Christian Science St. Louis

The Book of Mark: Six-session Evening Bible Study
2026-01-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Regional Christian Science Reading Room, 10552 Old Olive Street Rd., St. Louis, MO, 63141
Creve Coeur
Dig deep into the Book of Mark with this six-part study. With meetings held on selected Thursday evenings from Jan 22 – April 16, you’ll explore historical and spiritual aspects of this powerful and fast-paced gospel.
The sessions will be held on Jan 22, Feb 5, Feb 19, Mar 5, Mar 26, and Apr 16.
These meetings, led by Christian Science practitioner, Kim Hedge, CS, will be held in-person and on Zoom. Kim serves in the full-time healing ministry through the practice of Christian Science, and is finishing up her divinity degree at Eden Theological Seminary.

To register for this free workshop, email regionalcsrr@gmail.com. Optional study materials are available to purchase.

The Book of Mark: Six-session Evening Bible Study
led by Kim Hedge, CS
will meet for 6 weeks
St. Louis Regional Christian Science Reading Room
10552 Old Olive Street Rd, St. Louis, MO
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Giving Freely of Ourselves and What We All Gain
2026-02-20 11:00 - 11:50 | Principia Wanamaker Hall, 1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, IL, 62028, United States
Elsah, Illinois
Everyone is welcome.
Giving Freely of Ourselves and What We All Gain
with Melanie Walhberg
When we feel overwhelmed by life’s problems, we may want to hide or give up. But when we do the opposite — give more of ourselves or focus on the God-given qualities we already have, we find that those problems dissolve! Hear this Christian Science healer share her own experiences of progress — and how you can gain the joy, health, and strength that move our lives and the world forward.
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About Melanie Walhberg

Two influences that Melanie will never forget were the Christian Science Sunday School and a mom who turned to prayer and encouraged her to do the same. These influences showed her something of the reliability of God and spiritual inspiration, and trusting this helped her find her way growing up. Significant healing experiences with relationship and food issues, and violence in the community, were also unforgettable. From this, Melanie got an idea of the many ways that Christian Science can transform lives.
After finishing a doctorate in mathematics, Melanie became a college professor and truly enjoyed teaching. She found that teaching was less about telling students something than facilitating the students’ discoveries of new concepts. There was nothing better than witnessing a reluctant student realize that a previously mystifying concept was actually within reach to anyone.
But the higher promise of Christian Science beckoned her to help people redeem and uplift their lives in a fuller way. When students came to her office for help with calculus, Melanie and her students often found themselves talking about the joy and excitement of growing spirituality. After just two years at the college, Melanie resigned from her position and began accepting calls as a Christian Science practitioner. She wrote articles for the Christian Science periodicals, was a frequent guest on Sentinel radio, and began advertising her practice in The Christian Science Journal in 2004. She and her husband also started a family.
Melanie loves working from her home office in the Los Angeles area. She likes to see lives transformed by the healing ideas of Christian Science, where we ourselves are helped and, at the same time, find we can help others. Her life as a mom has a lot of the same focus. And whether the spiritual ideas apply to health issues, school, social lives, or sports, her three kids push her to “keep it real.”

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Melanie Walhberg will give her talk at
Principia Wanamaker Hall, Elsah
1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, IL
Everyone is welcome.
Childcare will be not be provided.
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Free Public Talk: Be Set Free
2026-04-24 19:00 - 20:15 | Wehrli Chapel, Eden Theological Seminary, 475 E Lockwood Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63119, United States
Webster Groves
Be Set Free
with Nicole Virgil
“Freedom is yours when you know where to look for it,” says Nicole, who brings a straightforward approach to her talks. She will share healing examples from her life of how practical it is to rely on an omnipresent good God for freedom from mental, physical, and relationship issues.
As well as lecturing, Nicole’s work is praying specifically for and with individuals to bring about the healing of any situation.
ALL are welcome to enjoy this free talk in Wehrli Chapel at the Eden Theological Seminary!
About Nicole Virgil
Nicole’s father was a free-lance church organist, and her parents attended services at many different Christian churches in New England. Her mom had been on a years-long search to find out how to practice Christian healing just as Jesus did, and when she started attending Christian Science church services, she found what she was looking for. As a result, Nicole was raised in Christian Science, and developed a deep desire for an intimate relationship with God.
Nicole studied Christian Science with her mom and music with her dad, and found that each discipline complemented the other. Christian Science healed performance anxiety, while learning music honed the skills she needed for spiritual practice — skills such as intuition, listening, patience and diligence. Throughout her life, Christian Science and music have always overlapped: after studying opera at music school, she took her one-woman opera review program (That Can’t Be Opera!) on the road, educating audiences about opera by singing Mozart, Puccini, and Menotti. Christian Science guided her through this entrepreneurial endeavor, just as it led her to start soloing in churches as a teenager (which is something she still loves to do!) — Nicole eventually married, started a family with her husband, and entered the public practice of Christian Science.
Today Nicole enjoys raising children, gardening, soloing in church, and witnessing the healing effect of Christian Science.
Nicole Virgil will give her talk at
Wehrli Chapel, Eden Theological Seminary
475 E Lockwood Ave, St. Louis, MO 63119
Childcare will not be provided.
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Sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Creve Coeur, MO

Free Public Talk: The Science of God and its Power to Heal Us
2026-04-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Schroeder Park Office Building, Conference Area, Schroeder Park 359 Old Meramec Station Road, Manchester, Missouri
Manchester
Child care provided
The Science of God and its Power to Heal Us
with Nikki O’Hagan
“Get up! Pick up your mat and walk” (John 5: 8 NIRV).
Christ Jesus responded with scientific certainty to calls for healing. This Christian Science lecture is about his simple message of certain good.
Whether you’re looking for answers or facing challenges, come hear about experiencing God’s goodness — His presence and power. No background needed, just honest life questions.
About Nikki O’Hagan

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.

