11111~111 New Series Vol . XXXVll No. 4 • Whole Series Vol. LXVI No. 11 • December 1976

3 Mission Memo 7 Ed itorials Reconciling Ministries 8 A Chilean's Passion for Peace Joyce Hill 10 A Patriarch's Prayer for " Love, Fraternity and Understanding" J. Richard But le r 12 Christmas Poems from Latin America 16 The Crisis in Ethnic Church Leadership Cha rley Lerrigo 20 New Life on a Haitian Island Photo Feature by John Goodwin Services to the Elderly 26 The Shepherds' Center Meets Human Needs Betty J. Beal I 29 Smiles in Paradise Auril Wood 31 Training Nurses at Canta, Liberia George M . Daniels 34 " Japan Doesn't Wear a Halo in Asia" Teruko Mi z utani interviews Dr. Noboru lwamura 36 Tallon Tindit, lban Christian Educator Ellen Clark 38 Experiment in Seminary Education 40 Books 42 Letters 43 The Moving Finger Writes COVER The Lee Family, Vietnamese refugees, celebrate their first Christmas at home in the U.S. Lawrence A. Larson Photograph (See page 42)

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December, 1976

Christian-Jewish Developments . Tension has diminished but could revive at any time in the case of Archbishop Valerian Trifa and his relationship to the Governing Board of the National Council of Churches. The Archbishop has been accused of being a war criminal in Rumania during World War II and Jewish groups have called for his re­ moval from the NCC Board. At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the r, ouncil, it was voted to ask the special committee of the Orthodox Church in America investigating the case to consider requesting the Archbishop "to refrain from execut­ ing his duties as a member of the Governing Board until the matter has been resolved hy the Hol y Synod and the civil judicial process. " So far, Trifa has not said whether he ould step aside. The NCC also appointed a small committee to investigate some process whereby the Council can deal with the question of whether it can reject or remove a member nominated by a constituent church . Reaction to this question ha s been mixed: the Reformed Church in America has supported such a change, saying that "we, who do not hesitate to address others with the moral claims of the gospel, should not remain silent when our fellow member churches are involved 11 while the Ecu­ menical and Interreligious Concerns Division, BGM, of the United Methodist Church has backed voluntary action, saying that "any change in the National Council of Churches 1 Constitution that would give it powers now residing solely in the autonomous member communions would be unacceptable. " Christians and Jews were also involved, this time in solidarity, in protesting the denial of admission to the Soviet Union of members of an interreligious delegation of fourteen American religious leaders. The delegation of eight Christians and six Jews was scheduled to leave in November for a study tour of Poland, the USSR, and Israel when word came that visas would not be granted to three rabbis. After protests, the sponsoring National Council of Churches and the American Jewish Committee were in­ formed that the trip to the Soviet Union would have to be cancelled. Among UM mem­ bers scheduled for the tour were EIC executive Robert Huston and Women 1 s Division vice-president Roberta Neumann.

Women in Ministry. The Women's Division of the United Methodist Church has awarded scholarships to 24 women to do theological study. Nearly half plan to become parish ministers. Of the 24, 72 percent are from ethnic minority groups and several are i n t heir 30s and 40s . Some 152 women applied for the scholarships, which pay a maximu m of $500. According to a survey made by the Office of Interpretation of the Board of Higher Education and Ministry, there 1 s been improvement in the environment for women ministers. Eighty-one women who graduated from United Methodist seminaries in 1975 and 1976 responded to a survey conducted by the Rev. Theresa Scherf. Virtually all • of the respondents who applied for local church appointments received them and got strong support from parishioners. The women's major difficulty appears to be nega­ t i ve attitudes among church leaders, specifically members of annual conference boards of ministry and district superintendents. Ms. Scherf said some respondents were as ked by boards of ministry: "Wouldn't you really rather be a minister's wife?" "Do you like to coo k?" and "How would you handle the advances of a male parishioner?"

Health and Welfare. Certification procedures for United Methodist affiliated health and welfare ministries have been substantially changed. "Affiliation" of an agency will be to some bona fide connectional unit of the denomination, no longer to the Health and Welfare Council. Criteria for certification of agencies have been re- . vised primarily to bring into sharper focus their aspects which are unique to church sponsorship . New president of the United Methodist Health and Welfare Certification Council is the Rev. John M. Fall, administrator of Fredericka Manor, a facility of the Pacific Homes Corporation in Chula Vista, Calif ... Louis B. Blair, consultant in hospital administration to the UM Health and Welfare Ministries division of the Board of Global Ministries, visited Nur Manzil Psychiatric Centre, a church-related hospital in India, recently. He found its patient care "the best of the psychiatric institutions in all of India" but warned of the effects of diminishing outside fi­ nancial support and low staff salaries.

Personalia. Newly-elected United Methodist Bishop Almeida Penicela of Mozambique was critically injured in mid-October in an ~utornobile accident enroute to his con­ secration service. He is hospitalized in Switzerland. Mrs. Penicela, their four children, and Mrs. Penicela's sister, who were also passengers in t~e automobile, are recovering from less serious injuries. Former Bishop Escrivao Zungreze has been recalled to active status as bishop of the Mozambique Church ... Lorini Tevi, principal of the Methodist Leadership Training Centre at Davuilevu, Fiji, has been appointed the new General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches ... Mary Jay New, stu­ dent at the Pacific School of Religion, will coordinate youth work for three Chinese United Methodist churches in northern California, with funding from the Human Rela­ tions Day Offering. Like Bishop Penicela and Mrs. Tevi, Ms. New is a Crusade Scholar . . .. Three Board of Global Ministries staff have resigned. Blaise Levai, literature director for the Education and Cultivation Division, has become the senior minister of the Reformed Church of Westwood, N.J . . . . James Thomas, executive secretary, United Methodist Committee on Relief, joins CODEL, a private development agency ... John W. Johannaber, executive secretary, Office of Missionary Personnel, becomes the • director of the Ethel Harpst Home for Children and Youth, a National Division project in Cedartown, Ga .... Retiring from the National Division of BOGM are Allen R. Regan and Julius S. Webb, field representatives for Finance and Field Services, and Florence E. Bell, assistant recording secretary . Abraham R. Carey and Michael Pszyk have joined the National Division as field representatives for congregational devel­ opment. New to the Women's Division staff are Annette Hutchins-Felder, executive secretary for Development Education, and Bernadette Sanders, secretary for Membership Concerns.

National Mission Briefs. The Nome Community Center in Alaska has been cited by a national coalition of private organizations working with the aged for its extended ministry to older persons confined to their homes. The United Methodist center con­ tinually surveys the Nome area to identify elderly sick persons; two dialect-speaking homemaker-health aides ma ke wee kly visits to ill natives in their homes . Senior citizens in the center's XYZ program ("extra years of zest") collect green vegetables and catch fish which are made available during the winter to older persons in their homes and in the extended care and acute care facilities at United Methodist Maynard McDougall Memorial Hospital . .. Why should the Church continue to maintain elementary and secondary mission schools? Because a lot of children with academ ic problems or from poor or troubled homes need them, argues Juanita Ivie, director of mission inter­ pretation for a new consortium of five United Methodist projects--Sager Brown School in Baldwin, La.; Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy in Camden S.C . ; Vashti School in Thomas­ ville, Ga.; the Sarah Murphy Home in Rockmart, Ga . , and Tampa Centers in Tampa, Fla. "The alternative to the United Methodist projects for some children is a penal in­ stitution," Ms. Ivie says . "Through individual attention, tutoring and religious instruction, the lives of many younq people have been turned around. At Boylan-Haven­ Mather, which by the way is celebrating its ninetieth anniversary in January, 85 percent of the students go on to higher education."

• Farmworkers. A fear-evoking media campaign by farm growers caused the resounding defeat of the Cesar Chavez-backed Proposition 14 on the California ballot, says Chris Hartmire of the National Farm Worker Ministry. Proposition 14 would have guaranteed farm workers the right to secret ballot unio n elections and prohibited changes in the state's year-old agricultural labor relations act without a popu l ar vote. The initiative was endorsed by the UM Board of Global Ministries annual meeting in Denver in October. California growers claimed access of union organizers to farmworkers violated their property rights. Their ads carried such messages as " .. . when strang­ ers are allowed to enter my property ... " "How would you feel if people were allowed to come on to your place or even your own backyard without permission?" Hartm ire cites a Marvin Field poll taken on September 25, two days before the growers' radio­ TV blitz, which showed Californians favored Proposition 14 by a 51 to 42 percent margin. On Nov . 2, 62 percent of the voters rejected it. Joel Martinez of the UM National Division staff called the vote a "disappointment but a tremendous education­ al effort." The United Farm Workers will continue organizing workers, servicing strong contracts, boycotting growers who do not bargain with the UFW after it has won elections, and prepare for grower efforts to weaken the existing agricultural labor law, Martinez said.

.. Chilean Political Prisoners. Joyce Hill and Nora Boots, staf f of the Latin America team of the UM World Division, rejoiced at Chile's release of 280 political pr i so n­ ers but cautioned that thousands are still being held by the military junta. The release, they noted, "was politically timed to coincide with changes in our own political scene and it also comes du r ing the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations which has condemned Chile for its continued violations of the rights of its people. " They called for the maintenance of pressures on the Chilean gover n­ ment and added they were concerned about restoration of human rights "anywhere in the world where basic freedoms are denied."

Haitian Refugees. Church World Service has allocated $20,000 to aid Haitian refu­ gees living in Miami, bringing to $300,000 the total spent to date for Haitian aid. Funds have been used to provide food, housing, legal aid and bail bonds while t he refugees await the outcome of litigation to determine whether they can receive pol it­ ical asylum in the ll.S. Church World Service supports the refugees ' claims that they are li kel y t o be imprisoned, tortured or even executed if they are returned to Hait i because t hey have opposed t he Duvalier regime. The U.S. government contends t hat t he refugees are see king an improved economic status in the U.S.

Council of Bishops. The bishops of the United Methodist Church have opposed the cl death penaly, supported majority rule in southern Africa, invited president-elect ly Jirrrny Carter to address them, and decided to have a consultation on divorce in par­ ID sonage families . The actions came during the November meeting of the Council in fo Philadelphia. On capital punishment, the bishops called on all members of the denom­ m ination to petition for clemency for all those facing the death penalty and said 5( that "any government undermines its moral authority when it presumes upon the prerog­ tr in 11 ti ative of God by taking human life response to criminal deeds. On southern p: Africa, t he bishops took an apparent slap at U.S. policy by saying that "the imposi­ b' tion of external 1 solutions' by non-African nations, 1 solL1tions 1 often designed to serve the economic, political and military purposes of the sponsoring nations, do 11 not serve the basic needs of the majority of the African people involved. 11 For its p April, 1977, meeting in Williamsburg, Va . , the Council set up the consultation on el e1 clergy divorce, a presentation on "the cause of minority churches" and invited Mr. tl Carter to speak. a\

0 British Methodists. The British Parliament has voted to give up its power to ap­ ti prove changes in doctrine by the British Methodist Conference. The Methodist Church ll Union Act of 1929, which brought together three branches of the British Wesleyan (( tradition, laid down the doctrinal basis of the then-new Methodist Church and spec­ 0 ified that it could only be changed by the permission of Parliament. The bill, p requested by votes in the British Conference , was opposed by some lay preachers who d did not want authority for doctrinal changes to be given to the church body. The h act also provides for a board of trustees to have control of all church properties. p p

SI Human Rights. The world faces a human rights crisis which the U.S. does not help d to ease when it blindly supports repressive foreign governments, according to Rep. tl Donald Fraser (D . -Minn . ). He spoke at the 35th anniversary dinner of Christianity! a Crisis magazine. Citations were presented at the dinner to five individuals "com­ i! t\ mitted to human rights". Those honored were a Chilean Methodist pastor now in exile, u a Jewish psychiatrist impri soned in the Soviet Union, the president of South Korea 1 s Church Women United, the vice-president of the United Farm Workers of America, and n Bishop Ab el T. Muzorewa of Rhodesia. D t Si Deaths . Harry Denman, former chief executive of the Board of Evangelism of The fl Methodist Church and widely known as a personal evangelist, died Nov. 8 in Birming­ ham, Alabama, at the age of 83 ... Cyril Richardson, the well-known church historian, writer, and former professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary, died in New Yor k at the age of 67. EDITORIALSbJ

Christmas and the merrymaking, we can stop quietly in should read "Toward Peace in the Mid­ our everyday routine and remember that. dle East," the report of a study group Commonplace And the remembering is the true Christ­ available from the Brookings Institu­ The event of Christmas may never mas. tion.) But the general positions seem to change but our perceptions of it certain­ be gathering wider and wider support. ly do, being colored by our personal and Still the Middle East One of the chief problems in the Mid­ collective circumstances. The last ten to dle East is one of timing. Whichever Each Christmas season reminds us side has the temporary advantage tends fifteen years have been troubled times again (if we have ever managed to for­ for the citizens of the United States, to become more intransigent until it marked by war overseas and murders, get it) of the continuing troubled state loses that advantage. It is therefore im­ of the Middle East. This year, along with scandals and discord at home. In these portant for an outsider with some lever­ our sympathy and prayers for the people age to urge the parties to a solution. tribulations, the promise of the incarna­ in that area, we might also agree to urge tion can either become dulled under the This is not to advocate a U.S.-imposed our government to take advantage of the peace. That would rightly infuriate pressure of emotion or else shine more present situation to work toward peace brightly amid the gloom. in that area. everyone, since our interests are not the This year's climate is more normal. There is a combination of circum­ same as any of the parties involved with True, we have had a giant birthday stances that make it a possibility that one exception. party in the Bicentennial and a national That exception is the fact that it is such work will not be in vain. As this is no one's interest for the present stale­ election but our national mood is gen­ written, the war in Lebanon seems to erally within the limits of the ordinary, mate to continue. We must not lose sight have been stopped by the Syrians and of that fact nor allow the parties in­ the everyday, the (to use a word we've other Arab states. The United States always liked) quotidian. volved to lose sight of it either. And the presidential election and its overblown time to remind them is now. In many ways, this is reassuring. One rhetoric is over, giving a new administra­ of the best features of Christian devo­ tion a fresh chance to use its influence. tion is the church year. The regular The Arab states, such as Egypt, Saudi Harry Denman march from the anticipation in advent Arabia, Syria and Jordan, seem eager to The death of Harry Denman at the to the joy of Christmas to the reflection reconvene the Geneva Conference and and sadness of Lent and the fulfillment age of 83 takes from the world a beloved strike a bargain. The Palestine Liberation figure who personified evangelism to of Easter and the empowerment of Organization has been chastened by the Pentecost and the busy striving of King­ many people. His untiring energy, his domtide has both a continuity and re­ Lebanese War and is also conciliatory. personal kindness, unflagging zeal and lationship to reality as evidenced in the On the Israeli side, domestic opinion austere style of life led many people to physical world that is a strong under­ is split between "doves" and "hawks" regard him as a saint. pinning of faith. and the government is trying to appeal That designation would probably to all sides. Nevertheless, the degree of amuse him and before we canonize him Now that most of us do not live in unspoken cooperation achieved with the such proximity to nature as we once into some kind of plaster effigy, we Syrians during the Lebanon crisis must should remember that he was capable did, the meshing of Christian time and help lower the level of distrust and wiser the world's time may not be so readily . of arousing passions in his active career. l ~ apparent. Our perception of advent now heads know that the current "no peace­ After many years of service, he was no war" situation cannot continue in­ denied election to General Conference r is more triggered by shop windows and television ads than by wreaths and the definitely and that its continuance does because of his views on race. His life lighting of candles. not really work to any one's advantage. style was characterized by one church­ This certainly has its drawbacks. Since What is also reassuring is the fact man as "simply a tax dodge." And no merchants do the majority of their busi­ that the basic outlines of a peace settle­ executive heads a large organization and ness at Christmas, it is in their interest ment do not change substantively. They fights political battles on simple other­ to prolong it as much as they can-to were outlined in Security Council resolu­ wor)dliness. Like all "saints," Harry Denman was stretch it out, if they could, to the old tion 242 in November of 1967 and more than nine years later they have stood a complicated and fascinating man. What fantasy of Christmas all year long. the test of time. The basic ingredients we can say of him was that he attempted That fantasy may delight children and include recognition of Israel by the Arab to work out his Christian obedience the romantics among us but it would be States, withdrawal of Israel to the pre- and witness in his own terms for the a nightmare in reality. A perpetual cele­ 1967 borders and (probably) some form times in which he lived. There are prob­ bration is no celebration at all. of international guarantee of the peace ably not our terms. The days of the The wonder of the Incarnation has settlement. Also included would be a great preachers and the great personal always been greatly due to the contrast, Palestinian state, either alone or in fed­ evangelists are on the wane, and not the reminder that God chose to come eration with Jordan, in the West Bank for want of volunteers. We look for among us in a lowly, helpless form and and Gaza. bureaucrats to head our agencies now, among the pain and mess of childbirth. Obviously, these are only outlines with­ and they are the proper heads for the We keep piously trying to dress up the in which there would be bargaining and agencies we have created. circumstances but the circumstances are compromises as well as elaborations. Harry Denman was a Christian for his part of the wonder. Each year, in the (Anyone interested in such a refinement times. Let us hope the same can be said midst of our ritualized and frenetic by a distinguished group of Americans of us. iean\

or eace Joyce Hill

11 • •• and on earth, peace, good­ Qeconcilinq will to all people." As the angels' chorus was being repeated in cele­ brations around the world, in Chile Mini0t1ie0 at Christmas, 1973, the Rev. Ulises Torres had a deep passion for peace ... peace with justice. While Christmas festivities were encouraged by the military .govern­ ment to celebrate the overthrow of a socialist-oriented government, it was a muted celebration in the Methodist Church of Chillan where Ulises was pastor. Church families were separated from each other or had been affected by the loss of family members. It had been only three months since the present junta had destroyed the constitu­ tional government and begun a sys­ tematic program of eradicating all vestiges of that government. Not only were newspapers and radio and television stations closed, but people were being arrested, tor­ tured and killed. " Peace and good will to all people" seemed more remote than ever. Ms . Hill is an executive secretary for Latin America, World Division of the Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church. 8 [528] New World Outlook • December 1976 The Rev. Ulises Torres and family at dinner at the Uncasville (Conn.) United Methodist Church.

