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Thursday, September 11  (All Online Events will be Streamed at UCR!)

  • 9:30 a.m. - online - Panel Discussion Featuring Dr. Tracy Brown, who will join in conversation with Revs. Maggie Alderman and Kathy Beasley as they reflect on this year's theme: In the stillness, I awaken to divine wisdom.
  • 11:00 a.m. - online - Prayer Service
  • 1:00 pm -7:00 pm  - in-person event - Self-Guided Prayer Activities 
  • 1:30 pm - in-person event - Meditation with Barb Buchanan
  • 2:15 p.m. - online - Sacred Sound and Inspirational Song: Amplifying Spiritual Connection Through Music of the Heart with Grammy award-winning musician Barry Goldstein In this noisy world, we invite you to step into a sacred space where sound and song become gateways to healing, intention, and divine connection. In this 90-minute journey, Barry Goldstein will weave together breath, tuning forks, chanting, singing, inspired teachings, and live experiential compositions. Through these practices, participants will be guided into powerful states of attunement, activation, and alignment—cultivating group energy that opens the heart and deepens connection with Spirit.
  • 6:00 pm - in-person event - 7 Direction Prayer  in the Shaman Tradition with Michelle Takes
  • 7:00 p.m. - online - Sacred Celebration Concert featuring the music of Rev. Kit Holmes
  • ~9:00 pm - in-person event - Healing Prayer Circle with Jan Griffith

See all of the Prayer, Peace, & Prosperity activities here: https://unitycr.org/news/prayer-peace-prosperity-2025-fundraiser

Rev Kit Holmes

And there's even more to look forward to as we welcome Rev. Kit Holmes as musician and speaker for the retreat.

By any measure, Rev. Kit Holmes’ musical gifts alone are extraordinary. But it is the sheer volume of her additional talents, creativity, and authenticity that explains the adulation she regularly receives from audiences, clients, and peers for her keynotes, classes, coaching, and retreats. She has been sharing her gifts in New Thought spiritual communities around the United States since 2004.

She is an ordained Centers for Spiritual Living minister and a certified transformational life coach. She’s also a grateful “recovering perfectionist” who uses her recent experiences as a breast cancer and divorce survivor as a teaching tool to help people rediscover their innate wholeness after significant loss.

Self-Directed Prayer Stations
1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Quiet Meditation 
  • Affirmative Prayers
  • Journaling/Reflection Questions
Prayer Box
  • Place your prayer requests in the Prayer Box (or post them in the UCR App!)
Neurographic Meditative Art
  • Make any shape doodles on the page
  • Smooth the places where any lines touch so the lines flow smoothly
  • Color the doodles, add designs or words, or write prayers in each space
Peaceful Patterns (Zentangle)
  • Draw a square or any other shape (or write out a word in big letters in your square and draw designs up to the letters. The letters will stand out and can be colored or left blank)
  • Divide the shape into sections - see example
  • Use zentangle designs to fill in each space-see example on how to do each pattern step-by-step 
Praying in Color

Do you struggle with the “correct” words to use to pray? Use simple shapes and affirmative words to focus your prayer energy. 

  • Make doodles on the page. 
  • Place a word you want to pray about, such as wellness or a person’s name you want to pray for in the center doodle. 
  • Add other doodles and color your designs. 
  • As you concentrate on drawing and coloring, you will find yourself concentrating on affirmative prayers!
Finger Labyrinth
  • Please use hand sanitizer for this station.
  • Use the wooden finger labyrinth to direct your payers. As you begin, release all that no longer serves you, rest in quiet prayer in the center, renew on the way out. Try this also with your eyes closed!
  • Paper finger labyrinths are available for you to take home.
Prayer Ties
Time in nature
  • Relax in one of the outdoor quiet areas: prayer garden, peace garden, table and chairs by the community room, or Zach’s memorial bench. Take a small pocket rock with you as a touchstone or a prayer poem to read. You may keep these.