Health care makes workshop agenda

Members of the Stanthorpe Christian Science Society met recently to workshop a number of important issues for the church.
Christian Science media representative and legislative liaison for Queensland, Kay Stroud, visited Stanthorpe to work with local Christian Scientists from the border to the Warwick/Pratten area and to share inspiring accounts of progress and healing on a global scale through prayer in Christian Science.
Particular reference was made to the increasing public support for different approaches to health care, including prayer and the fact that the value of spirituality as a healing agent in our health care system is gaining respect; even amongst the medical fraternity.
There was a session on Understanding Social Media and how these new communication platforms are affording oppor-tunities to share ideas with people of many faiths, or no faith at all – to break down the barriers that fear of differences would put up.
Christian Scientists can see the need to be able to communicate to others what Christian Science is and isn’t and attendees had fun with this activity, also sharing their own experiences of healings through prayer, including influenza, broken bones and unemployment.
In 1982 the first church services were held by a small group of Christian Scientists and then, in 1997, the new church was opened free from debt in Wallangarra Road, Stanthorpe.
Services include Sunday Church Services, Wednesday Testimony Meetings and Sunday School, as well as volunteers providing a Reading Room to the public where books and magazines with a spiritual perspective on everyday life as well as accounts of healing through prayer are sold, as well as other Bible reference tools and Christian teaching aids.