Recognizing that in order to son , was too young to visit the Ulises and a Roman Catholic have peace with justice it is nec­ prison, she insisted that the son had priest had been holding religious essary to have a political, social and a right to see his father, and he services together during the year. economic concern as well as a spir­ was permitted to vi si t him also. She Agai n original Christmas carols itual concern for people, Ulises had kept Mauro and his two sisters, were added to the col lection of the always been on the side of those Berenice 8, and Leonora, 12, in traditional ones usual ly sung. To­ who were exploited and suffering. Pood spirits despite her own heavy gether the Methodist pastor and the It was this passion which led him heart. At no time did she lose Ca th olic priest prepared the Christ­ to plead for justice in Chile that fa ith th at the fam ily would be re­ mas ce lebration of the Mass. The Christmas of 1973. He composed united. au tho rities allowed both the politi­ original Christmas carols, preached Months came and went and cal pri so ners and the common and distributed in flyers messages of Christmas of 1974 approached. criminals to worship together and 1, peace with justice. As a result he Ulises was still in prison. His case to echo behind pri son bars the I was arrested, tortured and impris­ was being tossed about betwee n angels' chorus of " peace on earth, oned for 14 months. (Even the military courts and the civil courts goodwill among all people," that mimeograph machine which had with ea ch saying his si tuation be­ Ch ristmas of 1974. been used in duplicating the mes­ longed in the jurisdiction of the Ulises was released from prison sages was impounded!) Today Ulises other. The prisons w ere still bei ng 14 months after his arrest, a release still bel ieves that his imprisonment filled, people were still being ar­ contingent upon exile from his was because of his deep religious rested and tortured. Th e state of country. Bea ring a passport with a beliefs about justice and not be­ siege was still in effect over a yea r sta mp reading that he w ould not cause of any political activity. after the coup. Maria, Ulises and be all owed to return to his native Maria Torres, a kindergarten the children faced a different kind co untry for three years, he and his teacher, although distressed, was of Christmas-one in which they fa mily arrived in the United States not undaunted by the military au­ were to be separated by the bars as Persons in Mission. Their arrival thorities who had arrested her hus­ of a political prison. Ulises encour­ almost coincided w ith the Easter band. She insisted upon seeing him. aged M aria to take the children to celebrations. And indeed they were When informed that the visiting her family for the Christmas ce le­ beginning a new life . hours conflicted with her teaching brations. In Chile Christmas is such One of the first hurdles they fa ced schedule, she persisted until she a joyful gathering that it would be w as that of language. They were was given permission to see him at too much to bear to spend the few determined to lea rn English , but a time that did not conflict. When minutes of visiting time they could they were also determined to share told that Mauro, their 10-year-old have together across the prison bars. thei r own language and culture New World Outlook • December 1976 [ 529 ] 9 with the people in Uncasvi lle, Connecticut, where they had begun a new ministry. Beca use of their musical talents, the family members were soon involved even though their spoken English was limited. Since they were to help the English­ language community and the His­ panic community as re source per­ sons, music was a natural bridge. There was little left of the school year, but Leonora, Mauro and Berenice all began discovering new friends in their schools. By Septem­ ber they were ready to fit into their own age groups with little difficulty. Christmas, 1975 found the fam­ ily together in a new culture with a new language but with the same message of " Peace, good will to all people." A mixture of Chilean Christmas customs and songs with United States customs and songs blended together. Christmas in the cold New England winter rather than the warm Chilean summer was another new experience. But be­ neath the cultural trappings of each country, there was no doubt in the minds of the Torres family or the people to whom they were minis­ tering that the central message of Christmas is the same around the world, that of peace to all people. In Chile people were still being ar­ rested and tortured. The state of siege continued. Many of the peo­ ple with whom Ulises spent the Christmas of 1974 spent the day separated from their families by prison bars. There were people in Connecticut whose Christmas ce le­ bration was different because of their awareness of that fact. Ulises with his guitar and Mauro with his quena (a reed flute from Latin America) are joined by Maria, Leonora and Berenice with their lovely voices to sing the songs of Christmas in 1976, songs from the two cultures and traditions they R Patriarch's share. And they are joined by those whose lives have been touched by knowing them in singing the angels' chorus of peace-peace with jus­ Prayer for "Love. tice. • Fraternity and Qeconciling Mini0trie0 Understan~!~.9.. 10 [530] New World Outlook • December 197& 11 Receive thou the Pas to ral staff, that it developed primarily becau se one should not live in its grasp. To th at thou mayest feed the Flock of of the Cru sades . . . I tried at the free men from injustice-at the level Christ entrusted unto th ee .. ." Lahore Summit to say agai n that man of having, as well as the level of With these ancient wo rd s, Eli as IV is brother to man and that the great being-is one of the specific mis­ was declared the 164th successor of problems such as freedom, equality sions of Christ's church." Saints Peter and Paul , Patriarch of and justi ce are a common denomi­ To ma ny American Protestants Antioch and all the Eas t. The place: nator among all human beings. Dia­ such words are familiar. To many the Cathedral of St. M ary, Damasc us, logue pres upposes love, and love is of these same persons, however, the Syria ; the time, September, 1970. the privil eged form of dialogue." image of an Orthodox Patriarch sug­ Elias IV thus became sh epherd of a One yea r later, the Patriarch made gests cha nting and incense, but little community of some half-million anoth er visit of his to.ric signi ficance. that would suggest an agenda rele­ Christian Arabs in Syria and Lebanon Th is time, in M ay 1975, he journeyed vant to this world. and an additional 200,000 members to Saudi Arabia to meet with the Patria rch Elias IV is a man of living abroad, including those in the newly enthroned Kin g Khal ed. The action as well as reflection. He was United States. These Christians are two met at the Al-Hamra Pal ace in born in Lebanon in 1914. Prior to his heirs to the New Testament Church Jeddah. This vi sit also had a signifi­ election as Patriarch he had taught of Antioch, where the Disciples were can ce for Christian-Muslim under­ Arab ic lite rature and had authored first called Christians. standing and dialogue, both in the seve ral books and translated works During his tenure as Patriarch, Middle Eas t and elsewhere. from Greek and English into Arabic, Elias IV has established himself as a The Middle Ea st is an area often including "The Life of St. Paul." He man devoted to acting boldly for portrayed in the West as one of had se rved the Antiochian O rthodox Christ: as a man of love, justice and religious intolerance, of holy w ars. communities in Rio de Janeiro, reconci I iation. Most recently, the Lebanese civi l Brazil, for several years until his ap­ Perhaps the most bold and historic war has been over-simplistically pointment in 1950 as Metropolitan acts of Patriarch Elias IV have been portrayed as a religious war between o f Aleppo in Sy ria. aimed at breaking old forms and re­ Muslims and Christians. While there W hile the Church of Antioch has shaping the future. Certainly his his­ are reli gious overtones to the con­ an ancient trad ition, which it reveres toric visit to the Pan Islamic Summit · flict, it has centered much more on and maintai ns, Patriarch Elias sees meeting at Lahore, Pakistan in Feb­ questions of political and economic th e need for renewal. In a speech ruary 1974 was such an act. injustice. These have been the result on the chu rc h he stated : The visit of Patriarch Elias to the of a system in which political and " During these difficult and un­ Islamic Summit meeting was the first economic power were shared on a certai n times, the Ch urch of Ch rist time any Christian leader had at­ basis of religious confessions. For is more than ever called upon to rise tended such a conference and ad­ example, the Lebanese President and help shatter the old forms of the dressed the assembled delegates. must, according to unwritten con­ pas t w hich have strangled her In February 1974, the Western vention, be a Maronite Christian and brea th ing, and courageously to re ­ world was faced with an oil boycott the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim. shape the broken image of this fallen stemming from the October 1973 As leader of the second largest world and to restore it to its Middle East War. As some of the Christian community in Lebanon, Creator." more prominent states sponsoring Patriarch Elias spoke out vigorously As one committed to "breaking the boycott were countries with a against th is system of confessional­ the form s of the past that have Muslim majority-both Arab and ism. Questioned as to what solution stran gled her breathing," yet oc­ non-Arab-Western animosity took he would have for the Lebanese cupying the position of Shepherd of on an anti-Muslim character. This crisis, Pa triarch Elias replied : the Fl ock of the Church of Antioch, attitude, in turn, had a potential for " An opportunity should be given Patria rch Elias IV represents the affecting the relations of Christians to an emerging qualified leadership, vita lity of a great body of Christians in the Middle East with Muslims. wherever they are from, and to con­ of the Middle East. Rooted in the Christians of the Middle East live sider people without reference to Holy Land, heir to the early Christian among a Muslim majority, and there­ their religious labels ... In brief, Church, Patriarch Elias represents the fore in a continual living inter-faith I am in favor of the total seculariza­ 20th ce ntury embodiment of an dialogue. This relationship, for the tion of the State; for me, that is the authentic Middle East Christianity. most part, has been a cordial one. condition essential to a durable As Ch ristians the world over cele­ However, incidents of fanaticism solution of the cri si s." brate the incarnation in the birth of within the Middle East, as well as During the tragic civil war in Jes us, we ca n thank God that His actions by Western Christians, have Lebanon, the Patriarch has spoken spi rit lives in the Church of Antioch today, just as it did when in its on more than one occasion dis­ out for an end to bloodshed and namesake "the Disciples were first rupted these relations and caused injustice. In an interview in the ca lled Christians." • tension. Lebanese weekly, " Al Anba," the In commenting on his visit to the Patriarch stated : Lahore meeting, Patriarch Elias " The Church is either a church ]. Richard Butler is director of the stated : of love, fraternity, and understand­ Middle East and Europe office of the "I think that fanaticism among ing, or it is not. . . . Christ has taught Division of Overseas Ministries of Muslims and Christians is the con­ us to oppose injustice from what­ the National Council of Churches. sequence of outside influences, and ever source, for injustice is sin and New World Outlook • December 1976 [531] 11 New World Outlook • December 1976 Cbrtstma~ Poem~ from ~attn (jmertca

LORD, CHRISTMAS IS COMING ... SENOR , SE ACERCA LA NAVIDAD ... Lord , Christmas is coming. Senor, se acerca la Navid ad .. . Mu ic on the radio wi hes to make us joyful. La musica del ra dio quie re alegrarn os And the merchants today want to make us believe y los comerciantes de estos dfas that it is in buying things that we celebrate your quieren hace rn os creer que comprando cosas, coming to the world . es como celebra mos tu ve nida al mundo. We receive cards with exotic scenes an d beautiful words Nos Hegan tarjetas con ex6ticos paisajes that many times do not mean anything. y con palab ras be ll as, que muchas veces no significan nada. Lord , this kind of "joy" in the world does not make me joyful. Senor, esta aleg rfa

INNS When Jesus was born children, in Bethlehem who also have the right there was no room for the child to an abundant life. in the inn. Blessed are those who struggle to rescue Before and af ter His coming, these children there have been no "inns" fr om the injustices which make them for many other children suffer, throughout the whole wide earth. roam ab out The same dearth still prevails and get lost. for them, Oh Lord, help us to build a world their parents, where each child who is born and brothers. may have an " inn" Blessed are those who provide " inns" and care, for the poor, and love! roving, San te Uber to Barbieri unwanted Argentina Lil Ila of c cW Fr drl Re Re Re Or we be T~ or on br TI TI Th A A fr(

WI \VI B to of THERE ARE MILLIONS ... wi HAY MILLONES Hi Lord, at this Christmas time Tenemos familiares y amigos pero . .. an We have family and friends, but. . . hay millones que viven solitarios y no tienen there are millions who live lonely lives a nadie en este mundo. and who have no one to relate to. Tenemos una casa y un trabajo pero ... We have a house and work to do, but. . . hay millones que no tienen ni un pobre techo Ci there are millions who lack a simple roof y buscan trabajo sin encontrarlo. u and who seek work without finding it. Tenemos una iglesia adecuada y un buen ministro pero .. . u We have an adequate church building and a good pastor, but. .. hay millones que no tienen ni un lugar u there are millions who have no place to worship, donde reunirse y que nunca los visita and who have never seen a Christian pastor. un ministro cristiano. We have books, magazines and newspapers, but. . . Tenemos libros revistas y peri6dicos pero ... there are millions who have none of these, hay millo~es que no tienen nada de esto y aun and who could not make use of them, even if they did, si Io tuvieran no sabrifan que hacer, for they do not know how to read. porque no saben leer. We have a friendly and competent physician, but. . . Tenemos un medico amable y competente pero ... there are millions who lack even the bare, minimal hay millones que no tienen la mas minima medical attention, atenci6n medica, ni nadie que les ensefie and who have no one to teach them how to prevent disease. como evitar las enfermedades. We have a balanced diet, but. . . Tenemos una dieta balanceado pero ... there are millions who lack even basic foodstuffs for life , hay millones que no tienen ni siquiera los and who suffer from pangs of hunger and malnutrition. alimentos esenciales para la vida y padecen hambre y estcin desnutridos. We have freedom to express our ideas, but. . . there are millions who live in virtual slavery, Tenemos libertad para expresar nuestras ideas pero ... and who are not permitted to express opinions, hay millones que viven en esclavitud, no se les and who are victims of totalitarian regimes. permite opinar y son vlctimas de reglmenes totalitarios. We have a true and living God, but. . . Tenemos un Dios vivo y verdadero pero ... there are millions who have never heard anyone speak of Him, hay millones que nunca han oldo hablar de El and who still do not know Him. y aun no le conocen. What shall we do, Lord? lQue hacemos, Senor? jTen piedad de nosotros! Have mercy upon us! Aurelio del Bosque Aurelio del Bosque (Translated by Joyce Hill)

14 [534] New World Outlook • December 1976 GOOD NEWS! like a feather in the wind Rapidly flew the good news of the birth of the child. Notes of a heavenly song danced in the air From a river of joy droplets splashed on the bank. Rejoice, men and women! Rejoice, children and youth! Rejoice, rejoice! Only the proud were not filled with hope because they did not understand. The terrible news of a king who was born on a strange night brought new fears. They could not rejoice. LA NOCHE DE LOS POBRES They could not sing. Estrofa They could not dream. El nifio ha nacido bajo la enramada • A king is a master. tiene la mirada azul A god dethrones us Los sauces lo mecen canciones de cuna from the precious kingdoms redonda la luna esta. we built ourselves yesterday. Who wants to be a servant? Estribillo Who can rejoice in trouble? Es la noche de los pobres, But the king who came es la noche de! amor. told us of love, Nace pobre y es el rey, of a kingdom to come tiene hambre y es el pan, without soldiers, without weapons. tiene frio y es el sol. His reign is divine Duerme que velan tu suefio Jesus and changes hearts. Las cuatro estrellas de la cruz de! Sur Can we not rejoice? Estrofa Can we not sing? El nifio se duerme Can we not dream? la madre lo besa Come then, brothers and sisters. le da su tibieza un buey Let us rejoice! Traen los pastores su amor de colores Let us sing! y en los corazones miel. Let us dream! Estribillo repite Ana M. Cepollina Uruguay (Translated by Joyce Hill) THE NIGHT OF THE POOR (A Christmas song from Uruguay) The Child has been born beneath the thatched roof. His eyes are full of sleep. The willows whisper a luUaby The moon, its night watch doth keep. Refrain This is the night of those who are poor. This is the night filled with love. Poor he is born; yet He is a King. Hunger he feels , the Bread of the World ; He is cold, the source of our light. Sleep soundly, small Jesus, sleep well. The Southern Cross doth keep watch through the night. The Child soundly sleeps 'neath his mother's night watch. The oxen their warmth with him share. The Shepherds come to him, their hearts fuU of love. In their hands gifts for Him they bear. Anonymous (Translated by Joyce Hill)

New World Outlook • December 1976 (535] 15 THE CRISIS Ill ETHlllC CHURCH LE E

Charley Lerrigo

Pastors who have to pump gas values; they often feel threatened, for a living. Ministers who are los­ confused. The ethnic population, ing the "joy of ministry." An eth­ for its part, wants a style of I ife and nic population increasing at rates ministry which is its own. If the old up to 500 percent and a serious white congregation and new ethnic shortage of ethnic pastors for eth­ community do not creatively iron SI nic congregations. These are prob­ out their differences, the church is b lems the United Methodist Church likely to die. s Ethnic has to face in the next quadrennium " It's important to keep our eye 1 as it moves to i plement the ethnic not on the community which is A populations minority local ch urch priority ap­ disappearing, but on the commu­ a proved by the 1976 General Con­ nity that is emerging," urged the B in the U.S. ference. Rev. Dr. James H. Davis of the Na­ b The recruitment and training of tional Division, at the San Francisco c new ethnic leadership was high­ conference. /1 A transitional com­ are on 11 lighted at an August, 1976 confer­ munity does not die. It changes. l ence on how the church should It's still there. Now that's the dif­ g the increase. inister in and to racially and cul­ ference between a transitional com­ turally changing neighborhoods. munity and a transitional church. ~ Is the The conference in San Francisco, Some of our 'transitional churches' sponsored by the National Division, aren't really transitional. They' re dy­ church dealt primarily with churches in ing." "transitional" communities, but the The extrapolation of transitional keeping pace? theme has implications for the church problems to the larger church at large. church is not difficult. Whether the Transitional churches, as defined congregation is in the inner city, by those who planned the San the suburbs or rural sections, one Francisco conference, are those factor tends to remain the same : changing from one racial or cul­ United Methodists (white, brown, tural group to another. Usually the black, red, yellow) tend to gather reference was to churches in the in congregations predominantly of inner city, and usually, the change their racial or cultural group. A was from a predominantly white landmark study in 1975 by the Rev. congregation to a membership pri­ Dr. Grant Shockley found that 95 marily of another racial/ethnic percent of all blacks, 82 percent of group. But it is at that local church all Hispanic Americans, 68 percent level, during the process of transi­ of all Asian Americans, and 82 per­ tion, that the church's racial prob­ cent of all Native Americans in the lems perhaps become most evident. United Methodist Church belong " Whites don't know how to be to congregations predominantly of a minority very well," one confer­ their own color or culture. Some ence participant observed. When whites may charge that this consti­ white flight from the inner city be­ tutes " reverse racism ." The ethnics gins, those whites who stay find retort that " integration" has not themselves becoming a minority led, in practice, to either racial within a community which has equality or empowerment. some very different styles and Another factor for the church at large to consider is that ethnic pop­ Mr. Lerrigo is a staff writer, United ulations in the United States are on Methodist Board of Global Minstries. the increase. According to 1974 cen- 16 (536) New World Outlook • December 1976 ISHIP

sus estimates, there are 24.1 million blacks and 10.8 million persons of Spanish origin in the country. The 1970 census data show 1.5 million Churches, 359,124 blacks, 37,285 a co ngregation whose first lan­ Asian Americans, and census data Hispanic Americans, 16,943 Asia n guage is not En glis h. While rac ially are usually considered censervative. Americans and 14,091 Native different congregations may share By 1990, predicts the Rev. Dr. Ro­ American s. Th ese fi gures have been a church building, successfully in­ berto Escamilla of the Board of Dis- · challenged by at least tw o of the tegrated congregations un fortunately cipleship, Hispanics will be the ethnic groups concerned. Dr. Esca­ remain rare. largest ethnic group in the nation. milla, for example, puts the number W ith a few exceptions, the church The Asian Americans continue to of Hispanic United Methodists in does not have su fficient ethnic pas­ grow. The Rev. Dr. Peter Sun, chair­ the U.S. and Puerto Rico at 75 ,000, tors or perso ns in traini ng to lead person of the church's Korean and a tabulation of various counts its existi ng congregations or de­ American caucus, estimates that Ko­ by Asi an Americans puts their num­ ve lop new ones . The generally small rean Americans have increased some ber at over 20,000. size of ethnic congregations means 500 percent over the past seven or Ethnic growth creates a huge the number of pastors has to be eight years. In 1975, the Immigra­ need for new ethnic leadership. It spread ove r a large number of pas­ tion and Naturalization Services re­ is rare that a white pastor can su c­ tora l charges, compounding the ports, the Filipinos outnumbered cessfully lead a black congrega­ problem . the Koreans in terms of legal immi­ tion, or an English-speaking pastor Of the 30,128 United Methodist grants. Native Americans are al so experiencing a population increase. The United Methodist Church may be the most pluralistic denomination .. in the country, yet the number of racial and ethnic United Methodists has not kept pace with the rise in the general ethnic population. Ac­ cording to Dr. Shockley's study, there are, in all United Methodist 'It's important to keep our eye not on the community which is disappearing, but on the community that is emer ing.''

