11111 New Series Vol. XLIV No. 4 • Whole Series Vol. LXXlll No. 11 • December, 1983

3 Mission Memo 7 Editorials 8 "How" and "Why" in Christmas Charles E. Brewster 12 Methodism in Cuba-Where Two Worlds Meet Tom Whitehead 17 We Walk on the Edge of the Soles of Our Shoes Dietra Gerald 19 Mission in a Worldwide Stream Eugene L. Stockwell is interviewed by Tracy Early 22 Homeboy James E. Baker 27 Lonesome Louie's Alaskan Kids Margaret H. Miller 32 Painting the Human Condition Helen Kromer 34 Race and The United Methodist Church, Part II Woodie H. White is interviewed by Winston Taylor 37 No Handicap to Ministry Garlinda Burton 39 Viewpoint Leontine T. Kelly 40 Books 41 Index to 1983 New World Outlook

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- ~~~- ___ -- - MISSION MEMO News and Analysis of Developments in Christian Mission

December, 1983

Bishops. UM Bishop James Armstrong, episcopal leader of the Indiana Area, has resigned as a bishop of the church and as president of the National Council of Churches of Christ. He was considered one of the most influential clergymen in the nation. The 59 active bishops of the UMC ''received with regret" the resignation on November 15 on the first day of their semi-annual meeting in Burlingame, California. Retired Bishop Ralph T. Alton of Madison, Wisconsin, was named as .. interim bishop of the Indiana Area effective immediately. In a message released the following day, Bishop Armstrong said he had submitted himself to an "exhausting and inhuman work schedule" and that he was "physically and emotionally depleted." It was reported that he planned to enter the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. A spokesman for the Indiana Area said the resignation came because of "serious personal problems which have created a severe family crisis." Claire Randall, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, said Bishop Armstrong's resignation was received "with deep regret and genuine appreciation for his service to the Council." Bishop Armstrong was elected a bishop in 1968 and served 12 years in the Dakotas Area. He moved to Indiana in 1980 ••••• Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa of Zimbabwe was jailed October 31 in Harare, Zimbabwe, on suspicion~­ having subversive links with South Africa. His situation was l ater described as "preventive detention" rather than jailing and it is reported that the charges against him were reduced by the High Court from subversion to "contact with'' South Africa. Isaac Bivens, World Division Africa area secretary, flew to Zimbabwe to meet with the Bishop and also Prime Minister Robert Mugabe; he reported that Muzorewa is in good condition and has not been mistreated. "All we can do now is wait for developments and due process of law", said Bivens. The UM Council of Bishops voted to send Bishops Emilio de Carvalho of Angola and John Wesley Hardt of Oklahoma for the Zimbabwe annual conference Dec. 14-18. The Council also sent letters to Bishop Muzorewa, Prime Minister Mugabe, President Banana, and the United Methodists of Zimbabwe. Acknowledging that they "lack sufficient information" about the charges against Muzorewa, the bishops appealed for his immediate release. Bishop Muzorewa, who is a former prime minister and leader of the opposition in Parliament, is being pressed by many church leaders to choose between being a political leader and a religious leader. Muzorewa's troubles began when he made a six-week trip to Egypt and Israel for what he described as "Bible study''. But he was quoted on Israeli television calling on Zimbabwe to begin diplomatic ties with Israel, which Zimbabwe refuses to recognize because of its military cooperation with South Africa. Deaths. Marie Frakes, a retired deaconess with 35 years of service in the U.S., died Oct. 22 in Grand Rapids, Mich. She was 86 •.. Leonard Ii.:_ Perryman, veteran United Methodist journalist who was associate editor of The Interpreter, died November 15 in Dayton, Ohio, of cancer. He was 53. He formerly served as director of the New York office of United Methodist Communications where he covered the (then) Board of Missions and was known for his devotion to work, accuracy, and sense of humor (see editorials) .••. Myrtle Pylman, a retired deaconess with 35 years of service in the U.S. died Nov. 3 at Asheville, N.C. She was 82 •.• The Rev. Walter §_. Williams, professor emeritus of Old Testament at the Iliff School of Theology, died recently in Boulder, Colorado. He was 80. He lectured at schools and seminaries throughout the world and taught for three years at Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan in the early 70s.

Latin America. Argentinian Methodist Bishop Federico~ Pagura, who is president of the Council of Latin America Churches, said recently in Indiana that 11 the present U.S. policy in Latin America is producing a growing sympathy toward those non-Christian movements that are struggling for justice in our countries. 11 He denounced the Grenada invasion as the most recent example of the Administration's 11 Big Stick" policy.

United Methodist Association of Communicators. At its annual meeting in Baltimore Nov. 4 the United Methodist Association of Communicators bestowed its annual awards for excellence in communications and inducted the first nine members of the newly-established UM Hall of Fame of Communicators. Of its annual awards, New World Outlook received six citations and editor Arthur J. Moore received the plaque for general excellence in publication and periodicals-.-Other top recipients were Spurgeon Dunnam, United Methodist Reporter, newspapers; Ken Horn, Western North Carolina Conference, electronic media; John Lovelace, UMR, writing; Martha Pilcher, United Methodist Publishing House, photography; Nancy Bentley Cunningham, UMPH, special promotion. Rev. Donald R. Wood, executive director of 11 Good News 11 television in Macon, Ga., received the Communicator of the Year Award. The nine members of the Hall of Fame were Dorothy .McConnell, long-time editor of World Outlook; B.F. Jackson, former director of audio visual services at the Methodist Board of Education; Bishop Nolan B. Harmon, for 16 years book editor of The Methodist Church; Bishop T. Otto Nall, long-time editor of The Christian Advocate; ~~Spencer, head of--rhe Television, Radio and Film Commission for 21 years; ElSllOp Prince !1_ Taylor, former editor of The Central Christian Advocate; Walter Vernon, long-time editor with the General Board of Education; Arthur West, former head of the Commission on Public Relations and Methodist Information;lfc)i)ert L. Sands,formerly director of communications in Iowa and Illinois who died on Sept. l.

Personalia. Charles Austin, a religious news writer with the New York Times, has joined the staff of Religious News Service, which is now owned by the United Methodist Reporter ••.• Rev. John Bluck, communication director of the World Council of Churches, has been named professor of pastoral theology and communication at Knox College, Dunedin, New Zealand, effective May, 1984 .•.. Rev. Thomas Lane Butts, Jr., whose conviction on a charge of "undermining the ministry" of another pastor was overturned, has been reinstated by the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference and appointed to the Chickasaw (Ala.) United Methodist Church ••.. Dalila Cruz, associate general secretary of the General Council on Ministries of the UMC, was unanimously elected executive director of MARCHA, the UM Hispanic caucus, the first layperson and first woman to hold that post •••• The Family of Man Awards of the Council of Churches of the City of New York will be presented on Dec. 7 to King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa •••• W. Thomas Osborne has been named director of broadcast news services in the Office or-Information of The National Council of Churches.

Su9an. A number of Christian leaders have expressed fears about the situation in the Sudan, where a policy of 11 Islamization" has alarmed the Christian population. Sudan is divided between an Islamic population in the North and a Christian population in the South; one of the causes of a 17-year civil in the nation. This was ended in 1972 by an agreement which guaranteed considerable autonomy to the south; an autonomy which has eroded recently. Christian leaders point out that there is considerable difficulty in gaining permission to build new churches while a number of mosques have been built or reconstructed and Islamic criminal law in certain areas has been instituted by presidential decree. Among those expressing alarm are Sudanese Christian leaders, world Anglican leaders meeting in Africa, and Olle Dahlen of Sweden, a special representative of the World Council of Churches.

General Conference Proposals. A nine-member cbmmittee set up four years ago to study the UM General Conference has recommended proposals to cut the size of the body and screen the number of petitions presented to it. The colTVTiittee feels that the General Conference is now too large to be efficient. Specific proposals include: reducing the number of delegates from nearly 1,000 to 750; require that petitions from individuals or from unofficial organizations be approved through an official group and forwarded by that group; establish a legislative commission of one delegate from each annual conference to sort out and categorize petitions to the Conference to assure better handling •••• A constitutional amendment that would permit delegates from other Christian communions to take part in General Conference is being proposed by the denomination's ecumenical body, the Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. The amendment would add delegates from communions with which the UMC has approved concordats; most likely other denominations taking part in the Consultation on Church Union. This would not affect the number of delegates elected by annual conferences. A related resolution will propose allowing annual conferences to invite representatives of other churches to take part in their sessions •••• The UMC Infant Formula Task Force has proposed setting up a new task force on inf ant nutrition for the 1985-88 quadrennium. The group would continue discussions with infant formula manufacturers, monitor their compliance with the World Health Organization code, and deal with other aspects of the issue. The group would originally be related to the General Council on Ministries but would eventually operate under the General Board of Church and Society. The current task force would function until its successor is in place •••• Oebate over the proposed missional priority for 1985-88 was the hottest issue at a recent pre-General Conference News Briefing in Baltimore. The General Council on Ministries has proposed a multi-faceted "Church Alive" emphasis while the general program boards, ethnic caucuses and two general commissions favor continuation of the Ethnic Minority Local Church as the missional priority. Mission Presentations. A series of presentations on the theology and practice of mission will be held during the spring meeting of the World Division, GBGM, March 9-17, according to the Division's new deputy general secretary, Peggy Billings. James I:_ Laney, Emory University president and a former missionary, has been invited to keynote the presentation. Gerald Anderson, director of the Overseas ''T Ministry Study Center and a critic of the Div1s1on, has agreed to take part. Other No speakers will include Third World church leaders, people from other denominations "li be with strong mission programs, and members of the missionary community. peoR Car i~ to St Women and Health. An international symposium on Women and Health in New York Nov. gotte 9-12 was--told that women's health is "more than a medical issue" and that it rnent involves "equality, development, and peace." The symposium was arranged by the a po) Health and Welfare Program Department of GBGM; among the 100 participants were both directors and staff of GBGM, General Board of Church and Society, and the onl ~ abo Commission on the Status and Role of Women as well as members of other Protestant natio denominations, Roman Catholic and Jewish groups. lated Co bel ie National Council of Churches. The governing board of the National Council of was Churches has votedto "postpone indefinitely" the membership application of the rnon homosexually-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Ad Meeting ~ n Hartfort, Conn., Nov. 9, the board voted 116-94, after two hours of tute debate. The action was interpreted by the parliamentarian to mean that the MCC pol ii would have to submit a new application to be considered for membership in the A~ future. dou1 Unit Orga the Women's Ordination. The Faculty Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of serio America in New York has adopted a resolution authorizing the admission of women to call1 its Rabbinical School. The Seminary is the chief institution of Conservative val Judaism in the U.S. Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen hailed the outcome as "an important H step forward in theological thought, ethical behavior and devotion to the if the continuity of Jewish law. 11 Of the other two of the three branches of Judaism, an y1 Liberal Judaism has ordained women while Orthodox Judaism does not. varie re SCI prev Invitation to Reagan. President Ronald Reagan will be invited to address the 1984 Grer UM General Conference in Baltimore as part of the Bicentennial Celebration. Rev. cont Pr B.C. Goodwin, Jr., Santa Fe, N.M., chair of the Commission on the General posi1 Conference, sa..,.-a-that Mr. Reagan will be invited to speak on May 3,4, or 5. The grou late President Lyndon~ Johnson addressed a 200th anniversary commemoration of the "res Methodist movement in 1966. Former President Jimmy Carter spoke during the 1972 kno1 General Conference in Atlanta while he was governor of Georgia. miss than Cl Union Negotiations. The UM General Board of Global Ministries has reached agreement use with District 65, United Auto Workers Union, representing its non-executive staff univ on such issues as seniority, a grievance procedure, disciplinary procedures and tion, funeral leave, according to the Board's attorney, Robert Lees. Still to be as so negotiated is the issue of wage increases. He added that "a""f"airly long list of rnori El items" is still unresolved. The union is asking that UM wages be brought up to the sorn level of the National Council of Churches and that workers get an increase of 12.5 cou r pe r cent each year for the next two years. pau! ago as tr Nov It is

-- --==- -~ being as secular as often described and few people living or dead could have offered more proofof this than Leonard M . Perryman, a church journalist for I] EDITORIALSbJ more than 30 yea rs who died last month after a 20-month bout with cancer. "THE BEST MISSIONARIES" point out that this is not quite their Perryman was only 53 but he had Now that the U.S. " invasion" or historic or proper role any more than it achieved more in his short life-span "liberation" of Grenada is over, most is their role to serve as a substitute for than many persons who have been in people in both the U.S. and the foreign policy. church communications considerably Caribbean seem quite contented, not Increasingly, this administration longer. At the time of his death he was to say elated . The islanders have seems not to have any foreign policy an associate editor of the Interpreter gotten rid of an unpopular govern­ other than denunciation and the use of magazine, director of United Method­ ment, their neighbors have eliminated the military. It is the lack of any ist News Service's Dayton office, and a potential threat, and the U.S. feels coherent pol icy in Lebanon that trans­ one of the fastest, most prolific and both virtuous and strong. Seemingly, formed the Marines there from a uncannily accurate writers in the only a few soreheads are muttering neutral peace keeping force into what history of United Methodist communi­ about such tiresome subjects as inter­ were perceived as protectors of one cations. national law and morality being vio­ faction, with the tragic and horrible Leonard spent 18 years at the lated. results we all know. General Board of Global Ministries as Count us among the soreheads. We This attempt to substitute a morality a writer and interpreter of church believe that the U.S. action in Grenada play for foreign policy ·s an old missions. And it was there that his was illegal and ill-advised and de­ American character flaw in judgment actions began to reflect a conscience monstrated once again the Reagan and it is as common to the left as to the that told him that he, as one solitary Administration's tendency to substi­ right. The only way we want to think individual, must do what one could to tute military force for diplomacy and about the world is in terms of good improve the social and professional political solutions. guys and bad guys . The left, with its conditions not only in society as a About its illegality, there can be little concern for the poor and oppressed, whole but also within that particular doubt. The action violates both the keeps looking vainly for utopias-now arena in which he worked-the United Nations Charter and that of the Cuba, now Nicaragua, even Grena­ church. Organization of American States . Even da-and they keep turning sour. The In his own unobtrusive way he the Reagan Administration makes little right, with its concern for stabi I ity and championed the cause of women and serious attempt to dispute this, basi­ continuity, keeps searching for quietly, without any fanfare or grand cally claiming that there are higher devils--now Cuba, now Nicaragua, credit-seeking gestures, he was in­ values than legality. even Grenada-and propping up one strumental in the Board hiring its first This claim might be more plausible military regime after another with full-time professional journalist who if the government could ever settle on disastrous consequences. was Black. It was a move that even­ any one rationale. Instead, it offered a This is where President Reagan 's use tually paved the way for other ethnic variety of excuses. One day, we were of the term " missionary" is so reveal ­ minority communicators throughout rescuing the students. Next, we were ing. The false historical use of thatterm the United Methodist Church. preventing a Cuban takeover . . The implied a superior being bringing He had other qualities as well. One Grenadian government had either lost en I ightenment to the heathen rather was his lack of selfishness, a willing­ control or it was a harsh dictatorship. than its true meaning of one sinner ness to help and serve others even at President Reagan has stated his telling another about the love of God. the expense of hi s own comfort. He position very clearly. Talking to a Christians have much to repent for in passed up sabbaticals so that others group of supporters just after the that historical distortion. How ironic could take them , never griped about "rescue mission", he said that "I don't that governments should now pick up money and pushed other writers for know if we've ever had any better this discarded heresy as their banner. choice assignments. Another quality missionaries for our country abroad" was his penchant for mediating dis­ than the troops in Grenada. LEONARD M. PERRYMAN putes among staff and other church Christians are bound to wince at that To many people journalism is a colleagues. Sometimes, in order to use of a word we associate with a secular occupation in which its practi­ resolve a dispute, Perryman would universal gospel of love and redemp­ tioners are chroniclers of the famous offer to exchange projects with some­ tion, although historically it has been and infamous; they are purveyors of one, give up directorship of a particu­ associated with force and nationalism news about good and evil and keep the lar program in favor of another person , more often than we like to remember. world informed about the cause and or accept twice the normal work load . Even in its more secular sense of effect of one crisis after another. The These actions were not simply those someone sent abroad for his or her work of a journalist is certainly not of conscience but expressions of a country, it should give Americans commonly considered a religious remarkable sweetness of personality pause that scarcely more than 20 years calling. In fact, one could wonder, and and character which made him greatly ago it was the Peace Corps that served with some justification, whether God beloved by those who knew him. It is as the model of mission for our nation. does call anybody to this kind of an understatement to say that we will Now, it seems to be the U.S. Marines. vocation. miss th is dedicated journalist who It is no denigration of the Marines to Fortunately, journalism is far from served church and society so well. A1 Refor ty, pl Lut~ poin\ whm rece ~ fasci1 Chris th e ~ ityoll the s were sensl Lu thesE

ingt exa Ger sudi Sc ho As corr diffi ' does eithe ours Lut "Wi uni~ our im pc hap ton B was also stu fasc Writ uni n Wi ll This "Adoration of the Magi," by Bosch, depicts a Biblical scene in a setting contemporary with the painter. insti Wr i1 ace the

