Youth Committee planned successful lecture

In April 2008 a youth committee formed from Christian Science Sunday School students in Buenos Aires Argentina organized a lecture, Demostra el poder del Amor. It was held in a church in Ciudadela, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and was sponsored by Second Church Buenos Aires, Third Church Buenos Aires, and First Church, Ciudadela. The church seats about 80 people. Almost 175 attended, filling the church, foyer and anterooms!

The youth had regular meetings to design and produce flyers, invitations, a postcard invitation and banners. The designs were completely fresh and innovative. They put banners and flyers at the church where the lecture was held, also at various churches around Buenos Aires.

People from the community came. The youth also helped organize 2 buses of people coming from different locations in BA. One was a full size bus. The other was a smaller combi. This enabled people to attend since the church is in a suburb at least ½ hour from the center city.

The church was completely packed. Every seat was taken before the choir started. They filled the foyer with seats and arranged for a closed circuit TV for those in the foyer. They put kids chairs from the Sunday School in the aisle entrance in the foyer and those seats filled as well with adults. About 18 teens sat on the floor beside the improvised stage area, filling all open floor space. People were standing along the back walls. People were standing in the foyer, in the courtyard and a back anteroom. The sound was very good via a wireless mike.

The kids had a small adult choir sing 3 songs before the lecture, 2 were hymns and the 3rd was a modern rendition of a song, Ezekiel Rocks. It was spectacular. The kids made cakes and cookies for after the lecture.

Many of the parents said that this was the first lecture their kids had attended. There were kids of all ages. Some brought their girl/boyfriends. The kids did the ushering and shoehorning of people into the church. They arranged the stage area and then rearranged it at the last minute to remove all the plants and decoration so that more people could sit on the floor.

The youth approached everything collectively and through prayer. It was clear that the entire activity was planned with confidence in good, grace, harmonious working together, prayer for guidance, inspiration, spontaneity and flexibility.

This is the first time the youth have gotten together to do a joint lecture. It was such a success that they were immediately encouraged to plan other church activities. It will be exciting to see where God leads them.

-Elise Moore