Master Mind for Success with Rev. Gaylon McDowell

Master Mind for Success—Unlock the Power of Collective Consciousness!

Unlock the power of unity and shared love at Master Mind for Success, an inspiring
workshop led by Rev. Gaylon McDowell, Senior Assistant Minister and Executive
Minister at Christ Universal Temple. Discover the Master Mind Principle, a
transformative method to align spiritually and mentally with others, achieve shared
goals, and manifest God’s blessings.

Together, we’ll experience the power of connection and faith, achieving remarkable
things as one. Let’s deepen our bonds, align our hearts, and grow in divine
grace—because we truly are in this love together!

�� Saturday, May 24 @ 2:00p pacific
�� Online & at UP Church (8722 Crenshaw Blvd, Inglewood, CA)
�� Registration Fee: $20
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We can’t wait to share this incredible journey with you!

Teaching & Preaching Bootcamp

We are building something special over here at UP Church.

For the past…I’m not even sure how long, we’ve been collectively affirming that:

UP Church is a divine idea. God has a plan for UP Church.

Right now, God is fulfilling that plan through us.

Through us, will all the families of the earth be blessed.

God has provided us the resources – financial and otherwise – to achieve his purpose for UP Church. We receive the good of God now!

From the time that we began affirming this, so many wonderful and magical things have been happening for our spiritual community.

Most recently we completed an absolutely magical Lent Live 2025 experience. From that class, several amazing leaders emerged, including Rev. John Downey, III, Rev. Jack Roberts, Rev. Tonda Terrell, Saba Roberts, Robyn McKoy and Shamika Cotton.

As we continue to develop the current generation of leaders, we also have an eye out for the next generation.

Dr. Pulley has agreed to host a special Teaching and Preaching Bootcamp for UP Church. If you have an interest in improving your preaching or your teaching or maybe you’re aspiring to preach or teach, I encourage you to be a part of this experience.

It begins Sunday, May 4th at 4pm, immediately following our Annual Meeting and you’re invited.

Tuition is $175 and payment plans are available. You can go to UPChurch.org to register. Or you can follow this link: https://onrealm.org/UPChurch/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=NDczZmRhMTctNjA5Ny00NzA1LWIyNzItYjJjYzAwOGU4ODJl

You can also use the QR code on the featured image for this post.

Community Service

Many moons ago, during an early Ministry Development Weekend, we established as mission as: Our mission is to express God’s Divine Love through teaching and practicing spiritual principles, worship services, soulful music, fellowship activities, and community outreach.

In my estimation, we’ve been fulfilling the first four: teaching and practicing spiritual principle, worship services, soulful music and fellowship activities. But since the Pandemic, we have not done must community outreach.

Our current Board President Robyn McKoy presented an idea for how we can begin to fulfill this part of our mission. It’s simple and easy. Each quarter, we will select a non-profit to support. We will raise money for the quarter and then present the donation to the organization.

We received so many people suggestions and have a plan to support them all. However, one organization stood out the most to the Board and we’ve selected it as the first organization that we will support. That organization is Teach Tech Charter High School.

Help us support Teach Tech Charter High School’s Drama Department, a new
program bringing theatre to students for the first time! They need costumes,
production facilities, and opportunities to connect with the Los Angeles
entertainment industry.

Through our outreach, we’re sponsoring a field trip to Warner Brothers Studios
with lunch, partnering with After School Allstars to provide transportation. Your
donation will directly support this experience and help build a lasting theatre
program.

To give, donate as you normally do to the church, selecting Community Service in
the dropdown menu or adding it in the memo section. You can also use the QR code on the featured image. Thank you for making a
difference!

Late Bloomer’s Guide to Wealth

I invite you to make the choice for wealth. I didn’t intentionally set out to be a ‘late bloomer’ when it comes to wealth. Quite honestly, I started this journey with an understanding that wealth is my birthright. I had been schooled by the best – Les Brown, Rev. Johnnie Colemon, Tony Robbins, Rev. Della, Rev. Ike, Catherine Ponder.

I have learned that manifesting wealth is a personal journey. It is an idea that must be awakened in your heart. I don’t know if this is the way it has to be but I had to learn that you’re wealthy whether you have money or not. The presence of money does not make you wealthy; and the lack of money does not make you poort.

It is a mindset that invites wealth in all forms.

I’d like to invite you into a conversation about wealth and wealth building. I want to share with you lessons I’ve learned along the way in the hopes that my journey will both inspire you and save you time. My hope is that I can help you avoid some of things I wasted a whole bunch of time on. And the things that worked, my hope is that you latch on to those things and run with them.

If you’re a late bloomer like me, I desire for you to feel hope…to know that it’s not too late…to know that there is something you can do right now to make a difference in your life financially…to know that there are choices you can make today that will make your life almost unrecognizable even a year from now.

Join me Sunday, March 30th at 5pm PT and let’s talk about wealth and what it takes to accelerate it no matter when you’re starting. Here’s the evite link to register and get the zoom link: https://www.evite.com/event/0233C7GB67SASQ2SQEPQAS7RH563AQ/

To your wealth,

Rev. Sherri James

Lent 2025 – Day 18

We have been on a journey since March 5th, exploring the lessons of Daniel through Dr. Pulley’s book, Daniel: A Model of Kingdom Leadership. Through this experience we have seen what leadership looks like under pressure. Daniel, Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego were captives pressed into service by the Babylonian government.