- _- - -~~ -- -- "How" and "Why" in Christmas Charles E. Brewster

number of years ago Professor Luke, did so because of an over-riding students if uni lateral American space A Roland Bainton, the renowned need to express why God came to us in exploration was not simply a repetition Reformation scholar at Yale Universi­ Christ. This was convincingly shown of the mistakes of colonialism . "These ty, published a book called The Martin in Raymond Brown's The Birth of the kids are smart," he said. But actually Luther Christmas Book. Bainton Messiah, published in 1977 and now one suspects he was so used to pointed out that the great reformer, considered the standard critical work answering the " how" questions that a whose sooth anniversary was just in this area . " why" question which went to the recently celebrated, was endlessly Ours, however, is not a culture heart of the matter threw him off. fascinated by the human aspects of the comfortable with the why questions. The other day a minister friend of Christmas story. The distress of Mary, We are fascinated by how things work, mine showed me the latest mechanical the misgivings of Joseph, the perplex­ not why. One of the new TV offerings gizmo on his ca r. This time it w as a ity of the Wise Men, the obedience of called "Whiz Kids" focuses on a group back-up light which went on and the shepherds, the cunning of Herod, of smart young people using com­ made a loud noise when the car was were al I portrayed by Luther with great puters supposedly to help solve some put in reverse. I can understand why a sensitivity to human emotions. mysteries but in the process invading big truck needs this item, but not a Luther had a way of transposing the privacy of a number of computer minister's car. I hesitated to ask " why" these characters to his own day, facilities and programs. According to he put such a thing on his car, sometimes with what Bainton calls commentaries on this program there is especially since he was having so Luther's "engaging fancy". Palestine endless fascination with the cleverness much fun explaining how it worked. became Thuringia. The distance from of these young people and how they A culture captivated by the me­ Nazareth to Bethlehem was as that chanical can ask the simple questions from Saxony to Franconia. In describ­ about Christmas. How can a star move ing the birth itself, Luther used detailed in the heavens to guide wise men from examples from a typical birth in a the East? How can the heavens open German home. Contemporary artists We ''are and an angelic chorus appear? How such as Albrecht Durer and Martin can a virgin give birth? Apart from Schongauer did the same thing. fascinated Mary's "How can these th ings be?" As Bainton pointed out, Luther there is little sympathy for this line of correctly observed that the greatest with how questioning in the New Testament. difficulty with the Christmas stories The trickiest thing about t hese does not lie at the point of science, questions is not the "answers" but that either the science of Luther's day or of things work, asking the questions is likely to lead ours. The greatest incredibility for one away from the far more difficu lt Luther was not mechanical but moral: not why. questions. Why did God send his only "Why should the Lord of all the Son in the likeness of human flesh to universe care enough about us to share die for us? What is there about our our human woes?" And the most human nature which is reflected in important issue was not how it all manage to outwit'' computers , but only these stories? It is when we start asking happened in Bethlehem but allowing it occasionally does a teacher suggest to these questions that the message of to happen again in our hearts. them that there might be some ethical Christmas can begin to enter our own By asking the why" questions Luther problems with what they are doing. hearts. was reflecting not only his own age but That would be too close to the " why" " We Christians are the ones who also his extraordinary depth in Biblical question, the moral question. And it despise him," said Luther in one of his study. It is the why questions which would also undermine the basis for the Christmas sermons as paraphrased by fascinated St. Pau I and the other TV program. Bainton. " I do it myself. I can not writers in the New Testament. No one For a generation we have been believe in him as I should. He ought to uninterested in the " why" questions fascinated with the " how" of space be my true friend and comforter. But will ever understand Romans, for exploration-thethrustoftherockets, the 'old donkey' in me won't have instance. Even the New Testament the miracle of the landing on the it. ... " Luther here was underli ning as writers who give us the most thorough moon, etc. But recently a government he usually did the greatest wonder accounts of how things happened in spokesman was startled when he was about Christmas : the love of God and the birth of the Messiah, Matthew and asked by a group of high school our own undeserving human nature. New World Outlook• December 1983 [505] 9 God did not come to us, to be God tions which keep Christmas at arms ace With Us, because we deserve him. He length, a safely removed slightly aca­ the The answers'' came despite our human nature not as demic subject. But to ask why assumes the a reward for it. And he came because it a certain amount of belief. This is the En! is his character to make himself known other side of the threshold . not to the why and to redeem . The why questions are hard because 1 A culture uncomfortable with the their answers involve us. Of course we wit questions why questions will be expected to do will start with the need of the human his with Christmas what we have done. race and the persistent call of God to the We wi 11 focus on what Donald Cog­ his people to serve him, and their wit raised by gan , the former Archbishop of Canter­ failure to heed his prophets. And we He bury, once called "the trappings of will see the persistent desire of God to me Christmas"-the presents, Santa reach out to his people. But since it le ~ the Incarnation ( Claus, the family reunions, the par­ was news promised to everyone which ties, the decorations. We enjoy focus­ the shepherds heard on the hi II side, Vis are the same ing on these things, I believe, because we know we are there, too. We will the they appeal to our instincts to answer see our own need, our own helpless­ ric answers found the how questions-how to buy al I the ness apart from Christ to be reconciled sai presents, how to get through Christmas to God, our own estrangement from hu unscathed, how to make it to the right God. exl in ·the Cross. parties, how not to spend too much The answers to the why questions are money. We are all good at this and we raised by the incarnation are the same tur get better at it every year. But also, as answers found in the Cross. The on '' Dr. Coggan said, it is these trappings answers involve the same uncompro­ Ge that we eas ily get accustomed to and mising look at human nature in all its mt about which we can get blase. And weakness and at the magnanimity of lo then we think we are getting blase God in all its breadth. And as we see u about Christmas when we haven't ourselves as the undeserving benefi ; sa even begun to touch the central event ciaries of the atonement, so also we of Christmas. must see ourselves as the beneficiaries One way to begin to touch that of the incarnation. " Here are words ISiI central event is to ask the why question you may trust, words that meant full Fo of some of the fam i I iar passages read at Christmas. Why did an angel of the Lord speak to Zechariah in his old age and promise him a son who would be "a forerunner, possessed by the spirit and power of Elijah ... "? Why did Gabriel visit a town in Galilee called Nazareth with a message for a girl named Mary? Why were wise men guided from the East by a star? Why did Simeon say when he had seen the child that Jesus would be a "deliver­ ance which thou hast made ready in full view of all the nations"? Why, in John's explanation of the mystery of the incarnation, is it said that "he came to dwell among us, and we beheld his glory"? This is not a quiz. There are no right and wrong answers. The "why" ques­ tions are always the most difficult, as every parent of small children knows. But by asking why these things hap­ pened and why certain things are said we cross a threshold. On this side of the threshold are the easy how ques-

10 [506) New World Outlook • December 1983 artin Luth ati it (a ffiETHODISffi IN CUBA Where Two Worlds ffieet Tom Whiteheod

ne Cuban pastor had a w ay of by Jose Aguiera, a representative of 1hro1 0 blending the two worlds of the ICAP (lnstituto Cubano de Amistad go VE Cuban Communist " reality" and the con los Pueblos). For the entire week ers 1 small Methodist Church there. He he accompanied us as we visited the dize said, " The M arxist is my neighbor." 950-bed hospital in Havana, the Valle This Good theology. de Picadura, a well-run day center, a own But for those of us coming for the home for the elderly, and the Museum H first time from another " reality", put­ of Revolution. In addition, there were Mar ting those two worlds into the same several " dialogues," a lecture on the thrE city and nation will take some time. Cuban educational system, and a press Bu iI Eight Methodists from four continents conference. All of these expanded our revc were invited by the Cuban Methodist awareness of the world of Communist gen! Church to celebrate their " centen­ Cuba. rep< ario" -their first one hundred years of existence. Besides two directors of the Some Impressions fro~ World Division of the General Board We had some favorable impressions Am of Global Ministries (Dietra Gerald of the new Cuba. Cuba is a third world Cu t and Tom Whitehead), there was also nation . One cannot measure the any staff person Nora Boots and her progress of the Cuban government sph husband , Wilson. Bishop Armin without comparing Cuba' s achieve­ qu a Haertel from East Germany and Bishop ments with the other third world Latin be and Mrs. Federico Pagura from Ar­ American Nations. Am gentina spent the entire week. Later in For instance, Cuba enjoys a 97% ern the week two delegates from Angola literacy rate, the highest in Latin an joined the group. Congregation America. Over twenty years their Most of the w eek we found our­ celebrating the education system has been cons is- . Centennial (below). selves being shuffled between the two tently upgraded. It now services all age Street scene worlds. The Cuban government had groups from day care children who are T chosen to give our group special in Havana 27 weeks old to an extensive adult enc (opposite page). attention. We were met at the airport education program. A well-conceived od1 program has raised the required stan­ dard of formal education to junior high level. By 1990 it will be up to high school. The showplace of their nationwide health care program is the large hospital in Havana. Besides emergen­ cy service and regular hospital care for 300,000 residents nearby, it is a diagnostic center, and the heart of the nation' s teaching and medical re­ search . We were told the average Cuban sees a doctor five times a year. Food is still rationed. " Essentials" are purchased at low prices in govern­ ment stores. There are also the " pri­ vate" markets where additional food items may be purchased at much higher prices. Housing is constantly being upgraded and large numbers of housing units have been bui It since the revolution . An example is the commu­ nity of Alamar (population 150,000) east of Havana. The five-story multi­ ple- unit buildings are like similar prefabricated concrete structures seen

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-----=~=--- ''We found ourselves being shuffled between two worlds. t t throughout the island . In addition, the church experience seemed to be a food necessary to feed several hundred government rewards some good work­ separate reality from the experience people. When you consider the d is­ ers with building materials, a standar­ provided by the Cuban government. tances involved, the limited ava ilable dized plan, and small plots of land. We were there to celebrate the Cen­ accommodations, and the heavy de­ This enables families to build their te n a r i o of the Cuban Methodist pendence of Cubans on mass transpor­ own homes. Church. One hundred years ago two tation, the celebration must have Housing is still in short supply. Cubans returned from Miami as con­ seemed an impossible dream to many. Many families live in their traditional verted Methodist Christians. They But the churches responded in grand three-generation configurations. started a church and three years later fashion. Buildings which existed before the requested the Board of Missions of the Following the three-day annual revolution are still fully occupied, and Methodist Epi scopal Church South to conference, out-of-town guests generally in need of paint and other send missionaries. This was the be­ began to gather at four different repairs. Havana as a city would benefit ginning. of the expanding Methodist churches in Havana. The Cuban Meth­ from a coat of paint. presence in Cuba. odist Church records 2,500 members. Those who have visited other Latin The Cuba Methodist Church has More than 600 persons gathered for American countries say life for the been planning its centennial celebra­ the celebration . Some spent twenty­ Cuban people as a whole is better than tion for four years. Under the leader­ four hours ri 8ing buses to get to anywhere else in the Southern Hemi­ ship of Bishop Armando Rodriguez Havana. Almost five hundred stayed in sphere. There is enough food, ade­ and a very creative committee, the the four churches. For example, 150 quate health care, good education and entire church has been involved in the young persons aged fifteen through better housing than in other Latin preparation. th irty stayed for four days at Marianao American nations. The Socialist gov­ For an entire year they promoted the Methodist Church. During the day the ernment guarantees all Cuban citizens celebration in local churches. A burn­ youth, the children, the women and an adequate standard of living. ing torch had been passed from church the men held separate meetings in to church throughout the whole is­ their respective churches. In the eve­ land. Each Sunday that torch appeared ning everyone gathered for worship A Separate Reality on a different altar during the worship and celebration. The second part of our Cuban service. Every church was encouraged The daytime programs of the four encounter was with the Cuban Meth­ to take special offerings, to recruit its groups were fil led with business, odist Church. The first days of our members to attend, and to collect the planning, singing and worsh ip. The evening celebrations brought the greatest surprises to the visitors. The first evening was devoted to a musical tribute to Cuba. Popu lar music span­ ning more than a century was sung and danced by a variety of groups. The program featured everything from children singing their own verses of Vaya Con Dios to a choral group singing popular love ballads. The next three days were cl imaxed by three-hour worship services . The services were framed in new liturgy. The Centennial Committee had en­ couraged members of the churches to write new music. A rock band , folk choir, gospel choruses and a chorale group provided variety and excel­ lence. The music had a distinctl y Latin sound, much of it uniquely Cuban. Another mark of the w orshi p ex peri­ en ces was the ability of Bishop Rod ri­ guez and the committee to dramatize the shape and mission of the chu rc h by using people as symbols. In the fi rst evening worship experience, all w ho

New World Outlook • December 1983 [509) 13 ''The methodist presence in Cuba is strong, alive, and very optimistic. t t had been members of the Methodist after the revolution . The ranks were the government. Test< Church for over 50 years were hon­ filled with youth . When the church Most recently, the 1978 Mariel and ored . In the second worship service, became autonomous in 1968, one of exodus included some of the most oppr more than twenty-five youth and the three remaining ordained leaders, promising church leaders . Among the adults were baptized, and between Armando Rodriguez, was elected to 10,000 people who gathered at the fifty and sixty persons joined the the first of his four terms as episcopal Peruvian Embassy to migrate to this Methodist Church. The Sunday morn­ leader of Cuba. country were Cuban Methodists who n ing worship experience closed with a In 1967 and 1968, the government had been counted on to become give " passing the torch ceremony". First recruited as many men as it could to important leaders in the church . peOf full-time missionaries, then a large help harvest the sugar. This meant that In each of these crises, the church to a1 number of persons who had agreed to the pastors of Methodist churches was affected by both the policies and men give significant blocks of time each were shipped to the countryside for the actions of the government. Com­ "try week, were passed the torch one at a munism in Cuba is officially atheistic. and time. Earlier in the service eighteen The government does not understand not persons had been ordained deacon or nor does it feel constrained to under­ A elder. The presence of visitors from stand the Church. The government allo Methodist churches on four continents perceived a lack of effectiveness in the fre were integrated into the worship expe­ church's ministry to meet the real sud riences to express the ties between needs of people over a three-hundred the Methodists around the world. year period of Cuba ' s history . inte Our encounter with the church gave Church-related social agencies were odis the impression that the Methodist nationalized after the revolution . dail presence in Cuba is strong, alive and Buildings which housed Methodist­ me very optimistic. When thirty percent of sponsored schools and medical care the the whole membership attended the are now used by the government for pers Centennial celebration, we realized their much-expanded programs. also the solidarity of the church. The new Cuban Christians, both Methodists re CE music and liturgy were intentional and other denominational leaders, ways of saying that the church is going concede that the government is doing of into its second century with new what the church should have been reli1 voice, a profound sense of longevity doing. By establishing nation-wide allo and a great faith . programs of health care and educa­ talk tion, the government is doing for and Encounter and Interaction everyone what the church could only ing' do for a few. By feeding all the people, How do the church and the com mu- This church houses the kep nist presence live together? Where do headquarters of the bishop. and providing adequate housing, the bee government is able to fulfill the Old the two meet? The more we talked, the many months to work in the sugar cane Spe more we became aware of their fields. At that time, the women of the encounter and interactions with each church took the leadership and con- other. tinued to enable the worship, Bible Certainly the church has been dra- study, church school, and the admin- matically changed by the revolution istrativeneedsofthechurch. There has and by the government. In the twen- been at least one women superinten- ty-five years since the revolution, the dentintheBishop'scabineteversince. Methodist Church has experienced In 1973, the church was split by a four crises-three of them precipitated charismatic group. It took a number of by the revolution and the policies of years, and careful negotiations with the government. the government, to hold the member- Between 1958 and 1963, all but ship together and to maintain control three ordained and professional lead- of church property. That crisis was ers in the Cuban Methodist Church left weathered because the church leader- the island for the United States. ship was clear about its own standards, American missionaries, Cuban minis- and was open to dialogue with all ters and deaconesses were among the groups inside the church. Careful 100 leaders who relocated . Many of interpretation of the nature of the the key lay leaders also left Cuba just church was needed in dialogues with

14 (510) New World Outlook• December 1983 Testament prophetic call for justice and for relief of the need s of the oppressed.

