I have been active professionally for 6 years. During that time I decided to go back to university to continue my studies. I am an active member of a Christian Science church in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where I have served as Clerk/Treasurer for the past 3 years. For many years the Cameroon government had recruited young people like me, but without a signed contract! As the years went by many of them began to worry about their future. I did not want to get caught up in this anxiety, however legitimate it seemed, because I knew that God goes before us no matter the situation! (more…)

This article is from the December 2008 Christian Science Journal.

The Summer of  2004 I strutted around Washington, DC, like a queen. In actuality, I was an intern in a government agency, but I felt like I was sitting on top of the world. I had just graduated from college with a degree in journalism and had landed a prestigious internship through my mentor. Everything was going according to plan.

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Melanie – Christian Science Sentinel, April 6, 2009

After graduating from college, I purchased a one-way ticket to Washington, DC. I’d studied political science and was interested in exploring career opportunities in the nation’s capital.

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by Rebekah Charlston

Life is so much more harmonious when we realize that God is truly “the universal cause and only creator”—as Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures—“and there is no other self existence” (331:20.) Realizing this for myself has taken all of the pressure off of decision-making. I had a beautiful experience with this concept of trust just recently when making summer plans.
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A story of a young artist named Westen as told by CARLY ROSE JACKSON – The Christian Science Journal, Jan. 2009

WESTEN MUNTAIN NEVER ASPIRED to become an artist.

“Smart people,” she jokes, “take one look at a career in the visual arts and run the other way!”

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by Jessica Ledbetter

I woke up on a Tuesday in January and felt old. It was my twenty-third birthday, and I’d been dreading it for weeks. No longer was I a teenager, testing out the waters of adulthood. No longer was I a college student, still new to the real world. I was a full-fledged adult, with bills and responsibilities like everyone else. But instead of being content with where I was and where my life was going, I felt like I was lagging behind, that I wasn’t up to scratch.

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Meet Becky Holmes, a student at the University of Texas, and Katie Crecelius who attends Middlebury College. They worked together in the Committee on Publication department. Watch this video as it takes you through a day in the life of these two TMC Youth interns.

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Here’s Catherine Dixon, a student at Principia College. This past summer she worked in the research department of the Mary Baker Eddy Library.

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Meet Holly Henneberger, a student at Texas A&M University. She worked in the Sunday School and Local Activities department this summer, and here’s her story.

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by Kemi Awosile

Hi, I am Kemi Awosile. For the next few months, I will be interning here at The Mother Church working on Graphic Designs for the Clerk’s Office. I will also be helping with podcast productions for TMC Youth. I graduated from Principia College with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Studio Art and French.

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