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SUMMARY:In-Person lecture: THE SCIENCE OF GOD AND ITS POWER TO HEAL US - Bellevue
DESCRIPTION:The Science of God and Its Power to Heal Us\nA FREE Inspirational Talk\nby Nikki O’Hagan\nThe current matter-based scientific model many questions unanswered and has some thinkers and scientists questioning if it is still the right model.\nIt is interesting to consider if the time has now come for another major paradigm shift in science – a shift that would include God as the center and circumference of all existence. This paradigm shift in thought begins with the questions – how does science relate to God and is there a science that explains God? \nNikki O’Hagan\, practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker will address these questions and show how the Science of God explains Jesus’ healings\, and teachings\, makes God knowable and understandable\, and provides humanity with a safe and reliable means for caring for ourselves and each other. \nJoin us for Nikki’s talk\, “The Science of God and its Power to Heal Us” at 2:00PM on Sunday\, June 8\, in Bellevue\, WA. The talk is free\, open to the community\, and hosted by First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue in their church building (841 Lake Washington Blvd NE\, Bellevue). \nNikki will also share some of her own experiences of the transforming\, healing power of God gained through understanding this Science of God\, or Christian Science. She will explain how this healing happens\, and what role consciousness plays in the process. \nAbout Nikki O’Hagan\nNikki grew up in South Africa where she gained a love for being outdoors and enjoying the beauty and promise of nature. From a young age she had a strong desire to not just experience life\, but to understand it. She used to exasperate her dad by following up every explanation he gave her by asking “but\, Why?” While Nikki did grow up attending Christian Science Sunday School\, as a teen she decided that this would not be the way for her to gain the understanding of life that she was seeking\, and she headed off in another direction. \nSeveral years followed in which she desperately tried to find happiness and to understand the Why of life. She looked everywhere and tried everything (even jumping out of an airplane!) but nothing brought answers\, happiness or lasting peace. Rather than finding an understanding of life\, it all seemed to just get darker and make less and less sense. \nAnd then a transformational healing brought her back to Christian Science\, where she found comfort\, peace\, mercy\, happiness\, harmony\, health\, and home in the arms of divine Love. Nikki then discovered that she loved the infallible logic of the Science of Christianity\, and found in it all the answers to her Whys. Life and God finally began to make sense and became full of joy\, light\, and love. Her gratitude for this pivotal healing\, and the salvation it brought her by setting her on the path of Christian Science\, was–and still is–unbounded. Since that time all she has wanted to do is love and serve God\, and love and serve others. \nThrough her study and practice of Christian Science\, Nikki has experienced and witnessed so many healings over the years. Her earnest desire is for all to know the transformational healing power of divine Love. Becoming a Christian Science practitioner was a natural step in fulfilling this desire. \nNikki looks forward to sharing with others\, through the lecturing work\, the subjects most precious and dear to her heart: God and Christian Science. \nThis free talk is sponsored by\nFirst Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue\, WA
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-the-science-of-god-and-its-power-to-heal-us-5/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue\, 841 Lake Washington Blvd NE\, Bellevue\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christian Science Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue\, Washington invites you to a free Christian Science Film Festival on Saturday\, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.\, including lunch\, at First Church\, Bellevue\, 841 Lake Washington Blvd. NE\, Bellevue\, WA.\n\nFeaturing four 30-minute films on second-generation Christian Science workers Dr. John Tutt\, Helen Wood Bauman\, Ivimy Gwalter\, and Paul Stark Seeley. Introduction and Q&A with Darrel and Carol Dorr\, The Effulgence Foundation. For lunch registration\, please RSVP here. \n\n\nSee full invitation and RSVP details HERE.\n\nAbout The Effulgence Foundation\nThe Effulgence Foundation is an independent historical institution dedicated to the preservation of the history of early workers in Christian Science. \nThe Effulgence Foundation’s specific focus is on the second generation of Christian Scientists who did not have direct contact with Mrs. Eddy. Through various programs that both inform and inspire\, the foundation aims to bring to light a clear sense of those second-generation workers who selflessly served the movement and carried on the teachings of Christian Science. Its goal is to unfold through this history the deep spirituality and love for Mrs. Eddy that elevated their lifework. Films currently available feature Helen Wood Bauman\, John Randall Dunn\, Ivimy Gwalter\, Elizabeth Earl Jones\, Paul Stark Seeley\, and Dr. John Tutt. At least one more documentary is currently in progress. See www.theeffulgencefoundation.org. \n 