"What Is Not Being Shown" Those of us who visited Cuba were given the same advice from many people. We were told to observe and to appreciate what the Cuban govern­ ment was doing. " But," we were told, " try to notice what is not being shown and what the government officials do not talk about. " As members of a society which allows us to enjoy great personal freedoms, we felt the restrictions of such freedoms. News is controlled by the government. The visit of the international delegation to the Meth­ odist Centennial was reported in the daily newspaper. It was the first mention of the Methodist Church by the government-control led newspa­ pers in twenty-five years. We were also aware of careful answers we received to some of our questions. One of the most obvious restrictions of freedom was in the practice of religion. Church members are not allowed to witness to their faith or to talk about their churches' activities and programs in public. "Proselytiz­ ing" is illegal. Church properties are kept in the hands of the church only because pastors I ive on the premises. Special permission must be obtained if

Preparing food for the celebration (opposite page). Youth are an important part of the Cuban church (top). Part of a congregation (above). is no more evident than it might be on the streets of New York City. However, a drive past military installations dem­ w merr onstrate a Cuban commitment to the Cub; management of world affairs by mili­ of l tary power. Military presence appears und( to be as much a part of the Cuban strategy as it is of the United States . chur The Cuban Methodist Church does Mar: not speak to these social issues . For thei1 whatever reason , they have chosen gua1 not to. Their social witness was the gov( Centenario Celebration. They have gio ~ chosen to be a witness by their very a presence. So they celebrated a century byt ) with great style. Over thirty percent of that their membership showed up for the unti celebration-many traveling long dis­ corr tances. We participated in the only ing eight-day floating potluck we might whE ever know, and we ate well. scri One had the impression that some reli1 Cuban Methodists considered them­ WO! selves to be the faithful remnant. is r During the week the Cuban Methodist chu Church celebrated a national heritage Women are Bibles are to be brought into Cuba. The and a Methodist presence that have leac very important Cuban church does not speak publicly fa it in the church, 100 years in common. They equipped to social and cultural issues . themselves for the next 100 years with thei both as pastors Those of us who have freedom and and lay persons. a spirit of joy and celebration . They the· take the message of the Old Testament laid plans for the future years with oft prophets seriousl y find many achie.ve­ well-articulated goals. Two of the we ments of the Cuban government im­ goals were the improvement of their se pressi ve. Sane of the most often-quot­ properties, and raising the level of ed passages from Amos and Isaiah education of their pastors. seemed to be fulfilled in Cuba. How­ They also set a goal of evangelizing ever the sin most often mentioned by Cuba. For the past two years, church the ~rophets is apostasy. The denial of members have identified other Cubans God is the chief sin of the people. An who believe in God, or are interested officially atheistic government denies in the faith. The church has a list of the existence of God in creation and in 17,000 people for whom they have history. assumed " pastoral responsibi I ity". Two concrete illustrations of this They have definite programs for the serve to i I lustrate. The first is the lack of cultivation of these persons. In addi­ care for the en vironment. While offi­ tion, they have a large number of cial government statements and goals teenagers and young adults from all are aimed at improving the quality of phases of Cuban life who are inside the the environment, the lack of quality membership. control in air pollution is evident. On At this point in their history, they see some days, Havana is shrouded in a themselves very much a part of their grey haze. Open industrial burning nation's history. By their presence, and careless ness in auto emission they believe themselves to be witness­ standards are obvious. ing to the reality of God in Cuba: • The Cuban military presence in the world parallels that of the United Thomas M . Whitehead is pastor of the States . In the cities and countryside of First United Methodist Church, Salem , Cuba, the police and mi litary presence Oregon. Cr 16 [512) New World Outlook • December 1983 ffiETHODISffi IN CUBA We Wolk on the Edge of the Soles of Our Shoes Dietra Gerald

e walk on the edge of the soles of and lyri c the fervor of the church in it is important to note that the church Wour shoes." Thi s statement by a Cuba. The following few lines from reports that it is in mini st ry to over member of the Methodist Church of these songs are self-explanatory: 1 7,000 others w ho are not for whatev­ Cuba helped me as one of a delegation " Thi s gre at reviva l er reaso n official ly on the ro lls. The of United Methodists in Cuba to Who will put it out? vibrance and vitality of the hundreds of understand how best to desc ribe the If the Lord has blest it members and guests w ho joined us for church there today. Christians in a It wi 11 ever stay the week-long centenn ial celebration Marxist country must be vigilant about w as contagious. their faith . Although the constitution In trials and struggles O ne leader in the women's organi­ guarantees the freedom of religion, the Nothing will put it out zati on told us, that " in th e face of our government does not encourage reli­ di ffic ulties m y fait h becomes gion and at best ignores it. I do not live but Christ lives in me stronger. " Th e Cuban Methodist On arrival I was immediately struck For me to die is to live Church is so alive because of the by three overwhelming facts (all facts For me to live is Christ!" personal and collective strength of its that I knew but did not fully understand The second song was sung one members and leaders. It is an incredi­ until I experienced them): 1) Cuba is a evening by some youth gathered on bly re sourceful church. Three sm all communist country; 2) it is a develop­ the church center veranda, as they exa mples illustrate this well. Th ou­ ing country; and 3) it is a country waited for the evening worship to sands of program bulleti ns were print­ where individual freedom is circum­ begin . This song gives one a sen se of ed on a 30-year-old (if not older) scribed. For example, the practice of this same intensity of commitment mimeograph machine that requi red religion is confined to churches. The among the youth: continuous repa ir. Between 8:00 a. m. worship service and evangelical work " Jesus needs you, Great Christian and noon each day a man and his wife is restricted by law to the inside of Youth prepared the lunch and dinner mea ls church buildings. He is asking you to come for 300--400 people in the small Methodist church members and He is saying, go forward church kitchen using the combined leaders are very serious about their Go forward Christian youth ingredients of that day's donated food . faith . There is nothing cavalier about Without any fear Each family contributed food for the their approach to church work. Yet It is Jesus who is guiding us here. " day's meals: dried beans, rice, fruit, their witness is joyous. Two examples potatoes. Whatever the fa mily had to Vibrance and Vitality of the kinds of creative new songs that share and could bring in brow n paper were an integral part of the worship The 118 Methodist congregations in bags were placed in the rear of the services express in Spanish cadence Cuba have 2,500 members; however, dining area each day for the cooks to prepare. The Church was able to accommodate hundreds of pa rtici­ pants who stayed overnight in the local churches. Nothing and no one is ta ke n for granted. The Cuban Methodists use to capacity every re source at their dispos­ al . They cannot and do not afford themselves the luxuries of disc rimina­ tion based on age, or sex, or ra ce . O ne of the two women d istrict superinte n­ dents told us that it w as Bishop Rodriguez' wise advice th at they begi n a program of accelerated seminary tra ining for the youth age 21-32 to fi ll the void created by the loss of trained pastors in the 1978 " M ari el exodus" . Youth were not rega rded in the usua l w ay as future leaders but as today's leaders. W e met severa l ordained ministers, lay pastors and lay mission­ ari es within this age group, 21 -32. One woman pastor, the mother of Creative new songs are part of the worship. two children, sai d with marked kind-

New World Outlook • December 1983 [513) 17 More than 150 E~ young people stayed for four days is j at the celebration.

uncomfortable with communism, refuse to let that prevent me from being Chri engaged in Christian mission wherev­ not er that leads me in the world. st re a Our United Methodist Church dele­ Tc gation was greatly enhanced by the non· presence of two Methodist bishops, miss Armin Haertel from East Germany and the Federico Pagura of Argentina, who are brought us tremendous insights into tine the nature of the socio-€conomic-po• B litical systems within which the church one ness and delicacy that " we sacrifice role of the church in Cuba should be . must operate. They assisted us in Stoc more than you can imagine. Within The Methodist Church has been projecting and articulating our posi­ this economic and political system the held together against assau Its that tion as ambassadors of peace and mere maintenance of our buildings is a might split other churches. This stead­ ambassadors of God's mission for the monumental task. " We were later told fastness results from the wisdom of its church universal in the world today. In that this woman's husband was killed pastoral bishop and strong leaders, a world where there are great tensions instantly in an accident that occurred both clergy and lay, who refuse to let and hostilities, especially in Central while he was making repairs on a political differences split the church or America, our message was particular­ church building. divert it from its mission . ly timely. In our discussions with for government representatives, we ex­ WG The Political Reality What We Can Learn pressed the need for more internation­ al exchanges and opportunities for gel' What is the political reality of WeinTheUnitedMethodistChurch dialogue. Only through keeping the. sha Christians in Cuba? It is that they walk of the United States can learn a great channels of communication open can mo on the edge of the soles of their shoes deal from this church . We who have we find the instruments of peace in our Bill pursuing God' s mission and defending surplus resources are tempted to waste world. con their faith from the affront of Marxist those resources, both people and The Cuban church is clear about its Tho ideology about religion, an ideology materials. Without any outward attack role in Cuba. It is incumbent upon us tio advocating atheism. And what is the and challenge to our very existence we in The United Methodist Church to be th e church's response? A one-sentence are not forced to constantly unite to equally clear about our role and em description of that response is that the defend our being. We are more likely mission in Cuba. Members of the Methodist Church of Cuba says to the to concentrate on our differences and equivalent of the Cuban conference fut people and to the government offi- are therefore more easily susceptible council on ministries asked me to take per cials: We accept all people into the to division. home a message to those unable to be Church of Jesus Christ: Marxist com- As a first-time visitor to Cuba and a with them in their celebration, that ~~ munists; people who accept and first-timevisitortoacommunistcoun­ "the church here is ALIVE and WELL. ~ defend the revolution; people who try, I hardly feel competent to com­ Pray for us so that we can continue this ing silently oppose the revolution; and mentonthesysteminCuba. However, way; faithful to the Gospel wherever in those who are indifferent to the as an informed Christian member of we find ourselves." I only wish I could Co revolution. All are welcome, all who the General Board of Global Minis­ also bring to you a sense of the warmth tive come are involved to the fullest extent tries, I feel capable of recommending and Christian love I felt there . Mir possible in the work of the church . It is ways for The United Methodist Church Yes , they walk on the edge of the c an open church . Open for all and open to be involved in mission in Cuba. I'm soles of their shoes . Let us in The bot to all who come to join or just to see if sure that some in The United Method­ United Methodist Church walk in gro their actions are consistent with their ist Church would not want to go to solidarity with our fellow human Pat words. Cuba or to consider ways to be beings who share a great Christian love ~ Within the church in Cuba and the involved in mission there because it is and determination to carry on for the bet ecumenical movement, there are a communist country. Prejudgments next 100 years in Cuba. • als1 ministers and organizations who are of this kind are wrong. Ours is a as on record indicating that they are Christian mission in Cuba as it is in any D ietra Gerald is a divisional direc tor of Ao Christians and that they support the other part of the world. Our Lord is not th e Gene ral Boa rd of Global Minis tri es and rni 1 revolution . They have a foot in both concerned about political systems or sen ior staff assistant of the Committee on W( camps and in that role facilitate the labels but about the lives of people, all the D istrict of Co lumbia, U. S. House of tio1 continuing dialogue about what the people. Although I am personally Represe ntatives . inc 1 8 [ 5 14] New World Outlook • December 1983

-- --·~ ~-~ MISSION in a worldwide stream Eugene L. Stockwell is interoiewed by Tracy Early

ugene Stockwell is going to Gen­ E eva with a conviction that th e Christian missionary movement need not always move in three se parate streams . Today it does. Not only are the non-Catholic churches pursuing their missionary goals in separation from the Roman Catholic Church, but they has found in the 1980 meetings and Ie ms of the world," Dr. Stockwell said . are themselves divided into two dis­ el sewhere that a large number in both " It will be a challenge to see how one tinct parties. groups share much common ground . integrates th os e two conc erns. " Beginning in January, a leader of " The document written under Lau­ Though CWME has already been one of those parties will be Dr. sanne auspices at Pattaya on reaching doing so me of that integration under its Stockwell, a United Methodist minis­ the urban poor could have been current director, Emilio Castro, he ter who is joining the World Council of written by the Melbourne group," he added, further steps are needed. Churches (WCC) staff as director of its said . " And some of the documents Not in th e spirit of criticism but Commission on World Mission and coming out of Melbourne would be simply of anal ys is, Stockwell observed Evangelism (CWME). Successor to the applauded by the Lau sanne group. " that the National Council of Churches International Missionary Council, the in the U .S. A. has done rel ativel y little CWME serves as a coordinating body Evangelism a Central Concern in evangelism because "we ass ume for most of the mission agencies of th e denominations w ill do it. " To wee members. One attraction of going to Geneva, block that escape route, drafters of a Another stream, conservative evan­ Dr. Stockwell said, is the opportunity 19 76 policy statement on evangelism gelical in orientation, began to take of working where evangelism is a included the w ord " ecumenica l" in shape as a coordinated, worldwide central concern. He will have as hi s declaring that evangel ism is " a prima­ movement in 1974, when evangelist working base a new policy statement, ry function of the chu rch in its Billy Graham called an international " Mission and Evangelism-An Ecu­ congregational , denominational and conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. menical Affirmation," adopted by ecumenical manifestations." But Dr. Though participants denied any inten­ CWME in May, 1982 and approved by Stockwell said implementation of the tion of setting up a rival counterpart to the WCC's Central Committee the policy statement has suffered neglect. the wee, an ongoing structure following Jul y. Both Evangelicals and By contrast, he said , CWM E as an emerged . Roman Catholics helped draft the text. international body serves th e cau se of " I don't forsee a merger in the near It takes up the evangelical thrust with a evangelism directl y through such pro­ future, but I am not reconciled to a straightforward declaration : " The gram acti vi ty as training people for permanent split," Dr. Stockwel I said proclamation of the gospel includes an evangeli sti c work and helping in an interview after his election to the invitation to recognize and accept in a churches in various settings share their CWME post. personal decision the saving lordship learnings about evangelism w ith each He noted that he has been promot­ of Christ. " Another evangelical con­ other. ing ties with conservative evangelicals cern is supported in the assertion, " It is in his work with the U.S. National at the heart of Christian mission to Promoting Church Unity Council of Churches (NCC) as execu­ foster the multiplication of local con­ tive head of its Division of Overseas gregations in every human communi­ Another attracti on in going to the Ministries (DOM). In 1980, when ty. " World Counci l, Stockwell said, is the CWME held a conference in Mel­ Connected with those points is opportunity to work more directly in bourne, Australia, and the Lausanne equally firm support for th e peace and promoting church unity. Again , the group held one shortly afterward in justice dimension: " The call to con­ National Council has , of cou rse , been Pattaya, Thailand, he went to both. version, as a ca l I to repentance and for unity, but it has not taken th e active Not only was he building bridges obedience, should also be addressed promotion of thi s cau se as one of its between divergent groups, but he was to nations, groups and families. To ta sks. Th at, too, has been left to the also finding they were not as separated proclaim the need to change from war denominations to work out w hen and as their meeting apart might imply. to peace, from injusti ce to justi ce, as they saw fit. But th e wee gets more According to a concept in some from racism to so lidarity, from hate to involved in helping further the overall minds, people associated with the love is a witness rendered to Jes us movement for Christian unity. wee care only for social tran sforma­ Christ and to His Kingdom." In th at connection, Dr. Stockwell tion and the Lausanne group only for " I believe in evange lism, but not an looks forward to strengthening ties individual conversion . But Stockwell evangelism divorced from the prob- with Roman Cath olics as wel l as with

