FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

1618 Gordon Avenue

Charlottesville, Virginia  22903-1918

Phone:  434-293-3398

E-mail:  fccs@avenue.org

Directions to Church:  University Avenue to light at Rugby Road. Right or left on Rugby to Gordon Avenue, one block to17th Street.  The church is on the corner of 17th and Gordon Avenue.  
The parking lot is in the rear off 17th Street.


This church is a branch of  The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA

• The Bible Lesson-Sermon, read each Sunday in all branch churches, is comprised of references from the King James Version of the Bible and from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.  Our Wednesday evening meetings include testimonies of healing by people who have applied Christian Science to every sort of human problem. You will also hear of individual insights into Biblical references and how they have instructed and guided people to help them solve their everyday challenges. There is child care at both services. Please join us. People of all faiths (or no faith) are welcome.
• The Lesson-Sermon for Sunday, May 11th is "Adam and Fallen Man." The Golden Text is from Psalms 30:8 (to;), 9 Shall
• "I cried unto thee, O Lord; ... Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?"

• The broadcast of the "Christian Science Sentinel" radio edition can be heard every Sunday morning at 10 AM on WCHV AM, 1260. Tune in this week to hear "The Love That Heals." Program #819

You can have your own subscription to these programs. Play the tapes or CDs at home or on the road in your car. Call the Reading Room to place your order. These programs may be borrowed through our Lending Library. You may call to reserve the programs of your choice. The telephone number is listed above. You can also contact the Reading Room by e-mail.

• AN INVITATION FROM OUR READING ROOM
  On Tuesdays, our Reading Room hosts a computer live chat. Come join us for this event. You will hear comments and interviews on a current topic. Listen to people tell the story of their healings brought about by Christian Science. Ask questions and get answers via a computer chat room. The staff at the Reading Room would love to welcome you . Call them for further information about the topics to be discussed and the time. The number is 434-295-4026.

• OUR WEEKLY QUOTATION
• Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy p. 501:1; p. 502:1
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• " Scientific interpretation of the Scriptures properly starts with the beginning of the Old Testament, chiefly because the spiritual import of the Word, in its earliest articulations, often seems so smothered by the immediatge context as to require explication; whereas the New Testament narratives are clearer and come nearer the heart. Jesus illumines them, showing the proverty of mortal existence, but richly recompensing human want and woe with spiritual gain. The incarnation of Truth, that amplification of wonder and glory which angels could only whisper and which God illustrated by light and harmony, is consonant with ever-present Love. So-called mystery and miracle, which subserve the end of natural good, are explained by that Love for whose rest the weary ones sigh when needing something more native to their immortal cravings than the history of perpetual evil."
• "A second necessity for beginning with Genesis is that the living and real prelude of the older Scriptures is so brief that it would almost seem, from the preponderance of unreality in the entire narrative, as if realilty did not predominate over unreality, the light over the dark, the straight line of Spirit over the mortal deviations and inverted images of the creator and His creation."
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