Article August 17, 2009 Issue

HOW I SHARED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WITH SOLOMON WORKAR

KAREN LEA AASAND

My company makes faith-based, true-life films about people transformed by their relationship with God. In August 2008 Solomon Workar looked online for a film company to come to Liberia to teach his church how to make video testimonies of healings. He found our company.

I respond to every e-mail, but initially I felt justified in not answering his request, as it seemed rather presumptuous and forward. Then a gentle message came to me that I must respond. As First Reader at my Christian Science branch church, I'd been praying to find ways to help make a newcomer feel comfortable and welcome.

Responding to Solomon would be expressing the true nature of Church as a spiritual concept (see Science and Health, p. 583). So I wrote to him and started a dialogue as a fellow Christian. Since my intent was to express Love and to let God respond to whatever the need, the writing came easily. It wasn't me doing the work—and that was something of an issue at the time, because I was quite ill. I'd been praying in Christian Science expecting healing, as I usually do, but simply walking up the stairs each day from my office to our living space was a challenge.

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