When I joined my first branch church, I started challenging my thought about the concept of Church. This process included seeing beyond the material building and church services to what Church really represented in the community. The more I witnessed healings with my family, the more I knew that I could share Christian Science with the world as part of my church work. I started doing this and found that those with whom I shared Christian Science appreciated the concepts about God and that healing was possible through prayer.
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to expand my conceptions about church work even further. I felt led to work in the local public high school with special education students. As part of my duties, I was required to transfer students from an elevated mat to a wheelchair. We had been trained how to do this properly; however, one of the times that I was transferring a student, her movement pulled me in a way that seemed to cause injury to my back. I was able to finish transferring the student to the chair and then asked the supervising teacher if I could have a moment of quiet time in one of the work rooms nearby. She permitted me to do this and I took my Christian Science Bible Lesson with me to read. I prayed to see that there were no accidents in God’s law since His government is all good and is constant, never sporadic.
After praying for a while I decided to go home. The administrator told me that I needed to go to a doctor to get a diagnosis in case there would be a workman’s compensation claim. I saw this as an opportunity for me to share with the individual that I was a Christian Scientist and that I would be asking for help from a Christian Science practitioner. I realized that by making this statement I was already declaring that Christian Science works and I could be confident that a healing would be witnessed by my co-workers.
