Major facelift starts for Christian Science Reading Room

Published 11:10 am Friday, June 26, 2015

The Christian Science Reading Room on Winslow Way, owned and operated by the members of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bainbridge Island, has been temporarily relocated to the Sunday school building while the reading room space is under construction.

The Reading Room opened in 1956 and has had minor updates since. The current scope of work includes a new roof, energy-efficient heating, air conditioning, electrical systems, windows and doors.

It is estimated that construction will take about three months.

The Reading Room’s temporary location in the Sunday school is open to everyone and the hours are from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and after Sunday and Wednesday services in the church foyer.

The Christian Science Reading Room is a quiet, welcoming space for anyone to pray for healing solutions to problems of all kinds. It’s also a bookstore and library, stocked with the Bible and books on the Bible, including “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” the seminal work by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.

The Reading Room also carries music and inspirational CDs, Bible stories for children; weekly, monthly and quarterly Christian Science periodicals; and The Christian Science Monitor, an award-winning news magazine. Church members volunteer to staff the Reading Room.

The Reading Room— next to Town & Country Market — is known for its inspiring window displays, created monthly by church members.

Recently, when volunteers were moving boxes and preparing for construction, a woman and her daughter stopped by and said, “We hope you aren’t going away — we love your windows!”

While the space is under construction, the community can find inspiring messages posted on facebook.com/christiansciencebainbridgeisland.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bainbridge Island, located at High School Road and Madison Avenue, holds Sunday services and Sunday school at 11 a.m. and Wednesday testimony meetings at 7:30 p.m. Visitors are always welcome.

For more information, visit csbainbridge.org, or call the church office at 206-842-5205.