When Everything Shifts: Spiritual Crisis, Renewal, and Mentorship
with Micheal Harris, Guest Speaker
Sunday, August 10th, 2025 at 10 a.m.

Throughout our spiritual journeys, we encounter mentors whose courage to transform and embrace radical love helps guide our own paths toward greater understanding. Carlton Pearson (1953-2023) was a prominent Pentecostal minister who experienced a profound transformation, evolving from preaching hell and damnation to embracing a "Gospel of Inclusion" that proclaimed universal salvation for all people. Micheal Harris will share how Carlton Pearson's theology and transformation have shaped his own spiritual journey.

Micheal Harris is the former Director of the Open Door houseless ministry and the former Associate Minister of Spiritual Care & Education at Bend United Methodist Church. Prior to moving to Bend in 2019, Micheal owned and operated a foster care home for developmentally delayed adults for 15 years. Currently, Micheal is an administrative supervisor and mental health therapist for Forever Family Therapy with offices in Bend, Prineville, and Redmond. Micheal lives in La Pine with his husband, Keith and his two fur babies, Chompers and Cleo.

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OUR MINISTER

On Connectedness
by Rev. Scott Rudolph

In 1820 in Boston, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing said, “Religion, we are told, is a private, personal thing, between the individual and God. His neighbor or the community must not meddle with it… I would maintain that religion is eminently a social principle…

OUR BELIEFS

Diverse Beliefs, One Fellowship

Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations draw on elements of a variety of religious traditions, as well as humanitarian and environmental values, for our spiritual inspiration and practice. UUs have a diversity of beliefs, and may identify as humanists, atheists, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, pagan, something else, or nothing at all. As we celebrate diversity, we also have a set of core beliefs that unite us.

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We welcome you with kindness, love, acceptance, and empathy. We welcome you into our community by offering a wide variety of opportunities for spiritual growth and fellowship. We look forward to meeting you!

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