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Bamboo Church Has No Water, Electricity ssttaarr--nneewwss goodland Goodland Star-News / Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3 Bamboo church has no water, electricity By Pat Schiefen The Goodland Star-News Want a challenge? Want to help people? Imagine leading a church on a tropical island where the people speak no English, have no running water and no electricity. Father Thomas Rowland, an An- glican priest of the Province of Melanesia, but originally from Oklahoma, has lived in that world for eight years. Rowland was in Goodland Sunday speaking to the congregation of St. Paul’s Episco- pal Church, 13th and Center. Melanesia is in the South Pacific, three-fourths of the way from Ha- waii to Australia, he said. It com- prises 80 islands, 65 of which are inhabited. Earthquakes shake the ground every so often, as the islands are volcanic. The only familiar names are from the World War II battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Is- lands, but Melanesia includes New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Island and New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Father Thomas Rowland, an Anglican priest, (right) stands in front of the altar in his church, built of where he lives, said Rowland. bamboo on the island of Vanuatu in the Diocese of Melanesia. The villages tend to be isolated in these mountainous islands, which have only narrow coastal plains. The islands were “discovered” in Priest enthusiastic about call 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer. Melanesia is Father Thomas Rowland, originally from Altus, Rowland lives in a bamboo hut with no electric- home to one-fourth of the world’s Okla., is enthusiastic about his call to minister to vil- ity and running water. languages, Rowland said, with lagers on the island of Vanuatu in Melanesia. “I hire a local boy to bring water so I can take a people of each village having differ- He said he joined an urban Episcopalian monastic bath twice a week,” Rowland said, “whether I need ent speech and physical character- group, the Order of the Holy Family, in Denver after it or not.” istics. Those in one village will be he graduated from high school. He was known as On Sunday, he said, he wears a tropical version light skinned and the next dark Brother Boniface. The group worked with young of clerical garb: short black pants with an open shirt skinned and the two speak two dif- street people in Denver, then later moved to Santa Fe, and a cross. His cross is made of turtle shell inlaid ferent languages. N.M. with mother of pearl with a host above a chalice The islands are some of the poor- Rowland said he went to teach in Tonga, an island and the Greek letters alpha and omega, traditional est countries in the world, he said, by Fiji in the Pacific, and got his bachelor’s degree Christian symbols. with literacy rates of 20 to 50 per- at the University of Tonga. Rowland said he had been in Melanesia for eight cent. Most of the people live off the He joined the Peace Corps and taught for five years years and the only English spoken was broken, or land as subsistence farmers or fish- in Romania, in Eastern Europe. pigeon, English, combined with native dialects. ers went to Kecki to get Nathaniel’s said, the prime minister has Broth- ers. Their diets tend to be monoto- After he returned to the U.S., Rowland said, he Each village on the island has its own language. body. Kecki thought they were gov- ers of Melanesia with their walking nous. Medical care is not common. wrote to many places, including the Diocese of “It took awhile for my English to come back,” ernment spies and tortured and sticks and sisters with veils accom- The U.S. does not give any aid to Melanesia, with an offer to come and teach and the Rowland said. “Pigeon English came back first.” killed them, too. pany him. the Solomon Islands, Rowland said. desire to become a priest. After attending the Angli- The priest is enthusiastic about his work on the The death of the brothers led the The brothers have helped end the What they get comes from Austra- can Theological Seminary of the Solomon Islands, island of Vanuatu and will return in February. people to want to stop the violence violence and have helped to disarm lia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan he was ordained a deacon in 2002 and a priest in 2003. “God led me there,” said Rowland. and the Prime Minister Sir Allen the ethnic