Director of Christian Science Nursing — Rozanne Zwick Fern Lodge is pleased to announce that Rozanne Zwick has accepted the position of Director of Christian Science Nursing at Fern Lodge. Rozanne has been listed in The Christian Science Journal since 1990. Her broad range of Christian Science nursing experience has embraced nursing instruction and camp nursing, as well as … Read More
Bringing Education into Focus
Sharon Strong — Director of Christian Science Nursing Education For more than twelve years Sharon Strong served Fern Lodge as Director of Christian Science Nursing. During that time, her vision and her work duties included maintaining the high standard of Christian Science nursing for all patients at the facility, cherishing the patients (including their families, friends, and Christian Science … Read More
Message from Administrator (August 2011)
The new Fern Lodge entrance building project is nearing completion, and our fall Focus will have photos. This issue features a report from the Fern Lodge annual meeting last spring, including the complete text of the inspiring talk, “Living Eternal Life,” by Susan Breuer, C.S. Inside you will hear from two dedicated volunteer readers and also from a Principia College … Read More
The Healing Ministry of Christian Science Nursing at Fern Lodge
from Sharon Strong, Director of Christian Science Nursing When you arrive at Fern Lodge, you feel a sense of peace that characterizes the healing activity of the Christ. This peaceful feeling is the result of the diligent work of the Fern Lodge staff. Each staff member strives to contribute to our healing ministry. In the We Knew Mary Baker Eddy … Read More
Thoughts from Volunteers
We love our Volunteers! — meet two of our readers We are so grateful to have a group of great volunteers this year, and we are especially grateful to all who help us with our Church services. Their dedication and their heart and soul offerings bring so much meaning to the healing atmosphere. It’s something the guests comment on quite … Read More
Remarks from our Summer Intern: Tony
Meet Tony, a summer intern from Principia College My name is Anthony Ackah-Nyanzu. I come from Ghana, and I now live in Elsah, Illinois, attending Principia College. I will be starting my junior year this coming fall with a double major in Computer Science and Economics. It was the Spring quarter, and as usual I had to decide where I … Read More
Seven Days of Creation Destroy Mortality
[:en]By Brian Stock Reading the Bible literally, we might consider the first chapter of Genesis to be a miraculous tale of the creation of the universe in seven days by a distant tribal deity. Yet Mary Baker Eddy’s writings shed a great deal of light on how to approach this first chapter in the Bible. She asks early in her … Read More
Construction News
THIS POSTING WILL BE UPDATED AS THE PROJECT CONTINUES. The drawing on the above shows the architect’s rendition of the new Fern Lodge entrance. Through the extended periods of heavy rain, we have kept this drawing close at hand to remind us of the goal we are working toward. The other two photos below show the present state of the … Read More
“Living Eternal Life” —our annual meeting topic
We asked guests at Fern Lodge if they would like to share ideas about “Living Eternal Life.” They replied: Eternal Life • …is our true consciousness. • …is living in the grace of God’s consciousness. • …is infinite good appearing in one’s life and as one’s life because of our focus on God’s ever-present good as the only reality. • … Read More
A perspective on “Living Eternal Life”
By Brian Stock This year’s Fern Lodge annual meeting will consider the topic, “Living Eternal Life.” We invite our readers to prayerfully consider this idea with us. At the conclusion of the Passover meal, Jesus lifted up his eyes in prayer towards heaven and said, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and … Read More