First Church of Christ, Scientist
325 North Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 632-0051

Wednesday Evening Testimony Meetings 7:30pm

Also: Wednesday Testimony Meetings 12:00 Noon 1st Wednesday of the Month

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures has been translated into 17 languages Mary Baker Eddy The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts

Students of Christian Science follow the example of Christ Jesus in every aspect of daily living. We believe physical healing is an outgrowth of spiritual progress. Members are always free to choose any form of healing they prefer, but generally turn to prayer because they find it to be the most effective method of treatment.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has branch churches around the world. A worldwide listing of Christian Science Churches is available in the Christian Science Journal.)

Christian Scientists come from all walks of life and are happy to talk about their faith when asked, but we don't proselytize. For us, a life well lived is the best example of our beliefs.

MARY BAKER EDDY (1821-1910)
Mary Baker Eddy is the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and author of its foundational text, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Mary Baker Eddy was an influential American author, teacher, and religious leader, noted for her groundbreaking ideas about spirituality and health, which she named Christian Science. She articulated those ideas in her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures first published in 1875. In this book she explains what she understood to be the "science" behind Jesus' healing method. As she saw it, his works were divinely natural, and repeatable.

Over the years Mary Baker Eddy taught her system of healing to hundreds of women and men who in turn established successful healing practices across the United States and abroad. Known as Christian Science Practitioners, today thousands of individuals around the world have dedicated their lives to the full-time study and healing practice of Christian Science - including several here in Colorado Springs.

Four years after publication of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she founded The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, which today has branch churches and societies around the world.

It is of note that Mary Baker Eddy made her discovery of Christian Science mid-way through her long life, at a time when women could not vote and were generally barred from pulpits, seminaries, and the medical profession. It was in 1908 at age 87, responding to "yellow" journalism (the tabloid news of her day), that she started The Christian Science Monitor, designed "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." The Christian Science Monitor is now a leading international newspaper, the recipient, to date, of seven Pulitzer Prizes.

HISTORY OF FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, COLORADO SPRINGS

Interior View of the Colorado Springs Church

Christian Science in Colorado Springs grew from an organized Christian Science Bible class in 1887 to forty-six charter members who organized Church of Christ, Scientist of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in March 1892. In March 1898, the name was changed to the present one, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1901 the present site at Cascade Avenue and Boulder Street was purchased as a future building site.

The first service was held in the new edifice, now the Sunday School, January 1908, with dedication 1914. (It may be interesting to note here that the first organ the church had was a Kimball organ donated by Patty Stuart Jewett. Her husband William Jewett - a friend of Colorado Springs founder General Palmer - named a golf course after her. It was one of the first three golfing clubs in America!)

Upon incorporation in 1918, a charter was granted by the State of Colorado. The present church edifice was attached to the original structure in 1959 and dedicated November 1965 debt free.

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