Branch Church News
We are delighted and grateful to be able to share with you the happy news of the recent admission of new members to The Mother Church from around the world.
The Annual Meeting replay is now available in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Until recently our Christian Science branch church had a bunch of wonderful kids who preferred to play in childcare on Wednesday nights rather than attend the Wednesday evening testimony meetings. The “regulars” were four girls—Amelia, Danika, Ellen, and Michaela.
How often have you wanted a relative or friend to embrace some of the healing truths that are so helpful to you because your wish is for them to share the great goodness that you know is available to all? Yet for one reason or another they do not feel it is either necessary or helpful. When I became engaged, I was quite concerned to realize that my husband-to-be and I might attend different churches.
In the middle of the night, it came roaring through like a locomotive at approximately 100 miles per hour. The next morning the Monrovia, California, town square was filled with grand evergreen trees lying flat on the ground, roots completely upended.
The African continent, rich in spiritual resources and cultural diversity, has been a focus for The Mother Church in recent years. Currently there is Christian Science activity in 28 countries on the continent, largely in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in many new Mother Church and branch members.
Recently, I asked myself how well I thought the current Christian Science Church, whether The Mother Church in Boston or its branch churches, is fulfilling its purpose. Mary Baker Eddy described the purpose of Church as nothing less than “ … healing and saving the world from sin and death; thus to reflect in some degree the Church Universal and Triumphant” ( Church Manual , p.
When First Church of Christ, Scientist, Laguna Niguel, California, decided to give a Christian Science lecture, they chose to ask members to bring someone they knew to the lecture rather than launching into a big advertising campaign. In the lecture preparatory meeting, the lecturer spoke about how to talk to others about Christian Science and encouraged members to do that more often.
Our community has an interfaith group called the Mercer Island Clergy Association, which meets every month. We sponsor the baccalaureate service in June for our local high school, and we also provide an interfaith Thanksgiving Service on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.
Some time ago a friend of mine who has demonstrated Christian Science consistently—and in some instances dramatically—told me she didn’t need church. She had joined one or two branch churches at different times and places over the course of many years, but had decided it wasn’t her cup of tea.