Our Mission
To provide a loving and empowering environment for our young people, where they can joyfully explore and strengthen their connection with the Christ Light Within through prayer and meditation, meaningful discussion, active play, and social engagement with peers and the community.
Call Out the Children
Our mission is not to entertain the children, but to call them out. To be always entertained is to be dwarfed and dependent. To be “called out” is to follow the harmonious law of the soul’s unfoldment.
– Myrtle Fillmore, Co-founder of Unity
Unity
Beholds all children as whole and perfect expressions of God.
Empowers children to fulfill their divine potential.
Teaches children to meditate and pray.
Invites children to experience a loving God.
Provides a strong spiritual foundation for children’s lives.
Sunday Morning Program
10:45 – 11 AM > Check-in at the Clubhouse. Parents must check in all children of Preschool or Elementary age. Teens may check themselves in and out.
11 AM – 12 PM > Snack, Pray-in, Story or Lesson of the Day, an activity supporting the lesson’s theme, Pray-out
12 PM > Walk to Sanctuary to share what we learned with the Congregation and to Bless the Children.
12:15 PM > Parents of Preschool and Elementary-age children must check them out from the teachers at the right side of the sanctuary platform.
Program Registration
https://unitytampa.breezechms.com/form/202213
Please help us uphold sacred safety for our youth by registering every child who attends our program. This also speeds up the Sign-In process. Or you can update your child’s information with us before the next school year starts.
Youth and Family Ministry Staff
Youth and Family Ministries Director – Heather Schultz
Amazing Regular Volunteers
Mark Sharman – Head Sponsor for Teens
Ms. Catie – Early Birds teacher
Much-Appreciated Substitute Teacher Volunteers
Ms. Amey
Ms. Diane
Other Volunteers
Ms. Tracie
YFM Director Heather Schultz first joined the Unity movement in 2005, and began working with the Y.O.U. program at First Unity St. Pete almost immediately. She was a prayer chaplain in 2008 and 2009, and has completed several courses toward becoming a licensed Unity teacher.
Heather taught 4th grade Sunday lessons in 2011, and was a Y.O.U. teacher and counselor from 2007 to 2014. She began attending Unity of Tampa in 2017 with her daughter. She believes that helping young people recognize and strengthen their connection to Spirit within and the community around them is one of the greatest blessings in her life.
