We welcome you to visit Unity North Spiritual Center!
- Come to a Sunday service!
- Arrive early or stay late to share some social time with others.
- Experience the various classes and seminars.
- Sign up to receive our newsletter.
- Schedule a personal appointment to meet with Rev. Kathy McCall by calling the Unity North office at 763-754-6489.
- Visit with the director of the Unity North Youth Ministry, Kathleen Bailey.
- And our favorite... Smile and introduce yourself! We are happy that you're here!
Unity North is...
Unity people pray. We feel the Presence within us as we pray and meditate. Our mission is to increase this spiritual awareness by practicing and teaching Christian principles that recognize God as the one presence and power in the universe.
We also go to classes. We study the Bible as a story of humans growing spiritual wisdom (including our own). We study practical Christianity: how to apply spiritual principles in relationships, jobs and careers, prosperity, health, and everyday living. We study Unity's particular approach to Christianity and to spiritual teachings from many religions. In Unity, truth is alive and vibrant, not a closed issue.
Unity North also offers a bookstore, counseling, special prayer meetings, and a variety of social activities. If you have any specific needs or desires, please call the Unity North office.
The many youth activities at Unity North are intended to help our young members develop self-worth, be a valued part of our congregation, and acquire a foundation of Unity teachings and Bible traditions.
Knowing Our Spiritual Community
Get to know the Unity North Spiritual Community
by reading personal interviews by Candi Tomlinson!
Rebecca Thompson ~ Prayer Chaplain
Rebecca Thompson comes to us from Redondo Beach, California, where she is currently living. She is one of our regular attendees and a volunteer. Have you ever noticed that sometimes Rebecca isn’t on Zoom with us on Sunday mornings at Unity North? Maybe that’s because sometimes she is in another country! In fact, she had just arrived in England when this interview took place. As a Reiki Master, she was preparing to take a class in an advanced form called Holy Fire and Karuna Reiki. Other countries this world traveler has visited include Australia, Thailand, India, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany.
Rebecca has been an organizational development consultant for 30 years. She uses her training in the Meyers Briggs Personality Inventory and guided meditations in the corporate workshops she teaches. Her most recent position took her to Germany twice a year to work out of the corporate office. However, the company has decided to work exclusively out of Germany, so they laid off their top management, which included Rebecca. This has given her an opportunity to sit back and decide which direction to take her life now because she’s not ready to retire! But, don’t feel too sorry for her. She has already received several offers.
Rebecca met her former husband at Penn State. They were both engineers. She was an industrial engineer, and he was a civil engineer. After graduation, she worked at Eastman Kodak in New York for three years. Kodak started a diversity initiative, and she got involved. Through this time, she and her husband had 3 children who were raised in the Presbyterian Church, which is the church in which Rebecca was raised.
Initially, church wasn’t resonating with her. It was more of a social time. She had a lot of gay friends and didn’t feel comfortable at church. So when they moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, she attended a Unitarian church. That was more intellectual, and she was looking for something else, but not really sure what.
In 2011, she was invited to a Reiki class. Most of the people in the class were from Unity, so she started to attend Unity in downtown Raleigh and never looked back. In 2014, she took a job in California, this time making a list of the Unity and spiritual churches in the area. She started to visit them, and one visit just happened to be Unity of South Bay. The new minister had only been there about a month, and the church itself was warm and friendly. That minister really resonated with her, so she stayed. That minister was Rev. Kathy McCall.
In the fall of 2019, Unity of South Bay closed its doors, and Rebecca reluctantly drove Rev. Kathy to the airport to fly to Minneapolis in order for Kathy to serve in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Then the pandemic hit. Rebecca had stayed in touch with Rev. Kathy, and she found out Unity North was going virtual. So here she is once again at Rev. Kathy’s church.
Rebecca feels Unity teachings are very compelling. They focus on love and acceptance for everyone, including the self. Social justice is important, and you can be whoever you are. Rev. Kathy inspired her to attend Unity North Spiritual Center on Zoom, and she stays because it has a special warmth and is inclusive. She thinks it’s wonderful that the ministry makes an effort to include remote people in the services. For a while, Rebecca was attending both Unity North and the Raleigh Unity virtually; but the former is a little smaller and more welcoming. Even as it grows, she feels it will still maintain that special form of warmth.
