RAYMOND CHARLES BARKER received his ministerial training at the Unity School of Christianity in Lee's Summit, Missouri, where he was also ordained in 1940. He later became affiliated with Religious Science at the request of Dr. Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, and eventually opened the first Church of Religious Science in New York City in 1946. He served as President of the International New Thought Alliance from 1943 to 1946 and later served as President of Religious Science International from 1954 to 1957, and again from 1959 to 1962.