New World Outlook • December 1983 [S 1S] 19 conservative evangelicals. He has his relatively brief tenure with CWME cially severe attack and in some arrn seen a considerable amount of Roman to constitute a transitional period, after financial difficulty. But he finds his proi Catholic participation in the United which leadership could again be Division still reasonably secure in the and States-affiliation by Catholic agen­ drawn from the Third World. affections of its constituency, and it is T cies , Catholic personnel serving on the However, since much of the West­ the part of the NCC in best financial was DOM staff and so on. Relationships ern world has moved into what is health . ChL have also been established at the called a post-Christian phase, the the world level, with Roman Catholic Commission may come to find its work Structures and Finances sior observers regularly attending CWME needed as much there as in the Third Stockwell acknowledged that there "ur meetings. Now, the Vatican Secretari­ World. That is suggested by comments are structural problems connected ad at for Christian Unity has arranged for a of Lesslie Newbigin, a minister of the with DOM, but not of the sort to be and member of the U .S. Catholic mission­ (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland who readily resolved. One anomaly is that geo ary order known as Maryknoll, Sister was director of the International Mis­ a single unit of the Division, Church me Joan Delaney, to begin a term of sionary Council atthetime-the 1961 World Service (CWS) , which carries me service on the CWME staff in January. New Delhi Assembly-it merged with out its relief and development pro­ sin Dr. Stockwell hailed this arrangement the World Council of Churches, and gram, gets more than 90 percent of al I D as a sign of the Christian unity he who headed CWME until 1965. DOM income. "This skews the rela­ lite wishes to further in the cause of Both before and after that period, he tionship to some extent," he said, Christian mission. served as a bishop of the Church of going on to note that relationships are While citing opportunities in evan­ South India. On a recent visit to New similarly skewed for the Council as a gelism and Christian unity as reasons York enroute to a speaking engage­ whole because Overseas Ministries for taking the new post, Stockwell ment in San Antonio, he commented, gets more than three-fourths of all mentioned three reservations he had " I am now a missionary in England, funds coming to the NCC. In some about accepting. One was his age, 60, and I find a more difficult form of cases, he said , DOM has been able to which means he will serve only five paganism there than in India." help out other units, but most DOM years " at the outside." Perhaps more In other comments, Bishop Newbi­ money comes designated for specific serious was his feeling that the post gin expressed satisfaction with the way purposes. A growing trend toward . should continue to be held by some­ CWME had developed since its for­ designated giving " pervades our one from the Third World. By coinci­ mation, and the way it had become country," he added, and particularly dence the third.Methodist in a row, he integrated with the total life of the affects the National Council of will succeed Emilio Castro, a Uru­ WCC. He said its 1982 statement on Churches because "trust in the ecu­ guayan who in 1973 succeeded Philip " Mission and Evangelism" was the menical community to make the right Potter, from the Caribbean Island of best that had been produced by any decision is in a bit of short supply." Dominica, after Dr. Potter became international body. This financial imbalance comes WCC General Secretary. As the third consideration weighing about because the denominations, against a move to Geneva, after partly bound by historic commitments Third World Experience dealing with the age and the Third to particular churches and agencies cul World factors, Dr. Stockwell spoke of abroad, have not pooled their mission mi~ But Dr. Stockwell has had extensive the possibility he might appear to be funds as they have their service do I Ia rs ~ experience in the Third World . deserting the National Council of through CWS. In addition, CWS gets the Though born in Boston, he lived from Churches at a time it is under espe- large sums through its own fundraising no1 the age of three in Argentina, where his an( parents were missionaries and his sor father from 1927 to 1960 was presi­ WO dent of Union Theological Seminary in der Buenos Aires. After a brief experience I believe'' in evangelism I with the life of a New York lawyer, an1 Stockwell went to Union Theological but not an evangelism ser Seminary in New York, and then served as a missionary to Uruguay and mi ~ an1 Argentina from 1952 to 1962. divorced from the Ste He was subsequently Latin America secretary for the World Division of the probkms of the th< W1 Methodist Board of Missions for two years, and then program administra­ world. · fo (\ tion secretary for the World Division until he went to the National Council a! in 1972. Dr. Stockwell said he expects na 111 < New World Outlook • December 1963 '' 20 [516) arm, CROP, and through government Council income. The CWME budget is care in Vietnam, and we turned it programs, particularly Food for Peace as large as the general World Council down because we didn't want to be and refugee resettlement. budget and that for CICARWS is much identified too closely with the U.S. The Division of Overseas Ministries larger than all the other budgets put military and with the Thieu govern­ was created in 1965 by bringing together. The situation is further com­ ment," Stockwell said . " On that, there Church World Service together with plicated by the fact that 38 percent of was no difference in our views." the former Division of Foreign Mis­ the Council's 301 member churches In any case, MacCracken's desire sions in what Dr. Stockwell called an make no financial contributions at all. for greater freedom for CWS was " uneasy marriage". When he arrived probably a more significant point of at DOM, it still had separate service disagreement, Dr. Stockwell said . and mission secretaries for the various The James McCracken Flap geographical areas. One accomplish­ Perhaps the most highly publicized DOM and CWS the Good Guys ment of his tenure, he said , was flap during Dr. Stockwell's years at the A notable irony of the U.S. situation merging these so that there is now a National Council was the departure of has been that the Division of Overseas single office relating to each area. (The CWS director James MacCracken in Ministries and Church World Service DOM structure also includes units for 1974. After working together a couple are apparently regarded as the good literacy work, family planning, agri- of year, the two executives found their part of the National Council o f Churches by some people who dislike its liberal activism on social iss ues . In fact, DOM and CWS are as involved in We've ''put our controversial issues as other NCC units. They were the ones organizing the wheat shipment to communist concern for Vietnam that got David Jessup into his campaign leading to the formation of justice and the Institute on Religion and Democra­ cy. They continue to operate an active program in Indochina, and have ar­ liberation ranged with the government and Ecumenical Co,uncil of Cuba for out front . .. Cuban Christians to serve in their Cambodia program. Positions taken by Stockwell and CWS director Paul McCleary were cited as evidence in '' The Reader's Digest article Uanuary, cultural missions and other spheres of views so divergent it seemed that Mr. 1983) accusing the NCC of Marxist mission interest.) MacCracken had to go. bias. Most of the DOM constituency in Reflecting now on the incident, Dr. Dr. Stockwell said the Division of the U.S. and abroad, Stockwell said , Stockwell said that he had remained Overseas Ministries and Church now agree that the merged mission friends with Mr. MacCracken, but that World Service have avoided any move and service structure is better, though they had indeed advocated different to distance themselves from the NCC's some people still think CWS could approaches. " His view tended to be, image on social issues and profit from work better if it were more i ndepen­ help people in need regardless of the their own more favorable image in dent. political circumstances. " Dr. Stock­ certain quarters. " We' ve put our In Geneva, however, the mission well said. "I tended to give more concern for justice and liberation out and service functions remain in totally emphasis to the political implications. front in our constituency education," separate units--CWME and the Com­ That is not to say we should help in he said . mission on Inter-Church Aid, Refugee countries with one type of government The experience of DOM and CWS and World Service (CICARWS). Dr. and not in those with another type. We may, however, show that people who Stockwell was reluctant to pronounce assist countries of every political go about the task in the right way can that a mistaken arrangement for the stripe. But I want to be sure when we raise money even while carrying out a wee, but said he would be working do provide help, we're not creating or controversial program. Eugene Stock­ for close relationships between perpetuating a situation that in the long wel I now has a chance to see how it CWME and CICARWS. Again, there is run is negative for a given country." will work on the international front. a great financial disparity, with desig­ But he said the divergence of views nated funds for units and projects was not • absolute. " In 1973, AID Tracy Earl y is a free lance w riter, based in making up about 80 percent of World offered us a million dollars for child New York.

New World Outlook • December 1983 [517) 2 1 at th uring some of the more formative and Dyears of my life, ages nine through fourteen, I lived at the Meth­ and odist Children's Home in Worthing­ fi t ha ton , Ohio. boys It has been over forty years since my dor James E. Baker stay at the Home. ow, as a father sch giving guidance to his son , I find We myself searching my memory of those indi years in quest of the influences that grou provided me with the guidelines for As " growing up". one I have been fortunate in life in gove having few tragedies. The divorce of most my parents when I was nine was the Mr most momentous. Memories of this live time remain blessedly in shadows. cloc Other memories, of a large man in a Dow dark suit, a long drive, of being led up Bu t the steps of a seemingly huge brick post building, remain vivid. her l We were met at the door by Mrs. men I Downs, housemother of the boys' edge cottage at the Methodist Children's la Home. To this day, I can picture her mylo black and white print dress, a single and strand of pearls, and a no-nonsense task. face framed with grey hair. I can also Ev remember the smile in her eyes behind with steel-rimmed glasses and her affec­ a glo tionate and much-needed hug of imag assurance as she placed her arm read around my shoulders and led me into Boys the unknown. storie The unknown proved to be a three the I story building that was to be my home toda ~ for the next five years . The first or main imagi floor consisted of Mrs. Downs' office find and living quarters, a large kitchen sti mu adjacent to a huge dining room, a fair p reception or visitors room, and living mind quarters for the cook. The second and Mr third floors were identical ; each uss o housed two dormitories, two lava­ leads tories, and two fifteen-bed dormi­ "you ':O-. r.: tories opening into a recreation area . alwa1 ...~. c-; Each complex was referred to as respe ·~\' .·-;.. dorms and each was presided over by I f ~ polic1 .). . a live-in governess whose room was •l.,, '•.. ._ ,... . Alter ' . next to the boys' bedroom. the s ·.. . i'Y (··., sessi o I • I I ...... ,. .. . ,( .. ,• Busy , Structured, and Secure ThE ' I ...... _,• \, I 'I • "alw, I was soon so immer ed in meeting Wh atE ,,~ ~ .. · members of my dorm, being assigned .. , . ,· ·. Welle ...... ,.. ... lockers and gear, and receiving a tour tu rns, 'I of everything that an y trouble or fear I I.ff Some ... I brought with me were forgotten . Lif .. than e

~ ------at the "Home" was busy, structured A poorly done job resulted in an dards. Al I pots and pans gleamed on and secure. After learning the rules extended stay at a less desired job. the outside as well as the inside. and penalties for breaking the rules, I One soon learned the value of doing a Tables, sinks, and floors were made fit happily into the group of a dozen task right the first time. spotless after every meal. How we boys that made up our dormitory. Each used to hate those large enameled dorm ate, slept, attended church and pans that baked beans were prepared Mrs. Miller school, studied, and played together. in . If we ever finally got them washed, We became more like brothers than During my stay at the Boys Cottage we knew the resultant scratches on the individuals from many different back­ there were other people of authority sink would require laborious steel­ grounds. that added to a developing boy's quest wooling before it would ever meet As I grew older and progressed from for guidance. Unfortunately, with one standards. one dormitory to the next I had several exception, they have slipped from my I remember early morning kitchen governesses . The one I remember the memory. The exception is Mrs. Miller, duty and the warm gas stove with the most was Mrs. Burris. our cook. cavernous oven that was the mainstay · Mrs. Burris, or perhaps it was Miss, Mrs. Miller had the monumental job of every meal. I recall laying out a lived with "her boys" around the of feeding over fifty people three ti mes hundred pieces of bread on large fl at clock, six days a week. Like Mrs. daily. Her only help was four of the pans and toasting them in the oven Downs, she had grey hair and glasses. older boys assigned kitchen duty. prior to applying melted butter with a But there the similarity ended . Her Automatic dishwashers and micro­ paint brush. On Sundays, bacon and posture was not as ramrod straight and wave ovens were still a dream of the egg day, eggs were placed in huge her standards for work accomplish­ future. muffin pans and baked to perfection ments were tempered with her knowl­ Mrs. Miller ruled the kitchen with twenty to thirty at a time. edge of our individual abilities. authority. She scolded in a loud voice Mrs. Miller ran everything in her I attribute to Mrs. Burris's influence if you dropped a dish or spilled some domain with ease and efficiency. my love ofreading, my desire for truth, food. Later, those who received her Perhaps because she often worked and my abi I ity to do my best at any wrath also got a pat on the head and a side by side with the boys, we held her task. cookie. She inspected every item that in less awe than Mrs. Downs or the Every evening, as we lay in our beds was washed and dried and readily governesses . She was our confidant with only a single reading light casting rejected those not meeting her stan- and friend and settled many a petty a glow in our large bedroom, our imaginations soared as Mrs. Burris read the adventures of "The Rover Boys in Africa" or "The Far North", or stories of "King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table". As I compare today's endless television requiring no imagining or mental visualization, I find it doesn't compare with the stimulating messages of adventure and fair play brought to young and open minds by the devotion of this fine lady. Mrs. Burris did not like lies . She told us so in no uncertain terms. "One lie leads to another," she would say, or, "you can catch a thief but you can't always catch a liar." We believed, respected and loved her and so her policy of being truthful became ours. After all it was the way the heroes of the stories in our nightly reading sessions acted. The third tenet of Mrs. Burris, "always do the best you can at whatever you attempt," has served me wel I over the years. Al I of the boys took turns at a varying assortment of chores. Some were easier and more preferred than others so we rotated assignments.

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v an Lor transported in reverse order enabling I us to again play ball for an hour or so the until the last trip was completed. sta Needless to say, with all the practice Ho we got we developed some fair ball the teams. We were known as the "Ho­ wa meboys" and usually did well against pickup teams from neighboring towns. ing argument with persistent and pene­ serving bowls. A clean plate was There was certainly no stigma attached c trating questions that made us consider prerequisite to going outside to play. to being called a Homeboy. If anything ce all sides of a disagreement. I will always remember the three we were somewhat proud of our label . M The highlight of every week in the hours I sat staring at my plate while the We belonged! ce daily routine was Sunday. We began rest of the boys were engaged in an Sunday was visitor's day. Parents by sleeping in until seven o'clock, then important ball game. I knew I would either visited on the grounds or took ho had a breakfast that included bacon surely die if I were to eat the stewed their children home for dinner and a fot and eggs instead of the usual oatmeal, tomatoes and breadcrusts lying there. I movie treat. A few children never ha and attended Sunday school and also knew that my stall wasn't working received a visitor. Without exception ch church at the Methodist Church in and that there wou Id be no exceptions these children were invited to share a Worthington. This was just the begin­ made by Mrs. Mi lier who checked my parent with a more fortunate dmm­ Je. ning. Sunday dinner was always some­ plate periodically. In desperation I mate. It was not uncommon to see a de thing special, sometimes fried chick­ finally crammed the sodden mass in young boy anxiously awaiting the gi en. Always, on alternate weekends, my pants pocket, showed a clean plate arrival of another boy's parent. H there was a visit by Dr. Morral. to a surprised Mrs. Miller, and raced Since this was the era of the Second from the dining room as I felt the World War our heroes were the ti< A Visit By Dr. Morral penetrating juices run down my leg. I servicemen of every type and descrip­ nc couldn't gloat over my successful tion. Any boy with relations in the Dr. Morral was superintendent of deception. Now I had some badly service prominently displayed their the Home. He lived in a green house ti stained pants. My devious solution to pictures on the wall. Victory gardens located near the entrance to the Home h this new problem was to fall in the were industriously dug and planted by grounds. Every other Sunday the good hE creek and wash away the evidence. all . Cards showing the silhouettes of Doctor would eat dinner at the Boys' de This, in turn, and I was sure by God' s enemy airplanes were memorized and Cottage. Alternate Sundays would find judgment, resulted in a substantial long hours were spent scanning the him at the nearby Girls' Cottage. st punishment for being in an out-of­ skies. Every prayer included requests While dessert was being served Dr. bounds area-the creek. I was espe­ for the protection of loved ones . We Morral would wander about the dining cially reverent the following Sunday in cheered the radio broadcasts an­ room telling us jokes and humorous church . nouncing victories by the allies and stories. I never remember the man were miserable with any defeats. We repeating himself. We en joyed these The "Homeboys" were just like boys everywhere. performances immensely. We also As I reflect on these days of yester­ enjoyed the side benefits as well. The We attended public school in Wes- year and try to equate the things I to Doctorwas a rapid eater. In an attempt terville, Ohio, seven miles away. At learned while a Homeboy, things I can bythegovernessestokeepupwiththe that time the school facilities in use to help guide my son into adoles­ Doctor and arrive simultaneously at Worthington were inadequate to han- cence and eventually manhood, I can dessert time and story time, one die the large group of children from the only return to the basics that remain cardinal rule was relaxed. On this day Home. There was only one school bus constant regardless of the era . The only we were not made to clean our so necessity decreed that the older ones that I can provide such as love, plates prior to receiving dessert. boys be taken to school first and then understanding, and myself as an ex­ fr Perhaps the strictest law at the the bus returned for a second trip to ample. Other basics such as loyalty, tE Home was " no wasted food". Any- carry the girls and younger boys. empathy, and pride can only b~ c thing put on your plate was to be Because of this situation we often acquired while participating in life. a eaten . Otherwise you sat at the table found ourselves playing ball on the c until it was eaten . Everyone had to try school grounds while the town kids • at least a large spoonful of every type were just getting out of bed. When James E. Baker is Hatchery Manager at food placed on the table in large school let out in the afternoon we were the National Fis h Hatchery, Frankfort, Ky .

