February 8, 2026

Dear Association Family, 

As Association Day approaches, we are reminded of the importance of sharing our gratitude for the blessings we have received through the study and practice of Christian Science. How grateful we can be for having received class instruction from our teacher, and for the continual unfoldment of good we have seen in our own lives — the inevitable outcome of yielding to God and bearing witness to Truth.

The title of this year’s address by Deborah Packer is Our Mission is to Heal — ‘Relieving the Sufferings of Humanity.’ (See Retrospection and Introspection 30: 7–9.) We have already received a substantial preliminary assignment, and now we have the opportunity to share the fruitage that has come from our own work throughout the year. Please send in your testimonies for Association Day. Our contributions strengthen and bless the Association and everyone who contributes. Skip emphasized the importance of our participation in Association, and giving testimonies on Association Day is evidence of our commitment.

As we look forward with anticipation to what Mind unfolds, we realize that Association Day is really about coming together to receive what God is giving, demonstrating that we are of one Mind, and leaning on the sustaining Infinite. Our gratitude for lives restored is proof of the one Life, from whom all good flows. “Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth” (Science and Health, 505: 16–17).

 Our Association is “Founded on the Rock” of Christ, Truth.

We close with these words of counsel by Mrs. Eddy:

The best spiritual type of Christly method for uplifting human thought and imparting divine Truth, is stationary power, stillness, and strength; and when this spiritual ideal is made our own, it becomes the model for human action (Ret. 93: 13–16).

When error strives to be heard above Truth, let the “still small voice” produce God’s phenomena. Meet dispassionately the raging element of individual hate and counteract its most gigantic falsities (My. 249: 4–8).

Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, — is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal (Science and Health, 306: 25–29).

With much love,

Executive Committee
Jon Trotter, Chair
Luke Hatfield
Derek Nelson
Julia Osborne
Laurie Welch

Please send your fruitage and testimonies of healing as well as responses to the assignment to the Executive Committee, exec@phinneyassociation.org, as this is most important to the vitality, life, and growth of our Association. If you don’t use email, please send them to Phinney Association, P.O. Box 388, Westwood, MA 02090.

Please note that testimonies and responses to the assignment may be shared with other members — they may be quoted anonymously in the address or posted anonymously on the Phinney Association website. Responses may be edited for fit and clarity.