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The youngsters are the continuity link of the Work of Salvation of Humanity. Youngsters today, leaders of tomorrow! The World Messianic Church of Angola counts on twelve thousand youngsters, including leaders, assistants, auxiliaries, full members and members, there are twelve thousand active young people in the Earth Group., Amongst them there are those who already awakened to follow the sacerdotal life (applicants and seminarists). We have an ongoing training project of youngsters, grouped into “The Earth Group” and the “Blue Planet”. They are socially and spiritually educated with high humanitarian values such as loving their peers, respecting parents, families, hierarchical superiors and on the spirit of mutual help based in the small actions of altruistic love, that motivate them to participate, voluntarily, in the missionary work and in the community work.
Bengueleses participated in the Youth Service on May A group of young full members from the Johrei Center of Lobito, Benguela province, headed by its adjunct leader, Graciano Moco, visited the divisions of the Central Headquarters of Africa, where they were given explanations from Minister António Bento Carlos about the meaning and operation of each area. The young actors of the theatrical group Okupongoloka, from Benguela, who participated in the Youth Service, on May, have performeda very touchin play called “The Kimbanda”. The participants consider it as a lesson, from which one can learn that “whoever follows the path of faith and does not purify the roots of the past, ends up tbeing fooled around lives forever in the tortuous hands of conflicts”.
From the communications depar tment, the youngsters received explanations about the technical resources of the site e www.johreiafrica.com and how they are edited, the Johrei News, the books containing the teachings of Meishu-Sama and the booklet with the directrix of the World Messianic Church. Delighted by what they saw and experienced, these missionaries promised to be active in the process of interaction between young members to participate in the 1st National Youth Conference to be held this year at the Central Headquarters of Africa, in Luanda, bringingg along with them many youngsters from Benguela and surroundings.
Blue Planet educates children on the practice of Beauty The Blue Planet team teaches, every Sunday, at the Central Headquarters of Africa, several children and teenagers on the practice of Beauty. Besides the classes about flowers, which have been given by missionary Alexandra de Jesus Coimbra Pimenta, with the support of the Youth Co-ordination, Johrei and Science and the Ikebana Sanguetsu Departments, lectures about the basic principles of health, love for thy neighbor, respect for parents and adults, hygiene, cleanliness and other indispensable values to the intellectual, cultural and spiritual formation of the new age person.
Messianic Youngsters participate in a cleaning up activity in Lobito Full Members, members and sympathizers of our Church in Lobito, Benguela Province, in Angola, in a total of 31 people, mostly young, joined the cleanup campaign in the neighborhood of Cabaia. The activity consisted of removing and destroying a huge amount of garbage deposited in a spot near the residential area, which was a real threat to public health, mostly to children who innocently insist on playing there. In this campaign, people attending the Johrei Center of Lobito and the Johrei Branches of Cabaia, Canata and Bela Vista also participated. Giving sequence to the campaign of expansion of Beauty in that area, there was a “March” of Johrei and distribution of “Flowers of Light”. We must emphasize that it will be built the Johrei Center of Cabaia in that same area.
Visitating sick people at the Central Hospital of Lobito In parallel with the cleaning campaign, fourteen full members and members visited sick people admitted to the Central Hospital of Lobito. Several Flowers of Light were distributed and Johrei was given to patients and to some of their families who were visiting the hospital.
Johvem Conference 2010 São Paulo, Brazil Youngsters from Angola participated in the Johvem Conference 2010, realized in São Paulo, Brazil, last March, 6th. (For more information, log on www.johvem.com.br)
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