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Two older friends smile at each other in a row of chairs, with other people seated in the rows behind them.

A seat for you on
Bellwether Street.

Quiet meditation at 10:00, a Sunday Celebration with live music at 10:30, and coffee with your neighbors after.

612 Bellwether Street, Paducah

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Two older friends smile at each other in a row of chairs, with other people seated in the rows behind them.

Bring your questions. They are part of the practice.

Rev. Nora Whitlock smiling, with a hand-made quilt on the wall behind her.

Rev. Nora Whitlock

Senior Minister

A welcome from our senior minister

Paducah is a quilt city, and I think a spiritual community is made the same way: by hand, piece by piece, with nobody’s scrap left out. We teach the Science of Mind®, a New Thought philosophy that brings religion and science together, and you are free to test every word of it.

Come find me by the coffee after the Celebration. I would love to meet you.

Plan your first Sunday

Five ways in

Start wherever feels easiest. None of them asks you to join anything.

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Keeps the coffee on

Coming up this fall

Everything here is open to first-timers. Nothing needs a membership.

Classes this fallUpcoming classes

Choose a class to see the dates and save your seat.

Foundations of the Science of Mind and Spirit

October 13 to November 17

Tuesdays, 7:00 PM, six weeks

The class the rest build on. No experience needed.

Meditation for Beginners

October 15 to November 5

Thursdays, 6:30 PM, four weeks

Simple ways to sit quietly, learned together over four evenings.

  1. Foundations of the Science of Mind and Spirit

    Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, six modules

    The class the rest build on. Bring a notebook and your doubts; both get used.

  2. A Visioning evening

    Friday, October 23, 2026. 7:00 to 8:30 PM, the sanctuary

    A guided, mostly quiet practice of listening for what wants to come next. No experience needed.

  3. Community quilting afternoon

    Saturday, November 7, 2026. 1:00 to 4:00 PM, the fellowship room

    We piece a lap quilt for a neighbor who needs one. Bring a scrap of fabric that means something to you.

  4. Fall potluck

    Sunday, November 22, 2026. Noon, right after the Celebration

    Bring a dish if you like, or just bring yourself. There is always more than enough.

Your first Sunday, from the parking lot to the coffee

What actually happens, in the order it happens, so nothing surprises you.

A young woman and a boy walk across the grass toward a brick building under an autumn tree.
A young woman, a boy and an older couple walk beside a brick building on an autumn morning.

9:50 AMTen minutes early is plenty

Arriving and parking

Park in the lot behind the building, or on Bellwether Street out front. Both are free on Sundays.

A girl in a yellow raincoat smiles while a man beside her signs a sheet on a clipboard.
A woman smiles at a girl in a yellow raincoat while a man beside them bends to sign a sheet.

Wear what’s comfortableJeans are fine

The front door, and the children’s check-in

Come in through the front doors. If you have children with you, the check-in table is right there. Ages 4 to 11 go to the children’s program during the Celebration, and you collect them after. The front entrance is step-free, and there is an accessible restroom off the lobby.

An older man sits with his eyes closed.
Adults of different ages sit side by side in chairs with their eyes closed.

10:30 AMAbout an hour, also livestreamed

Finding a seat

Sit anywhere you like. No one will ask you to stand, speak or introduce yourself. The 10:00 meditation is quiet and optional.

11:30 AMThe fellowship room

Coffee after

Stay for a cup, or slip out. Either is fine. If you stay, someone will probably ask how you found us.

Rows of people seen from behind face an empty wooden lectern below a bright pieced quilt on the wall.

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Every Scrap Belongs

Rev. Nora Whitlock

The pieces we would rather hide are part of the pattern too. On gratitude that starts with what is already in your hands, not with what seems to be missing.

See you Sunday at 10:30.

Meditation at 10:00. In person on Bellwether Street, or online.

612 Bellwether Street
Paducah, KY 42001

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