Branch Church News
It is a meeting —the Wednesday testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Therefore, why not conduct it and format it as a meeting, in the way that many meetings are held today? This thought came to me as I prayed to understand how testimony meetings at our church might seem more inviting.
Whether a Christian Science Sunday School is located in Argentina, Nigeria, the United States, or elsewhere around the world, one element it shares with all the others is a love for healing. This talk, given by Rosana Darmadi to Christian Scientists in Indonesia, shares healings that pupils in their country experienced as a result of what they had learned in Sunday School.
"Building bridges with our community".
We're all interested in what young people have to say about Sunday School. During the past several months the Clerk of The Mother Church has heard from Sunday School pupils in Africa, Australia, Europe, India, and North and South America.
A church asks questions and looks for answers A year ago, our branch church membership embarked on a journey Spiritward, a journey of healing whose aim was to specifically correct current misconceptions and misunderstandings about Christian Science. Our subject was "Christian Science practice: the essence of church membership.
Regular readers of the Journal will be familiar with the special attention we've been giving to the Christian Science Sunday School over several months. In this issue we're happy to share, among other items, more excerpts from letters that have come in from Sunday School teachers and superintendents.
Notice from the Clerk of The Mother Church The Office of the Clerk is receiving many inquiries from church members regarding inspirational meetings planned by Christian Scientists in the Field. Questions have arisen as to whether these meetings have the direct or indirect support of The Mother Church.
Sunday School pupils learn the power of a good example Sitting in the front row each week, they were hard to miss. We all tried to keep our eyes on the Sunday School superintendent, but inevitably their actions would pull our attention to them—the youngest class—during the opening and closing of each Sunday School service.
Mike and "the book" I've wanted to share this story with you for a couple of years now, and this seems like the perfect time to say thank you for what your vision and love for "all mankind" has wrought. When my friend Mike first went to work at The Christian Science Publishing Society as a "nonmember" employee of the Church's broadcasting activities, he thought—as unbelievable as it may sound—that the "Christian Science Center" was a place where scientists (biologists, physicists, and the like) who were Christians all had office and lab space so they could work in a Christian environment.
Pupils may be received in the Sunday School classes of any Church of Christ, Scientist, up to the age of twenty years, and by transfer from another Church of Christ, Scientist, up to that age, but no pupil shall remain in the Sunday School of any Church of Christ, Scientist, after reaching the age of twenty. None except the officers, teachers, and pupils should attend the Sunday School exercises.