Rebecca is never bored, and this is why: Besides being involved in Reiki and the Meyers Briggs Personality Inventory, she’s interested in reading and singing. She always finds a way to sing in every new community in which she lives (Karaoke, a community choral group, etc.). She has many pots of herbs inside her small apartment because she can’t get out and get her hands in the dirt to garden. Her dog Honey helps her to meet other dog-friendly people. She makes jewelry, loves crystals and rocks, swimming, hiking, nature, and dream interpretation. As a child, she was introverted, quiet and shy; she has always been in her head. She found interest in Shamanism and enjoys taking a shamanic journey because she has met animals, teachers, and spirit guides. Shamanism, which she began in 2009, has helped her with her healing process.
Some last words she would like to impart that she has gained from her Louise Hay readings are: “Each of us has so much love in our hearts that we could heal the whole world. Let’s get on with it!”
Rebecca Thompson’s book, Rebecca Rising, is an account of her spiritual journey that led to her divorce and her healing. You can find it today on Amazon.
Fionn Robertson ~ Sunday Worship Assistant (as an online volunteer)
Fionn comes to us from Sebastopol, California, which is near San Francisco in wine country. He has one brother who lives where he was raised, in Southern California. The unique spelling of his name is Gaelic, coming from a strong connection to his Scottish heritage. His doctorate in Clinical Psychology enables him to do the work he loves—working in Social Support for homeless individuals and families. He especially loves working with youth, particularly “testy” youth.
Fionn grew up in a Methodist church. He felt disconnected from the church, disconnected from himself, and this disconnection led to his becoming morbidly obese. Approximately seven years ago Fionn got tired of being tired and joined Overeaters Anonymous. The spiritual work in this program fed his long-time inner desire to know more spiritually, and so his journey towards Unity began. First he found Science of Mind, but he felt this was a little too New Age for him, and he was missing God. When Covid hit, he began reading Matthew Fox literature and attending Matthew Fox seminars and workshops. One of those workshops was hosted by Unity North. He wasn’t able to attend, so he went back and watched the recording. He attended a local Unity church but didn’t feel like he was going to church. He didn’t feel connected in any way. Later he took a class with Rev. Kathy and bought her book, The Unorthodox Life. Finally, he had found teachings with which he really connected. Unity allowed Fionn to listen and talk to God. He felt he was actually learning about God and how this was all part of being human. He calls Unity “Shining Goodness.”
Fionn has been attending Unity North on Zoom for about four years. He feels Rev. Kathy is very dynamic and “speaks a multitude,” as he calls it. She has a widespread base of knowledge and brings everything together with the idea of God. He’s learning something. He’s learning “who I can be and how I can grow.” His spiritual growth through OA, Matthew Fox, Unity teachings, and Rev. Kathy helped Fionn to lose well over 100 pounds. He says he is ready to “become my authentic self.”
Throughout this seven-year spiritual journey, Fionn has learned to appreciate big and little things: gardening, landscaping, an in-person exercise program called Body Combat that he says is incredible (mixed martial arts with music). Before, he struggled to walk two blocks. Now he loves to hike for hours—and bend over to tie his shoes.
His downs aren’t so down because he has better skills. Every morning he tells his cat, Cocoa, that it’s going to be a good day because he knows it’s going to be a good day. He wakes up happy and hums Unity songs to himself all the time. His life goals are to do more, be more, live more spiritually, and complete the test for his clinical license. As if things couldn’t get any more positive for Fionn, he gave us two of his life lessons.
“I know what to do—do the work and leave everything else to God.”
“Just Be”
About Candi Tomlinson
When Candi was in college, she won an award for her writing when, ironically, she had been told in high school that she was a terrible writer. She began her career at the age of 15/16 when she wrote, produced and hosted a radio program called “Candi’s Candid Microphone.” She followed up by receiving a bachelor’s degree in broadcasting, speech, and drama. During her professional career she worked in all phases of TV, radio, newspaper, and public relations. Currently, she has three children’s books ready for publishing.
When she was 4 she could see auras, had an uncanny knowingness, and began searching to learn who God really was. A friend who had passed on appeared to her in the Grand Canyon and told her to come to God in a different way. She began studying metaphysics and attending Unity churches in 1987. Among those was her favorite—Rev. Kathy’s first church in Tempe, Arizona.
Candi now serves Unity North as an online volunteer and writer for these biographical articles.