Branch Church News
A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS told my parents about Christian Science. They were looking for a church they could relate to, so we were going from church to church, and we ended up at the Jehovah's Witness church.
In Nigeria, a group of Christian Scientists drives more than three hours every month on sometimes flooded, bumpy dirt roads to translate Science and Health into the lgbo language. IN WEST AFRICA, religion seems to dominate every aspect of daily life.
FOR TEENS, GROWING UP in Fairbanks, Alaska, presents many of the same challenges as living in any small American city. But with the nearest city to Fairbanks over 300 miles away, there is the added challenge of feeling isolated; you see the same people everywhere you go, including at church.
RECENTLY, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN approaching the Christian Science Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees with questions about conducting church services based on the order of service in the Church Manual but deviating from the traditional forms we are used to. Gratefully, none of us has to create standards for what it means to be a part of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
THE ROUTE WAS A-24 from Hamburg to Berlin. A comfortable trip on the autobahn with little traffic, past lots of fields and woods.
Begin with an inspiration, add a friend or two, be willing to reach out and give "a cup of cold water" ( Science and Health, p. 570 ), and the results can be amazing.
The Various Speakers at the TMC Youth Summit in Boma helped me lift up my thoughts and revealed to me a new approach to prayer. This new understanding has convinced me that God provides us with a permanent solution to any persistent problem.
IT WAS A LONG TRIP from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Boma, down river toward the coast about 300 kilometers to the west. On the way, a group of us learned that an orphanage for children of "witches" existed near Boma.
IN THE HEART OF TERMINAL ONE at the San Francisco International Airport, the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the Jointly Maintained Christian Science Reading Room reach out to the world with a warm welcome. People from every corner of the globe have visited the Reading Room—some just to pass the time, others out of curiosity, and many as seekers of a better understanding of God's abiding love and presence in their lives.
Last March, a month after meeting with Christian Scientists in Italy and Greece, John Sparkman and Leide Lessa left the United States, once again on behalf of The Christian Science Publishing Society, this time for Northern Europe. At their initial stop in Denmark, they held the first of a series of meetings in their five-countries-in-nine-days visit, during which they explained the reasons and motives for the new publishing models for the Herald fields that the Publishing Society has established.