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As a child growing up in Nevada and California, our family was very enterprising. Though we didn’t have a great deal materially, I watched as my mother’s brand new study of Christian Science began to bring much good into our lives.

It was through the kindness of a neighbor, who drove my sister and me to Sunday School every week, that I was introduced to Christian Science and had a healing that changed my life. Neither of my parents were Christian Scientists, and I’d been born with a disfiguring skin condition.

I grew up in Minnesota, attended high school in Missouri and college in Iowa. After college, I took steps to align my first career decisions with my growing understanding of God. I felt it would be simpler and more efficient to let God lead those first few steps.

I was born and raised in Paysandú, a city on the shores of the Uruguay River. I had never heard about Christian Science until the time I met the man who was to be my husband. To me, God felt always like a close but fearsome friend. Learning about God as supreme, ever near Love, was a turning point in my life. Then I wanted to learn more about this Science that was making me understand my true identity as God’s likeness. A few years later, when we already had four children, I sought class instruction. The desire to benefit others with the knowledge I was gaining from the study and by my own experiences, inevitably followed, and I became listed as a Christian Science practitioner in the Journal and the Spanish Herald . Impelled by the desire to broaden the sharing of what I am learning about God, divine Love, I applied and was accepted in the 2009 Normal class. Sharing what I am learning is a joyous task, overflowing with happiness.

Although I was raised in Christian Science, in a sense I feel that Christian Science raised me. The teachings of the Bible, the mission of our Master, Christ Jesus, and the revealed message of spiritual truth explained in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy provided a natural pathway of learning and purpose early in my life.

I learned of Christian Science in my middle teens. Our family came to it through a “miraculous” healing of a relative. I tested it, and was amazed at the consistent results. The Science proved to be genuinely scientific. Its practice became the basis of my studies and early career. That career took some radically different zigs and zags. From research director at an international relations and mediation institute in Italy, to labor organizer in New England, to foundation director, to university professor, to peace and civil rights activist, to founding an anti-racism project which was the basis of the YWCA “Social Justice Award”. The focus, the common denominator of these careers, was solving problems.

I’m blessed that two of the great loves of my life – teaching and Christian Science – come together in what constitutes, for me, a perfect lifework. As a little girl, I loved Mrs.

As a child, I was told that my great-great-great grandmother became a Christian Science practitioner after she was healed while reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. However, I certainly remember my grandfather as a Christian Science practitioner whom I adored and whom I could always ask for help.

I was born in Tokyo, but before starting to speak Japanese fluently, at age two my family moved to Mumbai, India. I consider my four years in India to be my most formative years.

Christian Science found me at university in 1981. Before joining the Church in 1984, I began taking a newspaper a week and praying for the situations described in all the articles.