I am giving them one star because I cannot give them zero start. I am very upset like many others who experienced The vote by unity members to sell the church and how it was rigged. the church property was sold in a very hush. Hush way were many were not notified that the sale was coming, but later even our minister claimed that they had. church insiders. People that actually worked for the church were very vocal. About how it was all being kept hush-hush and how they were seeking to get majority vote by using their own staff. Choir and others like.
The Head of the church organization or its chairman I believe was His title Tried to make us all believe that the voting was honest and even prior to the voting in some of the in person. Seminars, they would block those that had any objections or legitimate questions.
. by being a low level bank employee. He thought he was on authority in telling many of the low level members of the church. That in fact, he could predict the real estate market and how it was going to go down. It hasn't gone down and it became unaffordable to replace this property that was sold.
Nevertheless, the night of the voting new requirements were placed that had not been announced, making it impossible for many to speak or say anything at all much less Vote. The Agreement to Sell went through mostly based on employees. A few very elderly members that were not capable or of their wits in order to lot of corruption. leaving tens of millions of dollars sitting in a bank account that are not being accessed.
It is a shame because unity was a very nice place to go to accept that. When you consider what occurred, you must be very sad and doubting the persons behind it and behind the church itself, especially the minister.
Most people were very upset, but most people didn't want to lose. The little club which is what this place felt like. It's important also when you choose someone to be a minister to choose. Not the person who wants to be a minister or who has a particular talent. But a person that is mature in their spirituality. the minister we had at the time was absolutely not mature in his personality was very self-conscious and. Was in my opinion, just overall week in the spiritual area. by way of example. He had a couple of attractive gay men speak at different times about their life. And how they became better from being a unity. one of them spoke about how he found the love of his life. And how he had a wonderful new job and was driving a very pretty jaguar and was hoping soon to buy himself. A Bentley when he made the money for it. another one got up and told us basically how ridiculous it was that somebody is gorgeous as him thought that he was meaningless. It got to a point that the supeddie all this place was Overshadowing this year entertainment value. That's some of us were getting out of it, which was utterly lacking in spirituality and which warranted reprimands for their attacks on the Catholic Church. it continued beyond this when they began to move from one location to another because they just could not afford a new place And values have skyrocketed well beyond the level. They were at when the church building was sold.
Who knows where that money is today and if it is really there . I could tell you that many years before.
The minister at the time was Chris Jackson. This is the one I am referring to. And he did retire from the ministry. As a very young man. his salary was set to be around $200000 a year when he was there.. the membership went down considerably because I believe that a lot of people noticed his superficiality. Most people actually went to this church. If you could call of the wonderful music Sunday morning service. the talks were interesting clearly either. Chris Jackson was a good speech writer. Or somebody wrote this for him. the prior minister was exceptno and they had a lady minister whose name escapes me, who was maybe not as Abbott a speaker, but a very spiritual person whose spirituality came across as natural and real. this is what you need in life. I would ask members to get together and make calls to the state. Attorney General of Miami Dade County, Catherine Fernandez rundle and to the state Attorney General for the state of Florida and demand an investigation of where this money is. Who voted for this sale? What last minute issues and obstacles were raised and how this led to even more people, leaving the church than those that had already left under Chris jackson. read more
