What follows is an edited and abbreviated transcript of the 2024 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, which took place June 3 in the Church Extension. The full replay is available in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish at christianscience.com/annualmeeting. The replay will be viewable until June 1, 2025.
To open Annual Meeting, Mary Alice Rose, current Chair of the Christian Science Board of Directors, welcomed the worldwide Church family attending in person and via the internet. Mary Alice acknowledged the Pastor Emeritus of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy, then introduced the other officers: fellow Board members Rich Evans, Moji George, Scott Preller, and Keith Wommack; First and Second Readers Mimi Oka and Don Wallingford; Clerk Martha Moffett; Treasurer Lyon Osborn; and incoming President Lindsey Taylor, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher from Gloucestershire, England. She also thanked the outgoing President, Anne Melville.
After the singing of Hymn No. 58 from the Christian Science Hymnal, Lindsey read passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Silent prayer was followed by the Lord’s Prayer. Then Lindsey introduced the Clerk.
