Rev. Frank Philip

Rev. Frank Philip attended Unity School of Christianity, located in Kansas City, Missouri.  The seminary was a two year full-time program.  He was Licensed and Ordained as a Minister in June 2005.  Prior to answering God’s call to ministry, Rev. Frank practiced law in South Florida.  He graduated University of Miami School of Law, in Coral Gables, Florida and received his Juris Doctorate in May 1991.  He completed his undergraduate work at Saint John's University, in Jamaica, New York where he received a Bachelor of Arts in May 1988 with a major in history.  He has lived in South Florida for 19 years and Rev. Frank speaks English and Spanish.  You can visit his website at http://www.frankphilip.org. 

Rev. Frank is a "son" of Unity on the Bay, located in Miami, Florida.  His mentors include Rev. James Trapp, Rev. Tita Calzada, Rev. Ken Williamson and Bishop Henry Fernandez of the Faith Center, Sunrise, Florida.    In Miami, as God prepared him for ministry, he served as Interim Director of Operations, a Class Facilitator and Volunteer in the following areas: Sunday service team coordination, strategic planning team leader, bookstore sales, special event production, special service team leader, trained prayer chaplain, newsletter editor, workshop facilitator and trained sound and video technician. 

During his time as an attorney, he worked for Office of the Public Defender, in Miami-Dade County for seven years.  There, he held positions in training, appellate and trial areas assigned to the Juvenile, County Court and Felony divisions.  He also worked five years as a self-employed attorney concentrating in civil litigation, criminal defense and appellate practice. He was lead attorney in 1000+ cases, 30+ jury trials, 50+ bench trials and 20+ appeals.   Rev. Frank continues to hold a license to practice law in the State of Florida.  During the seminary, Rev. Frank worked for UPS in Lenexa, Kansas in the Finance Department.  He is an experienced businessman and believes that the church is a spiritual business lead by the Holy Spirit working together through all the church leaders.

When Unity of Hollywood was searching for a new minister, the search committee was looking for a minister with the following spiritual gifts: is an effective preacher/speaker; has a sense of his ministry; ministers effectively to people in crisis situations; is an effective administrator; has a strong commitment to teaching classes; encourages people to relate their faith to their daily lives; is accepting of people with divergent backgrounds and traditions; is mature and emotionally secure; has a strong commitment to Unity Teachings; is a compassionate and caring person, sensitive to others' needs; takes time for personal needs (family, social life, etc.); and has a good sense of humor. The board, the search committee and Rev. Frank believe that they were each guided to the other through prayer and the Holy Spirit. 

Since 2005, the church has doubled in both attendance and prosperity.    The church acquired new property in July 2006 and renovated the property as our Learning Center.  We know that the best is yet to come.  Amen.

Unity of Hollywood Mission:

Unity Church of Hollywood is a growing spiritual center of positive people who are supporting one another in living an abundant life.  We hold a vision of people joined together in God, peacefully living, loving and prospering on a healthy planet.  We are a church family who inspires love and acceptance, demonstrates a true connection with God, practices Truth principles in our lives, and serves our community and the world. 

Unity is a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer.  The Bible is our text for living a God inspired life.  We believe that God is Spirit, the loving source of all that is. God is the one power, all good, everywhere present, all wisdom.  God is divine energy, continually creating, expressing and sustaining all creation.  In God, we live and move and have our being.   In Unity, some other ways we speak of God are Life, Light, Love, Substance, Principle, Law, and Universal Mind.   Ultimately, God is more than any words can ever describe.

We believe in the divinity of Jesus and that the spirit of God lived in Jesus.  Jesus is the Son of God, as the Christ in expression.  We believe that Jesus Christ expressed His Divine potential and He lived to show us how to express ours as well.  We see Jesus as a master teacher of universal truths and as our Way-Shower.    We believe that Jesus' crucifixion on Calvary was a final step in a work that had been going on in Him for thirty-three years, and when He arose He was entirely free from all physical limitations.  He had overcome all the carnal tendencies which He had taken on that He might free the human race from its bondage.  We celebrate Easter as the celebration of the true resurrection of Jesus.  Its inner meaning and spiritual significance is the awakening and raising to spiritual consciousness of the I AM, which had been dead in trespass and sin and buried in the tomb of materiality.

As children of God, we are each individual, eternal expressions of God.  Thus, we are joint heirs with Christ.  Our essential nature is divine and our purpose is to express our divine potential as realized and demonstrated by Jesus and other master teachers.  The more we awaken to our Divine nature, the more fully God expresses in and through our lives.