On Saturday, February 10, a sunny winter day in New Haven, Connecticut, the Christian Science Organization at Yale University hosted an intimate and thought-provoking regional "Global Awareness" conference for members of Christian Science Organizations (CSOs) at college and university campuses from New England. The Journal asked Yale student Inge Schmidt, an organizer of the conference and the CSO contact for the university, to share how the conference began and the events of the day.
Last September, I sat with two of my fellow members of the Christian Science Organization at Yale. We had met in the Reading Room of our local Christian Science branch church where we hold our weekly meetings, and I tossed out an idea: "Wouldn't it be cool if we did some sort of regional CSO meeting? Bring everyone together and spend the day praying about a topic that's important not only to campuses but to the whole world?"
We realized that such a conference could lay the groundwork for the upcoming lecture we had planned for the New Haven campus and community titled "ReWrite the News: Change Your Thought to Change Your World." We agreed that we could spend a day—the regional CSO conference itself—really praying about an important world issue, and then the lecture would be a tangible way we could give our prayers to the community.
