Unity Center for Spiritual Living - Corvallis, OR

Sunday Services 10:30 AM
Corvallis Senior Center
2601 NW Tyler
Corvallis, Oregon
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Unity Center for Spiritual Living
PO Box 891
Corvallis, OR 97339
541.766.8090
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Sunday Services
We are a New Thought center with cool music, hot messages, and riveting prayers; all heart opening. Sunday Services are diverse and celebratory, including upbeat music, a short meditation, inspirational readings, and dynamic, transformational messages. We respect and welcome people of all ages, faiths, genders, races, or sexual orientation. Sunday services are held at 10:30 a.m. in the Corvallis Senior Center, 2601 NW Tyler, Corvallis, Oregon (Get map).

Music
Music is one gateway to and from the soul and we have intentionally created a flexible and creative music program. Local and regional musicians play at our services often; nationally touring musicians play when we can find and afford them. Sometimes members of our church play or sing for us as well. We have had drumming circles as part of our Sunday service and as special evening events because we know that the rhythm of the universe flows through our own heartbeat and into our drums/percussion instruments. We also experience joy over the holidays with Christmas Carols. During our season of non violence we gather to sing songs of peace and social change. We also sing the Children's Blessing Song, "We Appreciate You" PDF MP3 to the children in the audience at our Sunday service.

Special Services
At Unity of Corvallis we come together at sacred times of transition to acknowledge and explore the expression of the divine in our lives. At weddings, funerals, christenings, and other times of life, we share with one another and invite what is holy within each of us into expression.

Alternative Programs
We realize that for many, the typical Sunday service format is only marginally adequate to express, experience, and celebrate the divine. We offer a number of alternative services that are not focused on listening to a sermon; most are led by the community. We offer a Taize (chanting) healing prayer service quarterly and occasional opportunities to walk the labyrinth. At year end, we provide a burning bowl ritual and on the first service of the New Year we celebrate a “white stone” intention setting ritual. There are other activities spaced throughout the year.

Workshops and Classes
We recognize a special and unique relationship with our creative nature and our relationship with our Creator, and thus have offered classes and workshops on such topics as Finding our Inner Muse, Naive Art, and Treasure Mapping. We have a fall program theme on Spirituality and Ecology, and offer classes and discussion groups on these topics as well as community service projects related to ecology. In the winter we are the host church for the Season for Nonviolence, and have offered classes in Nonviolent Communication, Forgiveness and Loving What Is.

We teach applied spirituality and so offer classes and workshops throughout the year from many teachers and spiritual traditions. We have many famous authors as guest speakers on Sunday. Our classes range from workshops on prosperity, spiritual laws of success, and finding right livelihood, to seminars on Life without Anger, Being Spiritually Street Smart, Healing Ambivalence, etc.

Social Activities and Community Service
In addition to doing the activities of a more traditional church, we also have social activities as well as community service projects. We have helped feed the hungry, given a Christmas dinner and celebration to runaway teenagers, planted bulbs and flowers at the Children's Farm Home along highway 20 (come in the spring and check out the daffodils) and lately as part of our fall program of Spiritually and Ecology, we have done trail maintenance at Chip Ross park.

We also have enjoyed hiking, biking, camping, white water rafting, movie nights, poker nights, talent shows, apple pressing parties, picnics etc. If someone has an interest in an activity, we can usually pull it together.