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I'm sorry to have taken so long to contact you and give you my impressions of the

"Unity Conference Day".

I thought the day was absolutely tremendous and spiritually, very powerful.

As I enclosed in my letter I must have been pulled in by the Lord's

it was a very odd chain of events which led me to coming to the conference. And the result was to free me of an intractable problem of un-forgiveness which had resisted all attempts at solution over 5years.

I would like to thank everyone involved in organising the day and the Lord for turning up there, for he certainly did. I saw the notice for it in the ‘Good News’ but only came because my husband was going to Birmingham for a meeting.

When I arrived I felt a bit nervous because I wondered whether it was meant to be only local, but I soon felt at home with the people there and well able to praise the Lord even with unfamiliar songs.

I felt sorry for the little group demonstrating at the gate, because there was nothing in the talks that they could object to, and very much that would have been very helpful to them. Still I felt that the fact they were there, showed something really powerful was going on inside.

Personally the effect on me was like dynamite- the Lord seemed to have freed me of a problem of un-forgiveness that I had had for five years.

In the early 90’s I lost my baby. Like the woman in the gospel, I had tried everything I could find to get rid of the resentment, but nothing had succeeded, and I was feeling quite hopeless about it. I didn’t know the conference was going to have forgiveness as a major theme.

I was part of a group and had severed them for ten years and even though they knew, and sent cads, no one came to see me, or rang me, not even to ask if I was going to a conference where I attended regularly and gave lefts. Time went on and no birthday cards, when the year previous year they sent me one expressing undying love, and I could not understand why I was dropped from the group.

I was extremely hurt and bewildered and for the next five years I could not sit down and pray, the question immediately coming to mind “Why did they do this to me?”

I did not talk about it to anyone for three years, my prayer life had gone and my relationship with God seemed to be at an end. I did speak about it to people privately at any conference I went to. And each time thought I had forgiven and forgotten. When I went to the old prayer groups, all went well until there was some reference to love or community,

at which I become filled with anger at what I thought was the hypocrisy and would leave as soon as I could.

What got through to me at your meeting was the story about the women whose child had been killed and the assurance that God would see justice done-she didn’t need to do it.

I also think the resentment had been so deep-seated it had attracted other grievances to join it and I had become rather an irritable and offensive talking person.

I am not quite sure what changed at the Conference but the sting seems to have gone out of my memory and I feel I feel I have been freed of something rather horrid, I would picture it as along scaly beast, (a bit like the ‘Alien’). I feel ok about the other people in the group now, though there are a couple that seem to remain pretty distant with me, I thing this is on their side now. It’s sad that there has been no great reconciliation, but maybe the time for that will come, when the time and circumstances are right.

I am extremely grateful for your hard work and courage in pioneering this work, I will pray for it to prosper.

Mary Jones (Birmingham England)

May this be the first of many Unity Conferences in Birmingham.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to be here for the whole of it, and also sorry that Fr. John wasn't able to be here today (Saturday).

Many thanks to all the organizers and speakers, especially Rev. Paul Miller who was moved by the Holy Spirit to minister God's Grace.

Laura King (Birmingham England)

I only attended the meeting on Saturday and noticed that after lunch there was a lightering of weight that was apparent earlier.

God's Holy Spirit was breaking through.

The speakers were excellent as was the content of the message.

David Lucas

The Holy Spirit ministered in a powerful yet very loving way.

This is the start of something 'Big' in God.

Derek Green (Birmingham England)

Excellent Conference on Saturday especially, did not attend Friday evening.

Forgiveness accepted.

Ray Granner (Birmingham England)

Congratulations to the Unity Leadership and Music ministry who put on their first Annual Conference, and God put His seal of approval on it, with many receiving inner healing.

This must certainly clear away any doubts that God wanted this Unity group started, and a further confirmation was the delegation outside; some had come as far as Scotland to try and stop it.

The talks were very enjoyable, enlightening and humorous, but at the same time serious enough to go deep.

Many Churches were represented with people coming from Manchester and Surrey,

looking forward to the next one.

Hope to see more of you there.