Mission
The Christian Science Church is ". . . designed to commemorate the word
and works of our Master [Christ Jesus], which should reinstate primitive
Christianity and its lost element of healing"
(Manual of the Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy, p.17).
The Church & Tenets
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science,
defines church as "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon
and proceeds from divine Principle" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,
Mary Baker Eddy, p. 583).
As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
In order to move away from personal preaching, Mary Baker Eddy ordained two books to be
the pastor of the church: the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
These books are the only "preachers"; there is no ordained clergy.
The Covina church is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts,
also known as The Mother Church. Today there are Churches of Christ, Scientist and
Christian Science Societies in 74 countries around the world.
Location of our Church and Reading Room
Sunday Church Services are held at the Masonic Lodge
170 East School Street, at the corner of School and Second Streets.
Church: (626) 331-4009
The Reading Room is located at 238 North Citrus and is open
Monday 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.; Tuesday - Friday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.;
Saturday, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Please feel free to call the
Reading Room (626) 332-3091 if you have any questions.