ministers in full connection , 842 are Board of Higher Education and Min­ black, less than 100 are Hispanic istry, who was leading the panel Ameri ca n, some 150 are Asian on ethnic minority recruitment and Ameri ca n, according to recent esti­ training, continued the point. mates by the ethnic groups them­ " Katie's Freudian slip is what we se lves. If th ose figures are compared hear most of the time from many to th e number of ethnic members, of our lay persons," he said . " That the pastor I pa rishioner ratio is high : seminary really turns out to be cem­ 1 :2000 in the case of th e Native etery for too many of our clergy. America ns. Lay pastors and persons They go there with a sense of zeal not in fu ll connection somewhat and inspiration, and come back al­ ameliorate the high pa sto r/ parish­ most dead, unable to relate to their ioner ratio. own local congregations and the Seminary training and fu ll con­ community ... I am not anti-sem­ nection do not gua rantee tha t a inary training, but I know too many pas tor will have an effective minis­ successful black pastors who never try. Katie Sco tt, who reported on got a seminary degree." One of the Native American scene at the the clear messages from the ethnic San Francisco conference, made a groups is that seminary curricula are slip of the tongue as she was talk­ going to have to be modified to ing about th e small number of a­ provide the kind of training needed tive America ns hea ded toward for the ethnic ministries. " ... cemetery." She bl ushed and Of course lay pastors make less corrected herself, " .. . I mean se mi­ money than ministers in full con­ nary." But Dr. Douglass Fitch o f n ction. While the merits of that Divis ion o f Ordained M inis try, pay differential may be argu d pos­ itively, the fact remain that th ethnic minorities will have more trouble attracting n w pastors be­ cause of th e low salaries. The Rev Conrado oltero of El Paso, an His­ panic member of the an Franc1 co panel, pointed out, " Th re' a youth drain. So ma ny oth r indu - tne and profession are looking for M xican m ncan to enter th m " Comp t1t1on for th be t of oung thn1c I ader , coming from national and conf r nc church agenc1 , a w II a cular firms, wa not d b other thnic spoke per on a well. 1an m ncan ha e a om - what unique problem E pecially among th Kor an m ncan com­ munity, th r ar a numb r of im­ migrant \ how r qual1fi d pa tor in th 1r horn ountry " ho ha 18 [ S38 J ew World Oull oolt • Oecembu 1976 ·k church" does not make the dis­ e tinction between saving the indi­ :- vidual soul and saving the com­ munity that exists among some

y I white United Methodists. Social action and evangelism, the blacks proclaim, are not separate, but part of a whole Gospel. Black United Methodists also face a unique kind of pressure from their· fellow clergy in the predominantly black denominations. " Maintain­ ing one's ethnicity or blackness i a fundamental issue," asserted the Rev. Dr. Woodie White of the Com­ m1ss1on on Religion and Race . " Black pastors appointed to a white church in a racially transitional community ... often feel guilty because they are not in a black congregation." Their fellow clergy chide them about being " a fly in a bowl of milk," he reported. And if the black pastor is serving in a church that is in the process of change from mostly white to mostly black members, he must walk a difficult tightrope as he considers how fast the residual white mem­ bers can go along with the changes from white to black worship and action styles. All signs indicate that the church's ethnic minorities are going to continue to insist on their right to be who and how they are, and are going to resist being forced-by pressures economic and political­ into a white style of ministry and church life. The theological and cul­ tural challenge is going to reach into every congregation as the United Methodist Church struggles with its pluralism. One of the ethnic strate­ gies in that struggle will be to de­ velop new leadership and new conditions for that leadership. • New World Outlook • December 1976 [539) 19 New Ljfe ona Haj•jan Island Photo Feature by John Goodwin Haiti is one of the 25 poorest nations in the world; its peo­ ple have a per capita income of 75 dollars a year. Eighty­ eight per cent of the popula­ tion is illiterate; only one­ tenth of the school age population is able to attend school; agricultural produc­ tion decreases while the pop­ ulation increases. On and on, the grim statistics go. But the people refuse to give up: Among those working to help them is The Methodist Church in Haiti, a district of the auton­ omous Conference of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas. The Island of La Gonave, 45 miles long and 12 miles wide with a population of 50,000, has been the most neglected part of Haiti. Here The Meth­ odist Church in Haiti and Church World Service have joined in an island-wide com­ munity development program, including road bu i I d i n g, schools, wells and dams, fam­ ily planning, medical clinics and community centers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief cooperates with both The Methodist Church in Haiti and Church World Ser­ vice.

(Opposite page) Teachers and medical clinic staff leave the mainland for La Gonave. {Right) The district mis­ sionary for La Gonave and Petit Goave on the mainland is the Rev. Alan Darby, a Canadian working with the Haitian Methodist Church. New World Outlook • December 1976 [5411 21 (Above) Fish being dried and salted. (Opposite page, top) A Methodist launch transports workers from the mainland and supplies centers along the coast of the island. (Opposite page, bottom) This church and community center was built by volunteers from Western North Carolina. (Below) UMCOR executive J. Harry Haines takes part in an evening worship service.

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26 [546] New World Outlook • December 1976 Pin ell as Coun ty, Florida is nu m­ the annual asse mbly of th e National ber one in th e state that is number Interfa ith Coali tion on Aging in In­ one in th e co nce ntrati on of elderl y dianapolis and D r. Elbert Cole of people. It sprawls 280 square miles Kansas City, Misso uri told about along th e Gul f of M ex ico, encom­ his Shepherds' Ce nter-22 churches pass ing St. Petersburg, the beach working togeth er on educational towns, Cl earwater (th e county sea t), projects. (An article about Shep­ Largo, Seminole, Pin ell as Park, herd s' Ce nter in Kan sas City ap­ lervicea Dunedin and Tarpon Springs. pea red in the December, 1974 New Tarpon Springs in the northwes t Worl d O utlook.) 'S hepherd s' Cen­ corner of the county lacks the so­ ter.' Th at w as the name I had bee n to nae phistica tion and conges tion of her sea rching fo r, and he gra ci ously sister cities to th e so uth. Th ere is an gave me perm iss ion to use it for old world charm to the small town. our project. " 'l&crerlg Within the Greek community, com­ First United Pres byteri an Church prising 25 percent of the popula­ is the hub church. Th e Reverend tion, the same cu stoms and religious Ro ge r Gree nslade, pas tor, says, observances brought by the sponge " Our church is small w ith only 21 5 divers who came to harves t the members and located away from " golden fleece" are apparent today. the mainstream of traffi c, but w e The world-famous sponge docks have always bee n w illing to be­ lined with curio shops, public parks come involved in the community. with white sandy beaches, fi shing W e had a room available-one that and boating attract both winter and had been used for the Head Start summer visitors. The city adminis­ office. Th e Sess ion voted $200 to tration has avoided the clutter of ge t the Shepherd s' Center started. mobile home parks, high-rise con-. M any of our members are volun­ struction and tract homes with tee rs at th e Center, and I have re­ stringent zoning laws. This is one of ferred several for telephone reas­ the contributing factors for the in­ surance and supplies from the Fo od flux of 40,000 (Chamber of Com­ Pantry." merce figure) retirees to the area in Th e Sh epherds' Center is a tiny the past three years. room with some ch airs and a des k Because of the number of elder­ with tel ephone. Five days a week ly, the language problem and the from nine to four, volunteers from distance from the county seat, Tar­ the ei ght cluster churches gi ve out pon Springs was chose n as the site information on available programs, for the Shepherds' Center. It was a make rea ss urance calls to shut-ins, pilot project of the Pinellas County and take calls for transportation, Interfaith Coalition on Aging, Inc., food stamps, etc., from anyone in which was organized early in 1974 need. with Mrs. Helen Drylie as director All of the programs are staffed (now retired), in order to provide by volunteers; there are no salaried the " human needs" as designated workers. An advisory board con­ by the 1971 White House Confer­ sisting of th e pastor and / or con­ ence on Aging: nutrition, education, gregational representative from each income, housing, health, employ­ cluster church meets monthly to ment, spiritual well-being, transpor­ review program progress reports, tation and leisure roles. future projects and finances. A $5 Mrs. Drylie's aim was to bring maintenance fee is assessed ea ch state and county social services to cluster church to pay for the tele­ persons over 60 by working through phone and office supplies. Betty J. Beall the religious community. The plan There are 16 denominations in has been a simple one- volunteers the area. However, until this pro­ from eight churches, each re sponsi­ gram started on October 22, 1974, ble for a human need, make up a there had been no interchange of cluster of congregations with a hub ideas o r facilities; each was doing church serving as a communication its own thing for the so-called sen­ center. ior citizen. " I wanted a special name for the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Ca­ hub church-one that would be thedral holds three Health Days a easily remembered and convey the year with diabetes and glaucoma idea of help to anyone in need," screening by the Pinel las County Ms . Beall is a free-lance writer living in Helen remembers. "I was attending Health department; blood pressure the Tarpon Sp rings area . R ti d e

and hypertension by the Heart As­ city in the United States. Many old­ sociation; and chest x-rays and pul­ er people are unaware that Medicare monary testing for emphysema by does not pay for the first three pints the Suncoast Tuberculosis Associa­ of blood that must be replaced. tion mobile unit. The church also Volunteers have been trained to provides translators. Volunteers assist in filling out Medicare "B" from St. Timothy Lutheran, St. Ig­ forms and food stamp applications. natius Roman Catholic, First Bap­ The seminars are held in the Fel­ tist, and Reorganized Church of lowship Hall of All Saints Episcopal the Latter Day Saints, among others, Church. Ellen Tolmie works at the help with registration. food stamp office half days to help There are two Meals-on-Wheels process applications. routes in the area : one handled by For the most part, the work of Palm Harbor United Methodist, and the Shepherds' Center has been well the other from the Episcopal, Pres­ received in Tarpon Springs. The byterian and Orthodox churches for need for it is there, but the biggest the elderly in Tarpon Springs. A problem is getting volunteers. The Food Pantry maintained at First Center would like to add some en­ United Methodist Church is stocked richment programs, possibly a with food, paper and soap prod­ bookmobile. The funds are avail­ ucts for emergency situations. FISH able, but the people power is lack­ from the Presbyterian Church pro­ ing. vides transportation to the hospital, With the success of this Shep­ doctors or grocery, or help in the herds' Center, the Coalition opened home. three more-two in St. Petersburg A blood bank has been estab­ and one in Seminole, with another lished and congregational members one proposed for Dunedin. In fact, and their families make donations at the idea is growing so popular that the Bloodmobile three or four times Jane Roth, administrative secretary annually or at the Tarpon General of the Coalition says, " We' re get­ Hospital. By doing so, the Bank will ting requests from other parts of replace blood for members of any Florida and the nation about set­ cluster church in any hospital in any ting up similar centers." • 28 [548] New World Outlook • December 1976 Services to the •&crerlt Auril Wood

Mae* sits, day after day, in a a steering committee. The commit­ wheel chair. Stan is legally blind. tee consists of United Methodists, Les gets around with a walker. a Roman Catholic, a Seventh-Day A bright spot in their day comes Adventist and a Lutheran. with their monthly invitation to A schedule of hostess organiza­ Project Smiles. Mae, Stan and Les, tions was set up a year in advance with 85 to 90 other guests, will be to prepare and serve the meal of picked up by bus or private cars for a hot entree, salad, rolls, tea, coffee transportation to a church in Para­ or milk and dessert. Arrangements dise, California, for a party lunch­ are made for diabetic guests and eon. organizations with dietetic rules A reserved place will be saved. may serve what they wish. for Mae so she can sit beside her A mimeographed page of sug­ friend who was in a nursing home gestions was sent to the hostess with her, but who is now living in organizations so everyone knew a private care home. Mae's friend how to give the meal and what was will encourage and help her eat for expected of them. They were to Mae's hands are incapacitated by be responsible for the food, party arthritis. decorations, name tags, favors, en­ Before Stan's accident he knew tertainment and publicity. there would be a place for him be­ Places to give the meals are hard side his wife for over 60 years. He to find, for they must be on the was ambulatory, but his wife needed ground floor to accommodate professional nursing care so they wheel chairs, walkers and those were in separate facilities. He did who are insecure in walking. The get to visit her occasionally, but the rest rooms must be large enough Project Smiles party was the high for wheel chairs and the kitchen fa­ point of their month. They both en­ cilities big enough for food prepa­ .. joyed the musical entertainment ration. Paradise United Methodist that was usually provided. He some­ Church is the best equipped in times scolded his wife, but they of­ town and the trustees granted per­ ten held hands. mission to use the building on the Les brings his harmonica and will Churches in first Thursday of each month. play when he feels like it. Project Smiles is occasionally Project Smiles has been in opera­ given in other churches and that is tion for over three years. It was California good, for a change of environment started as a service to the elderly in is stimulating. Paradise and is modeled after the bring together The ecumenical spirit is spreading Beatitudes program in Chico, Cali­ into the churches of the area where, fornia. To begin the program, a let­ the aged and previously, there had been little co­ ter was mailed to all church operation. groups, clubs and societies of the incapacitated for The Women's Improvement Club, area inviting interested people to the Young Women's Club, youth an organization meeting. From that a monthly outing. groups and fraternal organizations meeting came a small dedicated have also become involved in the group of men and women to form project. All Project Smiles lunches are * Names of guests have been free. The financing began with faith changed to protect their identity. and is continuing with greater faith I ~ e a c b 0 as the guest list grows and the cost custodial care. 11 of food rises. Guests, arriving at the church, are L A private school for mentally re­ greeted by members of the steering tarded boys furnishes a bus and committee and are given colorful driver to pick up large groups of name tags in keeping with the theme guests from nursing homes. A man of the day. uses his pick-up truck to handle One month there was a hat sh ow a wheel chairs when his wife is a with each guest wearing a hat of 0 guest. Private individuals supply cars his or her design and prizes or station wagons to transport awarded. A circus party had host­ guests. esses dressed as clowns. There have On the morning of Project Smiles been Hawaiian and birthday John Wood, coordinator of trans­ themes. portation, goes to one of the nurs­ Music of by-gone days is the most ing homes where he and the occu­ popular entertainment and guests s pational therapist make phone calls often dance. There is only one aim to guests and alert drivers where for Project Smiles and that is to and when to pick up guests. get people out of their limited en­ Names of the guests are sug­ vironment into one in which they gested by administrators of nurs­ can make new friendships. The ing homes, ministers and friends. happy atmosphere of the monthly Anyone without family or transpor­ luncheons is accomplishing this tation, or who is a lonely shut-in, is aim. • eligible to attend the luncheons. There is no age limit for some of Mrs . Wood is a free -lance writer active the guests are younger people who, in the Paradise United Methodist for one reason or another, need Church. 30 [550) New World Outlook • December 1976 Trainirii urses atGanta, Liberia

n the old and proud nation of Li­ major foreign-owned industrial con­ I beria, West Africa, which was cessions. Among them is the settled over 150 years ago by United Methodist Church's George black Americans set free from slav­ W . Harley Memorial Hospital, lo­ ery, malaria and intestinal diseases cated at Ganta, some 165 miles east are big killers. Moreover, 50 per­ of Monrovia, Liberia's bustling capi­ cent of that country's children die tal, on a sprawling 350-acre mission before reaching the age of five and. station that has some 50 buildings, of the world's 15 million sufferers of good water and a 24-hour electri­ leprosy, 7,000 are said to be in cal supply. Liberia. Re cently ren amed for the mis­ As if that wasn't enough, dysen­ si onary, who, with his botanist wife, tery, elephantiasis and tuberculosis founded the mission and hospital in are among a number of other still­ 1926, the 65-bed hospital complex common ailments that add up to has grown from a one-shack clinic a major health problem for this tiny to six w ings and a clinic. It serves country of slightly more than 1.1 almost 22,000 in-patients annually million people-75 percent of with a staff of only two physicians, whom struggle for survival as sub­ seven Liberian nurses, three mid­ sistence farmers. w ives, a practical nurse, three lab­ Recognizing the magnitude of the oratory technicians and some 60 problem the government, closely other workers in the wards, clinic, modeled after that of the United operating rooms, kitchen, laundry States, has embarked on a, deter­ and maintenance department. mined effort to improve health care Its Community Health Clinic in and services. An increasing per­ nearby Ganta Town cares for 1,650 centage (an estimated 20 percent) maternity patients and over 2,600 of its national budget is going for babies a year, and its Leprosy Con­ health services. trol and Rehabilitation Center, Interlocking with government ef­ which started with a few patients in forts, however, are a handful of 1927, is the center for early diagno­ church-related m1ss1on hospitals sis and treatment of leprosy pa­ and hospitals at the sites of several tients and serves as a referral center for rehabi I itation and reconstructive Mr. Daniels is director of the Interpre­ surgery for all of Liberia. tive Services Department, United Meth­ But while the church-related hos­ odist Board of Global Ministries. pital is a success story in itself, its (Below) Helping patient from ambulance is Y. Marian Kehleay, school's first full-time Liberian instructor.

