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!

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.