"Effective prayer: Finding healing and wholeness in divine Love" - A Talk sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berwyn, PA
2025-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berwyn, PA, 81 Cassatt Ave., Berwyn, Berwyn, PA, United States
About this talk:
In this lecture, explore practical and transformative prayer, as taught in Christian Science. Through compelling personal stories, Christian Science practitioner and lecturer Bobby Lewis illustrates how the spiritual laws of divine Love operate– and how prayer brings us into alignment with these laws. Whether you’re feeling lost or struggling with illness, effective prayer can restore clarity, peace and wholeness in every area of life.
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About our Speaker Bobby Lewis, CS:Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Bobby grew up in the mountains of Colorado in the US and has found inspiration in wild places all of his life. During some tough teen-age years, his mother (a Christian Science Practitioner), helped him begin to see himself as spiritually whole and loved by God right in the midst of those challenges. It made all the difference and that dark time was left behind.
The care he received, and those early lessons of the value of seeking spiritually and listening deeply to God, set him on a trajectory of wanting to give back to others by supporting their growth. Over the years that took shape in work as a camp counselor, experiential educator, and chaplain for service organizations.
After studying religion in college and graduate school with a focus on learning more about how to put the teachings of the Bible into day-to-day practice, Bobby began work as a Christian Science practitioner, reaching out to others with healing focused prayer.
Being “moved with compassion,” as Christ Jesus modeled, and connecting people with God’s healing love is at the heart of Bobby’s ministry and life.
Bobby still lives in Colorado with his family and animals on a little ranch along the river, where he loves to write poetry, walk, listen, and stand in awe of Spirit’s infinite creation.

"The Science of God and its power to heal us" - Nikki O'Hagan, C.S.
2025-09-27 11:00 - 12:00 | First Church of Christ, Scientist, Newark, DE, 48 W Park Pl, Newark, DE, 19711
About this talk:
Misconceptions about ourselves and the world we live in are often corrected by advances in science which bring paradigm shifts to our ways of thinking and understanding existence — like discovering that the earth revolves around the sun, rather than the other way around.
The current matter-based scientific model leaves many questions unanswered and has some thinkers and scientists questioning if it is still the right model. It is interesting to consider if the time has now come for another major paradigm shift in science – a shift that would include God as the center and circumference of all existence. This paradigm shift in thought begins with the questions – how does science relate to God and is there a science that explains God?
Nikki O’Hagan, Christian Science lecturer and practitioner, will address these questions in her talk and show how the Science of God explains Jesus’ healings, and teachings, makes God knowable and understandable, and provides humanity with a safe and reliable means for caring for ourselves and each other.
Nikki will also share some of her own experiences of the transforming, healing power of God gained through understanding this Science of God, or Christian Science. She will explain how this healing happens, and what role consciousness plays in the process.
Childcare will be provided at the lecture.
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About our Speaker Nikki O’Hagan, CS:Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Nikki grew up in South Africa where she gained a love for being outdoors and enjoying the beauty and promise of nature. From a young age she had a strong desire to not just experience life, but to understand it. She used to exasperate her dad by following up every explanation he gave her by asking “but, Why?” While Nikki did grow up attending Christian Science Sunday School, as a teen she decided that this would not be the way for her to gain the understanding of life that she was seeking, and she headed off in another direction.
Several years followed in which she desperately tried to find happiness and to understand the Why of life. She looked everywhere and tried everything (even jumping out of an airplane!) but nothing brought answers, happiness or lasting peace. Rather than finding an understanding of life, it all seemed to just get darker and make less and less sense.
And then a transformational healing brought her back to Christian Science, where she found comfort, peace, mercy, happiness, harmony, health, and home in the arms of divine Love. Nikki then discovered that she loved the infallible logic of the Science of Christianity, and found in it all the answers to her Whys. Life and God finally began to make sense and became full of joy, light, and love. Her gratitude for this pivotal healing, and the salvation it brought her by setting her on the path of Christian Science, was–and still is–unbounded. Since that time all she has wanted to do is love and serve God, and love and serve others.
Through her study and practice of Christian Science, Nikki has experienced and witnessed so many healings over the years. Her earnest desire is for all to know the transformational healing power of divine Love. Becoming a Christian Science practitioner was a natural step in fulfilling this desire.
Nikki looks forward to sharing with others, through the lecturing work, the subjects most precious and dear to her heart: God and Christian Science.
