As on many other occasions when people have been left homeless through war or natural disaster, The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is providing relief assistance in the Oakland, California, area in close cooperation with and through local Churches of Christ, Scientist.
They began with the special issue Sentinels for the 1990 Youth Meetings and expanded to include the spring 1991 special issue, "Humanity's quest for health.