JAN KEELER VINCENT, CSB
About Me
How I came across this healing practice
AND HOW IT HAS BLESSED MY LIFE
When I was in high school, our family moved to a tiny West Texas town and it was there that I met a family who were Christian Scientists. I began to observe that they approached life and its challenges differently than anyone I’d ever met. There was a kind of love expressed in their home that was new to me. I also saw several physical healings take place, including a severe laceration from a water-skiing accident that was healed within a week.
What did they know about God’s love and power that I didn’t? They spoke of God as “infinite Mind.” What did that mean? So began my Christian Science journey.
While in college, my dad was healed of a clinically-diagnosed brain tumor after we called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with our family. This healing changed the course of my life.
Though I finished my master’s degree in Speech Communication, and taught classes at Emerson College and Suffolk University in Boston, I became increasingly driven to understand how to heal others: something that Jesus expected of his followers. I wanted to help others like my dad had been helped.
Being a Christian Science practitioner would eventually become my life’s work. In 1984, I advertised in the Christian Science Journal and in 2013, I became a teacher of Christian Science. As an author, I have enjoyed writing articles for our Christian Science periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor. Click here to read articles and interviews I have had published.
I live in Austin, Texas with my husband, Steve. Our world is kept wide by our foster daughter who lives in Minsk, Belarus and our daughter’s young family who lives in the Midwest.