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- ~ -- -~~ - - ffiorgoret H. miller Lonesome Louie's Alaskan Kids

isit the Alaska Children's Ser­ Vvices , Inc. (ACS) in Anchorage and you're sure to meet up with Lonesome Louie. If you can read a totem pole, from the base to the top of the carving that stands in front of the ACS Jesse Lee Home, you may be able to decipher the story of the mythical horse who just wanted friends and acceptance. If not, translation wi 11 be forthcom­ ing quickly from any of the staff or children at the residential treatment center that had its beginnings in a Methodist mission established nearly a century ago. For the totem of Lonesome Louie the horse is replete with symbolism for a four-denomination mission effort that has a wide range of services for children and youth in Alaska . The totem was carved by a former Jesse Lee Home director, one of many dedicated professionals who have given talents to the joint ministry of The United Methodist, American Lu­ theran, American Baptist and Chris­ tian Church (Disciples of Christ) de­ nominations. Children at the home, representa­ tive of the youngsters who receive ACS help at the rate of 750 to 800 a year, helped chip at the carving and fill in details of the legend it carries . Volunteers erected the totem in its stone base, and visitors from churches and the community pause beside it as they learn the workings of a church­ oriented, government- supported en­ terprise that currently has an annual budget of $5 .7 million. But Louie can't talk, so others have to tel I the story of the mission that was incorporated in 1970, and in 1978 was approved for membership in the Child Welfare League of America.

Four Programs of Care ACS now has four programs of care for troubled children : emergency shel­ ter services for children in crisis; community-based group homes for older teens; residential treatment for children with emotional and behavior problems; and an adventure- based residential care program for older boys identified as delinquent. Lonesome Louie's totem pole at Alaska Children's Services in Anchorage. We don't'' just Dr. John C. Garvin, United Method­ ist pastor who has been executive treot symptoms; director since 1974, notes that ACS is Li ch u like so many children's services in the we look for Tom Gunderson (right). John U.S . that have evolved from orphan­ Garvi n with two of his A l a ~ ages to treatment programs . the underlying adopted children in his office the He adds that about a third of the (below). The Anchorage Chil­ Un< children served are Alaskan natives­ problem. dren's Christian Home, an was Aleut, Indian and Eskimo-and chil­ emergency shelter, is housed mis' dren come from all over Alaska for in the newest buildings. are< treatment in the varied programs. '' mis " We work with troubled kids , help­ ing them understand angry feelings ~~I and deal with daily situations," said or ~ Tom Gunderson, director of clinical al l and program services. " We don't just pre try to treat symptoms; we look for the the underlying problem." Gunderson told of a boy who ~ arrived for residential treatment be­ th:1 cause he had been disrupti ng school classes and stealing. "We learned his to mother was 17 w hen he was born," said the staff member, " and that they had lived with a succession of men, some of whom were abusive. We're giving him counseling and opportunities for success, treati ng him mo fairly. He needs to learn to take tre responsibilities for his action." the

28 [524] New World Outlook • December 1983 The stort'' (of ACS) is the Jesse Lee Home. ''

Jesse Lee Home Jesse Lee Home resident, Bennie nomination's division of social and Benson , won a contest with his flag health services, a fourth group home Looking back into the history of design showing the constellation Ursa and housing for the adventure-based church missions that came together as Major (the Great Bear, also known as program were purchased. Alaska Children's Services, the start is the Big Dipper) and the North Star in Dr. Garvin notes that the ACS the Jesse Lee Home, founded in gold on a blue field . full-time staff numbers 150, about ten Unalaska, way out in the Aleutians. It Ben so n also has a boulevard in percent holding masters degrees in was founded in 1890 by Methodist Anchorage named for him, and the social work. Gunderson has his mas­ missionary Agnes Soule. The Aleutian banner he designed flies over the Jesse ters from the University of Chicago area had been designated Methodist Lee campus in that city. It was School of Social Services Administra­ mission territory in a comity agree­ operated by The United Methodist tion, and spent five years with Lincoln ment worked out a decade earlier by Church as the Anchorage Christian Child Center at Oakland, California, several mainline denominations. The Children's Home from 1966 to 1970, before taking his present post. orphanage was named for the coloni­ when ACS was formed by the Method­ Eight on the staff are ative Alas­ al era New England circuit-riding ist, Bapti st and Lutheran denomina­ kans . " That's not enough, " Dr. Garvin preacher who was an early chaplain to tions. commented, " but it's an 800 percent the United States Congress. The American Baptist Church has increase over a year ago." Missionary Soule married Dr. Albert long been in children's work in Alaska, " We've recent!y taken a major step Neuhal and they worked together operating since 1892 a home at in emphasizing Native cultures by there for many years. In 1925, it was Kodiak. A $150,000 bequest from an employing Marlene John son, an Atha­ decided to move the Home to Seward anonymous Baptist layperson formed bascan Indian, to head our cu ltural to provide a home for thousands of the basis for the emergency shelter awareness program ." native children whose parents had program of ACS. The Lutherans con­ died of tuberculosis. Work went on tributed funds from the sale of a youth A Mission to the North there until the buildings were heavily shelter they had operated at Wasilla damaged in Alaska's 1964 earth­ since the early 1950s, and the ACS Director Garvin brings to the agency quake, and the decision was made to began establishing group homes for a variety of ski lls and expertise. He move to Anchorage and establish a older teens who needed alternate grew up on a farm in western Pennsyl­ treatment center for troubled children. I ivi ng arrangements. vania and decided while in college to The city of Seward just recently put The original three denominations heed the call of a medical mi ssionary the buildings up for public sale. They were joined in 1983 by the Christian from Alaska. But on the way to the Far are being advertised as the birthplace Church (Disciples of Christ). Through North he acquired masters degrees in of the Alaskan flag because in 1926 a the Benevolent Association, that de- theology, public health and social work, and a doctorate in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. He was also ordained a Methodist minister and continues membership in the West Pennsylvania Annual Confer­ ence. Inner-city mission work begun in college held his interest for several years. " When the Lord called me to the north country," he comments, " I didn't know he meant the north side of Pittsburgh ." His· years with Bethany House, a Pittsburgh inner-city mission, brought not only satisfying work but also four adopted black children whom he and his wife, Audrey, added to their " home-grown" family of four. And in 1974, when Alaska Chil­ dren's Services advertised its need for a Bob Wood (left) notes that the new director, Dr. Garvin finally rea­ emergency shelter has open design for lized his youthful dream of serving in better supervision. Marlene Johnson the orth . (above), an Athabascan Indian, directs At the Jesse Lee Home, owned by the cultural awareness program. the National Division of The United nor ~' Methodist Church, 45 youngsters of cor junior high age live in fi e cottage units. All deemed severely disturbed emotional! and in need of long-term rha care, they spend up to a year on the 25-acre campus before returning to families or foster care. A school at Jes e Lee gives remedial help and aims to get I the children back into public schools ha as oon as possible. There are also recreational facilitie , including an activities center built with $600,000 from one of the two capital fund drives that have taken place since Dr. Garvin became director. " It serves well in our long winter," he sa . " I don't know how we ever got along without it. " Each of the cottages ha a hou e manager re ponsible for meal and housekeeping, and the youngster help with some chore . Child care worker are on eight-hour shift in each re idence, and ocial worker are on the staff to provide coun eling.

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- -- -- People hove'' to be occepted for whot they ore. home, Rabbit Creek, houses ten older Another ACS priority'' , Spiritual Life, counts for the high governmental teens who are more disturbed- some took a big step forward last year as the percentage, Dr. Garvin said . " There is coming out of psychiatric hospitals, Rev. James S. Davis was named very I ittle private wealth in Alaska," he some su icidal. Because they need Chaplain. A graduate of Luther Theo­ explained. " The government and Na­ more counseling and intervention, logica l Seminary, he has served Lu ­ tive corporations own 90 percent of that home is managed on a system theran congregations in North Dakota the land . The people are younger, and similar to that of the Jesse Lee Home. and Minnesota and had clinical pasto­ only about 20 percent of them are There has been little problem plac­ ral training at Metropolitan Medical churched ." ing the group homes in communities, Center in Minneapolis and Methodist Alaska also presents its special said Dr. Garvin. "We worked very Hospital at Rochester, Minnesota. problems in giving quality child care. hard to getthe zoning needed and also Davis works with chi ldren through­ " Resources are more limited after the worked with the neighbors. Th ey are out the ACS , and it's the hope of kids leave ACS ," Dr. Garvin noted. very accepting. " institution planners to have an ecu­ "There is less money for special help, Emergency shelter is provided for al I menical chapel on the Jesse Lee less social programming, less extend­ up to 18 years of age in the two campus in the next few years . It would ed family. And alcohol abuse is buildings that form the Anchorage be part of a new Life and Faith probably a little worse here, limiting Children's Christian Home. Those building. the prognosis for success when the who go there are in crisis situations­ Two more ACS priorities involve kids get out. " abuse, or possibly repeated running advocacy and volunteerism. And then there are the special needs away. "They are here anywhere from a " We aggressively monitor state , of Native Alaskans, described by Dr. few hours to six months," said super­ municipal and federal legislation," Garvin as "not mean or confronta­ visor Rob Wood. "There are staff said Dr. Garvin, " to see that it's good, tional like some inner-city kids, but people on duty, two at a time, 24 hours or at least not harmfu I, for the interests much more passive." a day." of children and families. " I learned that right after I arrived The Adventure-Based Program, " And we seek not only to recruit here, " he said . " I was dealing w ith a newest endeavor for ACS, is for volunteers for various functions, but Native kid and he just lay fa ce down delinquent youths on probation and also to find volunteer opportunities for on the bed. I didn't know what to do. I referred by the state's Corrections our kids and staff members to get them wanted to say, ' Look at me, boy,' but Department. It's based on the high­ into the community. I' m glad I didn't. I learned later it's a risk kind of program used by the Briti sh sign of disrespect for a Native chi ld to Navy during World War II. Sources of Funding look in the eyes of an older person­ " These kids need ego-building," like spitting in the eye." ACS now gets direction from a said Dr. Garvin, and they get it in But understanding and appreciation 24-member board, all Alaskans . wilderness camping, obstacle keep increasing at Alaska Children's There are three representatives for courses, mountain and glacier climb­ Services, and in that respect the each of the four denominations in­ ing, and winter survival activities. hundreds of children who have re­ volved and twelve members from the They learn self-reliance, self-esteem, ceived help there are way ahead of community at large. and teamwork in a program that Lonesome Louie, the horse depicted Dr. Garvin looks forward to another emphasizes personal responsibility on the Jesse Lee Home totem pole. capital funds drive that would run five and rewards positive behavior. For, according to the legend that years and culminate in 1990, the came into being with the totem, Louie centennial year for the Jesse Lee Four Specific Priorities came around to visit the cottages and Home, the first of the services. tried several times to be friendly. But . Alaska Children's Services has four He also would like by then to see folks found him an object of curiosity specific priorities in all the programs it ACS endowed to the extent of $1 5 and tried to capture him instead . So offers young people. million, hi s cu rrent estimate of the Louie left and became the lonesome One area is Cultural Heritage, in a annual budget seven years down the one. pilot year funded in part by a grant road . " He wanted friends, just as people from United Methodist Women's Call Government funding now accounts do," the legend puts it. "People have to Prayer and Self-Denial giving. for 90 percent of the ACS operations, to be accepted for what they are and Director Marlene Johnson brings to the Dr. Garvin noted . Private grants and not for what we want them to be. " ACS units resource people to share corporation contributions account for native legends, songs, games, arts and eight percent. Churches make up two • crafts. She also provides cross- cu ltural percent, and of that amount $20,000 training for the staff. comes annually from the National Marga ret H. M iller is a freelance w riter, ba ed in Flo rida. She recently visited "There is a wide range of ethnic Division of The United Methodist Alaska. cultures here, " said Dr. Garvin, "and Church. Last year there was $20,000 al I are encouraged to learn more about from United Methodist Women for the their own heritage and to respect the Cultural Heritage priority. heritages of others." The special Alaska situation ac-

New World Outlook • December 1983 [527] 31 Painting the Human Condition Helen Kromer

