Spiritual Summit:
Healing Solutions
to Life’s Challenges
May 24, 2025 1pm – 4pm PDT
@ the Christian Science Church
2081 Lake Tahoe Blvd South Lake Tahoe CA 96150
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Talks that Inspire 2025
Life from a spiritual perspective
Our goal in offering these summits to the community is to see life from a spiritual perspective, which can bring healing to physical, mental and relationship issues. In these talks, listeners are challenged to question the inevitability of mental and physical disease, age, and decline.
Through a deeper understanding of God, all can realize innate freedom and health. The speakers, both members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will present ideas based on the Bible and the teachings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. As we open thought to infinite possibilities, we find solutions to life’s problems.
Our Continued Gift to The Community
Inspired points of view that lead to more peace, health, and happiness in life. Donations to our Lecture Fund are always welcomed and can be sent to the church at:
2081 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Attention:
Treasurer and marked “Lecture Fund”.
Meet our 2025 Speakers
Alexandre Fischer CS
Gan, France
Practicing law in France and the United States for several years informed Alexandre’s
practice of Christian Science. The law was not just his job, he says, it was his
passion. To Alexandre, being a good lawyer meant exercising the ability to
think precisely and feeling a desire to help others get out of trouble.
During his years as a lawyer, his interest in Christian Science grew. At first,
he was impressed by its remarkable healings and resolutions, but as he dug
deeper, he found a profound spirituality. He used to believe that religion and
spirituality meant accepting a system of beliefs and letting go of discernment
and critical thinking. But the more he studied and practiced this spirituality,
the more he found that one’s relationship with God requires critical thinking
to understand spiritual concepts. These concepts can in turn be applied to
one’s life to bring healing.
Gradually, he gave up his law practice to become a full-time Christian
Science practitioner. Alexandre still works to help others “get out of trouble,”
that is, to overcome a sense of limitation and to find freedom.
Alexandre discovered that Christian Science is not just about feeling better or
fixing problems. It’s about being willing to challenge one’s world view as
entirely molecule-based and soulless, to be open to see the world as
spiritually-based, and experience how this change in perspective brings inner
peace and healing. Christian Science helps us understand our relationship
with God, infinite good, more clearly. Its teachings help us see Christ Jesus’
message in a non-dogmatic way, bringing healing, harmony and freedom to
our life.
Through healing and lecturing, Alexandre works to enable others to find this
same freedom.
Patty Cohan Woodard, CS
Dallas, TX
Lake Tahoe. Patty discovered Christian Science as an adolescent and
soon thereafter experienced the complete healing of a broken arm through
Christian Science treatment, to the amazement of her mother, a registered
nurse.After working in New York City in the fashion business, Patty realized
she wanted to help children learn how to learn. So she returned to school
and earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching. This desire to help others and
her love of Christian Science impelled her to set time aside to pray for
others. While a mother of two children, she became a full-time Christian
Science practitioner, and has pursued a lifelong career of learning about
God, sharing Truth, and witnessing God’s love for mankind.Patty has lived
in six states in the U.S. and twice in São Paulo, Brazil, where she became
fluent in Portuguese. Each new culture and environment has taught her
more about God, universal Love, and how God’s goodness is reflected by
all people. These new views have opened up wonderful opportunities to
interact with people from a wide variety of cultural and economic
backgrounds, faiths, and age groups. In Brazil, Patty helped start up an
award-winning social program that taught mothers living in a favela (slum)
how to make beautiful handmade quilts for resale, the income from which
put shoes on their childrens’ feet and gave these women a new sense of
self-worth.Underlying all of her experiences is the desire to bring healing to
mankind, to show each individual their God-given freedom, their real
heritage, their right to happiness and health, and their inherent ability to feel God’s love.Today, Patty resides in Dallas, Texas, where she nurtures her
healing practice as well as an active in prison ministry. While serving on the
Board of Lectureship, she has given lectures at food pantries, museums,
libraries, community centers, churches, as well as at local, state, and
federal prisons.
Featuring Music By
Andrew Brewis
Musician, London, England
We are pleased to welcome back Andrew for our 2025 Spiritual
Summit. He shared that becoming a writer and performer of
hymns and inspirational Christian music is something that Andrew
says really “found me”, and now it’s part of who he is. The more
he writes, the more he discovers how music can spiritually prod
and poke us: stirring, awakening and ultimately healing. It brings
blessings every day, and he loves few things more than being
able to share these melodies, harmonies and healing messages
with anyone who’ll listen. Eight of his compositions have been
published in the new Christian Science Hymnal used in churches
all over the world. Andrew’s assessment of this achievement is
that “it is as exciting as it is humbling”. (AndrewDBrewis.com)
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