Sunday School is from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.,
during the same hour as the Sunday church service. Children between the ages of
three and twenty receive age-appropriate instruction from teachers who have made
Christian Science their way of life.
Sunday School classes provide intimate settings for children to discuss God, prayer, healing, and the relevance of moral and spiritual law to their everyday lives.
The teaching follows Mrs. Eddy's instructions (Church Manual 62:24):
The first lessons of the children should be the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3-17), the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), and its Spiritual Interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:3-12). The next lessons consist of such questions and answers as are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons, read in Church services. The instruction given by the children's teachers must not deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their textbook.
Christian Science Organizations (CSOs) are informal groups of college students (and faculty) who get together, typically weekly, to:
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