n Poland's National Art Exhibi­ tion of 1977, Milosz Benedyk­ I towicz, a Methodist minister's son and a highly respected artist, exhibited a painting whose subtle message delivered an acute jolt to judges and viewers alike: it was the picture of a streetcar-a red streetcar filled with tired gray passengers. " The Warsaw street was clean, the streetcar looked new, the people were not bad ly dressed ," says the artist. " But this was only the outer reality; the inner reality was in the faces ." The reality was so grim that Poland's Minister of Culture immediately bought the picture and hung it in the remote basement of a government building where it would never be seen . It was a wise move. For once seen , Mi losz Benedyktowicz' paintings stay in the mind. · Much of his more recent work, done since he emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, was exhibited early in July in the Treasure Room of the lnterchurch Center in New York City. The hyper­ realistic canvasses, exploding with color, are composed so carefully that subjects and situations routinely re­ cognized startle the eye and jar the brain, forcing one to new perceptions. That realism, Benedyktowicz says with wry humor, was a by-product of his near-sightedness. His first day at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he had won a place bee through stiff competitions in 1968, in found him yearning for clarity-not thr realizing that what he needed most pai was simply a pair of eyeglasses. The leri Academy was the center of modern yo art, and the most advanced strains of so abstract painting were in vogue. In the SC middle of that abstraction, Mr. Bene­ ere dyktowicz sat down and painted an exact panorama of the studio from left to right to orient himself. "Everyone was astonished," he says; "but I was lucky to have a good professor, and he advised me to pursue this direction in my work." He graduated in 1972 with life special honors. art Academy graduates automatically pe SO I art The Artist pri (opposite page, bottom) ap seems to have fa1 stepped out of wl one of his paintings. n things I've been) than have my papers checked at every corner-and that is the situation in all police states." Taking a plane to New York, he took a bu s to Grand Central and checked into the YMCA. Then he started ca lling friends-some artists who had emi­ grated earlier, and some acquaint­ ances of his father. The Rev. Witold K. Benedyktowicz is the superintendent of the Methodist Polish Conference and retired presi­ dentof the Polish Ecumenical Council. He is al so theological professor in the Theological Academy of Warsaw. There are three son s in the fam ily­ Milosz the eldest, now in his mid-thir­ ties ; the youngest who is an anthropol­ ogist teaching in Warsaw University, and the middle son , a psychologist, who was recently granted a Crusade Scholarship by the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Meth­ odist Church in the U.S., to study pastoral psychology at Emory Univer­ sity, Atlanta, Georgia. As a " preacher's kid" Milosz not only absorbed the arts and symbols of the Christian faith (one of his first commissions in the U.S. was to paint an altar fresco of the Roman Catholic Church in Uniontown, Penn sy lvania), but he also learned compassion. He sees with acuity, and critically, but always with gentleness. He uses his camera as a sketchbook, taking one day a month to shoot pictures. Then he finds three or four frames and takes elements from them, combining several , dev eloping stronger contrasts, interpreting free ly become members of the Artists Union 80 percent live by incredible inven­ with light and color. He has studied in Warsaw and get commissions tiveness: working a couple of jobs at the physics of sight and can lead the through the union. Benedyktowicz' the same time; making things at home viewer directly from one point to paintings were bought by state gal­ for sale ; exchanging things; having another and then another. leries. " They are obliged to buy from relatives abroad . They live in state­ " Half a year or a year before you," he says . " It is very funny how owned projects waiting up to 20 years 'photo-realism' or 'hyper-realism' was some bureaucrat worked it out. In to get a good apartment. " invented in the U.S. , I was working sculpture, for instance, anything But Mr. Benedyktowicz eventually with it," he says. " Here people have created over six feet pays double for reached a stalemate in his artistic life. been fascinated with the fact that the every inch. More than one person in " I had said everything I had to say to painter can take the same thing the the composition and you get more that audience in Poland," he says . camera does and do it better. So money. Consequently all the modern He also grew " aggravated" by the you ' ve had Campbell Soup cans sculpted pieces in Poland are very slowness with which things were painted and motorcycles to illustrate large ones." happening. He was active in the the point. The painter can make you He feels that he had " a pretty good student protests in 1968. Then came see more than the camera. I try to tell a life" in Poland . "I had made it as an the big disillusionment: nothing story, to create an independent life on artist, and in Communist society the 20 changed. Now it is all happening canvas. I try to produce a mood, which percent at the top have al I the re ­ again, he says, and nothing will is important in the perception of the sources-party officials, recognized change. surrounding world and what is ca lled artists, writers, sportsmen, scientists, He first came to the U .S. as a tourist " the human condition.'" • private entrepreneurs who employ in 1976. He came back in 1979, and is approximately 20 persons in small now in the process of becoming a factories, or farmers, especially those citizen. " I prefer the tensions I find who have produce-farms near a city. here," he says. " I would rather drive a These people do very wel I. The other taxi and be a carpenter (both of which Helen Kromer is a staff writer. New World Outlook • December 1983 [529] 33 I th tages terms all y, have con ta Wf have pro gr other postL didn' Race the ~ lived close and the was, there con ti United eve~ kne ~ the I Methodist cau ~ nour touc Church 0 blac! tend med face Annual Conferences they wou Id not have a black bishop. I and Local Churches The truth is that we have black bishops Sout Woodie White in all of the jurisdictions, all serving Has there been any progress at the prob predominantly white episcopal areas, is interviewed by annual conference and in the local deci churches? and to my knowledge there has been wha Winston H. Taylor very little racial incident in terms of the sens Oh, yes. I think the amazing thing is conference accepting this leadership. con that annual conferences have been Local churches are the place where that able to do things which they said they clearly we've got to concentrate our Tl would not or could not do. Here I point efforts, but there are churches that are one especially to the Southeastern and now marginally racially inclusive that can Part II South Central Jurisdictions, because people once said would never be. ty tc we had structural segregation there thr Is the number of racially mixed \.mti I ten years ago, and then unti I as do I congregations growing? recently as fifteen years ago there were juris even laws that prohibited certain kinds We probably have more nominally con of movement of ethnic minorities. mixed congregations now than we had So they had a long way to go, and ten years ago, but these are basically one of the measures of general white churches with under twenty s Re cently, w riter Winston Ta ylor progress is to recognize that almost all percent of their membership ethnic. I interviewed general secretary Woodie SJ of the annual conferences in the don't think we have many congrega­ H . White of the General Commission ity Southeast that were structurally segre­ tions where you're talking about sev­ on Religion and Ra ce about th e current Cht gated when they merged were able to enty-five percent white and twenty­ state of racism in the United Methodist ot/i place ethnic minorities in one of the five percent ethnic minority, unless Church. Last month, Dr. White gave k,ey leadership posts , the district super­ they' re beginning the transitional It his impressions of changes in the la st intendency, and on the conference cycle from white to black. We have bea 15 yea rs. In this concluding install­ staff. This is an area where annual very, very few ethnic minority I'm ment, he looks at the prese nt and some conferen ces said that you could not churches with white members. future directions.- Editor's Note. oh have a black superintendent in certain just areas, like South Carolina or Missis­ Back in the 1960s, one black bishop is a sippi. The fa ct is that they did it and said that, once progress started, the the they' re working through whatever South would solve its racial problems no difficulties may have arisen. That's before the North. Do you think this has considerable progress. proved true? be! I' m sure that there were some pri annual conferences outside those I think Bishop (Charles) Golden was ta in jurisdictions who would have said probably on target. ty

------~~~.- - - I think the South has some advan­ beginning to see opportunities. The longer feel that we have to write in tages that the North does not have in question is , do you stop just at a point recommendations for numerical rep­ terms of its racial problems. Historic­ where you're beginning to see re sentation . ally, blacks and whites in the South progress or do you give it a good push We may begin to see this in the have had more personal and intimate and then move away from it? election of our general and jurisdic­ contact than was true in the North. I don't think we've had yet that good tional conference delegates, because I While white people in the North push. Another four years would really am sensing an internalization by con­ have generally had a more open and give us a kind of sustained effort that ferences that the delegations need to progressive posture toward blacks and would result in positive growth and be pluralistic. I suspect that, in the next other minorities, it was always a positive re sponse by the whole go-around in 1988, many confer­ posture from a distance. They really church. Obviously, though, you've ences won't even need a reminder. didn't know first-hand, whereas, in got to stop some place. They wi II just expect that their delega­ the South, blacks and whites even tions will represent racial and ethnic In the commiss ion's recent survey of lived in the same communities, in groups, as I would hope their delega­ church leaders, what did you find close proximity. The understanding tions represent small and larger mem­ was, you stayed in your place, but about a " perception gap" between bership churches. there was always contact, and it was w hites and blacks? contact even around certain social As we were doing our survey, the Sharing "Openly and Honestly" events, family events, personal. They ABC Network poll came to the same In your commiss ion report, you said knew each other. My guess is that in conclusion that ours discovered, that white United Methodists " must be the North you didn't have that, be­ the perception gap between whites willing and en couraged to share hon­ cause the ghettoes were so pro­ and blacks on the nature of racial estly and openly their perceptions, nounced that many people never progress was evident in almost all fears, hopes and anxieties." How can touched one another. categories. While blacks and whites th ey-we~o th is w ithout sometimes Outside the South, whites and both acknowledged progress in many appearing ra cist? blacks are generally more isolated and areas, the whites tended to identify tend to meet each other through the greater progress than blacks. The leadership of the church has to media and through myths, images, not As an example, as whites perceive take responsibility and try to model for face to face. affirmative action they see many eth­ the rest of the church how that needs to I think whites and blacks in the nic minorities gaining significant en­ be done. Wherever you bring leaders South were clearer about where their tree to jobs and promotions as a result. together across racial lines, I think you problems were, so that, once they Ethnic minorities identify the results of have to begin by saying, " We're a decided to attack them, they knew affirmative action as minimal. They racially diverse group in this organiza­ what they had to deal with. In that say there certain ly has been some tion and we have a common task, but sense blacks have a job trying to progress, but not to the degree to in order to accomplish it and be convince some whites in the North which whites see it. effective, we need to understand that that there is a problem. The one place where the perception we do come from different perspec­ The South has disappointed me in gap did not appear in our survey was tives with different perceptions. It's one regard-the election of episcopal about the need to continue to address going to be important for us to share candidates. They have had opportuni­ racism in the church. Whites and honestly and to hear one another, at ty to elect a black bishop for the last blacks were just about together on least let one another say their piece." three quadrennia and they refused to that. W e' re all going to have to give at this do so . I'm disappointed because that The greatest danger is that you can point. The whites will have to begin jurisdiction has the greatest black have a pull-back from certain efforts from the premise that they probably constituency and leadership. by the white community before the have more racist attitudes than they' re gains have been sustained or institu­ aware of, and blacks ought to begin tionalized-pull back too soon. If the from the premise that most whites Should the EMLC be Continued? whites look at the gains we've made in don't care to be as racist as we Should the church's Missional Prior­ representation in the church and say perceive them to be. ity on the Ethn ic Minority Loca l that, because of these gains, we no It's kind of like giving the other Church (EM LC) be continued for an­ longer need to have guidelines, and person the benefit of the doubt, and I other quadrennium ? If so, why? they pull the guidelines back before think that's a good way to live life. you have either internalization or When I meet a person who is an It should be continued, first of all institutionalization, then you can lose antagonist in some context, I target because in traveling across the church them quickly. that person to get to know. I sense I'm discovering that a good percentage The trust factor finally has to be the there is probably more good there than of white constituents have in a sense place where we begin to operate. Of I am seeing and more good than that just discovered what the EMLC priority course, the minorities are the ones person is aware of. He or she may have is all about. This is especially true of who determine that they are now a lot of racist attitudes, but if I can find the conferences where there are few or ready to trust the majority. that core of decency in them and they no ethnic minorities. I would like to begin to see some can find that core of decency in me, A second reason is that we are evidence that this is happening, so that then we can move from that point. beginning to see some results of the at a conference or agency level an Probably leadership ought to func­ priority because of a somewhat sus­ ethnic minority constituency or com­ tion this way in the church. It doesn 't tained emphasis and an ethnic minori­ munity would say that, given the mean you won't have points of dis­ ty community responding, planning, performance of this conference, we no agreement, of great philosophical dif-

New World Outlook • December 1983 [531] 35 fe r e n c~ but that occurs no matter w hat the color of the skin. If a context could be established w here persons recognized that they were not going to be alienated because they expressed w hat someone might call racist or someone else might call militant atti­ tudes, then I think we would have more honest dialogue and expression. I don't think it's impossible. We just The ''trust don't give it significant enough priority so that it begins to make the kind of factor lasting impact we want. It's not easy, finall~ but if you' re committed, it can hap­ pen . has to be Did more open sharing of hopes and the place fears by ethnic minority persons lead where we to some of the current generation's changes in church and society? begin to I th ink ethnic minority persons have operate. always been willing to share their pain . We've not had enough of the emptying and sharing generally by '' whites, because basically in this coun­ try we have thought there was a minority problem, or a black problem. The sense was that it was the minorities who needed to change, needed the education, needed to integrate. I think our failures have come because the white community, especially outside the South , has not sufficiently askea we will discover that, while they are a system al lows it to be . A good example itself what changes it needed to make. numerical minority, they are not nec­ would be the Minority Group Self-De­ I think a number of changes have essarily a social minority. Their ac­ termination Fund that was created · occurred because minorities were ceptance in society would be much willing to share and risk. Unfortunate­ twelvfi! years ago. It resulted from an ly, most of the changes that have more welcome, much more warm. A effort by the black caucus to identify occurred have occurred because they nufnerical minority has perhaps a what its needs and problems were. It asked for about $5 million a year, and were legislated. It's amazing to go into different set of issues and problems. Part of our confusion is that we lump what resulted was a $2 million a year the South now and talk to many white together a cultural minority, a social fund, in which all ethnic minority Southerners and hear them brag about minority, a minority by virtue of groups participated . how much they've don~and they language_and a social minority. As a If the structures of the church want have done a lot-but with a total lack result we have lost much of the to minimize competition, then they of recall of how hard they fought much effectiveness of affirmative action in cannot give a slice of the pie, but give of the change. this country. We equated all of the four slices. Maybe those kinds of systemic minorities without looking at their If in the church we do not look at the changes simply have to occur legisla­ specific issues . individual needs of the groups and tively. Now, of course, the change In the future in the church we' re then respond to those needs, then we required, if there's going to be harmo­ going to have to be discerning at this will force the groups to compete for ny, wi 11 have to take place at the grass point and try to speak to the needs of limited resources and services. I don't roots levels of life. You can have all the the ethnic minority constituencies and happen to believe that all ethnic affirmative action programs you want, not try to deal with them as a groups should be treated the same . It but if people in the offices and factories homogeneous group. If we're going to requires some sensitivity on the part of are not willing to make changes work, be effective, we have to look at each all ethnic groups. they won't be sustained . group and determine what their needs · I think that ethnic groups should be Are the problems pretty much the and priorities are and not see them al I responded to on the basis of their same or different between blacks and as one. needs and concerns and their priori­ WO other ethnic minorities? ties, within the limitations that we Sometimes it appears that the vari­ tog have in the church. • The problems are different in a ous ethnic groups are competing with la number of respects . First, there's a each other rather than cooperating. Is on difference between being a social this really a problem and, if so, how Winston H . Ta ylor, for many years on pr minority and a numerical minority. As can it be avoided or overcome? the staff of United Methodist Communica­ pl there is an increase in immigration, tions, is now a free-lance writer based in joi es peciall y for some groups like Asians, It's an inevitable problem if the Washington, D .C. Usi

36 [532] New World Outlook • December 1983 No Handicap to Ministry

Garlinda Burton

Participants at the meeting of clergy with handicapping conditions.

inisters distributed the bread and large-print worship book. from nineteen states to share and M wine of Holy Communion from Suddenly the preacher, Jo Taliferro, worship in wheelchairs, with hearing wheelchairs. The preacher for the day raised her hands. " Prai se God with aids and sign language, using crutches was a woman with beautiful, though audio-loop and wheelchair. Prai se and ca ne s, leader dogs and Brai lie sightless, eyes whose guide dog slept God with withered hands and with hymnals. The four-day conference, lazily at her feet during the rituals. Braille. Praise God through expressive held in early September, was spon­ A few feet away from her, one bodies which proclaim the Good so red by the Office of Ministries with woman stood facing another and News to those who cannot hear .... " Perso ns with Handica pping Condi­ together they "sang" hymns in sign Ms. Taliferro's call to worship was tions of the General Board of G lobal language while the pianist-who at represe ntative of an emerging new Ministries and th e Upper Room's one time suffered an illness which consciousness that found vivid ex­ Office of Spiritual Formati on w ith prevented movement or speech­ pression at the first national meeting of Persons with Handicapping Condi­ played and sang. Two men beside me United Methodist clergy with handi­ tions. joined in the responsive reading, one capping conditions. More than 30 For their counterparts in the laity using a Braille hymnal and the other a participants came to Lake Junaluska they want wheelchair ramps, inter-

New World Outlook • December 1983 [533) 37 preters for deaf persons, worship there would be members in the materials fo r visually- impaired per­ congregation who would help me . sons and bus service for those who '' There aren't Have we got the lay people so that they cannot drive to church. want the pastor to do everything while For themselves, they want bi shops, they watch?" cabinet members, council directors a lot of Said Ms. Taliferro, " People are and general agency heads to recogni ze afraid they will have to work harder if their ministries as legitimate and ap­ Hollywood their pastor has a handicapping con­ point them as local church pastors, dition. We've turned the church into a camp directors, agency staff members, spectator sport. " sem inary professors and chaplains. happy endings For church leaders at the conference And from able-bodied brothers and and national levels, Dr. Way suggest­ sisters the clergy seek respect, not pity, ed that stronger policies be adopted. and the freedom to serve without fear, zn the Bible. '' " At Vanderbilt we no longer place any superstition or gui It. candidate in field positions at children. One day a woman joined our churches that won't accept a woman What People Fear Most church . She could sign and she taught or a black, and we need to move to that kind of advocacy for our handicapped " We real ize that theologically we me about Jesus . If not for her I might students. Very few ' successful ' embody what people fear most," said never have learned . Later on I decided churches ever had to accept one of us Peggy Way, an ordained minister and to become a pastor for other deaf as it stands now." associate professor of pastoral theolo­ persons. " gy at Vanderbilt_ Divinity School in Nashvi I le . " We represent stories of A Slow Process Not Coddled But Included people whose conditions don't ever Ms. Ken yon is a student at Wesley The Rev . Edwin Arthur, chaplain in st re 'get better'." Theological Seminary, and serves on the New York Conference, has written co " Our stories present a whole theolo­ the staff of a United Methodist Church to all district building committees in gy related to things that don't get better for deaf perso ns in Washington, D .C. his conference, requesting that any ing in our earthly existence and we remind It is her second try at Wesley, and she new buildings or repairs include effo people of that. Moses never reached reflected on the slow process of wheelchair ramps . David Seymour, a Per the promised land himself; Jesus was making seminaries accessible to per­ seminary student from St . Michaels, The crucified because of our sinfulness," sons with handicapping conditions. Md., thinks such letters should be liv said Dr. Way who had polio and now " Back in 1977 I failed a class distributed nationwide. " Putting a loo walks with a cane. " There aren't a lot because the seminary did not have an ramp in a church is an act of love and or 1 of Hollywood happy endings in the interpreter for me. A professor asked evangelism. It's fundamental , really. an Bible." me for a term paper at the end of the How can you preach the Gospel of exi The stories of struggles told by semester and I hadn't known the paper Jesus Christ to people when you won't er, ministers and seminary students with was due. I was very angry because I even let them inside your building." ne handicapping conditions are stories of had tried hard . I left for a while but At the end of the recent worship is I frustration, prejudice and paternalism now I'm back and things are better," service several passages of Scripture no but also of hope and community. They she added . were cited but none which sought to mo shared these stories at the meeting. The clergy insist that ministries to console or promise " whole bodies" l For many, discrimination and dis­ persons who are not disabled can be and an " end to suffering" in heaven me couragement are fairly recent phe­ successful if local church committees, some day. One of the congregants told ere nomena. " I was born into a parish bishops and cabinets will work with me this was intentional : persons with hu family and, although I'm blind, the the pastor creatively. " It's funny how handicapping conditions don't want Im, ministry seemed a natural vocation for people think of little things to try and to be coddled; they want to be w me," said Bob Eschbach, pastor of hold you back," said Jerry Taylor, who included. ste Hilltonia United Methodist Church in started an independent ministry to As Bruce Talbert, a seminary student al Columbus, Ohio. " It wasn't until I met persons with handicapping conditions and counselor from New Jersey said , an other clergy with handicapping con­ in Augusta, Ga. Jerry has cerebral "The problem is notthat I am blind. It's en ditions that I realize the political fight palsy and has difficulty controlling his the discrimination I've faced because Bai we've got ahead of us ." hand movements. " A pastor asked me of the blindness. I get no satisfaction the For Francine Kenyon the decision to how I would baptize a baby if I from knowing that in heaven I can play no· minister came from personal anguish couldn't hold the child in my arms . tennis. I want justice now. I want to be en1 during her childhood. " My parents " Why couldn't the parents hold the a minister in God's church ." • tirr took me to Sunday school but there baby while I sprinkled?" he asked . pe was no one there who could sign," she "I've had people tell me I couldn't SUI sai d usi ng a combination of sign and serve a church because I can't operate M. Garlinda Burto n is the Nashville speech. " My teachers put me to one the mimeograph machine to copy the news directo r fo r U nited M ethodis t News Je ~ side and worked with the other hearing church bulletin or type letters. Surely Se rvice. of 38 [534) New World Outlook • December 1983

