The Unity Movement

Charles Fillmore Unity began in 1886 as a healing prayer ministry. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore first addressed their own health challenges--Myrtle had been diagnosed with terminal tuberculosis--and then turned to meeting requests from others for prayer assistance. By 1889 they were publishing a magazine, still in existence as Unity Magazine.
 
Unity's best known publication, however, is The Daily Word, which began in 1927 and is read throughout the world. It was the first monthly magazine with a prayer for each day. The Daily Word is produced by Silent Unity. This Unity prayer ministry was founded in 1890, and is located at Unity Village, southeast of Kansas City, Missouri. Silent Unity receives several million prayer requests by telephone each year and over a million by mail. All requests are held under continuous prayer vigil in the Silent Unity Chapel for thirty days.

 
 
Myrtle Fillmore

   
By World War I, study and prayer groups had grown into churches, and now about 950 churches worldwide are united under the Association of Unity Churches, with headquarters in Lee's Summit, Missouri, near Unity Village.

   
Music is Peace by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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