Growing up with a Caucasian mom and an African-American dad, Natalia Chase experienced firsthand the incomparable power of Jesus to heal our divides. Now a mom of three, business owner, vocalist and songwriter, Natalia founded UNIFIED in 2020 as a gospel-centered response to racial tensions in the aftermath of the George Floyd tragedy. Launching with an outdoor prayer and worship gathering at the Ohio Statehouse, Natalia and the UNIFIED team orchestrated a powerful visible display of our unity in Christ while promoting racial healing. Watch Natalia share her story and the background behind her first event in 2020 here.
Continuing the momentum forward from the 2020 gathering, Natalia and her team have mobilized over 50 churches to orchestrate 22 neighborhood outreach gatherings over the same weekend in both 2021 and 2022. The UNIFIED choir has also performed in secular spaces, bringing the light of the gospel to Nationwide Arena at the Columbus Classic as well as most recently in partnership with Sunny 95 for their Christmas show.
Today, UNIFIED continues to work with churches, home groups, companies, and non-profits to promote unified and diverse worship (Rev. 7), as well as with musicians, artists, and dancers to use their abilities and talents to influence our world with gospel-centered unity.
Because their mission fosters the heart of John 17:21: "that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me", UNIFIED aims to emphasize our unity in public spaces through outreaches and the arts.
Please be in prayer for this dynamic ministry so close to Jesus' heart. Visit their website at: unifieddt.com
Their top three prayer requests are:
1.) Gospel-centered unity between followers of Jesus in Columbus
2.) That God would raise up bold laborers to share the Good News in the streets of Columbus
3.) Please Pray Ephesians 3:17-21 over UNIFIED:
"...so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