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/christian-science-film-festival/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue\, 841 Lake Washington Blvd NE\, Bellevue\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Person Lecture and Livestream: FINDING WHERE GOD IS SEEN AND FELT — WHAT’S CHURCH GOT TO DO WITH IT?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Emra Farkas. \nEmra Farkas\, practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker\, will present her talk\, “Finding where God is seen and felt – what’s church got to do with it?” on Saturday\, June 15\, at 11 a.m. at the Christian Science church at 841 Lake Washington Blvd. NE in Bellevue\, WA. \nThe talk also will be livestreamed. To attend remotely\, go to csbellevue.org and tap “Free Talk” under “Ongoing Events.” \nEmra’s talk will focus on universal healing precepts found in the Holy Bible\, especially in Christ Jesus’ life and teachings\, showing how they are available for anyone to understand and experience through the lens of Christian Science. The talk is free\, open to the community\, and hosted by First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue. \n“A new kind of thinking is needed to recognize that God’s goodness and love are actually here and tangible to all humanity everywhere\,” says Emra. “The idea of ‘church’ can shift from being a physical building\, a set time on a particular day\, or an assembly of perfect humans (does that even exist??)\, to that of being what God builds in our lives every moment through us responding to Christ Jesus’ message of God’s all-powerful love.” \nSharing examples of healing from her own life and professional practice of Christian Science\, Emra will explain why Christian Science is both Christian and scientific\, meaning that people can prove its effectiveness for themselves\, as fully described in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures\, written by the founder of the Christian Science movement\, Mary Baker Eddy. \nEmra will also touch on the life of Mary Baker Eddy\, who came to understand\, confirm\, and teach what she felt was original Christian healing. Eddy herself said she was especially inspired by Jesus’ demand\, “He that believes on me\, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do\, because I go unto my Father” (found in the Gospel of John 14:12 in the Bible). \nFor over 150 years\, people around the world have worked to follow Christ Jesus in this practice of Christianity and continue to do so today\, experiencing healings of physical ills and personal difficulties. \nAbout Emra Farkas \nThe most important influences on Emra’s life were her mother\, who taught her to pray when confronted with difficulties\, and her Christian Science Sunday School. In her teens\, when a teacher asked her to speak to a social studies class about her religion\, she found the joy that comes from sharing what she understood and had experienced of Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery. She was asked back each year and was always moved by the way students who were skeptical about the subject became interested after hearing her accounts of spiritual healing–her healings of a severed thumb\, tonsilitis\, swimmer’s ear\, bullying\, and other difficulties. \nHowever\, during college and graduate school she drifted away from church. Her degrees were in Fine Arts and after school she worked for galleries and museums in New York City. Her interest in finding spiritual answers to life’s challenges was rekindled\, and she explored a variety of spiritual disciplines in search of answers. This hands-on study of comparative religion helped her understand the universality of the search for spiritual truth but left her with unanswered questions. \nShe and her husband moved to Taos\, New Mexico\, where she enjoyed a career in music performance and started a family. After some years of poor health\, a sudden spiritual insight led her back to Christian Science and an instantaneous healing of multiple chronic illnesses. This inspired a deeper study of Eddy’s writings which then led to returning to church\, taking Christian Science class instruction (a two-week intensive course of study) and shortly after\, becoming a full-time Christian Science practitioner.  She says there is nothing more satisfying than seeing divine Truth and Love transform lives and bring healing. She feels deeply blessed to practice and teach Christian Science\, contribute to the Christian Science periodicals\, serve her branch church\, and serve as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-finding-where-god-is-seen-and-felt-whats-church-got-to-do-with-it-2/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue\, 841 Lake Washington Blvd NE\, Bellevue\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Person Lecture: Moving Past Fear - To Healing
DESCRIPTION:Moving Past Fear – To Healing\n\nA Free Christian Science Lecture by Lisa Troseth\n\nFear can be overcome and even healed in our lives by discovering the strong connection and relationship we have to something bigger than ourselves—God. By learning to lean and rely on this greater\, higher good\, we can feel moved to love beyond ourselves—and this frees us from fear and so much more. \n\nLocation: Church\n841 Lake Washington Blvd NE\nBellevue\, Washington\, United States of America \nCall to listen: 978 990 5000\nAccess code: #154961
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-moving-past-fear-to-healing/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Bellevue\, 841 Lake Washington Blvd NE\, Bellevue\, WA\, United States
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