Branch Church News
Reading Rooms A sanctuary for spiritual victory A Christian Science Reading Room provides many services: it offers a place to ask questions about Christian Science; you can also buy or borrow the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy; it's a good place to study with the help of useful Bible reference books; it provides an inspired atmosphere for prayer—a place where you also can go for quiet communion with God when facing a crisis. A young woman found she was expecting a child as a result of rape.
Shifting from self-concern to compassion brings definite progress for church A number of branch churches have reported on special prayer that is being offered in regard to current legal challenges to Christian Scientists. The following report illustrates an individual approach decided upon by members of a branch in Texas.
Field Assistant program Inviting a Field Assistant to visit your branch or group can offer fresh impetus to the desire to progress as a membership. These workshops, conducted by Journal -listed practitioners, are available worldwide, in many languages.
An active woman joins a branch church Contributed by a member of The Mother Church. Although I have always loved Christian Science, and joined The Mother Church right after completing Sunday School, it was more than fifteen years later that I first joined a branch church.
Brotherhood, outreach, purification, healing— practical Christian Science demonstrated worldwide Reports from branch churches sent in especially for use at the 1985 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church indicated steady spiritual progress in many churches around the world. Only a few reports from branches could be used at the meeting, so others have been selected for publication in this issue.
Literature saves a life A church in New York received this letter . I've been meaning for some time to write and thank you for the box of Christian Science literature you maintain in the railroad station.
Circulation work heals! The author has been a Christian Science practitioner for many years. The church activity that is very close to my heart is circulation work for The Christian Science Monitor.
Questions sometimes arise in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, about the use of certain teaching aids in Sunday School. Surely children learn by drawing pictures and playing games, the reasoning goes.
A branch church made solid progress when its members realized that the challenges they faced as a church were similar to those facing their community. But the members had to demonstrate Christly compassion by meeting these challenges, on behalf of the community and the church, as impersonal impositions.
How to build a church The following report was sent from Secunderabad, India . About 20 years ago Christian Science was introduced to our twin cities [Hyderabad and Secunderabad].