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SUMMARY:In-person lecture: Can Prayer Be Scientific?
DESCRIPTION:Can Prayer Be Scientific? \nA FREE Inspirational Talk\nby Caryl Emra Farkas\, CSB\nIn this lecture\, explore faith as scientific understanding.\nThe Science of Christianity challenges conventional views of prayer\, presenting it not as blind faith\, but as a scientific understanding of God’s ever-present love. Drawing from Jesus’ teachings in the Bible\, as well as personal experiences practicing Christian Science\, Emra illustrates how prayer can bring tangible healing and transformation. Prayer\, combined with a law-based approach to spirituality\, can be both practical and provable. \nThis is an in-person lecture at Gig Harbor Public Library: 4424 Point Fosdick Dr\, Gig Harbor\, WA \nAbout Caryl 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. \nThis free talk is sponsored by\nFirst Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Gig Harbor\, WA
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-can-prayer-be-scientific-2/
LOCATION:Gig Harbor Library\, 4424 Point Fosdick Dr\, Gig Harbor\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Person lecture: THE SCIENCE OF GOD AND ITS POWER TO HEAL US - Gig Harbor
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 Saturday\, May 31\, in Gig Harbor\, WA. The talk is free\, open to the community\, and hosted by First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Gig Harbor at Gig Harbor Public Library (4424 Point Fosdick Drive). \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\, Gig Harbor\, WA
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-the-science-of-god-and-its-power-to-heal-us-3/
LOCATION:Gig Harbor Library\, 4424 Point Fosdick Dr\, Gig Harbor\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Person lecture: CAN PRAYER BE SCIENTIFIC?
DESCRIPTION:Can Prayer by Scientific?\nA FREE Inspirational Talk\nby Caryl Emra Farkas\nThe Science of Christianity challenges conventional views of prayer\, presenting it not as blind faith\, but as a scientific understanding of God’s ever-present love. Drawing from Jesus’ teachings in the Bible\, as well as personal experiences practicing Christian Science\, Emra illustrates how prayer can bring tangible healing and transformation. Prayer\, combined with a law-based approach to spirituality\, can be both practical and provable.\nAbout Caryl 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. \nThis free talk is sponsored by\nFirst Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Gig Harbor\, WA
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-can-prayer-be-scientific/
LOCATION:Gig Harbor Library\, 4424 Point Fosdick Dr\, Gig Harbor\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Person lecture:  BREAKING NEWS: FREEDOM IS OURS NOW
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Patricia Woodard. \n“What we’re looking for\,” says Patricia Woodard\, “is a view that uplifts our thoughts\, changing our perspective to one that makes a difference for the better\, that heals. To me\, this is what Christian Science is about: finding a spiritual perspective of God that reveals the goodness\, wellness\, and freedom flowing from God every day\, helping those take tangible and reliable shape in our lives and the lives of others. That’s the ultimate good news!” \nPatty Woodard — a practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker — will present her talk\, Breaking news: Freedom is ours now\, on Saturday\, Feb. 24\, at 2 p.m.\, at the Gig Harbor Library\, 4424 Point Fosdick Drive\, Gig Harbor. Her talk is free\, open to the community\, and hosted by First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Gig Harbor. \nSays Patty about her talk: “The little bird in my hand was free to fly away. We’d banded him as part of an Audubon Society effort and the time had come for his release. But even when I opened my hand to let him go\, he didn’t budge. What did he need? He just needed a little lift. When I gave him even the tiniest nudge upward\, off he flew. Free! \n“What is it that gives this kind of lift to our lives? Good news\, for one thing. And what better news than the promise that health and freedom can be ours today. Yes\, today! \n“My lecture traces the origins of this good news to Christ Jesus’ ministry\, and then explores how the discovery of a 19th-century woman named Mary Baker Eddy—who found freedom from chronic illness and other struggles in her own life—shows the provable relevance of Jesus’ ministry in our lives today. What she discovered through this study she called Christian Science—a view of God and the universe that uplifts our thoughts\, changes our perspective to a spiritual viewpoint\, and heals. \n“And it lifts all of us\, and can heal all of us. I’ll share the way Christian Science has brought healing to my own life\, rescuing me from a troubling situation with my teenage daughter\, and freeing me from the effects of an accident\, as well as examples of how it has helped others from different walks of life. The common thread through these experiences is the way a clearer view of the reality of our God-given wholeness also releases us from burdens in our lives and causes us to soar. Free!” \nAbout Patty Woodard \nPatty discovered Christian Science as an adolescent and soon thereafter experienced the complete healing of a broken arm through Christian Science treatment\, to the amazement of her mother\, a registered nurse. \nAfter working in New York City in the fashion business\, Patty realized she wanted to help children learn how to learn. So she returned to school and earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching. This desire to help others and her love of Christian Science impelled her to set time aside to pray for others. While a mother of two children\, she became a full-time Christian Science practitioner\, and has pursued a lifelong career of learning about God\, sharing Truth\, and witnessing God’s love for mankind. \nMain photo by Luciani K. on Unsplash.
URL:https://christiansciencewa.org/event/in-person-lecture-breaking-news-freedom-is-ours-now/
LOCATION:Gig Harbor Library\, 4424 Point Fosdick Dr\, Gig Harbor\, United States
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