Fresh fire: our journey into Indonesia
On from India to Indonesia. After leaving our extraordinary friends in India, we turned our sights to the next privilege of our trip: joining the team of young people organizing the Indonesian Spiritual Activist Summit. The idea for this event was born more than a year before after a group of young people from Indonesia banded together and made the journey (and substantial commitment) to attend the Australian Summit. This is no ordinary group of young adults. Their love for Christian Science, their community, and each other, has created a special bond among them and sparked a fresh fire in the whole community for how the Christ and Christian Science can bless everyone. Including the vast majority of this country practicing a variety of different faiths. (more…)

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Adedeh Malachi – Christian Science Sentinel, June 26, 2006
Just last night I finished writing a thirty-page paper on Islam and how it’s lived in Diego Suarez. Besides the plethora of ‘Diego-Suarez’s,’ ‘Qur’ans’ and ‘Muslims,’ the next most common words were ‘harmony’ and ‘peace.’ This project’s theme was overwhelmingly about harmony. My last three weeks were spent taking notes on harmony. Harmony, harmony, everything was about harmony. “And there has never been any conflicts between your mixed religious student population?” No, never. “Why is it so peaceful here between Muslims, Christians, and traditional religion believers?” People looked at me like I was crazy. One guy’s answer was a correction of my question: “Peace is not constructed. It’s automatic. It will continue until the end of the world.”