The first time I stepped into a Unity Ministry as an adult, I knew I was home. It was Easter Sunday 1998, sitting on the stairs of a packed sanctuary of over 1400 people, that I was spiritually cleansed by messages of God’s unconditional love and how I was created and loved as I am. I had not been looking for a church community. I was anti-church yet spiritual. If it hadn’t been for friends I admire urging me to try out their church, I would not have gone. My experience that Easter changed my life and my viewpoint of what a loving, inspirational, compassionate and thriving spiritual community is. I wasn’t looking, yet I found home. I have been committed to my spiritual growth and aiding in others spiritual growth ever since.
It was at this church, Renaissance Unity (formally known as Church of Today), that I began to listen to the ministerial calling that I had pushed aside since I was a teenager. After taking most of the Spiritual Education and Enrichment (SEE) classes at Renaissance Unity, I enrolled in the Unity Urban Ministerial School in Detroit, MI. After graduating from the Urban School in 2005, I moved to Unity Village, MO. to complete my final year of seminary school at Unity Institute.
In June of 2006, I graduated from Unity Institute and was ordained a minister by Unity Worldwide Ministries. Upon ordination, and with the strong desire to teach Unity principles to young adults, I created the internet ministry, Unity Community for Spiritual Unfoldment (UCSU). As the founding minister of (UCSU), I gained extensive experience about how to create all the varied components of a ministry. UCSU dissolved in 2011, While working with UCSU, I enjoyed the opportunity it granted me to be a regular guest speaker at churches in Kansas and Missouri.
My involvement at UCSU prepared me for my position as the interim minister, of Unity Church of Peace: Practical Spirituality (UCP) in Jefferson City, Missouri in 2011 and 2014 -15. After many years of guest speaking and being an interim minister, I realized that it was time for me to search for a ministry where I could provide spiritual leadership for congregants in ways that were not always possible with an Internet ministry nor as an interim minister. I found that ministry and on January 1, 2016 I became the Senior Minister of this wonderful church, Unity Church in Albany.
In addition to being a Unity minister, I am twice ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk: bodhisattva and bhiksuni, and have served as a dharma teacher for Dharmakaya Buddhist Association in Kansas City, MO.