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School of Nursing has a lot going for it as well. For thirteen years it fir has provided the nursing personnel Sil for the hospital, Leprosy Control Center and Social Service program gr as well as for a growing number of be government and private institutions in Liberia. It was in 1953, 27 years after the sir founding of the Canta hospital, that a government authorization per­ all mitted the school's establishment. Sii But there were no students, and the tit only classes that could be held ye (Below) Nurses accompany Dr. Boayue as he checks on one of his patients in the were those in nursing arts, basic hospital's male ward. science, reading, writing and arith­ 12 metic for clinic and hospital em­ th i ployees-most of whom had not 16 had even an eighth grade educa­ tion. It wasn't until 1960 when dli eighth grade graduates were avail­ Ur able in most of the country that six U.' students enrolled in the school's ke first class. The four who remained 0\.1 after two years became practical ha nurses and immediately went on for ed further training. In 1963 three of tol them (two men and one woman) de1 graduated and passed the Liberian I Board of Nurse Examiners tests to Lit become registered nurses. arr Since then the school has had 51 de1 graduates (36 of them men), all of Sci whom have passed rigid exams to Pa! become registered nurses and are car working for the Liberian govern­ on ment or in p rivate clinics. ag1 The Nu rs ing School now has three arr full-time instructors-including its 32 [552] New World Outlook • December 1976 the Loretta Gruver, director of Ganta's School of Nursing, is a missionary from Indiana. Though the majority of school's students today are women, most grad­ uates have been males.

(Below) United Methodist missionary Vera Hughlett (seated front right), one of School of Nursing's three instructors, has been in Liberia since late 1961. Here she is seen with some of school's 51 graduates.

first Liberian-and a capacity for 25 students in its three-year course. The school's success parallels greatly that of the country. As Li­ beria's educational facilities have improved, entrance requirements of the Nursing School have been raised simultaneously, and since 1969 it has accepted only high school gradu­ ates. It can also pick and choose its students for the first time as compe­ tition to enter grows keener every year. Of its current crop of 25 students, 12 are in their first year. They were the fortunate ones selected out of 167 who applied. A great concern has been dwin­ dling budgetary support from the United Methodist Church in the U.S., and the school's inability to keep enough of its graduates for its own hospital staff. In 1969 the school had to abandon its traditional "free education" policy and impose a token tuition of $250 a year per stu­ dent. But since few students in rural Liberia can afford even that modest amount for education, the school depends entirely on its Nursing Scholarship Fund. Students who pass strict entrance requirements can usually get scholarship aid. Up­ on accepting it, however, they must agree to either pay back. the full amount, or, if asked, to work for the hospital after graduation. •

New World Outlook • December 1976 [553) 33 tor." At that time I was 15 or 16. C( I have a vague memory that at that to time, my thought was that I would n become a doctor. ar World War II started while I was ti still in middle school. I rushed out 0 to join the Kamikaze Corps. But I IV w as not very strong and was near­ pi Teruko Mizutani interviews sighted, so they made me an ordi­ pl Dr. Noboru lwamura nary private in the infantry. th Then came the dropping of the ta atomic bomb on Hiroshima and la many people died. I had thought te that of all the many man-made th , structures, the military was the most le superior. When I tried to under­ tr stand how this most efficient of all la 'japan doesn t wear human organizations could be turned in an instant to ashes and b dust by the explosion of an atomic a a halo in asia" bomb, I realized how transient we I[ are, and I began to ask myself, what g is it that is unchanging? Then the ti story of the Good Samaritan, which h I had heard when I was 15 or 16, b came to mind, and with it the idea of becoming a doctor. MIZUTANI : I am sure the story of the Good Samaritan must have in­ fluenced you as you took a vow to work for neglected people. IWAMURA: It may be that the story of the Good Samaritan was in the back of my mind, but I also at Hiro­ 0 shima saw many who were broken and who had lost all they had. As a doctor you see patients in one country who are overweight and have heart disease. In another country, patients have T.B. because of undernourishment. When it comes to the question of which pa­ tient I will treat, there is no ques­ tion but that I will choose the latter. MIZUTANI : What was your motive for going to Nepal? IWAMURA : I was attending the Dr. Noboru lwamura, a specialist in IWAMURA: It all began when my first Japan Christian Medical Associ­ public health, has been serving mother, who was what we now call ation annual meeting. Somebody with the United Mission to Nepal an "education mama", enrolled me made an appeal, "Isn't there some­ since 1962. His work is sponsored by in the kindergarten in what was then one who will go to Nepal?" I raised the Japan Overseas Christian Medi­ the Uwajima Methodist Church in my hand and said, " Yes." As I raised cal Cooperative Service. On a brief Ehime Prefecture on the island of my hand, Mama's face appeared visit to his native Japan, Dr. lwa­ Shikoku. I continued to attend before me. I went home and talked mura was interviewed by Ms. Teruko church school there. One day a mis­ with Mama [his wife) and she didn't Mizutani, Division of Education of sionary teacher by the name of oppose the idea, saying she would the National Christian Council of J. D. Stott appealed for someone to go wherever God called. I am lapan. This interview appeared in the become a doctor. After showing us thankful that she was willing to go Japanese-language Kyokai Kyoiku, a kamishibai (a story told in pic­ anywhere-Nepal, India, or any­ was translated b y Ms. Mizutani and tures) of the Parable of the Good where else. missionary John Reagan, and is ex­ Samaritan, the teacher said, "I MIZUTANI : When you first went to cerpted here. Dr. lwamura explains would be very happy if, in order to Nepal, it must have been a great why he became a doctor and a mis­ help those who are suffering, even change, with many difficulties. sionary. one of you were to become a doc- Especially since you were in a 34 [554] New World Outlook • December 1976 16. iat country where you were not allowed was a beggar who put his hand out rid to engage in Christian mission. Yet for some money. We have beggars no doubt the fact that you were in Nepal today. If a man is hungry, 'as an Asian and good at human rela­ he must be given food before he Ut tions contributed to the progress is operated on or given medicine. I of your work. Then a person could give him tr. IWAMURA : It's true that many Ne­ money to help him, but that would Ii- palese resemble Japanese. Euro­ possibly only solve his immediate peans are frequently envious of problem. The next problem would re that. It helps in making initial con­ be what he should live for. Peter, d tacts, but in establishing closer re­ who had no money, said that he 1! lationships, the Europeans do bet­ had no money, but he also said , " I ter than we Japanese do. It seems give you something great. In the that the difference in skin color is Name of Jesus of Nazareth, arise." ·. less important than the difference In other words, the power of the that comes from living on a large Son of God who had died and been land mass. made alive entered his body. The Japan is good in some things and passing along of the message from bad in others. In some ways we are one to the other is the way the an exception to the usual pattern. story of Jesus spread. In Japan we have the idea of strug­ If I prescribe medicine and heal­ gling frantically and pushing ing occurs, then the love which is through to completion. A word we the motive behind th~ medicine frequently use in Japanese is gam­ and the healing is experienced and bare-which means something like becomes something one can ac­ "keep up the struggle". There is no cept. such word in Nepalese, nor is there· But the problem is that they say, such a word in English . Yet this " The doctor healed me." They say, sense of gambare is the Japanese " Doctor, doctor" so much that my way, especially in the case of mid­ nose goes up. I become conceited. dle-aged men. The Nepalese people Then God works on my conceit by live at a relaxed, natural pace. The causing me to run into a wall that Nepalese don't have four seasons­ smashes my upturned nose. You only two, the rainy and the dry know how it hurts when your nose season . In the dry season , it doesn't bumps into a wall. matter how many seeds are planted I am one of those people who or how hard one works, there will feels that gambare is very impor­ be no fruits. On the other hand, tant, so I always keep busy. My once the rainy season (a particular­ bumping into a wall that smashed "If I prescribe ly busy time for farmers) comes, in my nose took place when I was out July, August, and September, you on a trip and caught dysentery. I medicine and healing can grow anything. This is the natu­ couldn't go back for any medicine. occurs, then the ral rhythm in Nepal that comes out The mayor of the village where I & of the cycle of nature. It can't be stopped called the local medicine love which is reversed. It influences the people's man to treat me. I thought, what the motive behind outlook toward life. did I become a doctor for? Now the medicine and the MIZUTANI : At one time we in Ja­ I' m in this fix-depending on a pan over-valued the importance of medicine man. healing is experienced the GNP [gross national product] . MIZUTANI : Do you have any word and becomes something Since Japanese are good workers, we of advice or suggestion to others have raised ourselves up to the who may follow your pattern by one can accept." point where we are a fairly wealthy working in the Third World? country with the result that now we IWAMURA : Japan doesn't wear a frequently look upon other people halo in Asia. While it is true that all as lazy. men are brothers, some are elder IWAMURA : This gives me some­ brothers and some are younger thing to think about. Suppose Jesus brothers. If a person has a desire would suddenly appear and say, and wants to do something, then "lwamura, how is it that you who that person can be like the seed of were supposed to be last has got­ grain that fell into the soil. Work at ten ahead?" the level of the local people-that You remember the candidate for is the best way. But it isn't that orthopedic surgery who met Peter lwamura came and worked, but that and John at the Gate Beautiful? He someone came and worked. • 1•11an 1indit lb•n ch"lsti•n •duc•1a" Ellen Clark

When she travels upriver by half on a scholarship from the launch with conference Home and World Division of the United Meth­ Family Life teams, women in the odist Board of Global Ministries. t a longhouse near the city longhouses regard her as an author­ The first woman to be ordained a of Sibu, Sarawak, you can ity. With childlike eagerness, they minister in the lban Conference, Aglimpse the traditional life ask Ms. Tindit to teach them how Ms. Tindit pastors a rural church of the lban people side by side to pray; prior to this, the pastor had outside Sibu. Her congregation is with the modern. Leaving a rutted always led them. They also expect the population of a longhouse that road, you walk a dirt path to Ru­ her to teach every child the rudi­ grows rubber, rice and pepper. It mah Nyala, wooden structure that ments of the faith. Tallon explains is one of more than 300 Sarawak serves as communal home to 20 with difficulty that her assignment is longhouses which have become families. On the verandah sarong­ to train the teachers. Methodist churches. clad women dry rice paddy while During breaks in the school year, The church means a lot to Ms. babies peacefully snooze in little she flies to Mukah or Bintulu to Tindit, so she regrets she can spare hammocks slung from the rafters. help with work camps and other little time for it. Only 12 ministers Old men and women sit crosslegged youth activities. In her jeans and earn enough to serve their churches on the floor, looking out over fields pony tail, Tallon looks like one of full time. The lbans live at subsis­ of rippling green paddy that extend the teenagers. Evenings in Sibu she tence levels for the most part. to the riverbank. will jump on a motorcycle and In preaching, Ms. Tindit applies But pass through one of the long­ speed to an MYF meeting to join parables to lban society to help her house's 20 doors, many of which some spirited singing or hear a de­ congregation understand the Bible. have crosses or pictures of Jesus bate on the relative merits of " life " The story of the Prodigal Son above them, and the illusion of na­ or money." touches people here," she said. tive rusticity is shattered. Inside your In her office in the lban Confer­ " Many lban men leave their fam­ host will seat you . in a comfortable ence Center in Sibu, Ms. Tindit tac­ ilies and go off to see the world. chair, serve you an orange drink kles a prodigious number of jobs. After a long period they will come fresh from the refrigerator, and She prepares materials for wom­ home, broke." turn up the stereo so you can enjoy en's literacy classes, youth fellow­ As she travels about the con­ the latest rock music. ships, Sunday schools and men's ference, dealing as an equal with Though this longhouse is atypi­ groups, often translating and adapt­ the male leaders of the church, Ms. cally prosperous, it illustrates the ing Filipino church literature. She Tindit exudes confidence. But she dramatic changes lban people are puts Christian words to lban chants readily reveals a shy, girlish side going through. Change poses a for use on popular cassettes. She too. challenge to the Methodist Church, outlines Bible studies and checks "Sometimes I'm fearful of travel­ to which more than 10,000 lbans be­ the papers of persons taking Bible ing alone because of communist long. The church has to meet the correspondence courses. Occasion­ terrorists in the jungles," Tallon ad­ needs of illiterate and educated na­ ally she meets with a group to hear mitted. " I think about marrying at tives, sophisticated town dwellers about progress being made by an times. But in lban culture, I'm too whose heads have been turned by interchurch group translating the old." Tallon, youthful-looking at 27, the cinema and rural people in re­ Old Testament into the lban lan­ shrugged her shoulders. mote areas of the river-laced Bor­ guage. Then, with a proud toss of her neo state-as well as the many An lban herself, Tallon attended pony tail, she said, "Actually I lbans who bridge the diverse the Methodist School in Kapit and think I can do my church work bet­ worlds, like the residents of Rumah the Methodist Theological School in Nyala. Sibu. "I didn't know much about ter as a, single person. And I do Tallon Tindit, director of Chris­ Christianity until I went to semi­ love my work." tian education for the lban Provi­ nary," she confessed in an inter­ In Sarawak, many trained church sionary Annual Conference of the view. Because she ;howed a lively leaders have been drawn into Methodist Church of Malaysia, takes interest in working for the church, higher-paying government posts and the task in stride. Competent and Ms. Tindit had the chance for fur­ other secular jobs. Fortunately for good-natured, she finds ready ac­ ther study following her graduation the lban Conference, Tallon Tindit ceptance throughout the confer­ in 1969. She attended Union Sem­ continues to devote her talents to ence. nary in Manila for a, year and a the church. •

Experiment in Seminary Education

ne of the fastest-growing, most controversial seminaries fro O in Japan is the School of The­ ve ology of Doshisha University in ua Kyoto, which admitted its one hun­ gr dredth class in April for the 1976-77 academic year. It is one of seven be seminaries related to the United 0 Church of Christ in Japan (Kyodan). pn Three years ago the seminary tia eliminated baptism and a minis­ tti ter's recommendation as entrance 0 requirements. Overhauling the cur­ w riculum, it did away with required o~ courses in the graduate school and SU all but one required course in the undergraduate school, Introduction to Theology. Enrollment has climbed in from about 130 students in 1973 to kr 200 this year, 165 of them under­ m graduates. But only one-third of the M first-year class professes Christianity. d "A lot of people in the church fo suspect us of heresy or secularism," f acknowledges Bob Fukada, genial Ol United Methodist Japanese-Ameri­ I can missionary who is professor of practical theology. "Throughout its 100-year history the seminary has had the reputation of a rebel. But i we're more orthodox than people d' realize. Actually we're providing a c good number of ministers for the d church." s The Rev. Mr. Fukada admits that p many students choose Doshisha's seminary because of its compara­ tively easy entrance requirements. Since the number of applicants to the seminary has jumped, the aver­ age grade of the seminary students on the standardized university en­ trance examination has risen from roughly 250 to 320 out of a possible 500. But that grade still falls below the 390 average mark scored by students entering the liberal arts n school. ti All the same, once they are in f( the seminary, the students display f a commitment to their education. y Very few take advantage of the op­ tion to transfer to other schools tl within the 20,000-student univer­ p sity after two years. And a few stu­ a dents transfer into the seminary "' 38 [558) New World Outlook • December 1976 e from other schools within the uni­ versity. Of last year's 14 undergrad­ uates, five went on to the seminary's graduate school. " In their self-introductions at the beginning of the school year, many of the non-Christian students ex­ press an authentic interest in Chris­ tianity," Mr. FLkada says. "We offer them a chance to freely look at their own lives and the direction they want to take. They don't have that opportunity in Japan's high-pres­ sured high schools." Self-interest, namely the desire to escape chronic deficits, was a factor in the seminary's radical switch, ac­ knowledges Mr. Fukada, the only . missionary on the seminary faculty. More importantly, the Japanese stu­ dent unrest of 1968-69, which A minority of Doshisha freshmen forced the closing of the university It's too early to evaluate Dosh­ profess Christianity. "People suspect us for eight months, triggered a thor­ isha's experiment, says Mr. Fukada, who is also director of the North of heresy," says the Rev. Robert ough reassessment by the faculty of Fukada (opposite page), faculty member. theological education. East Asia Association of Theologi­ "We were too authoritarian," Mr. cal Schools. For the time being the Fukada recalls. seminary is concentrating on im­ Changes that the seminary has proving the quality of the program introduced-ti:!am teaching, inter­ and straightening out its kinks. disciplinary studies, maximum In the long run Doshisha may course electives have become stan­ follow the American pattern and dard techniques in the United operate only a graduate school of States but are still unusual in Ja­ theology. As the undergraduate pan, Mr. Fukada says. seminary has taken on more and Interdisciplinary courses offered more of the appearance of a lib­ last year in both the theological eral arts school, other fa cu Ities at school and the university's liberal Doshisha question its continued ex­ arts school proved very popular. istence. The seminary's eminent scholar, Dr. Mr. Fukada believes that as long Masao Takenaka, co-taught two of as Japanese academic education re­ them, a course on industrial mission tains its rigid character, Doshisha's and another on Doshisha and the undergraduate seminary will meet a modernization of Japan. need. The changes at the seminary have "There should be a place within been wrenching for the faculty the university where a kind of free nonetheless. Professors reportedly process, a truly searching educa­ have had to go through a process of tion, can take place," he says. "At reeducation themselves. Mr. Fukada the Doshisha School of Theology we finds teaching the school's first­ encourage that self-discovery year theological students difficult. through interdisciplinary biblical "I can't take any traditional Chris­ and theological study." • tian concepts for granted," he ex­ -Ellen Clark plains. "But, though uncomfort­ This article originally appeared in the able, teaching a bunch of students Japan Christian Activity News which is with no theological consensus is an published by the National Christian exciting cha Ilenge." Council of Japan . New World Outlook • December 1976 (559] 39 - - ~ ~ l - demanding of those who called them­ politics. ~ selves Christian. He once explained that, Aside from the story of Camilo, the HtHtks "In Colombia we have no shortage of book would be particularly helpful to .. ~ ~ ~ troops; what we lack are leaders." He foreigners, because it provides a unique was also aware of the fact that "In insight into the social structures of st Colombia the cassock opens all doors." Bogota, tl1e social, economic and politi­ He was willing to assume leadership on ...... ~ cal problems of the country as a whole, behalf of the oppressed poor ("to be the and recent Colombian history is voice of the voiceless masses") and to capsulized in a very helpful manner. m ~ ... use his cassock. to open doors that offi­ However, in some passages, where the p CAMILO TORRES: A BIOGRAPHY cialdom did not want him to open. His author is offe1ing condensed versions of OF THE PRIEST-GUERRILLERO, leadership in championing the cause of recent political intrigues to show their by Walter J. Broderick. New York, student leaders unjustly expelled from relation to Camilo's own personal his­ 1975: Doubleday, 370 pp., $10.00. the university, his use of an official post tory, he does tend to over-simplify and I have overheard Colombians com­ in the government to bring about au­ makes some hasty judgments concerning thentic land reform, and his criticisms leading historical figures . \ ment that no one knows as much about G the martyred revolutionary priest as of the church's alliance with the ruling RAYMOND KIRK DEHAINAUT Australian-born ex-priest Joe Broderick. classes is what made it necessary for This "Life" of Camilo is not the first one, him to give up his priestly ministry (he He is United Methodist Campus Min­ but is certainly the most thorough and never renounced his priesthood) and ister of the University of Southem Flori­ dedicate himself to open political mili­ perhaps the most objective. Joe's own da, Tampa. He was previously a mis­ Latin American ministry in the early tancy. sionary in Colombia, Latin America. There is no attempt here to cover '60s which led him to identify with the up the ambiguities in Camila's character. poor classes and struggle against the HISTORY AND THE THEOLOGY OF He is an Alyosha, but at times he also LIBERATION, by Enrique Dussel. ecclesiastical authorities has, no doubt, appears as another Dostoyevsky charac­ Translated by John Drury. Maryknoll, deepened his empathy toward his sub­ ter, Prince Myshkin, as he allows him­ ject. He gives the reader new insight New York, 1976: Orbis Press, 189 into Camilo's inner struggles and iden­ self to be used by various interest pages, $8.95. groups. During a period of his early tifies the historical and social forces that "Mudslinging, that's what it is," an ministry, the wives of the wealthy make transformed an upper-class playboy into American minister once said to me of him their private chaplain and "the dar­ a good-natured university chaplain who the contemporary Latin American the­ finally became a fiery revolutionary. ling of the northern suburbs." Others ology of liberation. "Throw as much Ever since his death in an unsuccess­ used his winning ways to make friends anti-American dirt as they can in our ful skirmish against a Colombian army for the chur.ch among the students of faces, and they call that theology!" Even patrol in 1966, Torres has become the the National University. Coronel Valen­ the sympathetic reader is tempted at chief symbol for Latin American Chris­ cia Tovar, who eventually hunted him times to agree, forgetting about the tian revolutionaries. He has taken his down, talked him into providing civic healing properties of mud: it was mud place as a hero and a mythological figure action techniques for his officers, and it that Jesus daubed on the eyes of the alongside Ernesto "Che" Guevara and was precisely these techniques that were blind beggar in John 9, causing the man others. Broderick has managed to pene­ used against the revolutionaries in the to open his eyes and proclaim him a trate much of the mythology that has countryside. But Camilo does not remain prophet. grown up around him so that he might a patsy. He eventually takes sides with Most of the material coming off the introduce us to the real Camilo. The the students against the administration Latin American mimeograph machine­ real Camilo we meet in these pages, and criticizes the army as "the instru­ essential medium of liberation theology warts and all, is anything but a disap­ ment of the dominant groups." -simply does not make the grade, when pointment. Some say that the guerrilla leader measured against our "universal" criteria The book is written like a novel with Fabio Vasquez took advantage of his of scholarship. Liberation theology is interludes of descriptive historical back­ revolutionary enthusiasm during the last written by and for people in a world ground. The author's style is very year of his life. The fact that he was a that is not our world, in a struggle that pleasing and his vocabulary is very rich. public hero while he was confronting is not our struggle; it cannot be read His translations of Colombian slang the church and the oligarchies made through the bifocals of gringo theology, expressions are quite imaginative and him a valuable recruit for Vasquez, but which considers universal a set of his­ accurate. The soul searchings of Camilo it was his own insistance that he not be torical and philosophical principles that with regard to the issues facing him coddled that placed him in the vanguard are neither universal nor even very bib­ are treated with utmost seriousness by of the ambush in which he was killed. lical. the author, yet the book is entertaining It is said that Camilo was once accused It does have, however, interpreters and compelling. of allowing himself to be used by the who-trained in the academic centers Broderick breaks through the Camilo revolutionaries and responded, "I would that set the pace for our own theological myth to reveal that although Camilo rather be used by revolutionaries than development-not only speak our lan­ was a sociologist and co-founder of the oligarchs." guage but enrich it with experiences for Department of Sociology at the National In my opinion, Joe Broderick has suc­ which our language has no words, for University and author of several papers ceeded in interpreting the Camilo myth. they are not our experiences. Enrique and articles, he was not really a deep This is in no way a negative interpreta­ Dussel is such an interpreter. intellectual. Neither was he a creative tion, because the demythologized Cam­ An historian on the grand scale, Dus­ theologian or a forerunner of the The­ ilo remains just as saintly and inspiring sel begins with the galactic revolution ology of Liberation. Actually, his the­ as the vague myth, if not more. The that gave us the planet earth, and like ology was rather old-fashioned, Thomis­ Camilo revealed in this book is that rare an enormous spotlight focuses in on the tic and dualistic. He was a master of species of man-for-others that most of contemporary world. Or perhaps I communication and a courageous man of us would have liked to have known should say the contemporary underworld, action who understood what history was whether or not we could agree with his for Dussel's history is like that of the

