2024

Michele Whittington became an ordained minister in 1997, received her Doctorate of Divinity in 2007 and had the honor and privilege of serving the spiritual community of Creative Living Fellowship in Phoenix, Arizona, for 22 years as its Senior Minister. As a certified Real Love coach for over a decade, she has worked with countless individuals and couples to make the internal changes necessary to create loving, joyous relationships. And now as an Art of Feminine Presence® master teacher, she has added a set of practices and tools to amplify her own personal power and magnetism and to support others in doing the same.

Rev. Bill Marchiony is a co-founder and Spiritual Director of New Thought Philadelphia. He has been a practitioner of Practical Healing Prayer since 2002. His spiritual studies began six years earlier, and he received ministerial credentials in 2011 from the Emerson Theological Institute.

Rev. Bill is the author of "Practical Prayer for Real Results", available in Kindle and paperback versions at Amazon.com and other booksellers. It's a wonderful primer on the steps of Practical Prayer, with 40 complete prayers on a variety of topics that you can customize for your own immediate use.

This young convert was deeply impressed and determined to make these the rules of his life. From that day onward throughout his life he made it a rule to spend the first moments of his day alone with God and God's Word. Before he read a letter, looked at a paper or even read a telegram, he went first to the Bible, that the first impression of the day might be what he got directly from God.

Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW is a career journalist and author, a licensed social worker and psychotherapist, ordained interfaith minister, speaker, Reiki Master, and PR professional. She is the founder of Hugmobsters Armed With Love.

Rev. Sonja was Baptist before being introduced to New Thought teachings under Rev. Dr. Barbra King of Hillside Truth Center in Atlanta, GA, and Dr. Kennedy Shultz of the Atlanta Church of Religious Science (now CSL).

Sonja received a Master’s of Divinity from Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute, Spring 2022 and served as President of the Unity Ministerial Student Association.

She is an Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) with the National Guard and serves as minister with Unity Center of Tuscaloosa, AL, and Unity Village Chapel where she teaches a weekly online yoga class.

She graduated from the University of Georgia with a BBA, and has traveled to 22 countries.

Members of the New Thought Philadelphia Practitioner Core.