Conversation – Sharing

Join in tomorrow – after worship & Sunday School on August 11th – for a conversation and sharing session in the Reading Room.  Bring your sandwich or grab one at a nearby shop after the service and come back to the Reading Room for 45 minutes or so.  Open to all ages, we’ll begin around 11:45 a.m. and share inspiration from the service/Sunday School, talk about ideas from this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson – “Spirit,” and other pertinent ideas.

Downtown Chicago SACRED SPACES Wraps Up Year Two

June 10 was the first anniversary of the signing of a powerful solidarity pledge on the Federal Plaza in Chicago by the eight Sharing Sacred Spaces: Downtown Chicago religious communities who participated in a pilot program of interreligious community building. The project was created in partnership between the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions and Suzanne Morgan of Sacred Space International. The weekend also marked the completion of the second year of the work of these eight congregations building solidarity for mutual support and neighborhood service.

The website for the Parliament recently posted a summary article of the group’s activities these past two years.  CLICK HERE TO HAVE A LOOK!

You’ll be glad to know to the Sacred Spaces planning team is meeting over the summer to plan a third year of activities.

Annual Meeting of The First Church of Christ, Scientist

You’re invited to join the Officers of The Mother Church ONLINE for Annual Meeting 2013—webcast live from the Directors’ Boardroom in the Publishing House.

Mark your calendar—June 3 at 12:00 p.m. CDT—and plan to watch online or come watch the live webcast at the Christian Science Reading Room sponsored by Seventeenth Church – Chicago, at 55 E. Wacker Drive.

The theme of this year’s meeting is “Small seeds … vital growth,” a church rooted in healing.  (see Matthew 13: 31-32)