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CHURCH ALIVE

During the summer of '09, TMC Youth co-sponsored Youth Summits in Cameroon, the Democratic Rupublic of Congo, and Kenya, with local branch churches in those three African countries. The theme of the Congo summit, "Let Your Light Shine," reverberated not only in the Christian Science church in the city of Boma, where the second Summit was held, but at a nearby orphanage. Michele Tyler, her husband, John Tyler (who lectured at the Summit), and Pedro Manzenza were among a small group of Summit staffers who took a last-minute side trip to the orphanage the day after the Summit. The Journal has excerpted Michele's and Pedro's blogs on tmcyouth.com about their visit.

Christmas in August I

BY MICHÈLE TYLER

From the December 2009 issue of The Christian Science Journal

IT WAS A LONG TRIP from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Boma, down river toward the coast about 300 kilometers to the west. On the way, a group of us learned that an orphanage for children of "witches" existed near Boma.