Branch Church News

Studying the Letter A pupil in a Tacoma, Washington, Sunday School came one Sunday in much discomfort from a sliver of wood imbedded under a fingernail. Her classmates sympathetically offered several ideas for removing it by material means, but she rejected them all, saying, "I've tried all those things and it only breaks off.

I can honestly say that I never enjoyed any church work as much as being with my class of two- and three-year-olds on Sunday mornings. My approach to the task can be stated in three words: LOVE, LISTEN, LEARN.

"Surely there will be a very special edition of Science and Health, " a church member wrote the Publisher's Agent recently. "I have the 50th and the 75th.

In my years of teaching preschoolers in Sunday School I have found there are two essential ingredients for good teaching: enthusiasm and love for God—and for the class. I need to love God so much that I am prepared to spend time and effort to assure that the content of my teaching is spiritually inspired.

During 1975, Christian Scientists everywhere are observing the centennial year of the publication of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy in an atmosphere of rededication and consecration: —Individual Christian Scientists are reading Science and Health , taking different study approaches.

Earnest Longing Improved Sunday School teaching begins with the earnest longing to teach better. One woman we know of had taught Sunday School off and on for many years, but never felt she was a good teacher.

I was teaching an older class when the appointment came to teach the little ones. I turned to God in prayer and there came to my thought a statement in the book We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series (p.

This series gives firsthand accounts of how a number of successful Christian Science Sunday School teachers approach their assignments. It appears in those issues of the Journal not containing the quarterly "Sunday School" column.

The Power of God's Word' This year's Annual Meeting will convene on Monday, June 2, in the Extension of The Mother Church. The theme of the 1975 meeting will be "The Power of God's Word.

First Prayer—Then Action Has your branch church been thinking of ways to strengthen its Sunday School? Many have made definite plans for doing so. As a consequence, some of our Sunday Schools are about to become, or have already become, more effective educational centers than before.