02/21/17

Transforming Lives in Spokane, Washington

By Tara Wear, SpiritGroups Program Leader at Unity Spiritual Center in Spokane, Washington - excerpted from her 2017 Annual Meeting Report on SpiritGroups (Pictured: A SpiritGroup celebratory social outing at Unity Spiritual Center)

Why am I here – what’s my purpose on the planet – in this community – in this job as SpiritGroup Program Leader?

To experience and express Love. 

How? 

• Commune with my Spirit…I experience and express Love.  
• Connect with you and your Spirit…I experience and express Love. 
• Have compassion for myself and for you…I experience and express Love. 
• Serve you and our community…I experience and express Love. 
• Challenge myself and you to expand…I experience and express Love. 

Our mission here is to transform lives (starting with mine – be the change I seek) and make a positive difference in the world. 

How? 

One Love. Many ways this is expressed. One is through SpiritGroups. 

My life’s journey has led me to this moment, right here, right now. As a part of that journey, SpiritGroups showed up for me. 

Our community’s journey in SpiritGroups began last year. The McClure’s graciously hosted 9 of us in their home for the pilot group, which launched in January and the first series kicked off in April. 

Since then, we’ve had 3 series, 25 groups, 33 hosts, 209 participants. Those numbers tell a story but I’m also called to tell you about these people and how their lives have changed…

• A woman challenges herself to meditate 4 times a week and receives compassion and learns to give herself compassion for whatever she was able to do or not do that week. 
•  A man  learns to laugh again, to allow the Spirit of Joy to move in him and be expressed.
• A woman is held in love and compassion when her husband passes away unexpectedly.
• A newborn is celebrated by her new Dad on National Adoption Day (witnessed by SpiritGroup volunteers).
• Women in a Spokane shelter receive food on Thanksgiving provided by and from a SpiritGroup
• Me, a person living her purpose, providing opportunities through SpiritGroups for you to connect to yourselves, to each other, to Love/God/Spirit.
• And many more of us are out there!  

I am filled with gratitude for my community (you all), for being on this journey with me and for your generous support of this amazing work. 

Thank you.  
Tara