Overview of
Services and Meetings
at Christian Science Churches


There are three regular services or meetings at Christian Science Churches and you are welcome to attend any of them. They are the Sunday Service, Sunday School (for anyone younger than 20 years old), and the Wednesday Evening Testimony Meeting and each is one hour long. Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, and the author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, ordained the King James version of the Bible and Science and Health as the pastor for The Mother Church and all its branches.

Services are conducted by lay persons, known as Readers and elected from the congregation. Each of the Silicon Valley churches included on this web site is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, located in Boston, Massachusetts. Christian Scientists frequently refer to this church in Boston as The Mother Church. Services in every branch follows the same format but may start at different times. Please refer to the individual church listing for each churches hours.

Christian Science Services

Sunday Services  
Wednesday Evening Testimomy Meetings
Sunday School (for Children under 20 years old)
  1. Sing Hymn
  2. Bible Scriptural selection
  3. Silent Prayer followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
  4. Sing Hymn
  5. Reading of announcements
  6. Musical Solo
  7. Reading the "Golden Text" and Responsive Reading from the Christian Science Quarterly
  8. Reading the Weekly Lesson-Sermon from the Bible and Science and Health by the First and Second Readers
  9. Collection
  10. Sing Hymn
  11. Reading the "Scientific Statement of Being" from Science and Health followed by the correlative scripture in the Bible
  12. Benediction
  1. Sing Hymn
  2. Readings from Bible and Science and Health by First Reader
  3. Silent Prayer followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer
  4. Sing Hymn
  5. Reading of announcements
  6. Open meeting for members of congretation to share experience and healings regarding their study of Christian Science
  7. Sing Hymn
  1. Sing Hymn
  2. Lesson Subject announced, Golden Text repeated and Responsive Reading from the Christian Science Quarterly
  3. Instruction in small individual classes about the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Sermon on the Mount and questions and discussions appropriate for the age level.
  4. Sing Hymn
  5. Reading the "Scientific Statement of Being" from Science and Health

You can get more information about Christian Science Services at any Christian Science Reading Room.