militias. For the Church and the European Union. Kemakeza asked Australia for of Melanesia’s help to end the vio- Churches and schools are built of troops to re-establish law and order. lence in the Solomon Islands, the bamboo p. In more populated areas, Episcopal Church in the U.S.) Augustus Selwyn became the An- and the Society of St. Francis. There An Australian-led multinational Queen of England knighted the he said, some buildings are built out worked in the rest of Melanesia. glican bishop of New Zealand in is a waiting list of two to four years force arrived in July. archbishop of Melanesia, the Rt. of concrete. There are enough earth- In the areas where the Anglican 1841, said Rowland, and started the to enter, he said. Instead of bodyguards, Rowland Rev. Sir Ellison Pogo. quakes that deaths have been caus- Church worked, Rowland said, they Melanesian Mission in 1849. John In 1999, he said, heathenism ed from concrete buildings collaps- did not require the natives to put on Coleridge Patteson became the first erupted in the Solomon Islands, us- ing. clothing and allowed them to keep Bishop of Melanesia in 1861. ing the term to describe a return to The curriculum in the schools is their culture and dancing. The martyrdom of Bishop ethic violence and intolerance. HHoommeesstteeaadd RReeaallttyy not much different from anywhere He said he works in a village on Patteson prompted England to end People from surrounding areas who else, Rowland said, but students use the island of Vanuatu, which was slavery in areas it controlled on came in to work were forced to Another Fun Auction chalk and slates. In two to three colonized by both the English and Sept. 20, 1871. Up until that time, leave by natives. This caused the Sellers: Pearl Parks Estate & others years, half of the students will be the French. In colonial times, he said Rowland, the islands were fall of the government. able to go to high school, he said. said, there were two sets of schools, raided for slaves to work in the The government was in such a Saturday, January 28 The natives were cannibals and hospitals and police. The people got sugar cane fields in Queensland, turmoil that schools and hospitals head hunters originally, the mis- self government in 1976 and inde- Australia. Patteson went to an is- closed, Rowland said. Warlords and STARTING TIME 10 a.m. MST. sionary said. Isolated cannibalism pendence in 1978. land that had been raided and was ethnic militias were killing each Location: VFW Hall, 824 Main Goodland continued into the 1990s, said Rowland is the priest for a village killed because the people thought other. A member of the Melanesian Rowland. Christianity has helped on Vanuatu. He says Mass and has he was a slaver. Brotherhood, Brother Nathaniel, in FURNITURE the people develop a common lan- an unofficial medical aid station, There are more Anglican monks February 2003 thought he should go Walnut color double B/R set, dresser W/mirror, chest; White double guage. Presbyterian and Congrega- B/R set, chest, dresser W/mirror; 2 Dark B/R sets, double bed, dress- where he gives out aspirin and ac- and nuns in Melanesia than any- talk to Harold Kecki, a warlord on ers W/mirrors, chest,; Dresser, chest, NICE; 2 full beds, Dining room tionalists evangelized Polynesia, etaminophen. where else in the world, Rowland the Solomon Islands. Kecki tor- set, tea cart, china hutch, table W/6 chairs, Several sofas, Sofa & love which includes Hawaii, while An- The Anglican mission in the is- said. Orders include the Melanesian tured him for three days and killed seat W/2 matching arm chairs, 3-Swivel rocker, Gray swivel chair, 2 glicans (churches related to the lands goes back more than 150 Brotherhood, the Sisters of the him. bar stools, Blue arm chair, Recliner, Wood cane rocker, Glass top table, Church of England, including the years, Rowland said. George Church, the Sisters of Melanesia In April, Rowland said, six broth- Small kitchen table W/2 chairs, Microwave stand, GE refrigerator, Kenmore washer, Quasar console TV W/remote, 10 nice small plant stands, Coffee & End tables, Card table W/4 chairs, Small writing desk corrections Sherman & chair, Bookcase, Floor lamp, Corner table, Wood desk, Shelves W/ TONIGHT 7:00 1 2 0 3 M a i n – P h o n e 8 9 9 - 6 1 0 3 wheels, Portable Whirlpool dishwasher, Computer desk W/hutch FUN WITH DICK & JANE (nice) A story about Sherman County The Goodland Star-News will (PG-13) MISC. 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