Local Committee Member Area

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Thank You for Being a Part of Our Team!

We appreciate the love, prayer, and willingness you bring to helping your fellow Christian Scientists.

You may have questions about how to do this work in an organized and inspired manner. We have many tools to help guide you and keep everyone on the same page. If you have questions about grant-making activities or about managing your Local Committee, reach out to: volunteer@principlefoundation.org or 816-759-5457.

Tools and Resources

Below are tools to help you: samples, templates, processes, and other details you may find useful. Click on a document to download a pdf.

Managing Your Local Committee

Outreach and Events

Your Committee’s Documents

This section provides additional tools to help manage your Local Committee. This password-protected area supplies you with:

TPF policies and procedures
Guidance on best practices for running the committee efficiently
A portal where Officers can share important documents with the national office

GRATITUDE POSTS

Why I love being on a Local Committee

This is the highest paying job I’ve ever had, even though I don’t make any money! Whenever we get a case I think, “Good, I get to see where this applies to my own experience right now.”

I come away from each committee meeting bursting with a renewed desire to pray for my fellow man, and to be more aware of the needs in my church and community.

What I love about being on a local committee is being able to provide fellow Christian Scientists with practical assistance.

I'm learning what benevolence means by applying this Manual By-Law to the work: "God requires wisdom, economy, and brotherly love to characterize all the proceedings of the members of [our local committee's grant team]!

We see each requester as desiring to work out their need from a spiritual perspective, always acknowledging the ever-present goodness and provision of divine Love. Committee members listen to discern the real need and prayerfully address the claim in their own thought.

My experience on a LC has led to my spiritual growth by affording me opportunities to apply the healing truth to impositions that have come to my thought. All are reciprocally blessed by engaging in this work.

Benevolence is always present, and wise, and good, but many times it turns out to be expressed quite differently from what one may originally expected it to be.

Serving on a local committee puts one onto the fast lane of spiritual growth filled with gratitude. It is patterned as that of the "pattern of the mount" — principled, inspiring, healing, and blessed!

LC work has taught me that benevolence must involve growing spiritually, and with Christly love that uplifts and inspires both the giver and receiver.

What I most love about volunteering for TPF is the opportunity to help fellow Christian Scientists on their path to understanding the true source of supply.

Being a local committee member has taught me that the need is never money, although money may help get a person through a rough spot while they figure out that the need isn’t money.

The force of our metaphysical work is felt by more than just the requestor. We've seen neighborhoods stepping in to help the requestor where the needs were many and overwhelming, with every need met; where committee members were hours away by car, but the benevolence was there where needed.

What I love about the work is that it's the “practice” even though we might not officially be listed in the Journal; we are “in the practice” and we experience the results.

What I love about working with a Local Committee is sharing powerful statements of Truth and Love as we prayerfully work through each case.

Being on a Local Committee supports the requester to find their already available abundance. In fact, the requester is validating their worth by asking for help.

This work has taught me how to look at our requestors more spiritually — not with pity, but with expectancy of lifting up our fellow man. In the story of Noah and the Ark, the ark was kept up, up, up, as the waters were flooding more. When we seem to be flooded with troubles, we’re actually being lifted above life's challenges.