First Church of Christ, Scientist - Roanoke

1155 Overland Rd. Roanoke, Virginia 24015

What is a Christian Science lecture?

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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.

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“Behold, today hath need of thee…”

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Lynn House invites you to an inspirational talk:

“Behold, today hath need of thee…”

by John F. Cochran II, C.S.
to be held online
Saturday, November 12 at 11:00 am (ET)

Did you ever wonder why, in the New Testament, there wasn’t a parable about the “church-goer”? Something like “The kingdom of heaven is like the church-goer…”? Join us to explore this and other ideas about loving and caring for one another.

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Employment Positions Available

Lynn House has full-time and part-time openings for:

  • Christian Science Nurses
  • Residential Assistants
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Receptionist
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Our Organ

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The church organ was built by the Estey Pipe Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1925 (Opus 2339). The company was founded in 1852 by Jacob Estey, and at its peak, was one of the world’s largest organ manufacturers. Estey built around 500,000 pump organs between 1846 and 1955. In 1901, Estey Organ Company began making pipe organs, and became one of the largest American pipe organ manufacturers. They built and sold more than 3,200 pipe organs across the U.S. and abroad. The company closed in 1960. The Estey Organ Museum was founded in 2002 and opened at the old manufacturing site in Brattleboro, Vermont. Their website is www.esteyorganmuseum.org .

The organ console has two manuals with approximately 731 pipes in 12 ranks, made of wood and metal. The ranks (voices) are:

GREAT (unenclosed) Diapason 8
Melodia 8
Dulciana 8
Flute 4
SWELL (expressive) Stopped Diapason 8 Aeoline 8
Salicional 8Voix Celeste 8 Harmonic Flute 4 Oboe 8
PEDAL
Lieblich Gedeckt 16 Bourdon 16

In 2004, the organ was rebuilt and the console was converted to solid state by Victorine’s Pipe Organ Service, LLC. In 2017, two ranks of pipes were re-leathered (Flute 4 in the Great and the Stopped Diapason 8 in the Swell) also by Victorine.

Grateful Hearts

2022

Mother's Eveniong Prayer
Christ My Refuge
Satisfied
Feed My Sheep
Mother's Eveniong Prayer Poem
Greensleeves
Christmas Morn
Communion Hymn
Love
Transfiguration
The Lords Prayer

2022 Annual Meeting

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One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.

— Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 340

Finding Joy, Health, Hope For All

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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]

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