------= purposes. Th e ministry of Jes us Christ The Gospel becomes disembodied to th e marginalized of the society of his when we claim the Holy Spirit and do day is exemplary recognition of poten­ not understand the Spirit to be the f ~ tiality, possibility, and purpose. Peo­ enabling presence of God in the ii' ple surviving with disabilities are not world , to insure far more than surviva l. Leontine Kelly merely hea led, th ey are " made Bl ocks of cheese, bread lines, bowls of whole. " People without visible scars soup, beautiful hand-made blankets become aware of their need for are survival kits . Life for all is rooted in wholeness. Thi s wholeness is far more th e fundamental reorganization, res­ than survival. In it the thin thread of tructuring and reordering of our hope becomes strong, interwoven priorities for more equitable distribu­ I can make it. I am a binding that lifts th e human spirit to a tion of the re so urces of God's world so su rvivor!" We have heard creative sense of well being. that all people-God's people-might thi s statement of strong The teacher of the law who queries, experience and respond to life. determination so many " What must I do to receive eternal Serious, all-church study of the new times. Usually the words life?" is entrapped by Jesu s' parabolic mi ssio n themes should both inform are spoken in the midst of a explanation of ' Love your neighbor as and inspire us to be the " People of situation of desperation yourself' (Luke 10:25-37). Eternal life God" for thi s day. Central Africa, The and frustration. The indi­ is significantly the present now. The World's Uprooted, and Luke : The vidual expresses a worthy Kingdom of God which is to come is Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ, must concept of endurance, of already here. That is the good news of not be confined to well-executed strength and tenacity. It is energy the Gospel. It is why, in the midst of mission schools. I pray that the Spirit of concentrated on the minimal. enslavement, black people who were God will open our hearts to become Each of us experiences these strain­ accused of being " heaven oriented" in channels of the Holy Spirit so that we ing times in our lives when all our this dreadful circumstance debunked may understand anew all that we can efforts are geared toward " making it." the belief as they sang, " Before I' ll be a become in and for Jesus Christ. Perhaps just through another day. slave, I' ll be buried in my grave." It is In the few months of my respon sibi 1- These are not insignificant times in our proof that humanity is not put on hold ity as Assistant General Secretary of the lives. They are times upon which we to " survive" unti I some eternal mo­ Board of Discipleship, in charge of the look back with either a se nse of victory ment, as certain as that moment may Section on Evangelism for The United or momentary failure. Survival is real be . The life, death, and resurrection of Methodist Church, the magnitude of and the will to survive is basic to the Jesus Christ gives a foretaste of glory to opportunity for United Methodists, to existence of the human spirit. Howev­ the believer w hich provides breadth, articulate in all th at we do the holistic er, survival is not enough. Survival is height, and depth to the present nature of Evangelism is exhilarating. neverenoughtobecalled life. Survival understanding of what life ought to be. Far from being narrowly defined as is " merely", and mere survival offers Can we imagine ministers of the camp meeting or revival event, it is no sufficiency beyond the stressful Gospel proclaiming from Easter Sun­ pervasive and permeating expression moment. day pulpits, " Jesus survives"? Or choir of the love of God through all of the The temporary nature of the survival anthems ringing out of the praisewor­ structures of our particular system. It is mentality is rooted in the purposes of a thy news that the King of Kings and nurturing individuals in the sacrificial creative God whose initial will for the Lord of Lords "survives" ? " Jesus li ves" modeling of Jesus Christ, combing human creature was relational . gives not only intended assurance but proclamation and practice for whole­ Imaged after the Almighty, humanity definitive meaning to life. To know the ness of life in both the individual and was granted the ability to establish a Living Christ is to understand the final society. It is ce lebration of the Wes­ stewardship relationship to the world, revelation of God in Him as exceed­ leya n tradition of organization de­ a love relationship with other humans ingly far more than breathing. signed for receiving, nurturing, and and a communicating, sharing, obedi­ As Christians, our faith stance adds sendi ng forth . It implies coordination ent, fellowship relationship to God. the disturbing dimension of inabi I ity to and coalescence. It calls the church at Barely " making it" was not a part of accept the alarming statistics of masses every level to be the Church of Jesus the intention of creation. Survival is of people who barely survive in the Christ in every way so that the quality not enough. Survival has never been world without our empathetic re­ of our lives together will exhibit life enough. Yet we are experiencing a sponse to the information. Millions in and say to even this world, " We are time when masses of people-God's our country and in the world utilize nore than survivors. We are alive in people-all over the world are barely their energies to secure crusts of bread Jesus Christ!" • surviving. while the world negates the possibility The Good News of the Gospel of of their creative extension of God­ With this column, Rev. Leontine Kelly Jesu s Christ push es the understanding given talent to enrich our collective becomes one of our regular contributors to of life to abundance, fulfilling God's lives. th is page . We welcome her.

New World Outlook • December 1983 [535) 39 not available or applicable to the areas vii), noting that the New Testament texts approa discussed . The second, although dealing must be interpreted in relation to their Grace. with a contemporary topic purportedly cu ltural and linguistic context. He indi­ everyo about al I " gay people, " for which there is a cates that persons today see m to assume of na wealth of material related to lesbians that homosexual behavior in the time of the ".. . available, treats lesb ians as if they do not New Te stament was the same as it is now. and c exist, making less than a dozen specific After establishing the context, Professor are fas references to them in the entire book but Scroggs argues that when Paul referred to desire innumerable specific references to gay homosex uality, he was thinking of the back i males. pederasty which was prevalent in the churcr The New Testament and Homosexualit y Greek male cu lture, perhaps the worst corn pl by Robin Scroggs is concerned with the forms of it (p. 117). He points out that, did pe the re THE NEW TEST AMENT AND current use of the Bible in Christian debate according to the evidence of the texts, the social I HOMOSEXUALITY, about whether or not homosexuality is an New Testament church was not very much acceptable Christian lifestyle. As back­ concerned about homosexuality: "All ultirna by Robin Scroggs. ceptio Fortress Press . 160 pp. $14.95. ground, the author discusses " The Use of three instances referring to homosexuality the Bible in Recent Church Discussion are directly or indirectly from preformed spake1 about Homosexuality," summarizing the traditions, either Greek or Jewish . No scendl GAYS UNDER GRACE: A GAY Hel CHRISTIAN'S RESFONSE TO THE positions of The United Church of Christ, single New Testa ment author considers the the U MORAL MAJORITY, The United Methodist Church, and The issue important enough to write his own Chu re by Maury Johnston. United Presbyterian Church and argu­ sentence about it! ... Female homosexu­ book Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc. 225 pp. ments used by different groups of Chris­ ality gets even less attention than male" (p. $15.95. tians to justify either that the Bible opposes 121 ). focus homosexuality or that it does not oppose it. The basic conclusion of the book is that and Both of these books are advertised as He also explores the cultural and historical " Biblica l judgments against homosexuality rnaint scholarly approaches to biblical and theo­ background for the passages which have are not relevant to today's debate. They based logical issues related to homosexuality. In been applied to gay and lesbian people should no longer be-used in denomination­ Using one, scholarly tools have been well used, and the verses' meaning in light of their al discussions about homosexuality, interp almost to a flaw; however the other reads context. should in no way be a weapon to justify positi as if it is a sophomore research paper. The The book is a carefu I investigation of the refu sa l of ordination, not because the Bible One. first, although dealing with a topic in possible meanings of the passages which is not authoritative, but simply because it of the which very little material is available on refer to male sexual activity with other does not address the issues involved" (p. to ga lesbianism in New Testament times makes males in the Bible. Professor Scroggs asks : 127). whos every effort to include what is available " What is the model of homosexuality to In contrast to Robin Scroggs, Maury himb and makes special notes when it is either which biblical authors were opposed?" (p . Johnston has abandoned an even-hanaed the SC be Ior part. Th to persc GIFT WITH A FUTURE grou has liftin At Christmas have you thought of giving a defi n attac young person a gift that grows ...one that also Bing helps the church to grow? 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-~------approach to his topic in Gays Under their own perspective. Books are one Grace. There is something to offend means this can be accomplished, but Cays everyone in this book. It has an abundance under Crace does not contribute much to FUNDRAISING of name-calling passages such as : an understanding of the diversity of the IS YOUR CO GREGATION paralyzed and " ... The evangelical, fundamentalist, Christian lesbian and gay community and in a financial bindl Is stewardshi p lagging and charismatic branches of Christendom may well help to reinforce the stereotypes are fast becoming obsessed with a burning w ith which all of us are familiar. just when your church would like to start an desire to see Christian gays come groveling ancy A. Carter ambitious bu ilding or renovation program/ back into the fold of their homophobic Or increase your church's operating budget churches like the repentant prodigal son , ancy A. Carter is Program Resources complete with renunciations of their 'sor­ Editor, Mission Education & Cultivation or pay off debts/ did perversion .' This is the evident hope of Program Department of the GBGM. In 1982 a total of 180 United Methodist the religious homophobes, for in their churches raised over $30 million with the socially prejudiced minds, it would be the help of our denomination's Office of Finance ultimate demonstration of their own con­ DESPAIR AND PERSONAL POWER IN ception of themselves as the only real and Field Serv ice . Let us help you . The THE NUCLEAR AGE, service is non-profit. Our field representa­ spokespeople for God, Country, and Tran­ by Joanna Rogers Macy. scendent Truth" (p. 4). tives are United Methodist stewardsh ip New Society Publishers, 178 pp. $19.95 leaders who help local congregations ra ise He attacks both the Moral Majority and cloth, $8.95 paperback. the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan the level of spiritual involvement along with Churches (UFMCC}-all under the same the level of giving. book cover. In Part One, Mr. Johnston For those seeking ways to involve people focuses his attack on the Moral Majority in the peace movement, Despair and For a personal discussion of your needs, call: and other conservative Christians who Personal Power in the Nuclear Age will be (212) 870-3837. Or write: maintain anti-lesbian and gay theologies invaluable. Its approach is not simply to Office of Finance & Field Service, based on their interpretation of the Bible. present facts and ph ilosophy concerning United Methodist General Board Using a conservative model of biblical life in a nuclear age, as many other books of Global Ministries interpretation himself, he refutes their do, but also to provide aids for connecting 475 Riverside D rive, Rm. 316 positions throughout the remainder of Part emotionally to our deepest concerns about New York, N.Y. 10115 One. In Part Two, which is less than a third survival on this planet. This process begi ns of the book in length, he turns his attention with doing " despai rwork" in a workshop to gay male Christians, attacking those in which persons are guided into acknow­ whose sexual behavior does not seem to ledging the pain they feel about the him to be in line with the values upheld in possibility of the end of all life, working the criptures. This part of the book doesn't through the feeling and releasing it, and belong under the same cover as the first finally finding a place of personal power part. which enables them to go out and work for Though the author had the opportunity peace. to do primary research in his area, The book includes many practical aids ONE world • ONE people. personally interviewing persons from the for planning and runn ing workshops, such ONE Church • ONE God of us all. groups with which he was concerned, he as sample workshop outlines, printed and Your support of the Interdenom­ has relied only on secondary so urces, audiovisual resources, sam ple announce­ inational Cooperation Fund helps lifting out selected quotations without ments, and even an article " Helping to make God's people ONE. Send defining their broader context. The books People to Deal with Terrifying Films." An your gift through your church to attacked in " The Homophobic Book­ abundance of group exercises and medita­ your conference treasurer. Binge" are not ummarized and examined tions designated for various age levels carefully; small portions are e cerpted and make up a large portion of the material. ridiculed. He says , " Some authors of these Background and advice on methodologies writings are so uninformed that they can for using this material comprises the 8 inspire no more than pity and sadly opening chapters. The author stresses that ~~l,~C?nd Je~~~~o~~he humorous laughter" (p. 38) . But he pro- it is essential that the guides be persons banks of the Mississippi use Steve ides little information to demonstrate how trained in leading workshops who have Rose's adaptations of great hymns as they are uninformed. Also, an unfair already done personal " despairwork" a fundamental part of their worship? repre entation of the diversity and the around their experience of living in a Quite simply because Rose's NEW internal theological struggles happening nuclear age . Certain exercises are desig­ HYMNAL is the best guide yet for a within the UFMCC is presented. Some of nated to be conducted by trained therapists move beyond the increasingly the po ition stated in local newsletters of and counselors only. unsingable legacy of the lyricists of UFMCC churches that he lifts out and he The approach which is outlined in this the past. But also because Rose treats reject would be rejected by many mem­ book is not for use b those leaders who are these received lyrics with great ber them el e , especial! the lesbian insecure and uncomfortable with the respect, seeking always to match the women, who e e istence he ignores. expression of emotion. A workshop of any beauty of their fine cadences with his Se ism permeates Cays Under Crace. In appreciable length will certainly give new verses. With the NEW HYMNAL addition to subsuming lesbian women impetus to expression of strong feelings on you receive blanket permission to under the ma culine " gay people," and the part of some in the group. This is reproduce hymns for local use for a u ing noninclusive language, his main precisely the purpose of the meditations one-time fee of ten cents per copy. It's image and e amples are masculine. For and exercises, so potential leaders should a large-print, finely-done labor of love in tance, in an out-dated reference, he realize that mo t of these will not create a for the grass roots church. Get your all nita Br ant a " female Caiaphas .. . " nice," " i nspi ring" experience for them copy now. eeking the legal crucifi ion of all homo­ and the group. To undertake directing a e ual " (p. 9) . work hop with thi incorrect assumption Send $10 per copy to: eeded in the Christian church is more could result in unnecessary hurt being Persephone Music, Box 444, information about and e perience with inflicted on the participants. Great Barrington, MA 01230 . le bian and ga Christian con eyed from . A.C. New World Outlook • December 1983 (537] 41 compatible fl INDEX TO NEW WORLD OUTLOOK FOR 1983 Samuel coo k' . costa Rica Triple Treal New Series Vol. Xllll No. 5-Vol. XLIV No. 4; Whole Series Vol. LXlll No. 1-11 erusade Scho cuba od. Melh ism Major subjects of articles are listed in bold face with items related to major subjects Wh itehe· we walk ( indented; titles of articles are in italics and authors in roman. 1 Gerald, Daniel , Milly DeWitt, Jesse oeaths Adams, Ka Africa Special Program, The; Reave s, Malik S...... Oct. (43 0) In Searc h of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Wateman, Africa Jr ...... Oct. (443) Baez.cam Health Care in Maua, Ken ya; Hal l, Lou ise D ...... May (237) Iss ues: Disc uss ion Papers on Iss ues for the Vancouver AssemblyJan. (42) Barbieri, C N igeria Expels Two Million People; Samuelson, Tore ...... June (270) La Popessa , by Paul I. Murphy and R. Rene Arlington ...... Sept. (392) Brown, Be Poor: Problem or Solution, The ? A Look at Tanzania; Brandenburg, Life in All Its Fulness , by Philip Potter ...... Jan . (42) Brown, la Arthur ...... Mar. (113) Life of M y Years , The, by Prince A. Taylor, Jr ...... Oct. (442) Buck, Lori Somalia's Ali Matan-- From Despair to Hope; Magubane, Peter. Jan . (22) Living the Bad Da ys , by James Allen Sparks ...... Jan . (42) Burkholde African Churches and Human Rights; Brewster, Charles E...... Oct. (43 6) Mediaspeak: How Television Makes Up Your Mind, Cone, Sar Africans, The , by David Lamb ...... Oct. (441) by Donna Cross ...... , ...... Nov. (492) Dodge, fl Aging Around the World; Murdock, John A ...... Feb. (64) Mental Hea lth and People of Color, edited by Ja y C. Chunn .. Oct. (443) Estep, Be! Aging Ministry with the Aging, edited by William M . Clements ...... Sept. (394) Farnham , Aging Around the World; Murdock, John A ...... Feb. (64) New Testament and Homosexuality, The, by Robin Scroggs .. Dec. (536) Frakes , Aiding a Million Children; Shaughnessy, Suzanne M ...... Jul y-Aug. (312) Now and Then, by Frederick Buechner ...... May (250) Givan, R Ammons, Edsel A ...... Mar. (108) Nuclea r Delusion, The : Soviet-American Relations, Glendinn An Ethnic Answer to the Missional Priority Program; by George F. Kennan ...... Mar. (139) Gothard, Rivas, Yolanda E...... Sept. (3 84) Prea ching on Pea ce, by Ronald Sider and Darrel J. Brubaker. Mar. (139) Greenlee Argentina After the War: An Interview with Jose Miguez Bonino; Lara-Braud, Reader's Digest Bible, The ...... Jan . (41) Griffith,/ Dorothy ...... Feb. (62) Reweaving the Web of Life, edited by Pam McAllister...... Nov. (489) Heininge Argentina Sma ll Churches are the Right Size, by David R. May ...... Nov. (490) Holt, D. Argentina After the War: An Interview with Jose Miguez Bonino; Lara-Braud , South Africa: Challenge and Hope ...... Feb. (89) Horner, Dorothy ...... '" ...... Feb. (62) Things Th ey Say Behind Your Back, The, by Houser, Asia William R. Helmreich ...... Sept. (395) Johnson, Compatible Technology: Surviva l or Se rvices ?; Franklin, Doris. Feb. (74) Waging Pea ce: A Handbook for the Struggle to Abolish Li, Yu H Exploiting India 's Tribal Workers; Gandhi, Arun ...... Jan. (2 0) Nuclear Weapons ...... Mar. (139) Little, Fl Hong Kong's Boat People--Time is Running Out; Winds of God, The, by Rod Booth ...... Jan . (42) Lummis, Navarro, Nelson A...... June (289) Word Remains, The : A Life of Oscar Romero, Mac Kay Hong Kong's Methodist Maverick; Navarro, Nelson A ...... M ay (234) by James R. Brockwa y ...... Feb. (88) Marvin, JNAC: Two-Way Bridge fo r Cooperative Mission; Boots , Nora Q ...... May (241) McFarre Patterson, Patricia ...... Jan . (37) Boynton, Ernest B Jr ...... Mar. (127) Moore, Letter from lndia--Youth in Turmoil; Gandhi, Arun ...... Jul y-Aug. (341) Brandenburg, Arthur ...... Mar. (113) Perrym< Musta rd Seed in Korea , A --Ewha 's New Speech Center; Breastfeeding Babies in Belize; Savuto, Jerri ...... Nov. (470) Pickett, Powills, Carol...... Nov. (465) Brewster, Charles E...... Mar. (104), June (286), Oct. (436), Dec. (504) Powell, Askin, Steve ...... Apr. (201) Brimigion, Stephen F...... Apr. (192) Price, Baker, James E...... Dec. (5 18) Brown, Robert McAfee ...... Apr. (199) Py/man Bates, Lu ci lle M ...... June (276) Burton, Garlinda ...... Dec. (533) Reichf1J Benton, Donald R...... Apr. (206) CHOSEN Helps Overseas Hospitals; Kerr, Clara L...... Nov. (467) Reid, ~ Beth ke , Christine ...... June (2 95) Censorship: Is It on the Rise? ; Milly Danie l and Rodrig1 Bivens, Issac A ...... Oct. (440) Sue Shaughnessy ...... May (220) Sands, Bolivia Central Africa Shamb Methodism in Bolivia: Interview with Bishop Rolando Villena; McFarren, Africa Special Program, The; Reaves , Malik S...... Oct. (430) Ten B Peter J...... Jul y-Aug. (32 0) African Churches and Human Rights; Brewster, Charles E.. .. . Oct. (436) Tui/ov Books Church Growth and Deve lopment; Schiffert, Margaret ...... Oct. (427) Uphau Acting in Faith: The World Council of Churches since 1975, by Leon Greening of Africa, The? ; Navarro, Nelson A ...... Oct. (432) Wa//ac Howell ...... Jan . (42) Liberia : 150 Years of Church Growth; Reaves , Malik S...... Oct. (421) Williar Africans, Th e, by David Lamb ...... Oct. (441) Methodism in Africa; Kurewa, John W Z ...... Oct. (415) Willia Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography, by Elizabeth Nigeria: Democracy Despite Economic Woes; Magalis, ElaineOct. (412) Director• Cazden ...... Oct. (443) What I Ha ve Learned as a Volunteer in Mission; Do You Biblical Ethics and Socia l Change, by Stephen C. Mott ...... May (2 51) Settle, Frank A ...... Sept. (387) Jam Buying the Night Flight, by Georgie Anne Geyer ...... Sept. (393) Worship in Liberia; Settle, Frank A ...... Oct. (418) Dobbs, Chance to Change, A: Wo men and Men in the Church, by Betty Zaire: How Po ve rt y Challenges U.S . Policy; Jackson , Henry FOct. (408) Early, T Thompson ...... June (2 98) Children Ecumen China Without Mao, by Immanuel C. Y. Hsu ...... Nov. (488) Aiding a Million Children; Shaughnessy, Suzanne M ...... July-Aug. (312) Chura Desert Wisdom : Sa yings from the Desert Fathers, by Yushi In Tampa An Umbrella of Lo ve; Miller, Margaret H ...... Sept. (364) lewis Nomura ...... Jan. (41) New Hope in Dark Times for the World's Children; Ear Despair and Perso nal Po wer in the Nuclear Age, by Joanna Rogers Grant, James ...... Mar. (133) 1 Maki Macy ...... Dec. (53 7) Chile Mim Educating Retarded Children in Chile; Goodwin, John ...... Mar. (117) Fa cts Every Parent Should Know About Marijuana, by Don Miss1 Church Development Wilkerson ...... Sept. (3 95 ) Ea Reflections on Church Development and Renewal; Feast of Life, The, by John Poulton ...... Jan . (42) Stan From the Congo to Soweto, by Henry F. Ja ckson ...... Oct. (442) Rae , Ke ith D ...... Sept. (360) M Church Growth and Deve lopment; Schiffert, Margaret...... Oct. (427) Game of Disarmament, The : How the U .S. and Russia Run the Arms Race, A. Van Myrdal ...... Mar. (139) Church Unity and Church Councils; Wainright, Geoffrey ...... Feb.' (77) Gays Under Crace, by Maury Johnston ...... Dec. (536) Church and Health Care Costs, The ; Justice, John ...... Mar. (122) w~i Clark, Ellen ...... June (264), Sept. (372) Cod's Presence Among the Aging, by James E. McEldowney. Nov. (4 91) Wh How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ...... Oct. (442) Coleman, John W Jr ...... Mar. (130) E Human Rights in Religious Traditions ...... Jul y-Aug. (346) Committee on Personnel in Mission; Navarro, Nelson A ...... Apr. (181) Editor' Images of Life : An In vitation to Bible Study ...... Jan . (42) Community Deve loper in Chinatown; Early, Tracy ...... May (225) An 42 [538] New World Outlook • December 1983

