​Introducing the All Our Fullness Project

Marjorie Otto, Beloved Community Communications Team

One of the blessings of our Unity Church community is the number of people that call it a spiritual home. With so many individuals that make up our community, it can also make it hard to get to know everyone at the depth we crave here in our work at Unity. As a way to create a tapestry of Unity voices, the Beloved Community Staff Team, aided by the Beloved Community Communications Team, is starting a new project within the congregation called, “All Our Fullness.”
The goal of the project is to provide a way for congregants to introduce themselves in a personal way. Here’s how to participate: 

• Fill out the form that includes a prompt or question for your consideration.
• Respond to a prompt in any way that is meaningful to you: write a story, poem, reflection, or play; offer a watercolor painting, photo, or sculpture; create a video with a song, a dance, or a recorded response or conversation; or a knitted item. 
• Upload images and/or videos via the online form.

The limit of your response is only your imagination. These contributions, as well as a photo and brief biography, will be posted on the Beloved Community News blog.

The idea for the project and its name is pulled from the fourth of the Unity Church ends statements, which guide our work, “Know each other in all our fullness and create an ever-widening circle of belonging for all people.”

We hope this project can serve as a starting point for deeper relationships among us. We also hope to create a tapestry, a sampling, a “Unity community quilt” of sorts, of the folks that make up the Beloved Community here.

For this introduction of All Our Fullness, here is the inaugural question and prompt: What illuminates your commitment to creating an antiracist multicultural community? Share a story, image, and/or video. 

This is just the very beginning of this project. We’re exploring many ideas, avenues, and directions for how this project may evolve over time, so we’re leaving the future of it open-ended to make space for its growth. Look for more information in upcoming newsletters and a future table in Parish Hall, as this project grows. The evolution is also going to depend on the level of participation, meaning you, yes, you dear reader, are the perfect person to submit a response. Submit to All Our Fullness!