OMNI - A Service About Everything

In Week 4 of First Unity of St. Petersburg’s Spirit Expressing curriculum, we examine the idea of being Leading Edge.  Here’s the vision statement for our community about that:

First Unity is known as a leading edge and dynamic community around the world.  Through innovative use of the arts, technology and human resourcefulness, our community models excellence in all we are and do.

Really, leading edge is about leadership.  Leaders capture a vision – often a vision no one else has seen; or if they have, no one else has dared to act on.  First Unity, in many ways, has leadership in its DNA.  One example of that is the 2nd Friday of the month OMNI service.  OMNI has been described as “the hippie service, ” “the Unity rave,” “the cultural creatives service.”  No two OMNI services are alike in form, yet in each one there is a powerful Unity message of love and empowerment.

Theodore Levitt said, “Creativity is thinking up new things.  Innovation is doing new things.”  Powerful and effective leaders are also innovators, and the OMNI service is just one way that the consciousness of innovation and leadership is demonstrated at First Unity.  So here’s the take away message:  anyone and everyone can be (or already is) a leader.  The whole Unity message conveys that idea.  The truth is that it is in everyone’s DNA!