Last summer over two hundred young Christian Scientists visited the Christian Science Center in Boston. They came from Newfound and Owatonna camps in Maine, and from branch churches in various parts of the country where the young people and local members had worked together to raise the money needed for the trip.
Not many of the young people had visited Boston before. Several had never flown in an aircraft. They all had connections with Christian Science, but some of those links were primarily through their parents' commitment to church. Some of them hadn't even been sure that they wanted to come on the trip at all! But that soon changed, as our Features Editor Kim Shippey learned when he talked with several of them, with their chaperones, and with Church Center hosts.
How those young individuals were changed, and how quickly they learned from their experiences in the Boston area, is amply evident in even a few of their remarks:
