Church Alive
Our Sunday School in Belfast may be modest in size, but it's a very happy one. We have always included the youngest of the children—babies from birth—in their own class in the Sunday School room.
The Various Speakers at the TMC Youth Summit in Boma helped me lift up my thoughts and revealed to me a new approach to prayer. This new understanding has convinced me that God provides us with a permanent solution to any persistent problem.
I Am Christian Science Nurse , and I traveled to Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo with the TMC Youth team for the recent Summits. One of our group, a Christian Science practitioner, was really interested in visiting an orphanage.
IT WAS A LONG TRIP from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Boma, down river toward the coast about 300 kilometers to the west. On the way, a group of us learned that an orphanage for children of "witches" existed near Boma.
IN THE HEART OF TERMINAL ONE at the San Francisco International Airport, the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the Jointly Maintained Christian Science Reading Room reach out to the world with a warm welcome. People from every corner of the globe have visited the Reading Room—some just to pass the time, others out of curiosity, and many as seekers of a better understanding of God's abiding love and presence in their lives.
Last March, a month after meeting with Christian Scientists in Italy and Greece, John Sparkman and Leide Lessa left the United States, once again on behalf of The Christian Science Publishing Society, this time for Northern Europe. At their initial stop in Denmark, they held the first of a series of meetings in their five-countries-in-nine-days visit, during which they explained the reasons and motives for the new publishing models for the Herald fields that the Publishing Society has established.
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, the Jointly Maintained Christian Science Reading Room in the heart of downtown San Diego, California, has operated in the black. The term operating in the black is used loosely (not based on a classic profit model).
IT'S TWO O'CLOCK on a Sunday afternoon. A teenager in western Massachusetts hashes out the weekly Bible Lesson with her Sunday School teacher in Zimbabwe.
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.