CHURCH: ANNUAL ‘Healing and MEETING saving the world’ , e FIRST CHURCH of CHRIST, SCIENTIST | Boston, Massachusetts Welcome to Annual Meeting TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE We’re so glad you are here! Whether you have come from across the street or from halfway around the world, we know it’s because you love Christian Science and because you are keenly aware of the di erence a real sense of Church can make in our world. Our Leader may have written the following excerpts as WELCOME part of her Message to e Mother Church for 1901, but we hope you feel, as we do, that Mary Baker Eddy’s words are speaking SCHEDULE OF EVENTS directly to each one of us as we gather together today: Saturday, June 4 . 4 Sunday, June 5 . 4 Monday, June 6: Annual Meeting . 5 “Beloved brethren, to-day I extend my heart-and-hand- fellowship to the faithful, to those whose hearts have been CHILDREN AND CHILDCARE . 6 beating through the mental avenues of mankind for God MARY BAKER EDDY LIBRARY . 7 and humanity; and rest assured you can never lack God’s outstretched arm so long as you are in His service… . INFORMATION You Could be in Pictures! . 8 Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices . 8 “As Christian Scientists you seek to de ne God to your own Christian Science Practitioner consciousness by feeling and applying the nature and practical pos- and Nursing Help . 8 sibilities of divine Love: to gain the absolute and supreme certainty Interpretation . 8 that Christianity is now what Christ Jesus taught and demonstrat- Wheelchairs . 9 ed—health, holiness, immortality. e highest spiritual Christianity Ampli cation Assistance . 9 in individual lives is indispensable to the acquiring of greater power Display Tables . 9 in the perfected Science of healing all manner of diseases… . Public Advertising as a Christian Science Nurse or Practitioner . 9 Parking . 9 “Christian Science appeals loudly to those asleep upon the Emergencies . 10 hill-tops of Zion. It is a clarion call to the reign of righteousness, Meals . 10 to the kingdom of heaven within us and on earth, and Love is Twitter . 10 the way alway” (Message for 1901, pp. 1–2, 35). Lost and Found . 10 Church Website . 10 Warmly, THE MOTHER CHURCH READING ROOM . 11 HOSPITALITY CENTER location and times . 12 Robin Hoagland Allison W. Phinney YOU CAN ALSO VISIT . 12 Christian Science Reading Room . 12 Scott Preller Margaret Rogers Lyle Young Mary Baker Eddy Library . 12 e Christian Science Board of Directors Tours of e Mother Church . 12 HYMN “As a Fire Is Meant for Burning” . 13 * “THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON, MASS., is designed to be built on the Rock, Christ; even the understanding and demonstration of divine Truth, Life, MAP OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PLAZA . 14 and 15 2 and Love, healing and saving the world from sin and death; thus to re ect in some degree 3 the Church Universal and Triumphant.” —Mary Baker Eddy, Church Manual, p. 19. NEW ChristianScience.com WEBSITE . Back cover SCHEDULE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, June 4 Monday, June 6 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm “Church Activities Workshop” 11:45 am – 12:30 pm Chiming on the plaza Explore together with us how all the activities of 12 noon Doors Open for Annual Meeting Church, including Sunday School and Reading Room, e Mother Church Extension come together as one powerful, healing light for the community. SCHEDULE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 12 noon – 1:00 pm Childcare Registration and Check-in e Mother Church Extension (doors open at 1:30 pm) (through age six) and on the Internet In the Vestry (Enter through the Extension) Sunday, June 5 1:00 pm Annual Meeting of e Mother Church 10:00 am – 11:00 am Church Service Annual Meeting will include discussion of the theme, e Mother Church Extension Church: ‘Healing and saving the world ’ e meeting will last around 120 minutes. 10:00 am – 11:00 am Sunday School e Mother Church Extension (doors open at noon) Sunday School (in the Extension) and on the Internet 11:15 am Tour of e Mother Church Also see ads for e Mary Baker Eddy Library (page 7), e Mother Church Meet in the auditorium a er the service Reading Room (page 11), Hospitality Center times and location (page 12), and the new christianscience.com (back cover). 