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The March 1996 issue of The Christian Science Journal, and the Annual Meeting report carried in the July 1996 issue, focused on the healing mission, purpose, focus, and current priorities of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As a continuing report on how the Church is going forward in this work, various senior managers at The Mother Church have been invited to write for the Journal a brief account of how workers in their area of activity are approaching these goals.

" It just took the lid off my heart. It's a constant renewal of the power of Truth in the lives of all of us.

I have always loved little children. I've appreciated their simplicity, frankness, joy, and unpretentiousness.

Our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, recently interviewed Rich Williamson and Chris Womack about their ministry on the streets of the "tough" neighborhood of Roxbury, Boston. Rich and Chris are cofounders of God's Posse, a group committed to steering young men away from street hustlers and gangs, and, where necessary, drawing them out of daunting home circumstances in which good role models and mentors are as scarce as nights without emergency sirens.

When a book (or anything, for that matter) has had a tremendous impact for good on your life, how natural it is to share it. That's what the letter I'd received from The First Church of Christ, Scientist (every member got it), was all about.

Generally , gratitude is expressed for blessings received, for deliverance from difficulties, and for tasks successfully completed. There is another dimension, however, to gratitude, an aspect that initiates a joyful, constructive, helpful attitude and that leads to healing.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house . Matthew 5:15 My husband had attended an inspiring meeting.

Science and Health is a book that offers unlimited possibilities for study, and there is no formula or set pattern for its study. It may be read in parts or consecutively from beginning to end.

My family became acquainted with Christian Science when I was a small child, and I was enrolled in the Sunday School where I began to learn of God's love. One Christmas season my Sunday School teacher gave me an unexpected gift.

When the great patriarch Jacob was foretelling the destiny of his sons, he declared that his son Dan would be "a serpent by the way, an adder in the path. " Gen.