11110 New Series Vol. XLll No. 2 • Whole Series Vol. LXXI No. 9 • October 1981 3 Mission Memo 7 Editorials 8 Vitality and Apathy in Europe Today Charles E. Brewster 11 Orthodoxy's "Candlelight Kingdom" Carnegie Samuel Calian 15 "Do Not Forget We Are Here"-Methodism in East Germany Margaret Schiffert El 19 The GDR-Churches in a Socialist Diaspora at 22 The UMC in Norway-ls There a Future? Stein Skjorshammer st 24 Poster-Study Resources on Europe it 26 World Mission and Norwegian Methodism Juel Nordby de 28 The People of God in Estonia H. Eddie Fox cc 31 Ulster's Children-Fact and Fiction Charles Reynolds tc 34 Keeping the Lines Open in Switzerland Margaret Schiffert 38 Special Report: An International Church Team in Black Australia tc Jan Mayman a· 41 Viewpoint Ralph E. 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MISSION MEMO News and Analysis of Developments in Christian Mission October, 1981 El Salvador. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, about 300,000 people have abandoned El Salvador in the past year because of civil strife. Displaced persons within the country number perhaps 200,000 . These include peasants who have fled their homes to stay with relatives or in indepen­ dent refugee shelters or who may be roaming the mountains , refugees who have come to the city from rural areas, and governmen t -protected refugees. According to Church World Service, some humanitarian agencies have provided assistance only to this last group, whereas others have chosen "at great risk" to target their aid to the majority of internal refugees who cannot be reached through channels sympathetic to the government. Since June, 1980 CWS has raised $440,461 on behalf of Salvadorean refugees (with UMCOR being a major contributor). Of this amount $123,032 has been transferred to the World Council of Churches to support the work of ASESAH in El Salvador, and another $43,511 has been provided to the WCC for Salvadorean refugees outside their country. CWS is now appealing for $1 million for El Salvadorean refugees both inside the country and in other Central America n nations. South African Invasion. The executive ·committee of the National Counc i l of Churches unanimously adopted a resolution September 11 which condemned South Africa ' s II "military invasion of the People's Republ ic of Angola" and its "continued illegal occupation of Namibia." The committee also said it "condemns " the U.S. government ' s I veto of a United Nations Security Council Resolution on the invasion. "We believe this action implies support of Apartheid and represents a tilt toward South Africa ," it said. The corrmittee again called on the U.S. to recognize the Government of the Peoples Republic of Angola and that "the people of Namibia should be gi ven necessary assistance in preparation for t r ue independence." ... In another action the executive committee sent a letter of greeting and concern to Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt (see editorials), whose official recogni- tion by the Egyptian government was revoked by President Sada t . A five-member committee of bishops was appointed to act as intermediaries between the govern- ment and Pope Shenouda, who has moved to a desert monastery. Korea. Rev. Moon Ik-whan, 63-year-old Korean poet and Korea's senior Old Testament scholar and biblical translator, began a hunger fast in mid August in protest against the continued incarceration of political prisoners in his country, es­ pecially Kim Dae Jung. The Presbyterian scholar, who is also known as Rev . Timothy Moon, was jailed on the night of Chun Doo-hwan's coup on May 17, 1980 and has bee n in solitary confinement since; his sentence was originally 15 years but has been reduced to 10 by presidential decree. Peggy Bi l lings, head of Christian Social Relati ons for the UM Women's Di vision, said she was "deeply distressed" at Per~ Mr. Mo on' s dec ision, "His wi llingness t o risk his health and possibly his life ieS1 is an indication of the hardening of the government's attitude toward political Di vi pri soners. It seems to ref l ect the Chun government's assessment that there will Chur be no pressure from the Reagan administration on human rights. 11 the a u~ is n Deaths . Canon Robert f. ~. Powell, an Episcopal priest and Africa committee Ban a director of the Nat ional Council of Churches, died September 6 of a heart attack feat du r ing servi ces i n New York's Riverside Church. He was 42 . .. The Rev. James C. Wes 1 Si mms, pastor of First UMC in Collinsville, Ill., and a former staff member of the as so Nat ional Division of GBGM, died of injuries received when the roof of a garage he Inte was helping hi s son to dismantle collapsed. He was 54 .... Mrs. Esther Schlapper, of 0 a retired deaconess with 16 years of active service, died August 21 in Asheville, posi North Carolina ... Mrs. Doris Cook, wife of Dr. Bernard L. Cook, office of Church nomi Extension of the National Division, died August 22 in Kearney, Nebraska after a the long i l lness .... Miss Blanche A. Yeager, a retired deaconess with 39 years of head active service, died August 10 in Bradenton, Florida .... Richard T. Baker, Columbia Cost University journalism professor and former associate editor of this magazine, died September 3 at the age of 68 (see editorials) . .. Miss Betty Jean Heim, a retired home missionary with 22 years of active service, died August 28 in Albuquerque, Worl New Mex ico. She was the first child born in the old hospital at Red Bird Mission. Repu issu bomb Mozambique. Rev. and Mrs . Alf Helgesson and son Stephen, who recently returned ment to Mozambique, are going to Ricatla seminary, 24 kilometers north of the capital nucl city of Maputo. He has begun teaching New Testament and Ethics at the Interde­ la ti nominational school. city II, rate Tuition Tax Credits. The U.S. Catholic Conference, with headquarters in Washington, loya D.C., has organized a massive letter-writing campaign urging legislators to support suf f, tax credit for tuition paid for private and parochial schools, especially the so­ di vi called Packwood-Moynihan bill. (NWO has editorially opposed the idea, Jan. 1 81 11 in editorials). The U.S. Catholic Conference will enter a "highly visible phase" thre in its campaign to urge parents, teachers and others to write their legislators. the President Reagan has pledged his support for tuition tax credit legislation but we did not include it in his first tax bill. time on t neg a Church Women United? Just a little over a year after Nan Cox became the new general the director of Church Women United in a turbulent restructure that terminated 18 staff are · positions, she herself has left the organization. The new interim general director, and Dorothy f.. Wag ner, has been a CWU staffer since 1974 and like Mrs. Cox is a United Presbyterian. She is administrative secretary to the International Committee for World Day of Prayer and i s a .former missionary to China. A press release from CWU ~I on the change-over described Ms. Wagner's background in detail but mentioned only Coun that Mrs. Cox has "completed her services" on August 31. The national president jour of CWU is Dr. Thelma Adair, who is also a United Presbyterian .. The new editor The of Church Woman for CWU i s Margaret Schiffert, who has two articleson Europe in to t thi s issue of NWO and at one time was a support staffer in the former Ecumenical 11 1ic and Interreligious Concerns Division.