History

Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living

Dick Gregory was invited to attend a meeting promoting the Science of Mind in 1945. He moved to Santa Fe in the 1950’s. In 1960, he started distributing Science of Mind magazines in the Santa Fe area. He reached a distribution level of 100 per month. Dr. Robert Stevens was encouraged to come to Santa Fe and start a study group. The group, of about 16 members, had meetings at the First National Bank discussing the books in 1965. It reached church status in 1967.

Subsequent ministers served the group. These included Rev. Martha Stewart, Rev. Ken Aiber, Dr. Corky Corlis, and Rev. Melony Best. The group met in different locales until 1973 when they started meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall. The group purchased a mobile home near Siringo road that housed 50 people. When it outgrew that space, they moved the services to the Women’s Club.

Rev. Carol Bell Night was not an official Religious Science minister at the time of her application. She served the group for several years and became very popular in town. At that time the group raised enough funds to purchase land for a building on Richards Road.

Rev. Frederick Patchen took over as minister for one year, but the group lost membership during his tenure. Rev. Dick West followed. He had a most fundamentalist approach to his ministry, which had a detrimental effect on the group. Rev. Nancy Herrick was the minister when the group moved from the Women’s Club to the current domicile in Camino de los Marquez.

The current building was divided into a church and a Laundromat. The group initially took over the part that had been occupied by a church, and it eventually expanded to the other side when the Laundromat was remodeled into its current office complex. Rev. Bernardo Monserrat took the helm in 1990.

Since then, a new playground has been built, the front was landscaped and the inside was remodeled. It has outreach programs into prisons and foreign countries.

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