Nikki O’Hagan will give her talk at
Schroeder Park Office Building, Conference Area
Schroeder Park 359 Old Meramec Station Road
Manchester, Missouri
Child care will be provided.
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Sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Valley Park, MO

Free Public Talk - Finding where God is seen and felt
2026-05-09 16:00 - 17:00 | First Church of Christ Scientist, Clarkson Valley, 2989 Clarkson Rd, Chesterfield, MO, 63017
Clarkson Valley
Child care provided
Finding where God is seen and feltWhat’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.

Caryl Emra Farkas will give her talk at the Church Edifice2989 Clarkson RoadChesterfield, MO 63017
Childcare will be provided.
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Free Public Talk: The key to effective prayer
2026-06-14 15:30 - 16:30 | Lyon Park Feyerabend Building, 201 East Spruce Street, Jerseyville, IL, 62052, United States
Sunday, 6/14
Jerseyville, IL
Child care provided
The Key to Effective Prayer
with Edwina Aubin, CSB

“Effective prayer is a recognition of the transforming power of God’s law — not just thinking good thoughts.”

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Jerseyville, IL warmly invites you to join us for a free public talk by Edwina Aubin, CSB. Ms. Aubin will explore how effective prayer goes beyond simply “thinking good thoughts.” Instead, it is a recognition of the transforming power of God’s law. She will share how Jesus demonstrated the ability to overcome material limitations through obedience to spiritual law, reveal God as Love, and show how we, too, can confidently follow this example in our own lives.
This talk is part of Edwina Aubin’s first U.S. lecture tour.
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Looking back over the steps in her career and spiritual journey, Edwina feels a deep sense of order and progress stemming from her love of God and her desire to help others.
After finishing school, she asked herself what she most wanted to do. The answer came clearly: to help people. This led her into a medically based healthcare career, where she loved working with patients.
In her late twenties, Edwina discovered Christian Science, which opened her thought to a new understanding of healthcare and healing. A sincere Christian who had explored numerous denominations in search of a deeper understanding of God, she quickly found that Christian Science answered her questions about God and healing in a meaningful and practical way. Many years later, she continues to find this to be true.
Not long after beginning her study of Christian Science, an unexpected new career opportunity arose. This role took her out of the clinical setting and into work that primarily involved helping students. Through this experience, Edwina learned that true intelligence comes from God alone and is never limited by education, background, or personal ability. Though she had struggled academically as a student, she eventually earned a doctorate while working full-time and raising a large family.
Edwina’s early desire to help others never left her, and this sincere motive eventually led her into the full-time practice of Christian Science healing. Today, as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, she sees how every step of her journey has prepared her to better understand God’s loving care for all. This is the message she now shares as a Christian Science lecturer.

Edwina Aubin will give her talk at:
Lyon Park Feyerabend Building
201 E Spruce St
Jerseyville, IL 62052
Child care will be provided.
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The Science of God and Its Power to Heal Us
2026-10-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, St. Louis, 6221 Alexander Drive, St. Louis, MO, United States
Sunday, 10/25
Forest Park

The Science of God and Its Power to Heal Us
with Nikki O’Hagan CS
Everyone is invited to attend and explore the question: how does science relate to God and is there a science that explains God?

About Nikki O’Hagan, CS

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.

Nikki O’Hagan will give her talk at
Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist6221 Alexander Drive
St. Louis, Missouri, 63105
Childcare will be provided.
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Effective prayer: Finding healing and wholeness in divine Love
2026-11-15 14:00 | First Church of Christ, Scientist, St. Louis, 5000 Westminster Place(at Kingshighway), St. Louis, MO, 63108, United States
Sunday, 11/15
St. Louis
Effective prayer: Finding healing and wholeness in divine Love
with Bobby Lewis
More details coming!

Effective prayer: Finding healing and wholeness in divine love
2026-11-16 19:00 | First Church of Christ, Scientist, Alton-Godfrey, 1430 W Delmar Ave, Godfrey, IL, 62035
Thursday, 11/16
Godfrey
Effective prayer: Finding healing and wholeness in divine love
with Bobby Lewis
More details coming!

Attend A Thanksgiving Day Service Near You!
2026-11-26 10:00 - 12:00
We invite you to join us in giving gratitude in church on Thanksgiving Day!
Every year, the Christian Science churches in St. Louis hold church services on Thanksgiving Day.
The one-hour Thanksgiving service is full of inspiration, readings, and expressions of gratitude from members of the congregation. All are welcome!
Christian Science churches in the Greater St. Louis Area all offer Thanksgiving services at various times between 10 am and 12 pm noon.
Find a service near you:
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See you on Thanksgiving Day!
