May 14, 2026
Sacred Citizenship: Co-Creating a Spiritual Life Center
Beloved Community,
The Board of Trustees met earlier this week to plan our Community Forum which will take place this Sunday, May 17 after the Sunday Celebration and the Youth of Unity Pizza Fundraiser. You are invited to join us with a full heart and belly! We will be providing important updates and introducing new items. We would love your involvement because your voice matters to us! Will you join us?
The following is a reflection I’ve been developing about Sacred Citizenship. Inspired by our spiritual teaching and what I see happening in our world. I believe our spiritual community is a place where we practice our agency in the community, country, and world. I invite you to reflect upon this as you consider joining us for our CommUnity Forum.
The legacy of our spiritual community was not built merely by attendance, but by participation. A church becomes a living spiritual life center when its people recognize they are not only receivers of inspiration, but also co-creators of a shared vision and mission. The community forum, therefore, is more than a meeting or decision-making process; it is sacred space where spiritual citizenship is honored and activated, inviting us from passive observation into conscious participation in the life of the ministry.
In Unity teachings, we affirm that divine ideas seek expression through willing hearts and minds. Myrtle Fillmore taught that we are not victims of circumstance but active participants in the creative process of life. Likewise, in the first five lessons of The Way of Mastery, we are reminded that consciousness creates experience and that our desires, intentions, and choices shape the worlds we inhabit. Spiritual community is no exception. The life of a church is formed by the collective consciousness, vision, and willingness of its people to embody love in action.
The “Keys to the Kingdom” described in these lessons—desire, intention, allowance, surrender, and conscious creation—offer profound guidance for communal life. They invite us to ask what kind of spiritual community we truly long to create together and to align our energy, resources, and voices with that vision. They remind us to make room for diverse perspectives, to listen for the wisdom of the whole, and to consciously build together what we have first imagined in love.
The community forum is one expression of these principles in action. Participation is not simply administrative; it is devotional. Beloved community emerges when people recognize their sacred agency and offer their presence, gifts, and voices in service to something larger than themselves. Through intentional participation and shared visioning, the church becomes more than an institution—it becomes a living demonstration of divine possibility.
In the end, participation is an act of faith. It is the willingness to trust that Spirit works through us together, and that when we gather in love, wisdom greater than any one individual can emerge. The forum, then, is not merely about business. It is about belonging, stewardship, and consciously creating a community where all may awaken, serve, and flourish together.
Thank you for your reflection upon this and your consideration. With deep love and appreciation for you! May you abide in love, peace and joy this day. Thank you for your reflection upon this and your consideration. With deep love and appreciation for you! May you abide in love, peace and joy this day.
I love you,
Reverend René