40 [560] New World Oullook • December 1976 ancient Hebrews : written from the view­ liant. But I fear he will lose his North of history they never saw before. It will the point of Moses and the Israelites rather American readers in the second half, be sad if they find his conclusions out of to than that of the pharaohs. In the Mary­ where he jumps ahead to his own con­ focus , and go running for their universal !Ue knoll edition, the spotlight fin ally pin­ clusions on violence, private property, criteria before the book is done. of points a dark com er of U.S. history: the domination, and the conditioning power Dussel is making an effort to win us iti. stn1ggle of the chicano people. He leads of cultural, economic, political and reli­ away from dependence on our false uni­ Je, us through a history that is new to us, gious factors. Unlike the Latin Ameri­ versals: in effect, to liberate us. One can is introducing us to heroes and prophets cans who heard these lectures in Buenos only hope that he will keep on trying, er. with Indian and Spanish names. The Aires and Medellin, we do not live close that Maryknoll will keep on publishing he message is clear: today's Latin American enough to contemporary Latin American his work, and that the miracle of Siloam of prophets do not stand alone in history. reality to follow his shorthand. will be repeated in our own history. !ir They too have ancestors, waiting to be That would be too bad. Dussel's his­ MARGARET D. WILDE is. rediscovered by theology. tory almost certainly holds the key to id The dependence of theology on his­ these issues, and this is volume one in Ms. Wilde has worked in Latin Amer­ 1g tory is Dussel's main theme. U.S. readers an ongoing work. If I know my people, ica and frequently writes for Christian will bridle when he first introduces it: most Americans will be inspired by the publications. rr God's self-revelation "is historical-and first three lectures to lay aside their cul­ only historical-in nature." (We're look­ tural bifocals and discover a dimension I· ing for the spiritual dimension, and he j. gives us clay.) But by the time he re­ !· peats it in chapter five, Dussel has shown us so much of the dynamic of history that we have to wonder, with the angel F in Acts : "Men of Galilee, why do you I. stand looking into heaven?" God's historical revelation never ceased with the closing of the canon. We just stooped seeing it; instead of reveal­ ing God's action in history, our historical tradition often conceals it. At some point" -Dussel dates it to Irenaus, casually tossing off a transformation at least as significant as that of Constantine-theol­ ogy lost its historical roots and became abstracted into logic and commentary on Scripture. U.S. blacks claim to have been de­ prived of their history. Dussel says Latin America is outside history-simply not considered, except as the arena for Iber­ ian expansion. Whichever way you look at it, the point is that for two thousand years whole sectors of God's revelation have been concealed by traditional his­ tory; that history must be destroyed, dismantled, in order to find revelation This lban boy lives in month and pays a monthly among the mud and bricks. Sarawak, a full day's journey $9 tuition fee. He could be In the process Dussel shows us, with­ upstream from the nearest out making a point of it, how our own smil ing because he has self-image-not only that of Latin Amer­ school. Thirty other families learned that United ica- has been distorted. How could we live in the same longhouse, Methodists in the U. S. are understand "universal" history, and our in a remote area where the willing to help him with a place in it, when whole peoples have church is the main contact scholarship through the been shut out? If we learn about the with the outside world. An World Division of the Board settlement of North America practically education is an impossibility of Global Ministries. Are you without reference to the wider conquest unless he boards at the willing to help keep him of America, how can we understand our school at a cost of $15 a smiling? own origins, let alone what happened to the chicanos? From there the reader will

have new questions of his own. Could 006073 - 2AB it be that our "policeman" role in Latin r· ------:-,Send your check today and help lban America, our obsession with moderniza­ I children receive an education. I tion, our helplessness in the face of massive official violations of human I Clip this coupon and mail with I rights by "democratic" nations, are not your check to: Address so much determined by the Monroe I World Division I Doctrine (which is definitely inside his­ I Room 1439 City ______State ____ Zip _____ I tory) as by our utter lack of historical 475 Riversi de Dr. New York , NY 10027 Church Annual Conl I understanding of Latin America? I _Tne United______Me1hod1s1 Child Supporl Program 1s a pan ol the worldwide mm1slry ol !he Board ol Global M1n1stries ... Dussel's first three chapters are bril- L with all child care 1ns111u11ons approved as Advance Specials - - I New World Outlook • December 1976 [561] 41 1974 before Bishop Kim was elected bishop, and before the church split, and in which the split off group (and most likely the Rev. Mah ) voted for. CARL w. }UDY Chunchon, Korea An Orderly Way He is a United Methodist missionary. to Start Each Day BOTSWANA A PEACEFUL EXAMPLE ABOUT THE COVER The special issue on southern Africa (June) This describes the Le family, who are pic­ was exceptionally good, having the varied ap­ tured on the December cover. Members of proaches by outstanding authorities on the 1977 ( the family include the father, Duong Hong Le; many tense situations. · the mother, Yen Pham Le; Anh Hong Le, 15; I'm only sorry there was nary a mention United Methodist HU Lan Hong Le, 14, but the tallest of the girls; of Botswana, this large democratic "island" in GLO Loan Hong Le, 13; Nhung Hong Le, 9; and the midst of conflicts on all sides. Being Rev. II the young boy by the candle, Hoa Pham Le, 5. Robert Moffatt's and his son-in-law Dr. David Calendar and Not pictured is Hung Pham Le, who at 16 Livingstone's old stamping grounds, along and entered ortheastern University on a full with many outstanding Botswanan Christian for scholarship, after passing qualifying examina­ statesmen through the years, have made this Workbook Mecl tions. inland country a peaceful example for her This striking, new, spiral-bound, Cole The family left South Vietnam April 30, troubled neighbors. light brown leather-grained work­ next 1975 on a fishing boat. After being at sea This month Botswana is celebrating its 10th book and calendar begins with for many days, they were rescued by the U.S. anniversary of independence. Her flag has the first Sunday in Advent, 1976, E Navy, finally arriving at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas both the black and white stripes signifying and continues through 1977. of cl in July, 1975. They are sponsored by the Great the harmonious living together of all races. Dates of Lent and Easter are in­ first cluded through 1979. Hill United Methodist Church in Seymour, President Seretse Khama is playing an active Sou Connecticut. The Rev. Kermit Morrison is role in striving for peaceful settlements on It indicates all special national, pastor. Me Le is a mathematics teacher, hav­ every side. How long must it take for all per­ interdenominational, and United ern ing taught for many years at the Le Qui Don sons to realize we're all God's children, and Methodist dates. It also includes ties the Lectionary for Public in Saigon. Today he is employed at the Bunker all equal in His sight? Worship, a four-year calendar, hi~ Ramo Amphenol factory in Danbury, Connecti­ Although our church has only been active and an entire section devoted to ects cut, working on a machine. here in Botswana for the past seven years, it special days and liturgical colors. cies ( REv. ) LARRY LARSON has made a tremendous witness here in the In addition, there are several Ansonia, Conn. isolated Northwest District on the edge of pages for names, addresses, notes, 1 He is rector of Christ Church in Ansonia. the Kalahari Desert and Okavango Swamp. and permanent records. The work­ Afr This secondary school has continually ex­ book conveniently opens flat to visi OBJECTS TO COVER panded to nearly 400 students, in giving reveal the entire week at a glance. I'm writing in regard to the cover picture The right-hand page is devoted for Christian emphasis to youth and future entirely to Sunday, and the rest of on the September 1976 issue of New World leaders of this underdeveloped country. Our sia Outlook. I feel like hiding the magazine, and I the days are on the left-hand original six years of establishing this training page. rol do turn it over. center are terminating, but the local citizens An excellent and vitally Un By no stretch of the imagination could I and government officials have requested that necessary tool for all ministers, are find it an inspiration to any race or nationality; the United Methodist Church and the African church workers, choir directors, lib We stress using pictures and other means to Central Conference continue to exercise con­ organists, and church-school help draw people to God via our Lord Jesus trol of this outstanding school. teachers! 128 pages. 6" x 9". Gift vit Christ. This is especially true in leading chil­ LOYD 0 . SCHAAD boxed. $4.50 ser dren to love and worship Christ. Maun, Botswana tat Please let us have beauty and realistic cov­ Mr. Schaad is a United Methodist missionary me ers. India has much beauty, as well as all in Botswana, where the church is engaged in nationalities and races. educational, agricultural, evangelistic and pr I appreciate your coverage of religious medical work. ers news. Thank you for your editorial in this same issue: "Luke 4 and Jesus' Teachings." SU PPORT FOR SoCO mi EDNA s. DAVIS The September issue carried an excellent Gilliam, La. Zii article by Ellen Clark, "Organizing Tenants in pr1 Hong Kong," and it should help readers view "SLANTED" REPORTIN G "[ When it comes to South Korea, New World Hong Kong as it is behind the scenes of the Outlook is prejudiced to the point of slanted luxury liotels-shopping center image whic:h so wl reporting that could be considered misleading many Americans hold in their mind. in and even untruthful. I wish to note one point of inaccuracy. On w In the May 1976 issue, which has just page 20 it is said that the budget for SoCO comes largely from overseas and is channeled Si( arrived, is a report (Mission Memo) on the sil "1974 split in the autonomous Korean Meth­ through the Christian Conference of Asia. In odist Church." It reports Bishop Kim "has a the years we have been related to SoCO, Sc goal of a million converts and 5,000 new con­ Christian Conference of Asia sources have di gregations by 1984. The Rev. Mah Kyung II, been a little less than half of the budget s( president of the breakaway Methodist Church sources. I think it is important to note that in Korea ( MCK), scoffs at the bishop's figures, the Hong Kong Joint Action Group (Division charging that the KMG plans to erect build­ of Overseas Ministries, National Council of ings before gathering congregations." the Churches of Christ in the tJ .S.A. ), which The report fails to report three things: includes most North American denominations, the great effort by both groups toward unifica­ is a cooperating agency for funding SoCO. tion with possible success in 1977-78, that the Also, the Maryknoll Fathers, Swiss Churches, Board's unwise actions deepened the split, and and local churches in Hong Kong provide ot your cokesbury bookstore that the 5,000 churches and one million Chris­ funds for this work. It is a truly ecumenical tians is not Bishop Kim's program but the concern which is jointly funded. abingdon Korean Methodist Church program. This pro­ Keep those fine stories coming! the book publishing deportment of the united methodist publishing house gram was adopted by the General Conference ROBERT W . NORTHUP of the Korean Methodist Church in October Director, Japan and Hong Kong, NCC 42 [562] New World Outlook • December 1976 rnm ,\\n\•i1191 Pi1191er \\'rites ~ 000 HUMAN RIGHTS, HUNGER TOP GLOBAL MINISTRIES AGENDA OF TIE CHURCHE Human rights and hunger, projects ' and political prisoners were key words for the mission board of the United Methodist Church as it met in Denver, Colo., Oct. 22-30 to set programs for the next four years. Early in the meeting the 159 directors of the Board of Global Ministries heard firsthand reports on crises in Zimbabwe, South Korea, Latin America and North­ ern Ireland. The needs of ethnic minori­ ties and women around the world were highlighted in a large number of proj­ ects put forward by churches and agen­ cies in the Third World. The Rev. Isaac Bivens, secretary for. African Affairs of the board's World Di­ vision, brought the Geneva negotiations "' - ~ -..,,.,.._ , - - -- for majority rule in Zimbabwe (Rhode­ _... - ~~----- .. _ sia ) very close as he reported on the -- - role Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the ( RNS Phot o) United Methodist Church in Rhodesia OCCUPY NATIONAL COUNCIL OFFICES are playing in the African struggle for NEW YORK-A group of youthful demonstrators, members of Concerned Jewish liberation. On Oct. 28, Bivens was in­ Youth and Betar, staged a six-hour occupation of National Council of Churches (NCC) vited by the bishop to come as an ob­ offices in New York in protest against Rumanian Orthodox Archbishop Valerian Trifa' s server to the Geneva talks as a represen­ membership on the NCC Governing Board. The occupation was the second protest tative of the board. The board sent a over the Trifa issue. The Archbishop has been accused of being a member of the Iron message to all Zimbabwe leaders ex­ Guard, a Rumanian Fascist organization, during World War II. (See Mission Memo.) At left, Rabbi Avraham W eiss (left) of the Hebrew Institute in Riverdale, N.Y., leader pressing concern for them in their lead­ of both protests, takes part in the occupation of the NCC offices with Bulgarian Orthodox ership roles. Archpriest W illiam Ischie of East Setauket, N .Y. In addition to affirming its commit­ At right, a member of Betar stands in front of the National Council of Churches ment to majority rule in South Africa, symbol to which a placard stating "Nazis in the U. S.A." has been attached. Zimbabwe and Namibia, the board ex­ pressed particular concern about the Letter from Latin Christians directed to North Americans: "Today "flagrant violations of human rights to Bishop Roy Nichols of the Pittsburgh the frontier of your witness and Chris­ which the African majority is subjected tian solidarity is within your own coun­ in these three territories." Both the area read portions of an "Open Letter from Latin America/ Caribbean Chris­ try." It said pressure on U.S. authorities Women's Division and the World Divi­ "can change the course of our govern­ sions voted to pursue corporate respon­ tians" signed by two Methodist pastors in Costa Rica, Socundino Morales and ments toward paths of greater justice." sibility actions in the areas of loans to The BOGM expressed solidarity with South Africa and expansion or with­ Saul Trinidad, as well as several other Latin Americans whose names could not the Latin Americans and turned the drawal of certain U.S. companies in be revealed. letter over to the investment committees South Africa. Both North and Latin Americans are of the various divisions. A resolution on human rights viola­ "trapped in the same system," said the The board named an 11-member dele­ tions in South Korea passed the final letter. "We all move within one eco­ gation composed of directors and staff day directed a staff working group to nomic-political-military complex." to go to Northern Ireland with an ecu­ "develop strategies to pressure the U.S. Said Bishop Nichols: 'We in North menical study tour in December. It will government to review its economic, po­ America have collaborated with the confer with all factions in the struggle litical and military relationships to most oppressive classes in Latin Amer­ and join a Dec. 4 demonstration of South Korea." And United Methodist ica. Our 'American way of life' note­ Peace People of Northern Ireland. The annual conferences were urged to find worthy for its affiuence is at the expense United Methodist team includes: Ms. ways to express their solidarity with of missions to the south." He also called Jean Dorsett, Mt. Gilead, N.C.; Ms. Korean Christians struggling for rights. attention to a key sentence in the letter Roberta Neuman, Placentia, Calif.; Ms. New World Outlook • December 1976 [563] 43 ciel Katherine Carroll, Walnut Creek, Calif.; ethnic minorities in the U.S. Three divi­ sional emphasis on the ethnic minority isl Richard B. Bryant, Jr., East Lansing, sions voted a total of $25,000 toward the local church. Charged to administer this •adc Mich.; Richard Cash, Portland, Ore.; legal costs to be incurred by the Na­ program, the division will concentrate to Ms. Kathy Waters, Oklahoma City, tional Association for the Advancement on church extension and congregational Illjl Okla.; Annette Hutchins-Felder, Joan of Colored People (NAACP) in appeal­ development, salary supplements and Illil Clark, Patricia Patterson, and Arthur ing a judgment against its Port Gibson, outreach ministries among ethnic minor­ ~o Moore, all of New York City. The Ecu­ Miss. chapter brought by 12 merchants. ity groups. tiOl menical and Interreligious Concerns Di­ Two divisions voted a total of $25,000 An international educator from Atlan­ •su! vision also will name a representative. to the Ecumenical Minority Bail Bond ta, Dr. William B. Kennedy, urged the Ca Fund of the National Council of board to help church members break all Account of Hunger Fu nds Churches. out of "the cocoon in which most Chris­ the An evening presentation by the After hearing a major presentation on tians live" and move into a global un­ 'ser board's ombudsman, the Rev. Harry derstanding of mission. As director of world hunger, the board reported the far Gibson, showed ethnic minority mem­ the Association for International Educa­ distribution of $3,727,000 this year to deJ various projects responding to chronic bers now total 23.4% of the total staff tion, he described workshops in rural an1 in contrast to only 7% in 1969. A policy and emergency hunger situations as well Georgia parishes, with international stu­ wl as seeking to get at the root causes of statement passed on the final day dents and others by which Protestant Ill( hunger. Of this total, $2.5 million went pledged the board "to take affirmative and Roman Catholic church people are •na into international action, $727,000 for actions to achieve equal employment helped to transcend the denominational pl. national projects, $500,000 for action/ opportunity in all personnel actions and boxes and the 'bourgeois cocoon" by si! education. procedures." getting acquainted with people of other of On women political prisoners, the An affirmative action group was estab­ races and classes. ' vo World and Women's Divisions together lished to study ways to increase care In other actions, the board: in gave $5,000 toward expenses of an in­ for racial and ethnic minority persons in "voted to urge the Coca Cola Co. not 'hf ternational team going to investigate the United Methodist health and welfare to buy Taylor Wine Co. and to sell its physical condition of women in Akaki agencies. 7,600 shares of stock if the purchase is Prison, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They are consummated; $1 reportedly gravely ill due to torture. In Ethnic Church Consultation "asked the Judicial Council (supreme ~ addition the two divisions will call a The National Division will hold a con­ court) to rule on the constitutionality 'li consultation to plan long-range action sultation in December with representa­ of a requirement adopted in May by m tives of the church's annual conferences $1 to identify with such prisoners. 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( 255 JEFFERSOI~N AVE S E , GRANO RAPI DS, M IC H 49502 e a 44 [564] New World Outlook • December 1976 cies to be members of United M thod­ States. ist Church; The board urged support for Con­ •adopted a basic budget of $34,899,668 gressional action related to United to cover its work in world and national States' Southern Africa policy, such as mis ions, relief, health and welfare enforcement of United Nations sanc­ mini tries, ecumenical and inter-reli­ tions against Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe, non­ gious concerns, education and cultiva­ recognition of the Transkei, and appli­ tlan. tion and women's concerns; cation of domestic equal opportunity the •supported efforts of farmworkers in employment standards for U.S. corpora­ real California seeking passage of a law tions in South Africa and elsewhere. hns. allowing union organizers access to The strategy directions call for un. them where they work; encouragement and promotion of con­ : of •sent a message of condolence to the sultation between South African black ica. fam ily of the late Robert Moss, presi­ leaders and representatives of U.S. lira] dent of the United Church of Christ corporations which have operations in Sfu. and a dedicated ecumenical leader, South Africa. They affirm the intensified :ant who died during the time of the board application of United Presbyterian in­ are meeting. vestment policy guidelines, in coopera­ nal •named Bishop Edward Carroll to re­ tion with other denominations, in by place Bishop Jesse DeWitt who re­ support of black south African criticism ~er signed from the Executive Committee of U.S. transnational enterprises which of the Consultation on Church Union; buttress the economic viability of the •voted to hold the spring board meet­ apartheid system. BEAUTY IN PEWTER From the hea rt of Italy co mes this exquisite pewter girl on ,01 ing in Atlantic City, N.J. in April; Staff of the agency was directed to slender onyx base . Beautiful l1fe- l1 ke details. Specify boy ljti 0 heard the United Methodist Develop­ or girl or bolh . develop programs consistent with the Height: 3¥•" $500 each is ment Fund had made loans totalling strategy directions, and to report back add 75 cents BEST OF EVERYTHING, Depl. NW handlin g $1,270,000 to enable 10 churches to to the board on each program. Box 425 , 501 Park Ave . N. ne construct new church facilities; The board received, as a working Winter Park, Florida 327B9 0 NW-12 fy heard that the United Methodist Com­ paper for discussion with the denomina­ mittee on Relief has allocated a record. tion and others, guidelines for United $8,055,224 in the first nine months of Presbyterian Chur9h participation in O~· 1976. •commissioned 12 missionaries for world service, six for national service, includ­ ing one Native American, eight dea­ conneses and 20 recent college gradu­ ates for two-year terms. If xou are concerned about justice -FRANCES S. SMITH United Methodist Communications ana peace in the Middle East and in theworld, ouwillen·o reading ... JUSTICE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA CETS PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT THE BIBLICAL Support for racial justice, human BACKGROUNDS OF rights, and self-determination in South­ THE MIDDLE EAST ern Africa was affirmed by the United CONFLICT Presbyterian Program Agency Board at by Georgia Harkness and its meeting in New York October 21-23. Charles F. Kraft The board expressed its intention to The Arab Israeli dispute is placed against the background intensify United Presbyterian relation­ of the Hebrew people-their ships with the white and black churches past history, the land, and how in Southern Africa. They affirmed sup­ their neighbors have reacted to their presence throughout port for "those who have become vic­ the centuries. Dr. Kraft tims of the struggle for racial justice in presents a concise and factual account of chief events in Southern Africa, including material and Palestine during the past seventy­ moral support of non-violent strategies five years, including the rise of Arab nationalism, the in- and projects undertaken by those strug­ crease in Zionist immigration, gling for self-determination in Southern and the four Arab-Israeli wars. Africa." Both sides of the conflict are presented in a balanced way They called for support and encour­ to provide understanding and agement of ecumenical efforts which to elicit a measure of sympathy for both sides. Maps accompany address the situation, through coopera­ the last chapter. $7.95 tion with the South Africa Council of o1 your c okesbury bookstore Churches, the World Council of Church­ abinqdon es, the National Council of Churches, lhe book publishing departme nt of and other denominations in the United !he united methodist pubt1sh1ng house New World Outlook • December 1976 [565] 45 CHRISTMAS GIFT SPECIAL concerns for racial minority needs in both of the above areas, were approved by the General Assembly Mission Board of the PCUS in September. They com­ mit both denominations to cooperation, rather than competition, with other de­ nominations. 0 Approved, for presentation to the cl denomination's General Assembly Mis­ sion Council in December, a budget of 11 $11,327,914 for 1977, reflecting a 9.9 d percent decrease from the 1976 budget. a -Presbyterian News c