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm “Hymn Sing” See page 13 for hymn, “As a Fire Is Meant for Burning.” Singing together of God’s goodness and power is upli ing prayer that unites us with each other and God. Enjoy a selection of hymns from the soon-to-be- released expanded Hymnal Supplement. e Mother Church Extension (doors open at 1:00 pm) and on the Internet 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sunday Church Service e Original Edi ce of e Mother Church 6:15 pm Tour of e Mother Church Meet in the auditorium a er the service 4 5 Dear Church Family: Greetings from The Mary Baker Eddy Library. We’re so happy you’re in Boston for this year’s Annual Meeting of The Mother Church—and we hope you’ll nd some time to visit the Library and see our new offerings. Our current exhibit—Fervent Hearts, Willing Hands: Christian Science from Discovery to Global Movement—follows the story of Christian Science from 1866 to today. Please come to our lobby this week for an exhibit talk. Visit Research & Reference Services to see historic photographs CHILDREN AND CHILDCARE of the Christian Science Plaza, which highlight the area’s Children are welcomed at Sunday School and the 5:00 p.m. church development over the past century. Staff will also be available service. Children are also welcomed at Annual Meeting and the related to offer assisted collections exploration on Saturday, June 4, and events. We provide childcare for children through age 6 at the 5:00 p.m. Monday, June 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The rest of the week church service and for Annual Meeting (Monday, June 6). they’re open from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (closed Sunday). Please obtain an access badge to this area at the Library’s reception desk. CHILDREN AND CHILDCARE CHILDCARE AT ANNUAL MEETING Explore our ongoing project to digitize and annotate Mary Baker For children through age 6 Eddy’s papers at mbepapers.org. This expanding database of documents sheds light on contextual and historical information Monday, June 6 surrounding Mrs. Eddy’s life, ideas, and achievements. Registration and check-in 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. You can also engage with the Library from anywhere, at any time, Childcare begins 1:00 p.m. until the conclusion of Annual Meeting on mbelibrary.org. Listen to our quarterly webcasts, read our (estimated to be 3:00 p.m.) weekly blogs, or ask a question about our collections. Location is the Vestry (you will enter through the Extension) Lovingly, Michael Hamilton e children will have Annual Meeting themed activities and a Executive Director light snack. Children must be picked up immediately following the Annual Meeting. 200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston | 617-450-7000 | mbelibrary.org CHILDREN NEED TO BE REGISTERED Discover an Extraordinary Life. If you haven’t registered your children prior to Annual Meeting, Explore an Amazing World. please plan to arrive at the Vestry by 12:00 noon to register them. is will allow adequate time to ll out the required paperwork and will get you to Annual Meeting on time, which begins promptly at 1:00 p.m. 6 7 — See page 12 for Library hours. — INFORMATION WHEELCHAIRS Requests for wheelchairs can be made at the Hospitality Center or by asking an usher. ey’ll make sure one is delivered to you. AMPLIFICATION ASSISTANCE Wireless headsets are available on each oor of the auditorium. Please ask an usher on the oor where you will be sitting. Please return the headset to an usher a er each event; you can always get another one the next time INFORMATION YOU COULD BE IN PICTURES! you are in the auditorium. Annual Meeting 2016 and its related meetings and activities will be photographed and audio/video recorded. As a participant, you may be DISPLAY TABLES recorded or photographed. Your recognizable image and statements may Visit the department display tables to see what is new! ey are located be used by the Church, the Publishing Society, or e Mary Baker Eddy in the Hall of Ideas (in the Publishing House). e Hall of Ideas is open Library in periodicals, reports, internet publications, on their websites and from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, June 4, 5, and 6. their third-party social media pages, on YouTube, and for advertising and promotional uses. If you object to the use of your image or statements, PUBLIC ADVERTISING AS A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE please move away from our photographers or camera personnel. ey NURSE OR PRACTITIONER can be easily identi ed. If you don’t want to be lmed incidentally during Take the next step in your healing ministry—consider advertising in Annual Meeting or related sessions, please inform an usher, who will direct e Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science nurse or practitioner. you to a speci c seating area. Please pick up an application at the Hospitality Center. CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES PARKING During Annual Meeting, please leave cell phones on vibrate and turn On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, June 4, 5, and 6, validated parking o all other electronic devices.