Reverend Billie Martini is the pioneering
minister of Unity Church of Surprise, founded in 2002 in Surprise, AZ.
She was ordained as a New Thought Minister in March of 1999 and received
her second ordination as a Unity Minister in April 2005.
Reverend Billie, born in Minnesota,
raised in South Dakota, lived in North Dakota and Nebraska before moving
to Arizona over 20 years ago. She has owned several businesses and comes
to the ministry after a satisfying career in volunteer management. She
was on staff at Unity of Phoenix as Volunteer Coordinator for several
years and also worked at Unity Village, MO in the Public Relations Department.
She was a volunteer manager for other non-profit organizations and served
Unity of Sun City as assistant minister for two years.
Reverend Billie's hobbies include dining
at new and different restaurants with her husband Ralph, entertaining
family and friends and reading. She has one son, Brad Zupp and a daugher-in-law
Beth.
Her greatest joy as a minister is to
celebrate and support the greatness in others.