Free Public Talk – Finding where God is seen and felt
May 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Clarkson Valley
Child care provided
Finding where God is seen and felt
What’s church got to do with it?
(Maybe church is more than a building.)
Emra Farkas discusses the real role of church — not just as a building, but as a new kind of thinking that reveals God’s goodness for you and everyone around you. She gives tangible examples of how the right meaning of church heals, and shares her personal journey of finding her way back to a spiritually centered outlook. The lecture features several of her own healings, both from childhood and adulthood.
About Caryl Emra Farkas, CSB
The most important influences on Emra’s life were her mother, who taught her to pray when confronted with difficulties, and her Christian Science Sunday School. In her teens, when a teacher asked her to speak to a social studies class about her religion, she discovered the joy that comes from sharing what she understood and had experienced of Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery. She was asked back each year and was always moved by the way students who were skeptical about the subject became interested after hearing her accounts of spiritual healing — her healings of a severed thumb, tonsillitis, swimmer’s ear, bullying, and other difficulties.
However, during college and graduate school, she drifted away from church. Her degrees were in fine arts, and after school she worked for galleries and museums in New York City. Her interest in finding spiritual answers to life’s challenges was rekindled, and she explored a variety of spiritual disciplines in search of answers. This hands-on study of comparative religion helped her understand the universality of the search for spiritual truth, but left her with unanswered questions.
She and her husband moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she enjoyed a career in music performance and started a family. After some years of poor health, a sudden spiritual insight led her back to Christian Science and to an instantaneous healing of multiple chronic illnesses.
This inspired a deeper study of Eddy’s writings. That study led her back to church, to Christian Science class instruction, and eventually to a ten-year intensive course of study. Shortly thereafter, she became a full-time Christian Science practitioner.
Emra says there is nothing more satisfying than seeing divine Truth and Love transform lives and bring healing. She feels deeply blessed to practice and teach Christian Science, contribute to the Christian Science periodicals, serve her branch church, and serve as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
