During the week following the September Global Lecture Preparatory Meeting members of The Christian Science Board of Directors, as well as the chairman and Vice-Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, participated in sixty teleconference calls with group of hosts from meeting sites around the world. Calls lasted approximately one hour each.
Hosts reported ideas and questions shared by meeting participants. They talked with each other and with a Director about possibilities for follow-though on the meeting. Many of the ideas shared are already being explored by The Mother Church and by branch churches. Several of these are discussed further in the accompanying article.
Each of the teleconference calls had a special quality to it, but one call in particular demanded an instant response to a community need. Here is a portion of that exchange between Michael B. Thorneloe, member of the Board of Directors, and the hosts on the line at the time: ...
