Music Ministry Resources and Information

Sue Riley is a co-founder of emPower Music & Arts, dedicated to offering music resources to our ministries. As music director for Unity Church of Clearwater, FL for the past 18 years, Sue sees the power of positive music on a weekly basis. She also served as the Music Team Leader for Unity Worldwide Ministries’ Music Team, helping to create a large body of New Thought songbooks and other resources. A singer/songwriter with 8 CDs of her original music, Sue travels the country as part of the PosiPalooza! concerts. Passionate about the power of music, she says: “I know that music has the power to change lives for the better. Together we can do great things!”

Claudia is a Music Director for Unity Christ Church of Bon Air in Richmond, VA and have served this community for 14 years. For the past 12 years she has developed and managed a music program & recording studio in Richmond, Virginia that serves at-risk teenagers (living in a residential treatment center). This job brings her great joy and satisfaction and she's glad to teach the hip hop generation.

Glen is a one-of-a-kind artist, gifted vocalist, and wonderfully musical acoustic guitarist. His rich baritone-tenor, effortless fretting, and vibrant personality light up stages solo, in an ensemble, and when he accompanies others. He is an award-winning songwriter and a real crowd-pleaser, having electrified juried showcases for Folk Alliance, S.M.A.F., Falcon Ridge Folk Fest, Cape May Singer-Songwriter Fest, Posi Music Fest, and more. Glen sings memoirs, anecdotes, tender love songs, and anthemic calls for unity and empowerment. He is a beloved national PosiMusic artist, a popular instructor at SummerSongs songwriter retreats (summersongs.com), a record producer, and a sing-along master.

David is a composer, arranger, conductor and webmaster. After a career as a high school, college and community orchestra director, primarily serving African-American communities in South Carolina, he retired in 2006. In 2007 he founded Heart Wind Music, which offers online distribution of New Thought sheet music and audio. Also in 2007, he joined the Music Ministry Team. In 2012, Unity Worldwide Ministries selected Heart Wind Music to host its Online Choral Library. David has been a church music director since 1983, and is now at Unity of Columbia, S.C.

Kim-Char Meredith is the music director at Unity in Naperville, Illinois, in addition to being a gifted singer/songwriter. Kim-Char also owns the Pahzee recording studio.

Jeff English is the music director at Unity Spiritual Center of Lansing, Michigan.

Richard Mekdeci is an ordained Unity Minister (2018) whose life has been all about service to the Unity movement since 1986 when he became the music director at First Church Unity (now Unity of Nashville, TN). 

He served UWM as the Sacred Music Resources coordinator as well as the Creative Arts Coordinator for Unity Village retreats. Richard is the co-founder of empower Music & Arts and has seven CDs of mostly original songs which are well-known throughout the Unity movement.

Susie Hulcher is a singer, bassist, guitarist and award-winning songwriter. She was a long-time music director at Unity of Ft Myers, FL.  Susie’s songs are regularly featured at churches across the country. 

She loves creating lyric videos to make New Thought music more accessible for smaller churches who don’t have music directors or song leaders.