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Write fo1· ft·ee infor·ma­ The paper seeks to clarify such ques­ RNS Photo t.ion. D)>; l"T. WO tions as why the church is in mission, FERRELL'S ART WARE what its general guidelines for mission Cornelia Ford Appomattox, Virginia 24522 are, the context of its mission, and what directions should be taken in the future. FOSTER CRANDPARENT ENJOYS laywoman points out, "there are a lot of Among other actions during its meet­ HELPINC RETARDED CHILDREN older people that need this; it's a lot ing, the Program Agency Board: Cornelia Ford is a senior citizen, but better than putting them in a rest ° Commissioned four persons as she doesn't feel that she has been put home." United Presbyterian missionaries and "on the shelf." A member of First United There are 100 "foster grandparents" fraternal workers at a special service. Methodist Church in Denton, Tex., she at Denton School here. They serve four Those commissioned were: Gordon Wal­ is one of 13,000 persons across the coun­ hours a day, five days a week, and work lace Brown and Carolyn Luther Brown, try who have participated in the "Fos­ with children in "one-to-one" relation­ who will serve for three years in the ter Grandparents" program since it was ships. industry and commerce programme de­ launched in 1965. (RNS) partment of the Mindolo Ecumenical Funded in part by the federal gov­ Foundation in Zambia; Janice Louise ernment, the program is designed to JESUIT PROTESTINC TORTURE Bostrom, to serve three years as a spe­ give low-income older Americans oppor­ KILLED BY BRAZIL POLICEMAN cialist for education among mentally tunities to work part-time with mentally A Jesuit priest was shot and killed by retarded children at Ramses College for retarded youngsters. a military policeman in the town of Girls, Egypt; and Philip E. Davies, who It has two major advantages-giving Ribeirao Bonito in the western Brazilian presently is serving a two-year assign­ the elderly a chance to engage in useful state of Mato Grosso, the Brazilian In­ ment as an instructor of sociology and activities, and providing a needed social dian Missionary Council has charged. anthropology at Birzeit University, on service for children. The council said Father Joao Bosco the West Bank of occupied Jordan. Mrs. Ford, who is 80, has six grand­ Penido Burhier, S.J., had gone to the 0 Approved guidelines for the devel­ children of her own. But she praises police barracks to protest the alleged opment of new congregations and the the "Foster Grandparents" program for torture of two women by the police. redevelopment of existing congregations having helped "all of us walk a little The women were being questioned in within the United Presbyterian Church straighter and forget our aches and connection with the murder of a police­ and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. pains.n man. The guidelines, which also reflect the In addition, the United Methodist According to a Vatican Radio report, 46 [566] New World Outlook • December 1976 Father Burhier had accompanied Span­ i h-born Bishop Pedor Casaldaliga, C.M.F ., Prelate of Sao Felix, Matto Gro so, to the barracks. The broadcast said the bishop had been threatened fR HowtoMakethe with death by military policemen. The 48-year-old bishop, a member of the Claretian Fathers, is known as a Later Years a Challenge champion of the rights of peasants and poor settlers in his ecclesiastical juris­ Instead of a Struggle diction. He has long defended his flock against what he considers the unjust Patterns for encroachment of large land-development Mature Living companies and industrialization projects. Milton Henry Keene Last year, a group of Brazilian bish­ ops, led by Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns With a down-to-earth, you-and-me conversational style, written in of Sao Paulo, successfully appealed to extra-h:rge print, this totally "up" Pope Paul to prevent Bishop Casaldaliga book tells what over-sixty people can do! from being deported on what the bish­ This inspirational book will fire ops he)d were trumped-up charges of your imagination and dispel your being "a subversive Communist" and of fears if you dread the retirement years. 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I Cltv State --ZIP-- City State - Z ip-- I IL Service Center, 7820 Reading Road , Cincinnati, Oh io 45237 .II give------• --- New World Outlook priest's trial as a "farce." (Public opin­ secondary schools from church and pri­ quisition of private schools, arguing it ion in Brazil and Church pressure vate owners. had a duty to make education free to brought about commutation of the o compensation was paid to church all. priest's sentence after a year, but he was schools. Compensation for private secu­ Churches fear "atheistic materialism" expelled from the country.) lar schools was arbitrarily fixed and the and the gradually spreading authoritar­ In 1974, military personnel invaded government has refused to permit its ian government political policies, while and ransacked Bishop Casaldaliga's resi­ decisions to be challenged in the courts. Prime Minister Burnham looks at the dence in Sao Felix. They arrested, beat, Opposition has arisen because of the churches as former allies of colonialism, and tortured four priests who were there way the expropriations were carried out, oppressors of the poor and defenders of and held the bishop a virtual prisoner. rather than the fact of the transfer of the capitalist economy Guyana is de­ Also in 1974, Bishop Casaldaliga was authority and ownership. The major re­ stroying. one of six bishops who issued a formal ligious faiths of Guyanese are Christian, Several religious leaders, including statement sharply criticizing Brazil's Hindu, and Moslem. the Anglican Archbishop of the West government policy toward Indians, Mr. Burnham, who has shifted his Indies, Dr. Alan John Knight, and the charging that it could lead to "the ex­ government to a socialist-communist Roman Catholic Vicar General of termination or degradation" of the In­ stance, has often been credited with Georgeto\vn, the Rev. Andrew Morrison, dians. doing everything according to law-by S.J., have criticized the government for (RNS) simply changing the law to permit what­ its attempts at thought control-almost ever policy he wished to promote. all press and radio facilities are gov­ CHURCH-RELATED SCHOOLS The government rushed through a bill ernment-controlled-and for forcibly ac­ EXPROPRIATED BY GUYANA that cut a fundamental rights section off quiring private property. The government of Prime Minister the constitution and changed the educa­ The Anglican leader tried to lay down Forbes Burnham has come under strong tion act to facilitate state takeover of all terms for state acquisition of church criticism as a result of its takeover of private schools. It virtually banned reli­ property and the payment to be made, OR. more than 600 nursery, primary and gious instruction in classrooms in the ac- while Father Morrison said the enabling N legislation Mr. Burnham steam-rolled iden of 0 through was "a Trojan horse at our not gates" because it contained the principle Bi upon which anyone's property could ti vis) be taken away with little or no compen­ sation. The Prime Minister reacted sharply, calling such views arrogant and impu­ dent and implied that had Dr. Knight and Father Morrison not been Guyanese citizens, they would have been expelled. One Government officials d'enied there was any loss of, or interference with, reli­ church gious freedom or the pursuit of religious activities by churches. many Mr. Burnham argued that Guyana guaranteed freedom to worship or not to ble worship, but held it could not allow de­ cultures nominational schools to continue to op­ the erate in a secular state. Because of a shortage of teachers, a number of priests and other church­ related instructors are expected to con­ tinue to teach in the schools. (RNS)

