Unity Alhambra Foundation
Cardiff By The Sea CA
92007
Who we are
Unity Alhambra Foundation is a Unity church in Cardiff By The Sea, California.
We are a fellowship of believers, made in God's image and called as disciples of Christ to share the Good News with everyone through learning, listening, praying and working together actively to reach out to our communities.
We are a place to believe, belong, and become!
We are a fellowship of believers, made in God's image and called as disciples of Christ to share the Good News with everyone through learning, listening, praying and working together actively to reach out to our communities.
We are a place to believe, belong, and become!
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PO Box 710365
Santee, CA
92072
Santee, CA
92072
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Unity Alhambra Foundation History
1923 : The Unity Church in Alhambra, CA, became a beacon of Love, Light, and Service to Unity people, the Unity movement, and the community.
Like many of Southern California’s Unity Churches, it was Unity leader and author, Rev. Ernest Wilson, and his large 8,000-member congregation in downtown Los Angeles, in the 1940s and 50s, which help expand Unity churches in the area.
1953: The Alhambra congregation, with the help of friends like Rev. Ernest Wilson, purchased and built the church at 25 North 2nd Street, just off of Main St. in Alhambra. It thrived for decades.
Through 1970: The Unity Church of Alhambra served as the staging area for the annual bus trip to the Youth of Unity Conference.
Delegates to the Y.O.U. Conference at Unity Village (now called IYOU) would arrive at the church from around Southern California, and be sent off on a blessed journey for the three-day trip.
Our founders were proud to have served as the starting point for many teens on their spiritual adventure of a lifetime.
1970 - 2003: Over the 30 years that followed, the community around the physical church was changing. Despite continued efforts, the church was unable to attract a long-term minister.
The church had the necessary funds to hire a new minister (thanks to income from rentals), they sent a representative several times to Unity Village’s ministerial school to recruit upcoming graduates, and interviewed nine perspective candidates over a four-year period. But it became clear that serving in Alhambra was not as desirable as other ministry opportunities.
2003: The Board of Directors worked with a church consultant and reviewed their options. Hire a non-Unity minister? An unlicensed Spiritual Leader? Combine with a nearby Unity congregation? Close the doors and walk away?
The Board also consulted with leaders within the Southwest Unity Region, and the church’s attorney.
2004: At the 2004 annual meeting on Sunday, February 1st, all 20 of the active members voted to transform from a Sunday morning ministry to the Unity Church of Alhambra Foundation – a perpetual trust fund that will continually help spread the Unity message in the Southwest Unity Region.
Like many of Southern California’s Unity Churches, it was Unity leader and author, Rev. Ernest Wilson, and his large 8,000-member congregation in downtown Los Angeles, in the 1940s and 50s, which help expand Unity churches in the area.
1953: The Alhambra congregation, with the help of friends like Rev. Ernest Wilson, purchased and built the church at 25 North 2nd Street, just off of Main St. in Alhambra. It thrived for decades.
Through 1970: The Unity Church of Alhambra served as the staging area for the annual bus trip to the Youth of Unity Conference.
Delegates to the Y.O.U. Conference at Unity Village (now called IYOU) would arrive at the church from around Southern California, and be sent off on a blessed journey for the three-day trip.
Our founders were proud to have served as the starting point for many teens on their spiritual adventure of a lifetime.
1970 - 2003: Over the 30 years that followed, the community around the physical church was changing. Despite continued efforts, the church was unable to attract a long-term minister.
2003: The Board of Directors worked with a church consultant and reviewed their options. Hire a non-Unity minister? An unlicensed Spiritual Leader? Combine with a nearby Unity congregation? Close the doors and walk away?
The Board also consulted with leaders within the Southwest Unity Region, and the church’s attorney.
2004: At the 2004 annual meeting on Sunday, February 1st, all 20 of the active members voted to transform from a Sunday morning ministry to the Unity Church of Alhambra Foundation – a perpetual trust fund that will continually help spread the Unity message in the Southwest Unity Region.
With us night and morning
By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning, and never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented, still evil days bring burdens hard to bear; Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.
Unity Alhambra Foundation listing was last updated on the 27th of September, 2023
