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CHURCH ALIVE

Christian Science in the Democratic Republic of Congo: History in the Making

The author traveled to Africa to take part in several Youth Summits and discovered churches alive with promise.

BY ARIANA HERLINGER

From the March 2009 issue of The Christian Science Journal

THERE I WAS, sitting on a stage in a movie theatre filled with over 600 Christian Scientists. It was two years ago, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and I had come there as part of a Mother Church delegation visiting churches and college organizations.