We are happy to say that our church is OPEN for services!  Come join us.

Sunday Services and Sunday School at 10 a.m.

Wednesday Service at 7:00 p.m.  also available via Zoom 

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Our Reading Room is open 5:30-7:00 p.m. each Wednesday 

Questions?  Call 804-358-1232

 Just a note to say that Wednesday evening church services begin at 7 p.m. eastern time, and are available through Zoom. If you would like to be added to the Zoom notice list, please email the clerk at courtneypclerk@gmail.com.

In person church services will resume June 6. 

Readings

Citations for Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Topic:  Fear

The Bible

1) I Kings 17:  1 – 15

2) I Chronicles 28:  2 – 3 (to second comma), 6 – 7, 10, 20

3) II Chronicles 20:  17

4) Psalms 23:  4

5) Psalms 46:  1

6) Psalms 118:  1, 6

7) Isaiah 41:  10, 13

8) Isaiah 44: 8

9) Jeremiah 23:  4

10) Matthew 1:  18 – 20

11) Luke 1:  26 – 31

12) Luke 2:  8 – 11

13) Matthew 14:  22 – 31 (to second comma)

14) Matthew 28:  1 – 8

15) Mark 5:  25 – 34

16) Luke 8:  49 (there) – 55 (to colon)

17) Luke 12:  32

18) II Timothy 1:  7

19) I John 4:  16, 18 (to colon)

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

1) 13:  5 – 24

2) 68:  2 – 4

3) 125:  12 – 16

4) 154:  3 – 8

5) 168:  24 – 29

6) 169:  10 – 14

7) 180:  13 – 16, 21 – 24

8) 188:  22 – 27

9) 196:  25 – 30

10) 197:  16 (only)

11) 198:  3 – 8

12) 208:  25 – 4

13) 214:  19 – 21

14) 230:  22 – 26

15) 231:  20 – 25

16) 260:  19 – 22

17) 352:  12 – 30

18) 368:  24 – 32

19) 371:  11 – 14

20) 373:  14 – 18

21) 376:  17 – 27

22) 377: 26 – 31

23) 380:  15 (only), 19 – 21

24) 391:  32 – 2, 5 – 8

25) 400:  1 – 4

26) 411:  20 – 22

27) 445:  19 – 21

28) 493:  17 – 27

29) 578:  10 - 12

A prayerful approach to redemption and forgiveness

Mark McCurties, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will speak on this topic on March 28 and 29 in Richmond, Virginia.  MAKING MEANINGFUL CHANGE will be his focus at 3 p.m. both days, with the first event happening at 3431 West Cay Street, the Christian Science Reading Room.  The second day's talk will occur at 8791 River Road, Second Church of Christ, Scientist.

Check out www.ricchristianscience.com for more information about Mr. McCurties and his talk. Post any questions you might have here, and we will respond as soon as possible.

Our Reading Room

A Christian Science Reading Room is totally unique in today's world. Where else can you sit and read the Christian Science Monitor, any of the Christian Science periodicals (the latest issues!), the weekly Lesson, or just sit and chill, all in the midst of a busy commercial area? That's where our church has located our Reading Room, at 3431 W. Cary Street, in Richmond, Virginia. We're open from 11-3 on weekdays (except Monday) and from 10-4 on Saturdays. Anyone working in the Reading Room is more than happy to answer any questions you may have about Christian Science, recommend books, etc., and provide a friendly face.

Our Reading Room is our gift to the community. Visit us and check out what's happening!

Quarterly Business Meeting

Members are reminded that they will meet on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 7 p.m. to conduct our quarterly business meeting. Three new AC members and a president will be elected.

No Fallen Women!

I was hurrying to get to my appointed post as a church usher, when I found myself face first on the church steps. I was aware of a crunching sound in my head and neck, then nothing. When I came around, I heard a church member stating loudly and clearly "there are no accidents in God's kingdom!" I could hear the Scientific Statement of Being being spoken aloud, which I joined in audibly as soon as I caught my breath, and that someone else had removed my purse and other objects I'd been carrying. Although the pain was intense, I felt it important to get to my feet right then, so with help, I did.

Proceeding into the church with help, I mentally refuted that I'd ever fallen. Nothing had happened to me, God's child, and I could claim my freedom from this imposition right there and then. Heading for the restroom, I cleaned off my face, where a very visible and large bump was swelling on my forehead. I pulled my hair over the bump so it wasn't visible and proceeded to church.

The Bible Lesson that week was filled with wonderfully healing messages and boy, were they effective! By the time church was over, the swelling was gone, and I went out to lunch with my family and then did some shopping. Every effort of mortal mind to try to claim that my body hurt and was painful, I flipped into the spiritually positive.I couldn't be hurt, because I never had fallen. Since nothing had happened, there could be no aftereffects. After all, God always had been in control, and that control wasn't going to slip or fall away.

I continued with these healing messages and was able to do everything I always did throughout the week. My face developed a black eye, which I thought was pretty funny, and even though it was quite colorful, it didn't bother me. Makeup covered it to the point most people didn't notice it. I figured it was mortal mind's last gasp, and if that was the best it could do, I wasn't impressed. It disappeared completely.

I am very grateful for the immediate, and effective, metaphysical support of those church members who rushed to my aid, to my husband for his quick and emphatic refutation of the material picture, and to God for her healing and loving presence which never leaves us for one millisecond.