Unity in the Pines 

A  Christian Community Church
That Love Is Growing

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Editor -- Kristine Baker  

Pots and Earth  

Reverend Liz Petipren 

You may have seen the poster suggesting “Bloom where you are planted,” meaning that the best place for you to grow and express your gifts is right where you are. This is excellent advice we could all benefit from applying. 

Yet there is another path of growth through which we can end up blooming elsewhere than our original planting. If you want to grow a plant, there are two ways to do it: (1) you can plant a seed or a cutting right into the ground and let it grow where it will live; or (2) you can plant a seed or cutting in a flowerpot, nurture it in a greenhouse, and then when it is stronger and more mature, transplant it to the location where it will ultimately blossom. 

I was talking to a woman who jokingly referred to her relationship with her former husband as “My practice marriage.” She wed this man at a young age and stayed with him for a few years. The couple divorced, and a number of years later she married a man whom she stayed with for a long time. In her mind the second marriage was her real one, and the first was a warm-up. In a sense, she started her marriage journey in a flowerpot; and later she was transplanted to a patch of earth where she could grow deep roots, extend long branches, and display her colorful flowers.  

Likewise, you may be in a job, relationship, or living situation that is not your ideal or your ultimate position. Yet you are growing, learning, and developing insights and skills that will ultimately serve you in a situation that is your ideal. Your time in the flowerpot is no less real or important than your ultimate desirable situation. Do not regret or criticize such an experience. Instead, honor and appreciate it, for it has value in itself and prepares you for even better. 

Affirmation:“I am grateful for all of my relationships and experiences, for they have contributed to my betterment and success.  

THE HAPPENINGS FOR 

August 2011 

SERVICES FOR AUGUST, 2011 

Sunday –  

August - 07 …… Rev. Liz Petipren 

“CPA” 

Music: Evan Ferrar & Mildred Zenlea 

Sunday – Pot Luck Sunday 

August – 14 …… Rev. Liz Petipren 

“The Secret of Getting along” 

Music: Laurie McDonald & Carole Belcher                    

Sunday –  

August – 21 …… Adra Farriss 

“Do Greater Things”  

Music: Laurie McDonald & David Lucey 

Friday – Ice Cream Social

August 26 from 6:30 PM to ??? 

Sunday – “Lunch Bunch” Sunday

August – 28 …….. Rev. Liz Petipren 

“It’s All Good” 

Music: Evan Ferrar & Reed Daniel

AUGUST BIRTHDAY’S 

08/10       Joan Voss 

08/15       Effie Toth                        

08/21       Jeff Wilford 

08/24       Diane Rivers 

08/27       Kristine Baker               

Laurie McDonald

Laurie McDonald graduated from Tennessee Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sacred Music (Piano Proficiency). She has served as a church pianist for 25 years, a preschool music entrepreneur, a music teacher at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, as well as Heritage Baptist College in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Laurie has taught over 1,000 music students privately, conducted many group lessons and has organized 30 recitals for her students. She now resides in West Palm Beach, Florida where she is the music coordinator for a program called Keyboards for Kids. There are 65 students currently enrolled in the program at The Boys & Girls Club at Riviera Beach. 

Laurie has taught all 5 of her children to play the piano and she and her husband work in music ministry together at First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach. 

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“Lunch Bunch” Sunday 

Lunch Bunch Sunday will be on Sunday August 28^th

at the Gun Club Café, located in West Palm Beach on Gun Club Road between Military and Haverhill. There will be no fellowship after the service on this Sunday.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 

“TOGETHER WE SHINE” 

“We are Channels through Which Spirit Illumines the World” 

The above stated are this year’s Theme and Affirmation for Silent Unity’s World Day of Prayer. 

World Day of Prayer celebrates the diversity and joy of being expressions of God, lighting the world with hope and harmony. 

Please join us at Unity in the Pines for World Day of Prayer by setting some time aside on Thursday, 09/08/2011and filling a time slot between 9:00 am and 6:00 PM in the Sanctuary. Join us, again, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, for a meditation and prayer session facilitated by Rev. Liz Petipren. You will find a sign up sheet in the book room. 

Notes from the President 

Patrick Callahan

 Unity In The Pines is now on Facebook.  www.facebook.com/UnityinthePines 

You can keep up with information and activities simply by checking on to your Facebook Account. 

The Board of Directors has established a separate fund for future renovations.  An envelope is enclosed in the Sunday bulletin for this purpose.  Please contribute to this special fund. 

"Who brought the Mediterranean salad to the Potluck? I want the recipe."
"What am I going to cook tonight for dinner?"
"How can we raise some money for the church?"

Now there's an answer for all three questions: Unity in the Pines is compiling a recipe book, which we'll then sell for a modest price. (Price to be determined) Please share your favorite recipes with us, whether they're treasured family favorites handed down from Great-Aunt Agatha, or you got
them off the label of a soup can. If you enjoy them, that's good enough for us. We want recipes for all sorts of foods: soups, main courses, side dishes, desserts, dips, salads, holiday foods, or ???

We want recipes of all levels of complexity, from easy meals or one-course meals through complicated recipes that take hours to prepare. And we want as many recipes as you'd care to write out...or, hopefully, type.

Please include YOUR NAME, so we can credit the recipe properly to you in the book.

Cynthia MacGregor is coordinating this project. She asks that if you are online you send your recipes to her at Cynthia@cynthiamacgregor.com.  

Please put CHURCH RECIPES in the subject line.
If you're not online, but you have a typewriter, typing is easier to read than handwriting. But of course, neatly handwritten recipes are welcome too. If you're not online, you can either mail your recipe to Cynthia or give it
to her in church on Sundays or drop it in the basket marked RECIPES on the green table in the church lobby.

Cynthia MacGregor
3500 Springdale Blvd. # R-208
Palm Springs FL 33461

WISE WOMEN 

WONDERMENT  GROUP

Thursday August 18, 2011 from 7-9

At Unity in the Pines – Fellowship Hall

Feel the Connection 

Wise Women is a place to play, a place to learn grow, and a place to BE, each third Thursday of the month. 

For more information: Janet 478-4978 / email: the hahalady@aol.com

Suggested donation $10 

RSVPs would be greatly appreciated 

I am now in the presence of 

Pure Being and immersed in the 

Holy Spirit of life, love and wisdom. 

I acknowledge thy presence and thy power. 

Oh, Blessed Spirit, in the Divine wisdom 

Now erase my mortal limitations and from 

Thy pure substance of love bring into 

Manifestation my world 

According to thy perfect law. 

Charles Fillmore 

Unity in the Pines                                      

6073 Summit Blvd.  

West Palm Beach, FL 33415    

Church Office Hours:  

Monday – Thursday 10-3 

Closed on Friday & Saturday 

Sunday Service 11:00 AM 

Phone: 561-478-5454 

Email: unityinthepines@att.net                          

www.unityinthepines.com