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Sometimes it seemed like I was dealing with little more than a stable of quirky, moody authors. As a copywriter for a small publishing company, I guess I got used to their occasional flare-ups and irrational behavior.

I was in college and had come home to Connecticut for Thanksgiving. As always, my mother had planned the meal down to the last detail.

Mary Baker Eddy's church design encompasses institutions of higher learning. In 1904, she provided for the formation of Christian Science organizations at universities and colleges, and her Church Manual gives the green light for those CSOs to sponsor lectures by members of the Board of Lectureship.

When branch churches have good relationships with groups in the community, it can often lead to successful lectures. Lecture chairman David Jackson, at the Christian Science Society in Merrill, Wisconsin, discovered this recently when arranging a lecture-workshop conducted by Board of Lectureship member Cynthia Neely, who is also now serving as President of The Mother Church.

L'vov does not have a group of Christian Scientists, but it does have a dedicated reader of Science and Health who is single-handedly responsible for bringing a lecture to this city in the Ukraine. Dariya Vladimirovna is a medical doctor who first heard about Christian Science from a Russian Herald shortwave radio program.

Over 2,000 people came to hear a talk last March by Chris O'Riordan-Adjah in a village outside Kampala, Uganda. The village is the home of Lamech Katamba.

Today's newest venue for Christian Science lectures is the World Wide Web, where one event can reach around the world. Just after September 11, 2001, spirituality.

Through the Board of Lectureship, More than 2,000 branch churches, societies, groups, and college campus organizations in about 100 countries sponsor lectures around the globe. The Mother Church makes available its support of lecturing in a wide range of services to help sponsors provide effective lectures for their community.

When it comes to a public lecture, nothing brings people together like a story. Stories are a universal way to respond directly to an individual and a community.

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