps you be the child of God you were born to be.

To help you do this, Unity will pray with you and will teach you how to pray.  It will teach you techniques of prayer and meditation, techniques of seeking and finding God within you.  Through magazines, books, and other literature, through cassettes and radio and television programs, Unity will provide words to inspire you and words to instruct you as you meet your problems and overcome them to live effectively and well.

Because Unity as a church believes in its own divine potential, it has trusted God to supply support for its work.  It has never charged for its prayers and has prepared printed materials as inexpensively as possible, in the faith that those who are helped and want to see Unity's message brought before others will provide financial support.

Many people have freely sent love offerings to support the work of Unity because those people believe that Unity helps people live more effectively, in a way that brings forth a better world for all.

Unity is a church, but a new and different kind of church.  It has teachings, but not a creed.  It is a more a weekday application of spiritual principles to daily problems than it is a Sunday service.

Unity has students, but demands no affiliation.  it is more a movement than a body of believers.  Those who study its teachings do not even have a name they can give when people ask, "What are you?"  They are not "Unity-anything."  They just have to say they are students of Unity or metaphysics or something of that sort.

Perhaps the essence of Unity's meaning as a new and different kind of church is in its name:  Unity.

This name leaves no one out.