LCA DESIGNS PROGRAM TO AID ACCEPTANCE OF WOMEN CLERGY The management committee of the Division for Professional Leadership of This is one way Unit ed the Lutheran Church in America has Methodists express concern Fe b . h Um. a n for the spiritual and physical approved a program to "facilitate the welfare of all people. equal acceptance of women in the min­ relations istry." 13 d We are one church with a Ordination of women was authorized htritage sterning from many ~H~ ~u"u"~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ay cultures - joined on Human by the LCA in 1970. Since then, 38 1977 Relations Day through a women have become pastors. ....______./ Christian concern for all. The committee approved develop­ ment of the materials "to sensitize key Order llllterials front leaders in the church" because "leaving lhlited Methodist Comnulications, 1200 Davis Sl, Evanston, I. 60201 the process to chance is not a responsi- 48 [568] New World Outlook • December 1976 professional leadership roles, and ar­ sheep and chickens raised by local rogant. churches, Sunday schools and youth fel­ "Some faculty and all presidents are lowships; two tons of rice; 300 pounds l\ isni ~ very supportive, trying to understand of beans; 250 layettes and 400 pounds >ti tar our problems, taking us seriously, de­ of other clothing. Beans worth $6,800 Wh~ fending us in interviews for internships, already have been shipped under a t th. concerned about us as people. Male Bean-Blast Program originated by tl iSin seminarians' attitudes cover the entire George Pedersen, layman in Cone Com­ ~ rs~ gamut from hostility to anger to passive munity Church, and sponsored by the > de resentment to awkward uncertainty to Shasta District and conference Town active and positive support ... and Country Commission. Involvement din ~ "As one male professor put it: 'Only included a 20-mile walk for hunger, a fVeg when a male seminarian can say to a sew-a-thon, a melodrama and other I the female seminarian, 'Oh, go to hell,' with­ events. ~ out having a major explosion on all sides Each animal will be a gift to a sub­ ison. will we know we have really learned to sistence farmer in Tanzania, South t for accept each other . . ." ( RNS ) Korea, Mexico, Arizona or Montana, mo~ with the condition that the first offspring go\'. be given to someone else in need. Heifer REPO RT CLAIMS LAOS REGIME r ac. Project International will direct the TO CLOSE BUDDHIST SHRINES transportation of stock and the training own RNS Photo The Communist regime of Laos will of farmers. mb close all Buddhist shrines throughout At the dedication ceremony, the Rev. ide. DR. MOSS DIES the countryside in April 1977, a former Dean Freudenberger of Claremont, ling NEW YORK-Dr. Robert V. Moss, pres­ Laotian royalist government official said Calif., nationally known hunger expert, Ued ident of the United Church of Christ, died in N ong Kai, Thailand. urged that Americans export cows in­ our of cancer Oct. 25 at the age of 54. The The official, who asked not to be stead of munitions. "Let the sending of Ip ie noted churchman, who was a recognized named, arrived in Nong Kai as a refu­ these animals by us make a great, un­ uld Biblical scholar, ecumenist, and social ac­ gee. He said the decision was announced equivocal statement of what we as tivist, succumbed at Mountainside Hospital" en. in an official Pathet Lao document in in Montclair, N.]. Christian people stand for." Freuden­ August. berger also led two of the 39 workshops Before being elected as the United Three Buddhist temples and one Ro­ >Ir. conducted during the day on phases of Church of Christ's second president in man Catholic church will be allowed to PU· hunger and help. 1969, Dr. Moss had served as president of remain open, the official said. ,~ht Lancaster Seminary and as an official ob­ (UMC) ese server to the Second Vatican Council. He More than 3,000 monks had lived in Laos, where nearly all the population of ~ . was a delegate to the Third and Fi~h As­ 3,340,000 is Buddhist. Many of the 1as semblies of the World Council of Churches monks have fled the country. Catholics STREETS IN M OZAM BIQUE ·li· and acted as co-chairman of the Roman Catholic-Presbyterian and Reformed dia­ number about 37,000. RENAMED FOR CHURCHM EN \Ul logue group from 1966 to 1968. (RNS) Streets in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, have been named in honor of na three Protestants active in the inde­ to ble strategy." '76 ROUNDUP' IN CALIFORNIA pendence movement in this former Por­ A purpose of the approved program, CATHERS ANIMALS FOR NEEDY tuguese colony. p· the committee said, is to help "key per­ Live animals, foodstuffs and clothing The principal avenue has been re­ sons and groups . . . avoid behaviors worth more than $186,000 came together named for Eduardo Mondlane, presi­ and attitudes which are demeaning to with 2,000 United Methodists from dent of the Mozambique Liberation women and inhibit equal acceptance." California-Nevada Conference in Pleas­ Front until his assassination in Dar-es­ Funding of $15,000 for the program anton, Calif. Oct. 16, in '76 Roundup. Salaam, Tanzania, in February 1969. Dr. was approved. The effort culminated 18 months of Mondlane was active in the ecumenical The committee's action came as an planning but was only the beginning of movement and a major speaker at a outgrowth of a study, "Women in the a 20-year commitment by the conference 1966 church and society conference Ordained Ministry," prepared by Pastor to help overcome world hunger. Some sponsored by the World Council of Marjorie Garhart, campus pastorate 275 of the area's 383 congregations were Churches. Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y. involved in responding to the challenge Also honored was the Rev. Zedequias A portion of Pastor Garhart's study which the conference accepted in 1975 Manganhela, president of the Presby­ dealt with attitudes toward women at on motion of a delegate from Windsor terian Church of Mozambique until he LCA seminaries, which included these Church. died while in prison in December 1972. general observations: The roundup at Alameda County Some reports say he committed suicide, "The seminary is patriarchal, struc­ Fairgrounds was under the leadership others that he was murdered by the tured and rigid, inbred and ingrown, of the conference Commission on World Portuguese authorities who held him. separated from the world, uneasy about Hunger, headed by the Rev. Claire The renamed Avenida Luca Elias women, cliquish, and gossipy. Some Beals-Nesmith, which already is plan­ Kumato honors a Presbyterian evange­ faculty (never all) are paternal, patron­ ning its next undertaking. list who also died in prison before in­ izing, insensitive (especially about lan­ The gathering of contributions to be dependence. guage), hostile, condescending, inacces­ sent to needy areas of the world in­ (RNS) sible, can see us as students but not in cluded many of the heifers, goats, pigs, New World Outlook • December 1976 [569] 49 AND IN NEW YORK CITY ... IN SURVEY, CHURCHES RATED and organizations. A committee of the New York City MORE DEPENDABLE THAN AB LE Household heads rated organized re­ Council approved bills to name areas in A recent nationwide survey of "house­ ligion just below banks in the category three parts of the city in honor of clergy. hold heads" has found that organized of "honesty, dependability, integrity." The areas will honor the late Dr. religion gets a higher rating for "hon­ Banks headed the list, with a high rating Reinhold Niebuhr, religious and social esty, dependability, and integrity" than from 41 per cent of the respondents, philosopher; Auxiliary Bishop Joseph fo r "ability to get things done." average rating from 47 per cent, low rat­ Pernicone of the Roman Catholic Arch­ A question involving ranking of 26 ing from. 7 per cent, and no opinion diocese of New York, and the late Rev. organizations and institutions was part from 5 per cent. George Warren Hinton, a Congrega­ of the 1976 Study of American Opinion, On this question, organized religion tional pastor in Queens. sponsored by the Marketing Department got a high rating from 36 per cent, aver­ A section of a street near Union The­ of U.S. News & World Report magazine. age rating from 45 per cent, low rating Arm ological Seminary would be re-named It was conducted by Marketing Con­ from 14 per cent, and no opinion from Arni AUSI for Dr. Neibuhr, who taught there for cepts, Inc., a Washington-based research 5 per cent. many years. firm . Politicians were at the bottom of the Bishop Pernicone, the first naturalized The basic sample consisted of more list on the question, getting a high rating Barr Italo-American named a U.S. Roman than 13,000 household heads, selected from 1 per cent, average from 38 per Bea Catholic bishop, would have an inter­ on a random basis from lists of 65 mil­ cent, low from 56 per cent, and no Sire section near the church of which he lion U.S. households maintained by the opinion from 5 per cent. Biv1 was pastor named for him. Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation. Bov 1 A small park near Mr. Hinton's church There was a 53 percent rate of response. Bre' would be named for the Congregation­ Although most of the questions re­ -~ ~ alist pastor. lated specifically to opinions of Ameri­ ~ p (RNS ) can business, Section XI of the survey In January falls the Week of But focused on public ratings of institutions Bui Prayer for Christian Unity. The Bus January New World Outlook car­ ries an exclusive interview with STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Cai (Act of October 23, 1962; Section 4369, Title 39, United States Code ) Orthodox Church, Demetrios I, by Ch managing editor Charles E. Brew­ Cla 1. Date of filing : September 28, 1976 Cl< 2. Title of Publication : New World Outlook ster, plus Mr. Brewster's account 3. Frequency of Publication : Monthly Except July-August of his visit to the Phanar, the head­ I 4. Location of known office of publication : quarters of the Patriarch in Istan­ Co 475 Riverside Drive, New York City, New York County, New York 10027 bul, Turkey. Co 5. Location of the headquarters of general business offices of the publishers: This issue will also bring you ar­ 475 Riverside Drive, New York City, New York County, New York 10027 6. Names and addresses of publisher, editor, and managing editor ticles about Christian unity efforts Publisher: Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, 475 River­ in the United States and in Sibu, side Drive, New York, New York 10027 Malaysia, and a report from a mis­ Editor: Arthur J. Moore sionary about Christian-Muslim re­ Managing Editor: Charles E . Brewster lations in Nigeria, West Africa. 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10027 7. Owner: Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church Is the Church concerned about ( a non-profit religious corporation) evangelism anymore? A Board of 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10027 Global Ministries executive tackles Stockholders: None · that question in an article entitled 8. Bondholders, Mortgages, and other Security Holders : None "! 9. The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of this organization and exempt status 'What Is Church Development and A1 for Federal income tax purposes have not changed during the preceding 12 months. Renewal?" Another article features 10. Extent and nature of circulation : a labor evangelism program in Al Hong Kong. Single Issue A Average No. Copiea Each Nearest to The first in a new series on Di­ Issue During Preceding 12 Months Filing Date rections in National Mission will A A. Total No. Copies Printed appear in the January issue. Open­ (Net Press Run ) 51,984 50,126 ing the series is an article called, A B. Paid Circulation "The Minority Church: Crisis or 1. Sales through dealers and carriers Hope?" A · street vendors and counter sales None None 2. Mail subscription 44,572 41 ,438 January is as much a time to A C. Total Paid Circulation 44,572 41 ,438 look backward as look ahead. An D. Free Distribution (including samples) article entitled "Whatever Hap­ by Mail, Carrier or other means 3,262 1,989 pened To . .. ? reviews the fate of Copies to News Agents None None E . Total Distribution 47,834 43,427 some recent church programs and F . Office Use, Left Over, Unaccounted, terminology. Spoiled After Printing 4,150 6,699 Look for the index to the 1975 G. Total (Sum of E and F-should equal New World Outlook in the Janu­ net press run shown in A ) 51,984 50,126 ary issue, together with a letter I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete. from a missionary, Mission Memo, (signed ) Arthur J. Moore Editor and other regular features.

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=ligion CONTRIBUTORS aver. 1 A DeHainaut, Ray, Dec., p. 41 Kirby, Ellen , O ct., p. 24 0 rating Dockery, Anne, July-Aug., p. 14 Armstrong, James, Jan., p. 43 Klemp, Alberta, Jan ., p. 33 O'Grady, Ro n, Mar., p. 36 from Arnold, Rosemary, June, p. 40 Kromer, He le n, Feb., p. 14; May, Ozawa, Sadao, Sept., p. 41 Austin, Ellen, Nov., p. 26 E p. 16 )f the Early, Tracy, July-A ug., p. 30; Kuttner, Karen Parker, May, p. p rating B Sept., p. 33; Oct., p. 31 ; Nov., 24; Nov. p. 16 Pe nfi e ld, Janet Harbison, Mar., p. 8 per Barneson, June Rothe, Nov., p. 29 p. 33 29 Beall, Betty J., Dec., p. 27 L Pray, Tom E., Mar., p. 24 .d no F Birch, Charles, Mar., p. 8 Lacy, Creighton, May, p. 43 R Bivens, Isaac H., June, p. 28 Fiske, Edward B., Oct., p. 8 Le rri go, Charley, Feb., p. 30; Rain es, John C. , Oct., p. 27 Bowden, He nry Warner, Oct., p. Frazier, Charles E., Oct., p. 37 Dec., p. 16 19 Ransom, Loui se, Jan., p. 12 Lyons, Cathi e, Oct., p. 14 Re id, W. W., Jan., pp. 43, 44; Brewster, Charles E., Ja n., p. 44; G Feb., p. 41 May, p. 34; Ju ne, p. 46; Sept., Ge rmany, Charles H., Nov., p. 8 M Rubinstein, Robert E., Sept., p. 30 p. 33; Oct., p. 44 Golden, Wendell, Feb., p. 19 Maple, Donaid F., Jan., p. 31 of Butler, J. Richard, Dec., p. 10 Goodwin, Jo hn, Dec., p. 20 s Mathews, James K., Jan., p. 8 ; ie Butler, Judy, Nov., p. 35 Gray, Betty, Jul y-Aug., p. 43 Salgado, Austin, Sept., p. 8 Bu sacca, Dwight S., Sept., p. 42 Feb., p. 41 ]'. Shepherd, J. Barrie, Mar., p. 34 May, Roy H., July-A ug., p. 27 :h H Smith, Frank, Oct., p. 45 c Maynard, Ed wi n H., Se pt., p. 21 Stentze l, James, May, p. 26 1e Ha, Kim Chi , Jan., p. 28 Megalis, El ai ne, Feb., p. 27 Carvalho, Emilio de, June, p. 32 Stockwell , Eugene L., Oct., p. 45 y Hai nes, J. Harry, May, p. 29 Mizutani, Teruko, Dec., p. 34 Chartier, Richard E., Mar., p. 29 Henderson, Lawrence W ., Ja n., p. Strawn, So nia, May, p. 44 Moltmann, Jurgen, May, p. 8 Clark, Dick, Ju ne, p. 16 21 Swift, Margaret, Sept., p. 44 tt Clark, Ell e n, Mar., p. 15; Jul y­ Moore, Arthur J., Feb., p. 8 ; He rron, Bud, Ju ly-Aug., p. 44 T \. Aug., p. 20; Sept., p. 18; Nov., Hill, Joyce, Dec., p. 8 Mar., p. 44; July-Aug., p. 8; pp. 21 and 32; Dec., pp. 36, 38 Holt, Wil liam, July-Aug., p. 24 O ct., pp. 41 , 43 ; Nov., pp. 41, Thompson, Betty, Mar., p. 44 Coombs, Orde, July-Aug., p. 34 Hostetter, Doug, Jan., p. 16 43 w Conne rs, Kenneth Wray, Ja n., p. Ho user, George M., June, p. 8 Moyer, Don, Feb., p. 24 Watson, Jane Werner, Feb., p. 33 24 Murphy, Roland E., Nov., p. 44 Howard, Robert C., Sept., p. 14 Wilbanks, Dana W ., Nov., p. 45 Howell , Leon, Sept., p. 26 Muzorewa, Abel T., Nov., p. 19 Wilde, Ma rgaret D., Nov., p. 40 D Wood, Auril, Dec., p. 29 Daniels, George M., Dec., p. 31 K N Workman, John S., Jan ., p. 20 Davey, Cyril, Jan., p. 36 Kameeta, Zephania, Feb., p. 22 Nyoka, Ju stin, V. J., June, p. 37 Wright, Elliott, Oct., p. 30

TITLES

A Christian Si ngles Find a New Crusade Scholars Today, Sept., p. For All the Sai nts, Jan., p. 8 "A" Is fo r Arna ld y, Mar., p. 29 Circle of Friends, Nov., p. 26 44 Four Co n g r eg at ions-One Achieving Solidarity at Habitat, Christians in Japan-Always a Crusade Scholarship Committee, Church, May, p. 24 Sept., p. 26 Tiny Minority?, Jul y-Aug., p. 20 April, p. 44 Fo ur Voices from Pine Ridge Africa, 2000 A.D. and Chris tian­ Christmas Poe ms from Latin Reservation, Feb., p. 30 ity, June, p. 28 America, Dec., p. 12 D Church in Southern Africa, The: Agony and Angui sh of Angola, Declaration of Conscience, A, Angola, June, p. 32; G The, Feb., p. 19 Jan. , p. 28 Mozambique, June, p. 34 Am nesty-An Unresolved Legacy Domestic Hunger-ls the System Gospel Is the Message of Free­ Rhodesia, June, p. 3 of Vietnam, Jan., p. 12 Responsible?, Feb., p. 27 dom, The, July-Aug., p. 27 Annual Report of the Board of Churches That Don' t Give Up, Oct., p. 31 Global Mi nistries, Apri l, p. 7 H City of a Divided Heart: A Per­ E Are Schools of Mi s~i on Schools?, Oct., p. 39 sonal Reflection of Je ru salem, Ecumenical a nd ln terreli gious Health and Welfare Ministries Division, April, p. 32 Asia n Outlook on Eva ngelism, An, May, p. 29 Concerns Di vision, April, p. 28 Sept., p. 8 Committee o n Personnel in Mis­ Education and Cultivation Divi­ Health Care: Peopling the Sys­ sion, Ap ril, p. 45 sion, April, p. 40 tem, Oct., p. 14 Covenant and a Medical Mission, Education : Turning In ward, Oct., Homesteading in Zambia, Sept., B A, Jan., p. 24 p. 8 p. 21 Belfast: A Walk up the Shankill Crisis in Ethnic Church Leader­ Encou nter in Tien An Men Hope in the Struggle o f the Peo­ Road, Oct., p. 41 ship, The, Dec., p. 16 Sq uare, July-Aug., p. 34 ple, May, p. 8 Belize: Very Fragile, Very Poor, Critical Iss ues in Latin America: Espanola's Community Hospital, and Very English, May, p. 16 Argentina, Jan., p. 39 Nov., p. 16 Mexico, Feb., p. 37 Experiment in Seminary Edu ca­ c Dominican Republic, Mar., p. tion, Dec., p. 38 Indonesia's Christian Dailies, 39 Nov., p. 32 Called to Reple nish the Earth, Cuba, May, p. 39 In sid e Belfast, 1976, July-Aug., p. Mar. , p. 8 Bolivia, July-Aug., p. 39 F 14 Chilean's Passion for Peace, A, Uruguay, Sept., p. 37 Flexible Retire ment: Chall enge to Is There Hope in the Village ?, Dec., p. 8 Braz il , Nov., p. 37 the Church, Oct., p. 37 Mar., p. 36 New World Outlook • January 19n 47 Ministry to Youth in Crisis, July­ People's Platform, A, Nov., p. 33 Treasurer's Report, April, p. 45 Japan Doesn't Wear a Halo in Aug., p. 24 Pioneer Program in San Diego, Two Contemporary Artists Look Asia, Dec., p. 34 Mission Is Reciprocal, Jan., p. 31 A, Nov. p. 29 at the Bible, Mar., p. 20 James Watson : Circuit Ride r, Jan., Missionaries to Japan : Welcome Two Presbyterian Profiles: Thel­ fl . 33 Gadflies, Nov., p. 21 R ma Adair and Will Kennedy, Jesus Became Anew My Savior, Missionary to Seattle Ba ck Home Religion : Appropriating Our Sept., p. 23 Feb., p. 22 in Japan, Sept., p. 41 Heritage, Oct., p. 19 John Nakajima of Japan, May, p. Ro le of World Mission Toward a u 26 N New Future, The, Nov., p. 8 Un i.ted Methodist Committee on Jose Miguez Bo nino--From Lati n Nairobi Assembly, The, Feb., p. Relief Division, April, p. 36 America to the World Scene, 8 s U.S. and Vietnam-A Time for Mar., p. 29 Namibia-A Land in Captivity, Building, Jan., p. 16 June, p. 42 Santis of Naples, The, Jan., p. 33 U.S. Policy in Southern Africa, Services to the Elderly, Dec., p. K National Division, April, p. 12 June, p. 16 26 Kindergarten Communists-Train­ New Li fe for the Pham Family, Feb., p. 24 Sharing and Caring in Fox Valley, w ing Children in China Today, Feb., p. 24 Feb., p. 33 New Life on a Haitia n Island, What Is the Future of the Chris- Dec. , p. 20 Shepherds' Center Meets Human tian Church in Southern Noah's Ark-Beached in Florida, Needs, The, Dec., p. 27 Africa?, June, p. 21 l Feb., p. 14 Smiles in Paradise, Dec., p. 29 What Teens Think of God, Sept., Last Cow Home, Jan., p. 20 Southern Africa Conflicts-A p. 30 Letter from Hong Kong, Nov., p. 0 Threat to World Peace?, June, Why I Got into Politics, Nov., p. 35 Off-Season for Ecumenism?, May, p. 8 19 p. 34 Standing Pat in Portland, July­ Women: The Old Against the M Organizi ng Tenants in Hong Aug., p. 8 System, Oct., p. 24 Maundy Thursday Meditation, Kong, Sept., p. 18 Status of Black Women in South Women's Di vision, April, p. 16 Mar., p. 34 Africa, The, June, p. 40 Work and the American Dream Medical Mi ssions in Developing p Oct., p. 27 Countries, May, p. 21 Patriarch's Prayer for " Love, T World Division, April, p. 22 Ministering Today in New York's Fraternity and Understanding," Tallon Tindit, lban Christian Edu­ World Food Conference, Sept., Chinatown, July-Aug., p. 30 A, Dec., p. 10 cator, Dec., p. 36 p. 42 Ministry in Minnesota's North Pastors to People Where They Training Nurses at Canta, Liberia, World Methodists Meet in Dub­ Ca! Woods, Sept., p. 14 Work, Feb., p. 15 Dec., p. 31 lin, Nov., p. 41 i

