Name: Healing with joy: discovering the power of Love
Start: 2025-10-23T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-23T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Oak Brook Public Library

Healing with joy: discovering the power of Love

Healing in Christian Science is joyful— it’s the natural result of understanding God as divine Life and Love. Ann Kneeland, a Christian Science practitioner and lecturer, shares real-life examples of spiritual healing. These examples show how fear, illness, and polarization dissolve as we discover God’s pure and spiritual creation. We can all experience joy and freedom through a deeper trust in God's presence and power.
Growing up in a family that loved and practiced Christian Science, Ann saw how God heals sickness and relationship problems, meets financial needs, solves business issues, and answers life’s questions. In the Christian Science Sunday School, Ann learned to rely upon the healing ideas in the Bible, as explained in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. During her school years, the ideas in these books healed Ann of headaches, sickness, a wart, a rash, sports injuries, and academic anxieties.
After college, Ann took Primary Class instruction to deepen her understanding of God and to learn to heal more systematically. This understanding guided her in a business career and brought healing solutions to difficult issues. When she and her husband began a family, Christian Science was a daily help in navigating parenthood, and in caring for their two children’s health and growth. Friends asked for prayerful treatment and were healed. She began advertising her healing practice in the Christian Science Journal in 2009.
Ann resides in the San Francisco Bay area of California. In her healing practice, she discovers more about God and our loving relationship to God, and simultaneously others are healed, and lives are transformed. Ann has been a Chaplain in the Marin County Jail, and has shared Christian Science in commercial radio interviews and with teen and interfaith groups. She loves how sharing Christian Science demands listening to God while speaking from the heart.