Opportunities and Resources

Right Thoughts and Good Deeds for your “Simple Needs” Ministry

1. Opportunities

Things we can do. What can we do in our ministry to support the simple needs of others?

1. Impersonal Prayer (Ways to pray when caring for others)

2. Christian Caring - Opportunities to Serve (What can we do?)

3. Correspondence Ministry (Encouragement - ways to keep in touch)

  • Simple notes and cards

  • Letter correspondence

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

4. CSPS Literature & Bible Study Ministry (Study aids and support)

  • 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 - Concord, Bible Hub, Bible Wise, Contexticon, Bible Roads, Biblos Foundation

5. Helpful Logistics (More things we can do)

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

  • Arrange for transportation

  • Running errands

  • Help with cleaning, organizing, and minor repairs

6. Technology (help with using online study resources)

  • Accessing websites (MBE Library, ChristianScience.com, Longyear, Bible study platforms, using Zoom, how to use search engines, etc.)

  • Computer, tablet, and smartphone assistance

  • Setting up device preferences or arranging for repairs

7. Nourishment (Ideas for helping with meals)

  • 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

8. Mobility Assistance (Help getting around)

Help with seating, walking, getting out of a car. (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.)

2. Resources

Things that others can do for us. What are others providing that can support our needs?

1. Awareness of the Many Resources for Christian Scientists (What are others doing for us?)

2. Awareness of Christian Science Nursing Resources

3. Housing for Christian Scientists

4. CSPS Literature & Bible Study Ministry (Study aids and support)

5. Nourishment (Ideas for helping with meals)

  • 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

6. Mobility Assistance (Help getting around)

Help with seating, walking, getting out of a car. (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.)

Inspirational & Guiding Ideas

“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)

“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)