While they held high posts because of their skill and talent, they, in the end, were not free. Often others sought to create chaos around them, even going so far as to accuse them of disrespecting through their observance of their religious dietary laws.

What they show us through their example is what leadership looks like under pressure. They model for us how to hold to our principles, regardless of the outside circumstances.

We invite you to take this journey with us. We have been holding consciousness for 50 people. As of the writing of this post, we have 43 souls journeying with us. We are so close to 50! Won’t you join us?

Follow this link [https://onrealm.org/UPChurch/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=N2Q4MDczODMtODRiOS00MDI3LTljZTctYjI3MTAxM2JhNThj] or use the QR code above to register and get locked in. It’s not too late to transform yourself into the leader you were designed to be.

11 Nov. 2024 – THE LAW OF RIGHT ACTION IS OPERATING IN MY LIFE NOW

NOVEMBER 11   

THE LAW OF RIGHT ACTION IS OPERATING IN MY LIFE NOW

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Job 22:21,26

Right action means that every legitimate and constructive purpose I have in mind shall be successfully executed.  It means that I shall know what to do, how to think, how to act, how to proceed.  I definitely declare that since my word is in accord with the Divine Nature, it actually is the Law of God in my experience, enforcing Itself.  Hence, there is nothing in me or around me which can limit this word.  The power of this Law is with me and the action which results from this power produces harmony, peace, joy and success.

Recognizing that there is but one Power, one Presence and one Life, I so unite myself with this Life that all things become possible to me through faith.  Humbly, reverently, but with complete conviction, I accept the gift of heaven, that life which is complete and perfect, here and now.

I know that in this consciousness of Reality is the supply for my every need – physical, mental or spiritual – and I accept that supply in deepest gratitude. I am thankful that this is the way Life fulfills my needs, through the doorway of my inner self, and I am thankful that I know how to use this perfect Law.  I come to this great Fountain of Supply, in the very center of my being, to absorb that for which I have need, mentally and physically, and I am filled with the sense of the Reality of that which I desire, As I am filled with Reality I permit It to flow into my world of thought and action, knowing that It brings peace and harmony and order all around me.  There arises within me limitless faith in the unconquerable Presence, the perfect Law and the Divine Action. 

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

10 Nov. 2024 – EVERY ATOM OF MY BEING IS ANIMATED BY THE DIVINE PERFECTION

NOVEMBER 10   

EVERY ATOM OF MY BEING IS ANIMATED BY THE DIVINE PERFECTION

The Tao cannot be heard; what can be heard is not It.  The Tao cannot be seen; what can be seen is not It.

The Texts of Taoism

The Chinese tell us that Tao (meaning Spirit) produces everything, nourishes everything and maintains everything.  It spreads itself over everything.  It flows through everything and is in all things.  Indeed, being all that is, there can be nothing outside It.  There is a mystical Presence which pervades the Universe, and this Presence, welling up in our consciousness, evermore proclaims Itself as the source and root of all.  The enlightened of the ages have told us that it is this God within us that recognizes Itself, or Himself, in everything we are.

I know that as there is One Mind, and that Mind is God and that mind is my mind, so also there is one Body, that Body is spiritual and that Body is my body.  Every organ, every function, every action and reaction of my body is in harmony with the Divine Creative Spirit.  I have both “the mind of Christ” and the Body of God.  I could not ask for more and greater could not be given.  I now seek to realize the spiritual significance of the One Mind and the One Body.

Every function, organ and cell of my body responds to the magnetic pull of wholeness, of unlimited energy, of prefect life.  As my thoughts are so put in order, all fear, doubt and uncertainty are banished into nothingness.

I live in the One Mind and act through the One Body, in accord with divine harmony, perfection and poise.  Every organ of my body moves in accord with perfect harmony.  The Divine circulates through me automatically, spontaneously and perfectly.  Every atom of my being is animated by the Divine Perfection. 

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

09 Nov. 2024 – SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE IS MY SUPPLY

NOVEMBER 9   

SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE IS MY SUPPLY

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Psalm 188:6

I know that Spirit fills all space and animates every form, therefore, Spirit is the true actor in everything.  But I also know that Spirit can only act for me by acting through me.  This means simply that God can give me only what I take.  I am conscious that as I daily enter into my Divine inheritance, in my thought and in the Spirit, I am entering into the realm of Absolute Causation and I completely believe that from this secret place of the Most High within me, there shall be projected an objective manifestation of my every legitimate desire.

Hope rises within me and sings a song of joy.  Love goes before me and embraces everything.  Peace accompanies me on my way, while doubt and fear vanish as mist before the light.

Am I really accepting abundance?  Is my thought really animating my experience with plenty?  Am I affirming that Divine Substance is forever flowing to me as supply?

Today I praise the abundance in all things.  I animate everything with the idea of abundance.  I am remembering only the good.  I acknowledge the good working everywhere.  I give thanks that this good is flowing into my experience in ever-increasing volume.  There is that within me that sees, knows and understands this truth, which completely accepts it.  There is good enough to go around.  Therefore I do not withhold this good from myself or others, but constantly proclaim Spiritual Substance is forever flowing to each and all as supply.

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker