The Simple Needs Ministry Project

Right Thoughts and Good Deeds

The list below provides some ideas on the kinds of simple needs that could be addressed by the members of a church community.

1. Impersonal Prayer

2. Christian Caring Visits

3. Awareness of Care Resources

4. Correspondence Ministry (Keeping in touch)

  • Simple notes and cards

  • Letter correspondence

  • Checking in (Phone, text, email, social apps, etc.)

5. CSPS Literature & Bible Study Ministry

  • CSPS Literature distribution (CS Monitor, CS Sentinel, CS Journal, Quarterly Bible Lessons, etc.)

  • Providing CSPS literature to individuals

  • Reading to others from the CSPS periodicals

  • Reading to others from biographies of MBE

  • Reading to others from the writings of MBE

  • Reading to others from the Bible

  • JSH Online, Order publications online, or visit your local Christian Science Reading Room

  • Sing, play, or read to others from hymns/solos

  • Bible study resources - Bible Hub, Bible Wise, Contexticon, Bible Roads

6. Helpful Logistics

  • Provide transportation (to church services, Reading Room, lectures, Sunday School, etc.)

  • Arrange for transportation

  • Running errands

  • Help with cleaning, organizing, and minor repairs

7. Technology (help with learning and troubleshooting)

8. Nourishment

  • Prepare a meal (We highly recommend that you confer with a trained and qualified Christian Science nurse before preparing meals for someone. Contact the Caring for Christian Scientists Call Center at (800) 930-3795.)

  • Deliver a meal

  • Arrange for meals

  • Help with groceries

9. Mobility Assistance

(We highly recommend that you confer with a trained and qualified Christian Science nurse before using mobility aids, personal lifting, and assisting methods for the first time if you haven’t had any previous training. Contact the Caring for Christian Scientists Call Center at (800) 930-3795.)

10. Youth and Family

11. Church Communities and their many ministries

“What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.” (S&H 4:3–5)

Categories

Good deeds: In some languages, the word “Good” (with a capital “G”) is a name for “God.” As used in this ministry, the word “good” (with a small “g”) stands for the many expressions of the one God, Good. The human and divine coincidence.

Inspirational Guiding Ideas

“It is sad that the phrase divine service has come so generally to mean public worship instead of daily deeds.”
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 40:28)

“For if the eagerness [to give] is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.” (AMP Bible, II Cor 8:12)