June 7 Annual Meeting Broadcast

Join  us at our Reading Room at 3431 W. Cary Street at 1 p.m. this coming Monday. We'll have a live webcast of the Annual Meeting from Boston playing on our big screen.  Bring your lunch and enjoy participating long distance in this interesting and informative event.

Quarterly Business Meeting

The QBM will be held tomorrow, April 22, starting at 7 p.m. All members are urged to attend.

New Reading Room hours

The Reading Room, at 3432 W. Cary Street, has new hours beginning today. We'll be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays through Friday. Saturday hours remain unchanged: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Stop on by!

Next Audio Chat

Tuesday, March 30, from 2-3 p.m, at the Reading Room at 3431 West Cary Street, you are invited to hear Mark Swinney, C.S.B, and Ginny Luedeman, C.S.B, discuss "A Way Out of Addiction to Pornography and Cybersex."

This will be a live audio chat. Questions will be taken via email.

Everyone is welcome!

Chats are held every other Tuesday at 2 p.m., EST. The first April chat will be held April 13. Topic will be posted later.

Spirituality.com Audio Chats

The Reading Room is happy to have anyone visit who would like to listen to any of the archived (and live) audio chats hosted on spirituality.com. Yesterday's topic, Healing Incurable Disease, with speaker Marian English, will be available soon in the archived section.

Stop in and see what else is available!

Next Quarterly Business Meeting

Members are reminded, our next quarterly business meeting is Thursday, January 21, 2010.

Also, if you'd like to hear the Ginny Luedeman talk given at the Reading Room, go to the church's web page. There's a link at the bottom of the home page that will automatically open the talk, "Freedom from Fear." The web page is found at www.ricchristianscience.com.

Life without Fear!

A public talk by Ginny Luedeman,CS, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will be given at the Christian Science Reading Room at 3431 W. Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, October 24, at 7 p.m. You are cordially invited to attend.

Life without fear - is such a life possible today, when there seems to be so much to be fearful about? What about the issues facing us every day - finances, health, children endangered or out of control, careers threatened by economic conditions, the challenges of life in the military? And then there are the global problems - economic, environmental, etc. Does fear, in some degree, seem to be a requirement to be responsible and concerned about these issues?

Ginny Luedeman learned how to face down fear through intelligent, responsible, effective prayer. Even when conditions were life-threatening or seemed hopeless, she overcame fear. For thirty years she's been helping others find comfort, confidence, and healing through prayer that doesn't just soothe fear, but lifts lives out of mind-sets and circumstances that induce fear and hide our capacity to live in a genuine state of dominion, safety, and well-being.

For more information or to ask questions about this talk or speaker, feel free to email us at secondchurch@gmail.com.

Lecture Preparatory Meeting

Members are reminded that a lecture preparatory meeting will be held in the Sunday School room at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. Hope to see everyone there!

Our welcome sign...

Another picture!

Our cash register and water wheelbarrow, in front of the Reading Room.

More pictures!

Our front garden, which delights foot traffic on Cary Street. The restaurant next door has followed our example and added its own festive garden, using many of the same plants and color scheme.

Watermelon Festival Pictures

Watermelon Festival! August 9 turned out to be a scorcher - a hundred degrees in the shade - but the temperature didn't keep the crowds at home. Second Church's tent in the middle of the street was busy with children having their faces painted while workers handed out Sentinels. The issue dealing with Spiritual Healthcare for Children was very popular. We had some interesting discussions, some of which continued inside the Reading Room for quite a while.Also inside the Reading Room, a large group of college-aged visitors visited and asked lots of great questions about Christian Science. Other first-time visitors expressed interest in finding out how we are different from the Scientology group headquartered just a block away, and we found we were able to clear up many misconceptions. Being a part of the Carytown festival is a wonderful way to open the Reading Room doors and bring us into the street with our fellow businesses. A few pictures follow!

Watermelon Festival!

Come join us tomorrow, August 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Carytown as we celebrate Watermelon! Our booth will be in the street in front of the Reading Room at 3431 W. Cary, and of course, the Reading Room will be open. Discounts up to 20% will be available on all stock, and we have special pricing for the paperback Science and Health and Bible - $5 and $12, respectively.

We look forward to having you join in the festivities.

New Christian Science Monitor available

The new weekly format for the Christian Science Monitor is available for purchase at our Reading Room at 3431 West Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia. Phone orders (along with credit card purchases) are also available not only for the Monitor, but for all other publications stocked in the Reading Room. Call 804-358-1232 for more information.

Everyone is Invited!

On April 16,17, 18, and 19, the Reading Room at 3431 West Cary Street will be open extended hours for an open house celebration. Coordinating with Reading Rooms all over the world, the Reading Room on West Cary Street will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day except Saturday, when the closing hour will be 8 p.m.

If you have any questions about Christian Science, wish to purchase a Bible or Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, as well as other Bible study aids, or want to take a look at the new Christian Science Monitor weekly edition, feel free to stop in! We hope to see you there.

New Reading Room Hours

Effective immediately, the Reading Room at 3431 West Cary Street will have new hours. They are:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 11 a.m.-3 p.m

Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Meeting for Members

Members are reminded of the meeting to elect new readers. Time: 7 p.m. Date: Thursday Feb. 19.

New Year's Eve 2008

Everyone is welcome to join us at our Carytown Reading Room, 3431 West Cary Street, on New Year's Eve from 8 p.m. to midnight. Light refreshments, board games, and fun are on the agenda. Please come!

Thanksgiving Day Service

Everyone is invited to our Thanksgiving Day service, held at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern) on Thanksgiving Day. Child care is provided for the very young.

2008's Watermelon Festival

Sunday the 10th was so much fun. Church members, both First and Second, joined over 100,000 people in the streets of Carytown to celebrate Watermelon! Our double tents in the middle of the street showcased Science and Health in every language in which it's published, as well as the King James Bible, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Sentinel. Pink balloons printed with the words http://www.spirituality.com/ were a huge hit and a great giveaway for children, and both the Monitor and Sentinels were popular giveaways. We answered questions about Christian Science, about healing, and about where people could get the Monitor on a regular basis. Face painting, a Doggie Rest Stop water bowl, and a free bottle of water with every book purchase, were huge hits. These pictures were taken during the day.