WHEN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BEGINS TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE, you can't help but find ways to let the whole world know about its healing ideas. It's like having an ocean full of natural resources that you simply can't claim just for yourself. You know the ideas are universal and that everyone deserves to know about them. And one place to start proclaiming this truth is right in your own backyard—to meet the spiritual and practical needs of your own community. That's what French-speaking Marie Louise "Malou" Kazadi Mwamba of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, recently told the Journal.
Speaking through an interpreter, Malou said that she and other women in her community want so much for others to experience the benefits of Christian Science that they've started their own women's group in Kinshasa.
The group, which began working together in 2003, comprises some 60 women, mostly members from local Christian Science branch churches. Malou told the Journal that women in the DRC experience more difficulties than men because women view themselves as inferior to and dependent on men. She said that the main objective of the women's group is to share the universal ideas of Christian Science so women in Kinshasa can overcome these beliefs—so they can see their potential as children of God. So they can grow spiritually, overcome illiteracy and poverty, and develop satisfying and useful skills.
