When:
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
1:00-1:15 PM

Women’s History Month—-Celebrating Mary Baker Eddy

Sponsored by the Christian Science Informal Group, Germantown, Maryland

Mary Baker Eddy overcame great struggles in her life—ill health, poverty, injustice— to make an indelible mark on religion, health, and journalism.About this Event

Living in an era when women had few rights and opportunities, Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health, poverty, and great personal struggle to make an indelible mark on society, religion, spiritual-based healing, and journalism. Here are just a few of her achievements.

• Founded, in her 87th year, an international newspaper respected around the world for its editorial integrity and news insight, winner of 7 Pulitzer prizes—The Christian Science Monitor.

• Authored a groundbreaking book on spirituality, health, and healing, currently published in 16 languages and Braille, honored by the Women’s National Book Association as one of 75 books by women “whose words have changed the world”—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

.• Became the first American woman to found a lasting, American-based religious denomination, the Church of Christ, Scientist, with churches and reading rooms in over 70 countries.

• Founded and was president of a teaching college.

In 1995, Mary Baker Eddy was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, for “her indelible mark on society, religion, and journalism.”

Join us for a short video (15 minutes) to learn more about the life, ideas, and achievements of Mary Baker Eddy.

This Zoom event is sponsored by the Christian Science Informal Group, Germantown, Maryland.  

To see this short video presentation on Zoom, log in to http://www.tinyurl.com/whmmbe a few minutes before 1:00 p.m. on March 18. 

WHAT? Moving past fear – to healing,” a talk by practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker, Lisa Troseth. The talk will focus on universal healing precepts found in the Holy Bible, especially in Christ Jesus’ life and teachings, showing how they are available for anyone to understand and experience through the lens of Christian Science. The talk is free, open to the community, and sponsored by Church name: i.e. “First Church of Christ, Scientist, in” town name.

WHY? Fear can be overcome and even healed in our lives by discovering the strong connection and relationship we have to something bigger than ourselves—God,” says Troseth. “By learning to lean and rely on this greater, higher good, we can feel moved to love beyond ourselves—and this frees us from fear and so much more.”

Sharing examples of healing from her own life and professional practice of Christian Science, Troseth will explain why Christian Science is both Christian and scientific, meaning that people can prove its effectiveness for themselves, as fully described in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by the founder of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy.

Troseth will also touch on the life of Mary Baker Eddy, and how she came to understand, confirm, and teach what she felt was original Christian healing. Eddy herself said she was especially inspired by Jesus’ demand, “He that believes on me, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do, because I go unto my Father” (found in the Gospel of John 14:12 in the Bible). 

For over 150 years, people around the world have worked to follow Christ Jesus in this practice of Christianity and continue to do so today, with healings of physical ills and personal difficulties.

With daily changes in the world, people are looking for reliable solutions, by turning away from shifting material systems to spiritual answers. Giulia Nesi Tetreau, CSB, explores this and how we can apply the spiritual lessons in Christian Science to our daily lives, to find resolution, healing, and progress. 

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How does prayer heal?

Why does spiritual healing matter in today’s high-tech society?

Who is Mary Baker Eddy and how are her ideas relevant today?

Public talks by members of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship explore these questions and explain Christian Science, to all kinds of audiences. Everyone is welcome.

Centered on the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, these talks describe how relevant the spiritual laws behind Christ Jesus’ healing works are to our lives. They explore the life-transforming ideas found in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The speakers also show the practicality of these teachings by sharing healings of individual, community, and global problems happening today.

These in-person and online talks are given by a diverse group of Christian Science lecturers that serves as a speakers’ bureau for The First Church of Christ, Scientist. From a variety of countries, backgrounds, ethnic and language groups, all are experienced at healing others through the practice of Christian Science.

What if good is inevitable? There is a reason for unshakable joy!

https://youtu.be/S5l4aePkavc

Sometimes we can feel that joy seems hard to find – and seems even harder to keep! But what if joy is really fundamental to our nature? What if it is something all of us have permanently?

Christian Science lecturer Steve Salt, CSB, says, “What if we could find the good in life for which our hearts yearn is invulnerable to surrounding events, that it’s never ‘on the line’ for any reason, actually? If there was a way to trust that, and to prove it, that would give us a compelling reason to have hope. Even a reason for unshakeable joy. Christian Science explains the incredible good endowed on us by God–a good all of us deserve and can even expect–all the time.”

Mr. Salt will share how he was healed of mental darkness, and subsequently regained his sense of joy. Through praying with ideas from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, he was transformed–uplifted by a better understanding of joy as a quality of an all-present, all loving God.

He will also share other healings, thoughts on identity, prayer, and what Jesus taught about joy. And he’ll describe Mary Baker Eddy’s life. She founded Christian Science, wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and modeled a prayerful approach to life, through good happenings and bad, health and sickness, security and poverty, safety and homelessness–prevailing over all of these obstacles, and helping many others along the way.

When: May 2nd, 2022, Monday evening at 7:00 pm
Where: 1155 Overland Road, S.W., Roanoke, Va 24015 (free parking and free childcare)
For more information contact: 540.343.4889
Point of contact: Chris Bordeaux 703-350-2319
Email: [email protected]

Learn how divine Love erases suffering from our lives as naturally as sunrise banishes night.

Watch the replay of a Christian Science talk by Phillip Hockley, C.S.

Find out how to feel God’s presence in tangible ways. “God loves us deeply, providing fresh ideas about our spiritual nature that wipe away fear and reveal inspired solutions.”

Never Alone – How Spiritual Ideas Work In Us

If were unable to attend the talk here at our church, then we hope you’ll enjoy the video below given at another location.

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On June 8, 2014 at 2:00 pm at First Church of Christ, Scientist in Roanoke, Virginia the church hosted guest lecture by international speaker Fujiko Signs. Fujiko discussed ANGELS, TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING and explored how you can experience divine, comforting, strengthening messages (angels) in your life.

Here’s an excerpt from her popular lecture.

About The Speaker:

Pleasant Gap, Pennsylvania USA and Tokyo, Japan — Fujiko Signs comes from Tokyo, Japan and has a family, husband and two daughters working in the US.

She is a student, practitioner, and teacher of Christian Science. She studies the relationship between prayer and healing, consciousness and reality, spirituality and wellbeing. Her job is to find out how we can free ourselves from various limitations.

While her husband’s job took Fujiko across the United States, she worked as a market research consultant for computer manufacturing companies and taught Japanese language and literature at community colleges and universities. She also taught dance to children.

In her mid-thirties, Fujiko fell ill and sought healing through different treatments, but none of them gave her a lasting cure. One day, to her surprise, she found that the healing of Christ Jesus was possible now and learnable. As soon as she started reading about this system of healing in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, a respected American healer and religious leader, she was relieved from various symptoms that had limited her before. As she studied and learned more about Christian Science, she witnessed many healings within her family and circle of friends and eventually received requests to assist others with prayer.

After becoming a Christian Science practitioner, she was asked to talk with doctors and nurses about patients with a desire to practice non-traditional medicine, including prayer and meditation. She also volunteered in a community coalition in hopes of encouraging and enhancing communication between different faith groups that sought well-being in the community.