2301 Central Ave. Augusta, GA 30904 706-738-2458 augustaunity@knology.net |
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Office Hours Tuesday - Thursday 9 am to 3 pm Sunday Services 11 am to 12 pm |
Our Minister Rev Sheryl Padgett About our Minister Rev. Sheryl Padgett always had an interest in how things worked. So, naturally, engineering was the logical choice of careers. After fixing Air Traffic Control Radar in the Air Force for four years, she pursued a degree in computer science. This led her to a position with General Dynamics working on guidance software for the Atlas missile. That position didn't come easy. There were no female engineers working at the launch pad at that time and the launch conductor wanted it to stay that way. Finally, she was hired into the Design Engineering group under a different manager. She pursued her Master's Degree in Engineering Management. "I thought I was going to be in engineering for the rest of my life," she said. There were different plans for Sheryl. After attending a Unity church for only two months she woke up with an uneasy feeling that she was supposed to be a minister. This notion terrified her. After talking it over with the minister, she decided to take the two years of classes necessary to apply for ministerial school, all the time hoping it wouldn´t lead to the ministry. But everything fell into place. At the end of two years she was one of the twenty-five students chosen out of three hundred applicants. Knowing now that it was meant to be, she turned in her resignation as an engineer and became a minister. Rev. Sheryl Padgett was Ordained and Licensed as a Unity Minister in 1997. "I absolutely love the ministry," she says. She was the minister of the Unity Church of Christianity in Appleton, Wisconsin for five years and has been our minister since 2002. She uses her experiences as an engineer and her science background to explain spiritual principles in a practical way. Our Minister Emmeritus |
| Rev Lola Andrews |