PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA (Second Church)

Palo Alto Times November 4, 1967

Dedication services for Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Palo Alto, will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The dedication comes 15 years after the first service was held in the church's temporary quarters in the Carpenters' Union Hall, 3065 Middlefield Road. Christian Science churches are dedicated only when they are free of debt....

The church, at 3045 Cowper Street, was constructed in two units, the first completed in 1954 and the second in 1959....

Second Church was formed in October, 1952, by a small group of members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Palo Alto. The group sought to solve the problem of overcrowding in their Sunday School and at the same time to meet the church needs of the rapidly growing southern section of Palo Alto.

After being recognized as a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in January, 1953, Second Church purchased the lot on Cowper Street and began construction of the first unit of its new building.

The first unit, which then consisted of a Reading Room, Sunday School and foyer, was completed in October, 1954. Services were held in the Sunday School room until the second unit was completed.

On March 15, 1959, six and a half years after the first service at the Union Hall, Second Church held its first service in its newly completed auditorium.

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (Second Church)

The Voice-Jeffersonian November 16, 1967

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, 4125 Shelbyville Road, will dedicate its church building Sunday, November 19.

Two identical services will be held—the first on Sunday morning at 11, the other the same afternoon at 3:30.

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, was organized in 1916, and its charter obtained the same year. The first service was held in the Elks Hall, 316 W. Walnut Street.

The church grew and soon thereafter a larger meeting place was secured with the purchase of the Presbyterian Church building, 738 S. Fourth Street.

That building met the needs of the church until March, 1954, when the structure was sold. Services were held temporarily in the Crescent Hill Woman's Club during July, August and part of September.

The present site at Shelbyville Road was purchased and the residence there remodeled to meet the church's needs until a new structure could be completed....

The first service was held on Thanksgiving Day in 1956. The official opening services of the new church were held Sunday, January 6, 1957.

Christian Science churches are not dedicated until they are free of dedicated until they are free of of debt. The Shelbyville Road church has now liquidated its indebtedness.

AVALON, PENNSYLVANIA (First Church)

The Allegheny Journal November 30, 1967

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Avalon, will dedicate its church building on South Home Avenue with services to be held at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 3rd. The public is cordially invited to attend these services.

Christian Science churches are dedicated only when free from debt. The members are sincerely grateful to all who have made this dedication possible.

The history of the church dates back to January, 1928, when a group of Christian Scientists in the North Boroughs area...with several other interested individuals held a meeting to organize a Church of Christ, Scientist, in the North Boroughs.

Services were first held in the home of a member on Taylor Avenue, Avalon, and later in the Bellevue High School Auditorium. This latter move was especially welcomed by the members for then a Sunday School could be established. In May of the same year the second floor of the Bellevue Post Office Building was rented and became the temporary location of the church during the time the search for a permanent location was being made. Meanwhile, on March 30, 1928, the church was recognized as a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

A lot and a large house on California Avenue, Avalon, was purchased in March, 1931.... Satisfactory plans for a church edifice on this site were not worked out and the property was sold in 1950. After further searching, the present site on South Home Avenue was acquired early in 1957 and plans to construct a church building were approved by the membership.

The cornerstone was laid in September, 1958, and the first service and Sunday School were held in the new edifice in March of the following year. By September of this year all indebtedness incurred in the building of the church was satisfied.