First Church of Christ, Scientist, Dee Why

About our church

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Dee Why is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, known as The Mother Church, which was established in Boston MA in the United States in 1879 to “reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.”

We have been a presence in Dee Why since the 1930s.  Originally located on Pittwater Road, we moved in 1978 to our current address at 26 Howard Avenue, Dee Why. 

Services

• Sunday 10am
• Sunday School 10am
• Wednesday Testimonial Meeting 7:30pm

All welcome

Join our services online

Our church services are currently available via Zoom.
The Zoom room is open from from 9:50 am on Sundays and from 7.20 pm on Wednesdays.

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Our Service

Our ordained Pastor is our two textbooks — The Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy — from which is preached the Bible Lesson Sermon each week.

Each Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly focuses on a particular subject, such as “God,” “Mortals and Immortals,”, “Love,” and “God the Preserver of Man.” There are 26 subjects in all, each appearing twice a year. The passages from the Bible and Science and Health are different each time a subject appears, providing fresh insights and an ongoing course of Bible study.

We also hold Testimony Meetings on Wednesdays when readings from the textbooks are delivered on various topics pertaining to issues of the day, followed by testimonies from members of the congregation on how they have been helped and healed through the teachings of Christian Science.

Our Tenets

1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
   
2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.
   
3. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
   
4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
   
5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
   
6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

Mary Baker Eddy

Sunday School

The Sunday School runs every Sunday at 10am, where children up to the age of 20 are taught lessons from the Scriptures.

The Sabbath School children shall be taught the Scriptures, and they shall be instructed according to their understanding or ability to grasp the simpler meanings of the divine Principle that they are taught.

The Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy

Pupils may be received in the Sunday School classes of any Church of Christ, Scientist, up to the age of twenty years . . .

The Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy

The first lessons of the children should be the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3-17), the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), and its Spiritual Interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:3-12).

The Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy

Infants too young for the classes are accommodated in the nursery area.

Reading Room

Come in: we are open …

Monday 9am – 5pm
Tuesday 9am – 5pm
Wednesday 11am – 3pm
Thursday 9am – 5pm
Friday 11am – 3pm

(closed on public holidays)

We’re located in Howard Avenue at the entrance to Dee Why Plaza, welcoming locals, tourists, and everyone in between! — an oasis for inspiration in the midst of the day’s hustle and bustle, a resource for the community as a whole.

The Reading Room offers Bibles and Bible study materials, writings by Mary Baker Eddy the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Christian Science magazines, and musical CDs that bring a fresh, healing perspective to today’s political, social, and economic issues. The Christian Science magazines provide examples of how people are applying ideas from both the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy to their daily lives — and experiencing healing, safety, freedom, security, and happiness.

The Christian Science Monitor is a seven-time Pulitzer Prize-winning international daily newspaper, available daily online. You can purchase the weekly magazine print edition from us. Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, this paper’s mission is “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” 

Learn about the healing power of prayer in Mary Baker Eddy’s most important and influential work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
This book and its teachings have made the practice of Christian Science healing available to the world since 1875.

Contact the Reading Room by email:  librariancsdy@gmail.com

Helpful resources

• To find another branch church in Australia, click here.
• You can also listen to online testimony meeting of The Mother Church.
• For information about Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, click here.
• To read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker eddy, click here.
• Click here for Current schedule of talks throughout the world.  To see those near you, type “Australia” in the search box.
• Daily Lift
• Christian Science Nursing
• Christian Science Lectures

The Christian Science Monitor is a seven-time Pulitzer Prize-winning international daily newspaper. It is available daily online, and as a weekly magazine sold in Christian Science Reading Rooms. Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, this paper’s mission is “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” Visit csmonitor.com to find out more and subscribe.

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