Church Information

Location Meeting Address: Hanging Gardens Event Center 1443 S Main St (SW corner of Main and Danieldale Road) Duncanville, TX 75137-3211 Tel: 972-296-3157 www.hanginggardensonline.com

Mailing Address: P. O. Box 690 Cedar Hill, TX 75106-0690 E-mail: info@unitycedarhill.org Website: www.unitycedarhill.org Tel: 972-291-6868 Office: 972-780-1010 NOTICE: The church will officially close on August 8. Janet Ellis will speak on August 1, with a luncheon party to follow at Bamboo Palace, 949 U.S. 67, Cedar Hill, Texas - (972)291-9700 Mary Williams will speak on August 8.

Spiritual Leader Telephone: 972-291-6868 (Church) Rev. Janet Ellis As of September 1, 2009 Rev. Janet Ellis is our Spiritual leader. She represents us to the Association of Unity Churches and speaks here on a regular basis. The Board voted her in at a Board meeting and we are very excited that Janet has agreed to come aboard. We look forward to renewed growth and grace. Congratulations, Janet and welcome. We love you; we appreciate you and behold the Christ in you. Janet Ellis is a speaker, trainer, facilitator and coach of Life Improvement Seminars. She facilitates a number of processes that guide teens and adults to become aware, acknowledge and claim their purpose in life along with 8 basic steps that will give them the power to follow their dreams. Janet is a co-creator of the Teen Field Guide for "The Path - Creating Mission and Vision for Work and Life" by Laurie Beth Jones. Janet has been trained and licensed by Laurie Beth Jones to work as speaker, presenter and facilitator. Janet has extensive group leadership and counseling training from the Texas Association of Drug and Alcohol Counselors. She has training and experience in work style assessments, communication skills, behavioral intervention techniques and time management skill building. She has served hundreds of individuals and organizations in business, non-profit and faith-based sectors. She has been ordained as an inter-faith minister. See her website: http://www.janets-planets.com/
Staff Kay Carrell, Administrator

Musicians

Our band: Brent Rozell, Guitar, Phil Gibson, Bass; Cy Speck, Drums

Mary Williams - sometime piano player

Stop the presses! Brent made the finals for musician of the year contest with his awesome guitar playing. Best wishes Brent!

Kay Carrell, Song Leader

Pat Rider,

Bass

We lost Pat on September 7th, 2007. He nearly made it to his 50th birthday, but died of complications of diabetes and heart trouble. We honor his contributions and talents to our church.

Choir: Bill Kavanaugh, Burnie Glenn, Kay Carrell, Senora Swygert, Leta Kavanaugh, Sandy Pruitt, Robin Covington and Paulette Nairne

Below: Paulette and Kay at Hanging Gardens

Children's Church

Christina Coomes (right) with Valerie Mendoza (left),

and assistance from Cecile Ozley, Sandra Coston, Grady Coomes, Marcia Glenn and Burnie Glenn.

Cecile Ozley and Jackie Sturgeon with children

Board of Directors

Back: Jerry Spivack, Chuck Franz, Kay Carrell, Cy Speck

Front: Senora Swygert (President), Leta Kavanaugh (has resigned)

Teachers

Mary Williams leads the book discussion at 9:30 every Sunday in the church bookstore. The class is now discussing "Entering the Castle" by Caroline Myss. This will be the last book discussion Mary will do - she will be pursuing more travel and other activities.

She also keeps up the UCCH website. The website will be maintained for at least one more year.

Book Store

Unity Church of Cedar Hill has discontinued its bookstore and lending library except for the Daily Word and gift items because of being in a temporary location.

SALE of all remaining books on our last Sundays: July 25, August 1 and August 8. Everything left will be taken to Half-Price books or to other Unity churches wanting them. No offer will be refused!

Our bookstore manager is Lynne Witten. She still brings selected books to church on Sunday, or you can request a book that is in storage.

See information on Ellen Debenport's new book - The Five Principles. We recently discussed it in our study group and found it wonderful!

Fund Raiser

How many of you shop at Tom Thumb and have a reward card?

You can help the church with fund raising by telling the store where you shop that you want to link your card to Unity Church of SW Dallas.

You have to give the account number. Ours is 4839. Every time you shop with your reward card our church gets 1% of the total shopping bill donated to us. We have been receiving a small check quarterly (About $38.00) so we have already been signed up.

Someone is already using the card to help us. I intend to link up and so should you. It doesn't cost a dime, but would be a great way to benefit the church. To find out more visit this website:
http://www.tomthumb.com/ifl/grocery/Good-Neighbor

When you go to this link there is a place to print out an application, put
your reward card number on there and our account number. Then just turn it
in at the store.

Some of the other chains have similar programs; ask your favorite store!

Church History

The Unity Church of Cedar Hill was founded in the spring of 1986 when a newly-ordained Unity minister, Rev. Ben Andrews, was appointed to lead a Unity study group in the Duncanville area, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Initially, it consisted of fewer than ten people, and was officially organized as the Unity Church of Christianity of Southwest Dallas. The group met in a hotel room on Camp Wisdom Road, and soon outgrew those quarters. After moving to a larger leased facility on Center Street, the group continued to prosper until it was necessary to find a few facility.

In 1990, an existing church building in Ovilla, ten miles further south, was available and became the church's new home. In the fall of 1991, the church split into two groups, the larger of which joined its founding minister in relocating to the Holiday Inn in DeSoto, Texas. It continued to meet regularly there until September of 1995, when it moved into its current location in a larger, more permanent, leased property on Kenya Street in Cedar Hill.

After Rev. Andrews retired, visiting speakers from the Unity Church of Dallas and Unity Church of Arlington conducted Sunday services. In May 2002, Ben Sturgeon was selected as the Spiritual Leader of the church and served through November 2007. After Ben moved back to West Texas, we had guest speakers every Sunday until one of them, Janet Ellis, took on the spiritual leader position in 2009.

At the present time we are in a temporary space, and will close our doors on August 8th, 2010. Guest speakers have been invited to speak at the services when Janet is not speaking. Visitors are cordially welcomed and invited to become a part of the dynamic, loving fellowship that characterizes this spiritual family.