Freedom to Follow God

Every once in a while, I like to think back at the incredible way that God has taken care of Plainfield Church throughout the years. When I first got here, our practitioner, Mrs. Evans, told us that we needed to pray for our church. It needs our prayers as much as any person needs our prayers.

Those of you who are familiar with our history know, after we were kicked out of the organization many years ago, we were soon thereafter sued by the b.o.d. in Boston. They hired the biggest law firm in New Jersey and paid them a lot of money to try to prevent us from calling ourselves Christian Scientists and worshipping as a Christian Science church. I am sure they expected to overwhelm us, bankrupt us, and bury us. However, God found, right in our own backyard in Plainfield, one of the top litigators in the State of New Jersey, a partner in the second largest law firm in New Jersey, who deeply believed in our cause and was more than happy to help us. With his help and God’s direction, the case against us was eventually ruled in our favor by the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, which freed us and every church in the United States to become an independent Christian Science church, if they should choose to do so. This is what Mary Baker Eddy intended in the first place.

That lawsuit cost us over a quarter of a million dollars, and it was fully paid without having to incur debt, thanks to generous donations from many people throughout the country.

When we began to write our own Bible Lessons, we needed a printer. So God brought a professional printer from New York City, who set up shop in the basement of the church; and he faithfully served us for many years. When we needed an electrician to wire the church so that we could broadcast and record our services, God sent us a master electrical engineer who was more than capable of doing the job. When we needed a new organist, there happened to be one of the best organists in New Jersey right in our own Sunday School, and he graduated to be our organist and served us very well for many years. When we needed a temporary replacement, God brought a good replacement to us who filled the job right away. He even helped us find a soloist, and she has been faithfully serving us ever since. When we needed someone to maintain the new website and bring it up to date, God brought to us just the right person at the right time, and he has been doing a wonderful job. Then, when we needed to replace our organist, our soloist found, not one, but two superb professional organists, one for Sundays, and one for Wednesdays.

I could go on and on. This could actually be a very long list, but I will stop for now. I am so grateful to see how God brought to this church exactly what it needed, exactly when needed to be able to fulfill His purpose for this church. This is not chance. This is not luck. This is not coincidence. This is God’s plan being carried out for His church. I am so grateful to see the lives that are changed and healed, including my own. I don’t know where I would be without this church and the correct teachings of Mary Baker Eddy’s pure Christian Science that are practiced and taught here.