| NEW THOUGHT DENOMINATIONS
and other New Thought groups and directories of more than
local significance
Divine Science
United Divine Science
Ministries, International
8419 Callaghan Road
San Antonio, TX 78230-4946 (210) 341-1938
Religious Science (Science of Mind)
Religious Science International (publisher
of Creative Thought magazine)
1636 W. First Ave., P.O. Box 2152
Spokane, WA 99210-2152
(509) 624-7000
Independent Science of Mind:
Global Religious Science Ministries;
9242 Hobnail Court
Columbia MD 21045
(410) 997-3378
Affiliated New Thought
Network
5520 Ruffin Rd., Suite 101
San Diego, CA 92123
(619) 974-9830
Seicho-No-Ie
Unity
Unity School of Christianity (publisher
of Daily Word and Unity Magazine).
1901 NW Blue Parkway
Unity Village, MO 64065-0001
(816) 251-3580; 800-669-0282
Association of Unity Churches (affiliated
with the immediately above), including directories of Unity
churches and centers
P.O. Box 610
Lee's Summit, MO
(816) 524-7414
Unity-Progressive
Council (independent of all the above groups)
P.O. Box 7753
Clearwater, FL 34618-7753
(813) 535-1271
Federation of Independent
Unity Churches
P.O. Box 480318
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33348
(888) 533-9978 or (954) 566-9340
Others
Universal Foundation
for Better Living
11901 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60643
(312) 568-2282
Hillside Chapel and
Truth Center
2450 Cascade Rd., SW
Atlanta, GA 30311
(404) 758-6811
Regional Directories of Churches
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PRAYER MINISTRIES: NEW THOUGHT
Affirmative prayer: For more than a century, New Thought
has emphasized affirmative prayer, referred to by such names as
scientific prayer, treatment,
and (especially in Religious
Science) as spiritual mind treatment. In each of the variations of this prayer,
one aims to practice the presence of God as all good, rather than to implore
God to answer some request. See brief writings by Ernest Holmes
and others from Science of
Mind magazine,
as well as Frequently Asked
Questions about Religious Science, and Practitioners
and the Ministry of Prayer of the National Science of Mind Center in Falls
Church, VA.
New Thought Prayer Ministries: Ideally, one's own awareness of the
loving, all-providing presence of God is sufficient, but many people find the
assistance of other people to be helpful. Any New Thought church or center
can give such help, but there are groups of people praying for others 24 hours
a day at two outstanding prayer ministries. They are Silent
Unity, of Unity School of Christianity, at (816) 246-5400 or, only
from the U.S.A., (800) 669-7729, and World
Ministry of Prayer of the United Church of Religious Science, at (213)
385-0209 or (800) 421-9600. Both 800 numbers are for people who are without
funds to pay for calls.
Allied with Silent Unity is an important new World
Prayer Network of The
Best is Yet to Be television outreach of : Christ Unity Church of Sacramento,
California.
In the May 1997 Unity Magazine, pp. 57-58,
Silent Unity directors, at that time, Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla say:
At our current growth rate, Silent Unity is doubling every six years!
We are presently receiving over 3,000 telephone calls and about 3,000 letters
each day asking for prayer. . . . Over two million prayer requests each year
cover the entire range of human emotions and desires.
In Silent Unity, we never counsel or give advice, but we always meet people
where they are as we pray with them, helping them to feel the peace of
God and the presence of God in the midst of their situations. We believe
this is the most effective way we can help them. In doing this, however,
it is imperative that we remain mindful that we are not "intercessors" between
the person calling or writing and God. We continually remind ourselves
that it is not our prayers that make the difference, that God is
in charge and that we are acting merely as channels through which God can
work. In fact, there is an expression we use in the Telephone Prayer Ministry
if a particularly difficult call comes in and we begin feeling responsible
for a good outcome: "God answers prayer, I answer the phone."
Our work in Silent Unity is so much more than simply answering a phone
or a letter. What we do is clearly and unwaveringly acknowledge the presence
of God in the person calling or writing, and, through our prayers, we help
that person discover the presence of God in himself or herself. This unequivocal
act of faith on our part allows the person more easily to experience God
in all of life and to know that there is a divine plan at work.
For the Worldwide Healing Ministry of God
Unlimited/University of Healing, call 1(888)254-8793.
For a Process New Thought understanding of what happens when there is such
steadfast faith cooperating with God, so as to facilitate acceptance of the
divine plan given anew in each moment, click here.
To links to
process centers around the world
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