First Church of Christ, Scientist - Roanoke

1155 Overland Rd. Roanoke, Virginia 24015

Healing with joy: discovering the power of Love

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Date & Location

Thursday, 19 March, 2026 at 07:00 pm (EDT)
Light refreshments 6:30 – 7:00pm (EDT)

Hollins University Visual Arts Center
7916 Williamson Road
Roanoke, VA 24012
Free Parking for visitors
No childcare

About the event

Healing in Christian Science is joyful— it’s the natural result of understanding God as divine Life and Love. Ann Kneeland, a Christian Science practitioner and lecturer, shares real-life examples of spiritual healing. These examples show how fear, illness, and polarization dissolve as we discover God’s pure and spiritual creation. We can all experience joy and freedom through a deeper trust in God’s presence and power.

Ann K. Kneeland, CS
San Rafael, California, USA
Phone: 4154978186
Email: [email protected]

Growing up in a family that loved and practiced Christian Science, Ann saw how God heals sickness and relationship problems, meets financial needs, solves business issues, and answers life’s questions. In the Christian Science Sunday School, Ann learned to rely upon the healing ideas in the Bible, as explained in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. During her school years, the ideas in these books healed Ann of headaches, sickness, a wart, a rash, sports injuries, and academic anxieties.

After college, Ann took Primary Class instruction to deepen her understanding of God and to learn to heal more systematically. This understanding guided her in a business career and brought healing solutions to difficult issues. When she and her husband began a family, Christian Science was a daily help in navigating parenthood, and in caring for their two children’s health and growth. Friends asked for prayerful treatment and were healed. She began advertising her healing practice in the Christian Science Journal in 2009.

Ann resides in the San Francisco Bay area of California. In her healing practice, she discovers more about God and our loving relationship to God, and simultaneously others are healed, and lives are transformed. Ann has been a Chaplain in the Marin County Jail, and has shared Christian Science in commercial radio interviews and with teen and interfaith groups. She loves how sharing Christian Science demands listening to God while speaking from the heart.

This event is hosted by the First Church of Christ, Scientist of Roanoke. For questions please call Chris Bordeaux 703-350-2319”

Open Thanksgiving Day — a time to express gratitude

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Looking for more on Thanksgiving Day than turkey and football? Every Christian Science church holds a service on Thanksgiving Day, at the same time as their regular Sunday service — and everybody is invited.

Here’s what you can expect during that hour:

  • Singing songs of gratitude and praise
  • Listening to readings on the theme “Thanksgiving” from the Holy Bible and from the textbook of Christian Science: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
  • 30 minutes of testimonies and expressions of gratefulness from the congregation

You can read the Thanksgiving Bible Lesson here.

Find a Christian Science church near you at christiansciencedc.org/churches/. We do hope you’ll join us!

“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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfW2Wx3Z8kM

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

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