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To those leaning on the sustaining
infinite, today is big with blessings.
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The Mary Baker Eddy Collection
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The Christian Science Publishing Society
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Services. Our Church
Service (Sunday 10-11AM) is based on readings from the Bible
and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,
by Mary Baker Eddy. Sunday
services offer congregants a healing environment, anchored by
a weekly Bible
Lesson-Sermon with excerpts from the Bible and Science
and Health. Services also include prayer, hymn singing, and
a solo. > directions and maps
 Sunday
School. Children and young people up to the age of twenty
may attend our Sunday School, held at the same time as our Church
Service. Sunday School is a place for them to learn about their
relationship to a loving God through explanation of the ideas
in the Bible and Science and Health. Child care is provided
for those children too young to attend Sunday School.
Wednesday Testimonial Meeting.
Our weekly Testimonial Meeting (Wednesday 3-4PM) includes readings
from the Bible and Science and Health. Those attending
are invited to share accounts of their healings and spiritual
insights. The meeting also includes prayer and hymn singing.
 Reading
Room. Our Reading Room, located in the Church, is a quiet
place for exploration of spiritual healing, prayer and spirituality.
The Reading Room offers a variety of books, materials, magazines,
audio and video products, including Bible materials, Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and other writings
by Mary Baker Eddy. Our hours are Monday, 11AM-2PM; Wednesday, 2:45-3PM,
immediately preceding the Wednesday Testimonial Meeting; Thursday, 11AM-2PM;
and Sunday, 11-11:15AM, immediately following our Church Service.
Radio Broadcast. The
Christian
Science Sentinel Radio Edition is a weekly radio program broadcast
worldwide and released monthly on CD and audiocassette. It
includes insightful inteviews and inspiring discussions on how
God's laws apply to current eventsa nd individual challenges today.
Sentinel Radio is broadcast locally on WINK (1240AM) every Sunday
morning at 8AM.
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Our first church service was held
on December 1, 1957 in a private home in Punta Gorda, Florida. Services
continued there until April 13, 1958, when we began to meet in the American
Legion Hall.
The group was recognized by The Mother
Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
in Boston, Massachusetts, as "Christian Science Society, Punta
Gorda, Florida" on July 27, 1961. The Society moved to the Punta
Gorda Woman's Club on September 26, 1961, where services were held until
the edifice at 240 Tamiami Trail, NW, Port Charlotte was purchased on
July 3, 1964.
In April 1969, the Society became
"First Church of Christ, Scientist, Port Charlotte, Florida"
and dedicatory services were held on March 12, 1972. A Reading Room
was established and housed in the church edifice until the fall of 1976,
when a new Reading Room was opened in the Promenades Mall.
 Construction
of the present edifice on Iliade Avenue was completed by late summer
of 1981. The first service was held on September 13 of that year and
dedicatory services were held on January 20, 1985.
In September 1986, the Reading Room
was moved to Morgan Manor, where it remained until its relocation to
the Carrousel Mall, Murdock, in July 1989.
With the sale of part of the
Carrousel property, and demolition of the Reading Room building,
in the Spring of 2004 the Reading Room was housed in the Church.
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