Church Information

Location Meeting Address: 101 Kenya St. Cedar Hill, TX 75104 Mailing Address: P. O. Box 690 Cedar Hill, TX 75106-0690 Telephone: 972-291-6868 Children's Church: 102 Kenya St. Adult Classroom: 101 Kenya St. - bookstore Website: www.unitycedarhill.org


Spiritual Leader Telephone: 972-291-6868 (Church) Ben Sturgeon resigned from his post as spiritual leader at the end of November, 2007 to devote more time to his legal practice and to return to the Panhandle. Guest speakers are speaking at the Sunday services, providing us with a variety of messages.
Staff Kay Carrell, Administrative Assistant Mary Williams, Teacher and Webmaster Mariah Picot, Music Coordinator Kay Carrell, Choral Leader

Musicians Music Director: Mariah Picot We welcome Mariah as our choir/music director. Band:
Mariah Picot, Keyboard performed at Unity Church of Dallas Nov 16 - 7:30	Brent Rozell, Guitar
Cy Speck, Drums	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.

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: Chuck Franz, Grady Coombs, Jerry Spivack

Front: Sandra Coston (President), Senora Swygert, Kay Carrell

Teachers

Mary Williams leads the book discussion at 9:30 every Sunday in the church bookstore.

Book Store

Unity Church of Cedar Hill has a growing bookstore featuring books by Unity and metaphysical authors. CDs, children's books, the Daily Word and gift items are also available.

We welcome our new bookstore manager, Lynne Witten. She has already added some new offerings and freshened up our space.

Now on sale is the DVD "The Secret." Other books available are A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, The Sermon on the Mount, by Emmet Fox Rocco Errico's Mysteries of Creation, and our current discussion book, Loving What Is by Byron Katie.

See Notes from the bookstore

There is also a lending library of metaphysical and Unity books.

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. During that time the church has continued to experience a steady growth and expansion of its music and educational ministries.

Exciting plans are being formed to find permanent home with a larger more affordable facility in the future. Guest speakers have been invited to speak at the Sunday services until a new spiritual leader is chosen. Visitors are cordially welcomed and invited to become a part of the dynamic, loving fellowship that characterizes this spiritual family.

Contributions

Your contributions are always welcome and needed. Please contribute as you are spiritually fed, sending your donation to the office address at P. O. Box 690, Cedar Hill TX 75106-0690.