Worldwide Annual Meeting – This Monday!

We are looking forward to being together soon for Annual Meeting on Monday, June 5, at 1:00 p.m. and the weekend events on June 3 and 4. Please be sure to view the schedule to see all of the events that will be happening throughout the weekend.

If you’ll be joining us in Boston:

Explore the Christian Science Plaza
In addition to the other Annual Meeting weekend events, we invite you to join us for a Wednesday and/or Sunday church service, take a tour of The Mother Church, and visit The Mother Church Reading Room, The Mary Baker Eddy Library, and the How Do You See the World? experience with the Mapparium™ globe

If you’ll be attending online

Watch together remotely
If you can’t join us in Boston, tune in to our online live streams of Annual Meeting and several weekend events. Watch with your branch church, camp friends, CSO, or others in your Christian Science community to enjoy fellowship and thoughtful discussions.

No matter how you choose to attend, we look forward to your participation in Annual Meeting this year. You can find additional details and in-person registration information at christianscience.com/annualmeeting.

Click to watch a VIDEO invitation with more information about he Annual Meeting!

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You’re Invited – June 11

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Never too Late to Experience Freedom

Reserve this date! Free Lecture – 2:00 pm Sunday, June 18

You, family and friends are invited to a Christian Science lecture presented by First Church of Christ Scientist, Deland, Florida. The lecture will be held at Deland City Hall – at the corner of W. New York Avenue and S. Florida Avenue, 32720.

The lecture titled, “Never too late to experience freedom” will be given by Patricia Woodward CS, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

“What is it that gives this kind of lift to our lives? Good news, for one thing.”

“What we’re looking for,” says Ms. Woodard, “is a view that uplifts our thoughts, changing our perspective to one that makes a difference for the better, that heals. To me, this is what Christian Science is about: finding a spiritual perspective of God that reveals the goodness, wellness, and freedom flowing from God every day, helping those take tangible and reliable shape in our lives and the lives of others. That’s the ultimate good news! And what better news than the promise that health and freedom can be ours today. Yes, today!”

Plenty of parking will be available, and child care will be provided. For more information you can call 386-734-6547 or visit: christiansciencedeland.com.

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Embraced & Empowered

Click links of recordings below if you missed the conference.

THANK YOU to everyone who attended our first annual conference and helped make it a great success! 

Our goal with this conference was to inspire, empower, and invigorate the work of Christian Science corresponding and visiting institutional chaplains, and support a new generation of individuals serving in this way.  Embraced:Fully Angel Teams are available to help people coming out of prison who are sincere students of Christian Science.

Find links to the raw / unedited recordings of the conference sessions below. Be sure to copy the passcode before clicking on the links.

Conference Recordings
Here are the raw and unedited Zoom recordings for Friday and Saturday’s sessions. We plan to release edited versions of these in the coming months. In the meantime, feel free to share these with anyone you think would be interested.

Friday Sessions
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/Tz3qKlWSlnYTwr-xjOttZyy2_3rPLQ7qTIAe5LmAh–xpMPAwDX8dGMC2wUtqE2y.GfzCa5unB6F1sBFv
Passcode: 542z1K*+

Saturday Sessions (begins around the 1 hour 9 minute mark)
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/LzNi-tCBYtFs-UVk8HN_PgUy5-SAF_Kr6Cmwvl6PC-EGbGwBhytHo5pBieFUBe4.FlgGQMn7AK0IvoKP
Passcode: &Z8#%h8T

Listen to Bob McVey’s testimony (1977):
https://sharethepractice.org/blog/2011/03/23/talk-by-robert-mcvey-given-to-arizona-institutional-committee/

“Love Opens the Doors: Stories from prison about discovery, healing, and Christian Science” (The Principle Foundation)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p75yiU6Y9Hq-DTs4s6X5b6Rh7zgA5HUD/view?usp=share_link

Our mission is to organize, train, educate and enable Angel Teams and volunteer chaplains across the United States to help sincere students of Christian Science coming out of prison to succeed.

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Welcome!

First ReadersChurch is a call to worship in community. In church, we hear and cherish the Word of God. Here we find comfort and release from oppressive fear, anxiety, disorder, and the world’s constant suggestions of disease. We greet each other in love and in witness to spiritual truth. Our collective spiritual understanding is powerful indeed to break the dreams of sickness, sin, and death. Fear has no place, cannot even exist, where consciousness is filled with thoughts from God.

We are located at 2555 Old Moultrie Road in St. Augustine.  Our Sunday service is held at 10 am  Sunday School classes for young people ages 2-20 are offered at the same time.  Our Wednesday evening service and testimony meeting begins at 6 pm.  Child care is available during Sunday services.

Our Reading Room, a Christian Science bookstore and spiritual outpost, is located inside our church. The Reading Room is open Wednesday evenings from 5-6 pm, the 1st Saturday of each month from 1-3 pm, Sunday after the service, or by appointment. Please call 904-797-8882 x1 to schedule study time at the Reading Room or to purchase an item off regular hours.

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