Ch 1 SUBJECTS Ch A in South Africa, June, p. 40 Committee on Personnel in July-Aug., p. 44 I Adair, Thelma Tanzania Mission, April, p. 45 Christians, Politics and Violent Two Presbyterian Profiles, Sept., Last Cow Home, Jan., p. 20 Crusade Scholarship Commit­ Revolution by J. G. Davies, p. 33 Zambia tee, April, p. 44 Nov., p. 45 Africa Homesteading in Zambia, Ecumenical and lnterreligious Contemplative Christianity by Africa, 2000 A.O. and Christian ­ Sept., p. 21 Concerns Division, April, p. Aelred Graham, May, p. 44 ity, June, p. 28 Aging 28 The Death and Life of Bishop The Church in Southern Africa, Fl exible Retirement: Challenge Education and Cultivation Divi­ Pike by William Stringfellow June, p. 32 to the Ch urch, Oct., p. 37 sion, Apri l, p. 40 and Anthony Towne, Nov., Role of World Mission Toward Health and Welfare Ministries Health and We/fare Ministries p. 43 a New future, The, Nov., p. Division, April, p. 33 Division, April, p. 32 The Faces of Jesus, text by c 8 Services to the Elderly, Dec., National Division, April, p. 12 Frederick Buechner; photog­ Southern Africa Conflicts-A p. 27 Treas urer's Report, April, p. 45 raphy by Lee Boltin, Mar., Threat to World Peace?, Sharing and Caring in Fox United Methodist Committee p. 43 June, p. 9 Valley, Feb., p. 24 on Relief Division, April, p. The Foolishness of God · by Ch United Methodist Committee American Indians 36 John Austin Baker, Jan., p. on Relief Division, April, p. Four Voices from Pine Ridge Women's Division, April, p. 16 44 36 Reservation, Feb., p. 30 World Division, April, p. 22 History and the Theology of U.S. Policy in Southern Africa, Amnesty Books Liberation by Enrique Dussel, June, p. 16 Amnesty-An Unresolved Leg­ The Alms Race : The Impact of Dec., p. 40 Ch What Is the Future of the acy of Vietnam, Jan., p. 12 American Voluntary Aid If You Want To Know Me, A Christian Church in Southern Arabs Abroad by Eugene Linden, new collection of poetry, art, Africa?, Ju ne, p. 21 A Patriarch's Prayer for " Love, Oct., p. 44 and photographs from South­ World Division, April, p. 22 Fraternity, and Understand­ Asian Voices in Christian Theol­ ern Africa, compiled by Peg­ Ch African Nations ing," Dec., p. 11 ogy, ed. and with an intro­ gy Halsey, Gail Morlan, and I Angola Art duction by Gerald H. Ander­ Melba Smith, June, p. 46 The Agony and Anguish of Two Contemporary Artists Look son, May, p. 43 Into the Wilderness by Her­ Ch Angola, Feb., p. 19 at the Bible, March, p. 20 Camilo Torres : A Biography of bert F. Beck and Robert L. Liberia Asia the Priest-Guerrillero by Otterstad, Feb., p. 41 Training Nurses at Canta, Li­ An Asian Outlook on Evange­ Walter J. Brode rick, Dec., p. Jesus and Woman by Lisa Ser­ Ci beria, Dec., p. 31 lism, Sept., p. 8 41 gio, Feb., p. 41 Namibia (So uthwest Africa) World Division, April, p. 25 The Catholic Rediscovery of Nairobi 1975 by James W. Ken­ " Jesus Became Anew My Protesta ntism by Paul M. nedy, Mar., p. 43 Co Savior," Feb., p. 22 8 Minus, Jr., Nov., p. 44 The New Charismatics by Namibia-A Land in Captiv­ Baskin, Leonard Christian Art in Asia by Masao Ri.chard Quebedeaux, Nov., I ity, June, p. 42 Two Contemporary Artists Takenaka, Mar., p. 43 p. 43 Co Rhodesia Look at the Bible, Mar., p. Christian Responsibility in a The Patrio t's Bible ed. by John Why I Got into Politics, 20 Hungry World by C. Dean Eagleston and Philip Schar­ Nov., p. 19 Board of Global Ministries Freudenberger and Paul M. per, Jan., p. 43 South Africa Annual Report of the Board of Minus, Oct., p. 45 People and Systems Packet, The Status of Black Women Global Ministries, April, p. 7 Christianity and the New China, Oct., p. 43 48 New World Outlook • Jo.nuary 1977 ), 45 Look A Priest Forever by Carter Hey­ Conferences The New Piety, the Old Puri­ Haiti ward, July-Aug., p. 43 Achieving Solidarity at Habitat, tanism, July-Aug., p. 7 New Life on a Haitian Island, Thel- Ru ss ia , The People and the Sept., p. 26 The Panama Canal Issue, May, Dec., p. 20 1nedy, Power, by Robert G. Kaiser, The Nairobi Assembly- Th e p. 7 Health Care O ct., p. 43 Middle of the Middle of the The Pentecostal Experi e nce, A Covenant and a Medical Stranger and Traveler : The Road, Feb., p. 8 June, p. 7 Miss ion, Jan., p. 24 Story of Dorothea Dix, World Methodists M eet in Re ligion and the Campaign, Espanola 's Community Hospital, ~ e on American Reformer by Dublin Nov, p 41 Nov., p. 7 Nov., p. 17 36 Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Feb., Crusade Scholarship Committee, " Re nder to Caesa r," Feb., p. 7 Hea lth Care : Peopling the Sys­ ! for p. 41 Work Unit, April, p. 44 Re pression and Murder, O ct., tem , O ct. , p. 14 Strategies for New Churches p. 7 Hea lth and Welfare Ministries .frica, by Ezra Earl Jones, July-Aug., D Re turn to Killing, A, Nov., p. 7 Division, April, p. 32 p. 43 Deaths School Prayers, Sept., p. 7 Medical Missions in Developing That Old Time Religion : One Alexander, Catherine, Mar., p. Stil l the Middle East, Dec., p. Countries, May, p. 21 Hundred Hymns, Songs, and 6 7 Th e Santis of Naples, Jan., p. :hr is­ Stories by Barbara Benziger Be rger, The Rev. Marlon, Sept., A Time To Examine Ourselves, 36 :hern and Eleanor Dicki nson, Jan., p. 4 Mar., p. 7 Services to the Elderly, Dec., p. 44 Denman, Harry, Dec., p. 6 Education p. 27 Time Towa rd Home: The En sley, Bi shop F. Gerald, Oct., Crusade Scholars Toda y, Sept. Training Nurses at Canta, American Experience as Rev­ p. 4 p. 44 Liberia, Dec., p. 31 1., p. elation by Richard John Frakes, The Rev. Hiram, Feb., Education and Cultivation Divi­ Heifer Project Inte rnational Neuhaus, Jan., p. 43 p. 6 sion, Apri l, p. 40 Last Cow Home, Jan., p. 20 the Torment to Triumph in South­ Gilbert, Rabbi Arthur, June, p. Edu ca tion : Turning In ward, Hi story of the Church ern Africa by Louise Stack 5 Oct., p. 8 James Watson, Circuit Rider, 16 and Don Morton, June, p. Hall, Dr. Dorcas, Mar., p. 6 Experiment in Seminary Edu­ Jan., p. 33 46 cation, Dec., p. 38 ~a m kebaili, Hassan, June, p. 5 Hong Kong Wake Up and Listen by Dor­ King, Bi shop Willis J., July- Kindergarten Communists, Feb., Letter from Hong Kong, Nov., othy Van Woerkom, May, p. Aug., p. 6 p. 33 p. 35 1pl., 43 McCracken, Dr. Glen, Sept., p. Le tter from Hong Kong, Nov., Organizing Tenants in Hong 4 p. 35 Kong, Sept., p. 18 c Ministry to Youth in Crisis, Hunger (See Farming also) lub- Casa Materna Northcott, Bi shop H. Clifford, July-A ug., p. 24 Domestic Hunger-ls the Sys­ The Santis of Naples, Jan., p. Sept., ·p. 4 Th e Santis of Naples, Jan., p. tem Responsible?, Feb., p. 36 Pack, Arthur N., Jan., p. 5 36 27 Chagall, Marc Richardson, Dr. Cyril, Dec., p. Two Presbyterian Profiles, Sept., United Methodist Committee Two Contemporary Artists Look 6 p. 35 on Relief D ivision, April, p. at the Bible, Mar., p. 20 Seibert, Harriet, Mar., p. 6 What Teens Think of God, 36 Children Skadra, Th e Rev. Gordon H., Mar., p. 5 Sept., p. 30 Kindergarten Communists, Feb., Environme nt p. 33 Trevethan, P. J., June, p. 5 Iban s Called To Replenis h the Earth , Weatherhead, Leslie D., Feb., Tallon Tindit, /ban Christian The Santis of Naples, Jan., p. Mar., p. 8 36 p. 6 Educator, Dec., p. 36 by Ethnic minorities U.S. and Vietnam: A Time for India 44 The Crisis in Ethnic Church Building, Jan., p. 16 E Th e Role of World Mission Leadership, Dec., p. 16 lOp United Methodist Committee Toward a New Future, Nov., Ecology Evange lism OW on Relief Division, April, p. p. 9 Called To Replenish the Earth , An Asian Outlook on Evange­ JV., 36 Indonesia Mar., p. 8 lis m , Sept., p. 8 China Ecume ni sm Indonesia's Christian Dailies, by Encounter in Tien An Men Ecumenical and lnterreligious Nov., p. 32 F lg· Square, July-Aug., p. 35 Concerns Division, April, p. In te rn ational Women's Year H., Kindergarten Communists, Feb., 28 Farming Women's Division, Apri l, p. 16 p. 33 Off-Season for Ecumenism ?, Homesteading in Z a m b i a , World Division, Ap ril , p. 22 by Chinatown May, p. 34 Sept., p. 21 Ireland p. Ministering Toda y in New Editorials Last Cow Home, Jan., p. 20 Inside Belfast, 1976, Jul y-Aug., York's Chinatown, July-Aug., Angola and Lebanon, Jan., p. 7 World Food Conference, Sept., p. 14 of p. 30 At the Di sposal of God, May, p. 42 A Wa lk Up the Shankil/ Road, el, Christian Arabs p. 7 Foreign Policy Oct., p. 41 A Patriarch's Pra yer for " Love, The Bi shops' Political Blunder, 1) Southern Africa Conflicts-A lwamura, Noboru A Fraternity, and Understand­ Oct., p. 7 Threat to World Peace?, " Japan Doesn' t Wear a Halo rt, ing," Dec., p. 11 Christmas and the Common­ June, p. 9 in Asia ," Dec., p. 34 IJ>. Christian Witness place, Dec., p. 7 2) U.S. Policy in So uthern g· Indonesia's Christian Dailies, Come back for Democracy?, Africa, June , p. 16 id Nov., p. 32 May, p. 7 Fox Valley Older Ad ul t Service Japan Church Women United Conversion and Faith, Jan., p. Sharing and Caring in Fox Val­ Christians in Japan-Always a r· People's Platform, A, Nov., p. 7 ley, Feb., p. 24 Tiny Minority?, July-Aug., p. l. 33 Easte r As an Annual Report, Friendshipment (Refugees) 20 Circuit Riders April, p. 6 U.S. and Vietnam: A Time for Experiment in Seminary Educa­ r· James Watson, Circuit Rider, Elijah and the 1040, Mar., p. 7 Building, Jan. p. 16 tion, Dec., p. 38 Jan., p. 33 Foreign Policy fo r the Real Missionaries to Japan : W e l­ ,. Committee on Personnel in Mis­ World, April, p. 6 G come Gadflies, Nov., p. 21 sion Harry Denman, Dec., p. 7 General Conference Profile: John Nakaiima of Ja­ IY Work Units, April, p. 44 India a Year Later, Jul y-Aug., Standing Pat in Portland, July­ pan, May, p. 26 1., Communism p. 7 Aug., p. 9 The Role of World Mission A Declaration of Conscience, Kissinger on Africa-Getting A Time To Examine Ourselves, Toward a New Future, Nov., Jan., p. 29 Re ligion Late, June, p. 7 Mar., p. 7 p. 9 Encounter in Tien An Men A Little Cynicism about Term H Jerusalem Square, July-Aug., p. 34 Epi scopacy, April, p. 6 Ha, Kim Chi City of a Divided Heart: A Kindergarten Communists, Feb., Luke 4 and Jesus' Teachings, A Declaration of Conscience, Personal Reflection of Jeru­ p. 33 Sept., p. 7 Jan., p. 29 salem, May, p. 29 New World Outlook • January 1977 49 K Circle of Friends, Nov., p. Oppression T Kennedy, Wi ll 26 A Declaration of Conscience, Taiwan Two Presbyterian Profiles, Crisis in Ethnic Church Leader­ Jan., p. 29 Letters from Overseas, May, Sept., p. 35 ship, The, Dec., p. 16 " Jesus Became Anew My Sav­ p. 37 Korea Churches That Don' t Give Up, ior," Feb., p. 22 Technology A Declaration of Conscience, Oct., p. 31 Reconciling Ministries, Dec., p. Called To Replenish the Earth, Jan ., p. 29 F o u r Congregations-0 n e 8 Mar., p. 8 L Church, May, p. 24 Why I Got into Politics, Nov., Thailand Latin America Ministering Today in New p. 19 Is There Any Hope in the Vil­ Jose Miguez Bonino-from York's Chinatown, July-Aug., Orphanages lage?, Mar., p. 37 Latin America to the World p. 30 The Santis of Naples, Jan., p. Theology Scene, Mar., p. 31 Ministry in Minnesota's North 36 Hope in the Struggle of the Mission Is Reciprocal, Jan., Woods, Sept., p. 14 People, May, p. 8 p p. 31 Ministry to Youth in Crisis, Torres, Ulises World Division, April, p. 22 July-Aug., p. 24 Peron, Isabel Reconciling Ministries, Dec., p. Latin American Countries " Noah's Ark" -Beached in Critical Issues in Latin America, 8 Argentina Florida, Mar., p. 14 Jan., p. 39 Critical Issues in Latin America, Pa stors to People Where They Philippines v Jan., p. 39 Work, Mar., p. 15 " A" Is for Arnaldy, Mar., p. 29 Vashti School Jose Miguez Bonino-from Pioneer Program in San Diego, Pine Ridge Reservation Ministry to Youth in Crisis, Latin America to the World A, Nov., p. 29 Four Voices from Pine Ridge July-Aug., p. 24 Scene, Mar., p. 31 Two Presbyterian Profiles, Reservation, Feb., p. 30 Vietnam Belize Sept., p. 33 Poetry U.S. and Vietnam : A Time for Belize: Very Fragile, Very Poor, Mission Christmas Poems for Latin Building, Jan., p. 16 and Very English, May, p. 16 Are Schools of Miss ion America, Dec., p. 12 Vietnamese Bolivia Schools?, Oct., p. 39 Political Prisoners " New Life" for the Pham Fam­ Critical Issues in Latin America, An Asian Outlook on Evange­ A Declaration of Conscience, ily, Mar., p. 24 July-Aug., p. 39 lism, Sept., p. 8 Jan., p. 29 The Gospel Is the Message of A Covenant and a Medical Politics w Freedom, July-Aug., p. 27 Mission, Jan., p. 24 People's Platform, A, Nov., p. Women Brazil Hope in the Struggle of the 33 " A" Is for Arnaldy, Mar., p. 29 Critical Iss ues in Latin Amer­ People, May, p. 8 Project Smiles Christian Singles Find a New ica, Nov., p. 37 " Japan Doesn' t Wear a Halo in Smiles in Paradise, Dec., p. 29 Circle of Friends, Nov., p. 26 Chile Asia," Dec., p. 34 The Old Against the System, Reconciling Ministries, Dec., Medical Missions in Develop­ R Oct., p. 24 p. 8 ing Countries, May, p. 21 Refugees People's Platform, A, Nov., p. Cuba Mission Is Reciprocal, Jan., p. " New Life" for the Pham Fam­ 33 Critical Issues in Latin America, 31 ily, Mar., p. 24 The Status of Black Women in May, p. 39 People and Systems-USA, United Methodist Committee South Africa, June, p. 40 Dominican Republic Oct., p. 8 on Relief Division, April, p. Tallon Tindit, /ban Christian Critical Issues in Latin America, Pioneer Program in San Diego, 36 Educator, Dec., p. 36 A, Nov., p. 29 Mar., p. 39 U.S. and Vietnam : A Time for Women's Division, April, p. 16 Role of World Mission Toward Mexico Building, Jan ., p. 16 Women's Division a New Future, The, Nov., p. Critical Issues in Latin America, Religion Are Schools of Mission Feb., p. 37 9 Schools?, Oct., p. 39 Missionaries Religion : Appropriating Our Letters from Overseas, May, Heritage, Oct., p. 19 Women's Division, April, p. 16 p. 37 " A" Is for Arnaldy, Mar., p. 29 Work Rosewood Parish Mission Is Reciprocal, Jan., p. The Agony and Anguish of An­ Pastors to People Where They F o u r Congregations-0 n e 31 gola, Feb., p. 19 Work, Mar., p. 15 Church, May, p. 24 Uruguay The Gospel is the Message of Work and the American Critical Issues in Latin America, Freedom, July-Aug., p. 27 Dream, Oct., p. 27 Sept., p. 37 Missionaries to Japan : Wel­ s World Council of Churches Saints come Gadflies, Nov., p. 21 Achieving Solidarity at Habitat, M Missionary to Seattle Back For All the Saints, Jan., p. 8 Sept., p. 26 Mexican-Americans Home in japan, Sept., p. 41 Seton, Elizabeth Jose Miguel Bonino-From Pioneer Program in San Diego, Muzorewa, Abel T. For All the Saints, Jan., p. 8 Latin America to the World A, Nov., p. 29 Why I Got into Politics, Nov., Sarawak Scene, Mar., p. 31 Meditations p. 19 Tallon Tindit, /ban Christian The Nairobi Assembly-The Maundy Thursday Meditations, Nakajima, John Educator, Dec., p. 36 Middle of the Middle of the Mar., p. 34 Profile, John Nakajima of ja­ Shepherds' Center Road, Feb., p. 8 Middle East pan, May, p. 26 Services to the Elderly, Dec., p. World Food Conference A Patriarch's Prayer for " Love, 27 World Food Conference, Sept., Fraternity, and Understand­ 0 Singles p. 42 ing," Dec., p. 11 Newspapers Christian Singles Find a New World Methodist Council Ministry Indonesia's Christian Dailies, Circle of Friends, Nov., p. 26 World Methodists Meet in Christian Singles Find a New Nov., p. 32 Dublin, Nov., p. 41

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