Branch Church News
The Lesson-Sermon: Its Application in Sunday School Teaching Just what place does the Lesson-Sermon have in Sunday School teaching? It cannot be a minor one, for Mrs. Eddy tells us that the very prosperity of Christian Science largely depends upon the lesson.
In Guatemala City—strength and conviction Soon after the extent of the Guatemalan earthquake became known, calls and letters from around the world started coming to The Mother Church. Branch churches and individuals wanted to know how they could help.
Looking for sound guidance in how best to teach Christian Science to a Sunday School class, we turn naturally to the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy.
An active Sunday School in a Church of Christ, Scientist, is as much a demonstration of divine Love as a healing church service, and it needs the prayers and love of the members as much as the service does. Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, taught and fed with truth those who came to him, both adults and children.
"Show Me, Shepherd" is the theme of this year's Annual Meeting. With freshness, candor, and vitality this theme supports the threefold purpose of the 1976 Annual Meeting season: "To enlarge our vision of Christian Science, to get a clearer concept of its mission, and to understand what we must do to fulfill it.
The following is a short interview we had recently with Herb Huebsch, Supervisor of the Sunday School Section of the Department of Branches and Practitioners. How can we encourage more of our young people to join church after they finish Sunday School? By recognizing and appreciating their present spiritual progress and capability.
One task of the teacher in any Christian Science Sunday School is to demonstrate in his class the true concept of children. He needs to see and help bring to light the innocent, pure, perfect offspring of God, the "children" defined by Mrs.
Indonesian textbook ready, Japanese coming soon The Indonesian translation of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy is now being distributed to Reading Rooms in many parts of the world.
Imbibing the Spirit This series of three articles on improving our Sunday School teaching, which began in June, discussed, first, the need of an earnest longing on the teacher's part to be a better teacher. This deep desire impels us to pray for and seek more effective approaches to our teaching, and since it is motivated by love for others and for Christian Science, it brings into our experience the active inspiration and support of God.
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. —Luke 15:4, 5 A member of The Mother Church wrote to the Clerk of The Mother Church requesting his membership be dissolved.