Hazel Corrin got the message. It proved to be a message that, in its own modest way, was like the calling that the Apostle Paul heard to go to Macedonia and share the good news of Christianity.
Life in Cape Town, South Africa, was happy enough for Mrs. Corrin a few years ago. She's an active retiree. But one day she was on holiday in Knysna, about a five-hour drive up the coast toward Durban, when an almost-audible thought came to her: I should be living here. When Hazel told one of her sons about the intuition, he suggested she see a housing agent in the area. She did, and promptly moved house.
What seemed missing in Knysna was a church, and connections with other spiritual seekers. Corrin was still a member of Second Church of Christ, Scientis, in Cape Town, and she studied the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly. That study became her connection with Church members around the world. But she knew of other Christian Scientists who lived in towns up to an hour's drive away, and who also had no church nearby. A few telephone calls and a newspaper advertisement later, as many as 12 people were gathering at Corrin's home for Sunday services.
