How we care for our churches today is a focus of clergy and churchgoers everywhere.
If you are pondering this for your church, we hope you’ll draw inspiration from an article in this issue’s Living Church section about a branch church’s prayers regarding a costly maintenance issue. It reminded us of the spirit of the building of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. Building of The Mother Church by Joseph Armstrong and Margaret Williamson chronicles this triumphant story and states that nothing but healing “builds Churches of Christ, Scientist, and their edifices” and that “the very construction of the edifice must be a healing in itself” (p. x).
As this branch discovered—and joyfully demonstrated—the maintenance of the building must also be a healing.
