News & Events
21 Summer Internships Available at The Mother Church, Apply by February 15
TMC Youth is now accepting applications for 21 summer internships available in many exciting career areas: publishing, finance, legislation, marketing, media, international planning, archival research, and more. The internships begin May 21 and run through August 10. Interns spend three-quarters of their time working for a specific church department, and one-quarter of their time helping TMC Youth. […]
ABF Students in Africa Talk About Their Faith
ABF students in Africa speak from the heart about their faith. Love for Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, truly reaches around the world! (Filmed on location in Kenya and Tanzania in 2011.)
Hear Gratitude from our Students in Africa
You’ll smile inside and out when you hear these humble expressions of gratitude from our students in Africa! (Filmed in Tanzania and Kenya during 2011.) Feel free to leave a reply or share your own gratitude!
Africa Team Comes Together in Sacramento for First Time
In November 2011, our regional program managers for East, West, and Central Africa, Lamech Katamba and Huguette Diakabana, were able to spend several weeks working at ABF headquarters along with the Sacramento half of their team: CEO Alan Bashor, International Programs Manager Lonnie Best-Jarvis and Office Administrator Jennifer Day. “We all talk and email regularly, and […]
A Thanksgiving Message to our Friends
Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, acknowledged Thanksgiving as a special international occasion for our church. I have always thought of this season as a particularly valuable time, weeks before Christmas and the New Year, to be grateful for the goodness I’ve seen expressed. As CEO of The Albert Baker Fund (ABF), I am particularly grateful for the generosity and selflessness […]
Five Stories from Albert Baker Fund Students: Passing the Blessings Forward.
Passing the blessings forward: “I realize that when you’re working through your own challenges, you’re also poised to help others” — Albert Baker Fund student
Obama Announces New Options to Relieve Student Loan Debt
According to a fact sheet released by The White House on October 25, President Barack Obama is launching a new plan to lower the cost of paying back federal student loans for millions of borrowers. Yahoo! News reports, ” The plan, to be implemented by executive authority alone, allows some 1.6 million students to cap their loan payments […]
Invitation to Join our Discussion
Many in the Christian Science Field know The Albert Baker Fund as the organization that has, since 1964, loaned money to Christian Scientists pursuing higher education. This continues to be our core mission. However, today there is more we are doing to support the growth of Christian Scientists as you see from the poster we recently […]
A desire to learn about true healing
“I had been sitting on the sidelines with Christian Science for many years. Then one day I found myself embroiled in a conflict with the hospital where I worked as an emergency room nurse. I thought, maybe it’s time to look into this Science…”
Trusting Each Step of the Way
“If you had told me that I could lose my business, sell my home, pay off my debts, and yet be able to go back to school for three years, with my wife and five kids, to start and finish a chemistry degree, I would never have thought it possible. And yet it is!”
