ABF’s director of programs, Marilyn Jones, is in Seattle today to share how The Albert Baker Fund can assist Christian Scientists with their educational goals. Marilyn will give an informal talk tonight, February 19, after the testimony meeting at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle, which is located at 900 Thomas St. in South Lake Union. If you’re […]

This simple question was the very genesis of The Albert Baker Fund (ABF) in 1964. We recently talked to Joyce Heard Hawes, C.S., who vividly recalls how The Albert Baker Fund began. “During the years my late husband, Joseph Heard, was head of the College Org Division of The Mother Church, his office received many requests for […]

We love to hear about the impact that ABF alums are having around the world.  In Kampala, Uganda, Dixon Ampumuza has put his passion for education to good use in his position as Advocacy Manager for Media in Education at the country’s leading daily newspaper, New Vision. Dixon and his team recently received a silver […]

Building on our solid track record of helping Christian Scientists in the US and Canada, The Albert Baker Fund has successfully expanded our outreach to help fund the education of Christian Scientists in ten African countries since 2004.

When ABF’s Director of Programs, Marilyn Jones, set off on a six-country trip to the UK and Africa in April, she says she knew it would be an adventure—but she came home with so much more than pictures and memories.

ABF students in Africa speak from the heart about their faith. Love for Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, truly reaches around the world!  (Filmed on location in Kenya and Tanzania in 2011.)

In November 2011, our regional program managers for East, West, and Central Africa, Lamech Katamba and Huguette Diakabana, were able to spend several weeks working at ABF headquarters along with the Sacramento half of their team: CEO Alan Bashor, International Programs Manager Lonnie Best-Jarvis and Office Administrator Jennifer Day. “We all talk and email regularly, […]

Passing the blessings forward: “I realize that when you’re working through your own challenges, you’re also poised to help others” — Albert Baker Fund student

“I had been sitting on the sidelines with Christian Science for many years. Then one day I found myself embroiled in a conflict with the hospital where I worked as an emergency room nurse. I thought, maybe it’s time to look into this Science…”

“If you had told me that I could lose my business, sell my home, pay off my debts, and yet be able to go back to school for three years, with my wife and five kids, to start and finish a chemistry degree, I would never have thought it possible. And yet it is!”