------Compatible Technology: Survival or Services?; Franklin, Doris ... . Feb. (7 4) Ecumenism--The Long, Hard Haul ...... July-Aug. (311) Cook, Samuel D ...... July-Aug. (343) Epiphany in our Time ...... Jan . (7) Costa Rica Lent and the Catacombs ...... Feb. (55 ) Triple Treat Trip to Cos ta Rica, A; Struchen, Donald E...... Feb. (81 ) Leonard M . Perryman ...... Dec. (503) Crusade Scholarships; Navarro, Nelson A ...... Apr. (191) On Pla ying God ...... Jan . (7) Cuba Our Miss ion in Africa ...... Oct. (407) Methodism in Cuba--Where Two Worlds Meet; Pentecost and Babel ...... May (2 15) Whitehead, Tom ...... Dec . (508) Poisoning the Well ...... Mar. (103) We Walk on the Edge of the Soles of Our Shoes; Second Opinion, A ...... Nov. (455) Gerald, Dietra ...... Dec. (513) Sharing the Blame ...... Sept. (3 59) Danie l, Milly ...... Feb . (56) , May (220) Speaking the Truth ...... June (2 63 ) DeWitt, Jesse R...... Apr. (148) " The Best Miss ionaries" ...... Dec. (5 03) Deaths Traged y and Catastrophe ...... Oct. (407) Adams, Kate ...... : ...... May (2 12) Utopianism and Fear ...... Feb. (55) Baez-Camargo, Gonzalo ...... Oct. (404) W. W. Reid ...... May (2 15) Barbieri, Odette Oliviera ...... Oct. (404) WCC and Afghanistan, The ...... Sept. (3 59) Brow n, Betty ...... Feb. (52) What Will You Be When You Grow Up? ...... Jan . (7) Brown, Lawrence ...... Feb. (52) World's Uprooted, The .... : ...... June (263) Buck, Lorraine ...... Jan . (6) Educating Retarded Children in Chile; Goodwin, John ...... Mar. (117) Burkholder, Olin M ...... July-Aug. (309) Education and Cultivation Division; Dobbs, Sherrie B ...... Apr. (159) Cone, Sandra Gibson ...... May (212) Edwin Melhorn and James P. Monroe ...... Apr. (204) Dodge, Eunice Da vis ...... Feb. (52) Ethnic Minorities--An Opportunity for Third World Mission; Estep, Bessie L...... •...... July-Aug. (309) Boots, Nora Q ...... May (241 ) Farnham, Vernon L...... •...... Oct. (404) Exploiting India's Tribal Workers; Gandhi, Arun ...... Jan . (20) Frakes, Marie ...... Dec. (500) Female Sexual Sla very; Clark, Ellen ...... Sept. (372) Givan, Romona ...... Mar. (i 00) Fighting Sexual Exploitation of Women; Glendinning, Mary E...... May (212) Shaughnessy, Suzanne M ...... Nov. (474) Gothard, Glenn S...... Mar. (100) Francis, Carolyn ...... Nov. (481) Greenlee, Genevia S...... Oct. (404) Franklin, Doris ...... Feb . (74), Nov. (477) Griffith, Paul ...... June (260) From the Congo to Soweto, by Henry F. Ja ckson ...... Oct. (442) Heininger, Harold R...... Mar. (100) Funding Community Economic Deve lopment; Hornbeck, Carol Sept. (368) Holt, D . Dillon ...... Sept. (358) Game of Disarmament, The : How the U .S. and Russia Run the Arms Race, Horner, Hazel ...... May (212) A. Myrdal ...... Mar. (139) Houser, Ethel Miller ...... Oct. (404) Gandhi, Arun ...... Jan . (2 0), July-Aug. (341) Johnson, Helen L...... May (212) General Board of Globa! Ministries Li, Yu Hsiu ...... Nov. (452) Committee on Personnel in Mission; Navarro, Nelson A ...... Apr. (181) Little, Florence ...... May (212) Crusade Scho larships; Navarro, Nelson A ...... Apr. (191) Lummis, Gladys ...... July-Aug. (309) Directors of the General Board of Global Ministries ...... Apr. (196) Mac Ka y, john A...... July-Aug. (309) Education and Cultivation Divis ion; Dobbs, Sherrie B...... Apr. (159) Marvin, john E...... Nov. (452) Health and Welfare Division; Sartin, Nancy E...... Apr. (183) Mc Farren , Ruth ...... July-Aug. (309) National Division; Lerrigo, Charley ...... Apr. (167) Moore, W. Wardlaw ...... Jan . (6) Restructuring: 'An Affirmation of Unity' ...... Apr. (152) Perryman, Leonard M ...... Dec. (500) Trea surer's Report; Brimigion, Stephen F...... Apr. (192) Pickett, Ruth ...... Nov. (452) Understanding Ourselves--Report of the President and General Powell, Phoebe ...... Nov. (452) Secretary; Randolph Nugent and Jesse R. DeWitt ...... Apr. (148) Price, Nelson Allen ...... Sept. (358) United Methodist Committee on Relief; Kromer, Helen ...... Apr. (186) Py/man, Myrtle ...... Dec. (500) Women 's Division; Herb, Carol M ...... Apr. (163) Reichmann, Dorothy ...... Mar. (100) World Division; Reaves , Malik S...... : ...... Apr. (153) Reid, W. W ...... May (21 2) Gerald, Dietra ...... Dec. (513) Rodriguez, Raoul Sr ...... Sept. (358) Getting at the Core of Iss ues: UN-Washington Seminars; Sands, Robert L...... Oct. (404) Navarro, Nelson A ...... Jan . (30) Shamblin, }. Kenneth ...... Nov. (452) Good Neighbors in Calexico; Sartin, Nancy E...... July-Aug. (324) Ten Boom, Corrie ...... June (260) Goodwin, John ...... Mar. (117) Tuilovoni, Setareki ...... Oct. (404) Gospel According to Morley Safer, Th e; Brown, Robert McAfee Apr. (199) Uphaus, Willard ...... Nov. (452) Gould, Toby ...... Jan. (34), May (244) Wallace, Avis ...... Oct. (404) Grant, James ...... Mar. (133) Williams, Laura V...... Nov. (452) Greening of Africa, The? ; Navarro, Nelson A ...... Oct. (432) Williams, Walter G ...... Dec. (500) Guide to Eliminating ' Handica ppism ' in Language, A; Directors of the General Board of Global Ministries ...... Apr. (196) Gould, Toby ...... May (244) Do You Know Where Your Church Offerings Go?; Edwin Melhorn and Haiti James P. Monroe ...... Apr. (204) Haitian Refugees : Three Success Stories; Bates, Lucille M ...... June (276) Dobbs, Sherrie B...... Apr. (159) Haitian Refugees: Three Success Stories; Bates, Lucille M ...... June (276) Earl y, Tracy ...... Jan . (8), May (2 25 ), June (27 3), Dec. (515) Hall, Lou ise D ...... May (237) Ecumenism Handicapped Church Unity and Church Councils; Wainright, Geoffrey ...... Feb. (77) Educating Retarded Children in Ch ile; Goodwin, John ...... Mar. (117) Je wish-Christian Relations--A Basis for a Fresh Start?; Guide to Eliminating ' Handicappis m' in Language, A; Early, Tracy ...... Jan . (8) Gould, Toby ...... ,. May (244) Making a Way Out of No Way; Matejka, Michael G ...... Nov. (479) No Handicap to Ministry; Burton, Garl inda ...... Dec. (533) Mission and Eva ngelism--An Ecumenical Affirmation ...... July-Aug. (334) Harriso n, Pau I...... Sept. (381) Mission in a Worldwide Stream, interview with Eugene Stockwell; Health Care in Maua, Ken ya; Hall, Lou ise D ...... May (2 37) Earl y, Tracy ...... Dec . (515) Health Care Standing With Awe at the Feast of Life : the WCC at Vancouver; Breas tfeeding Babies in Belize; Savuto, Jerri...... Nov. (470) Moore, Arthur J...... Nov. (456) Church and Health Care Costs, The; Justice, John ...... Mar. (122) Vancouver Preview; Howell, Leon ...... July-Aug. (330) Hea lth Care in Maua, Ken ya; Hall, Louise D ...... May (237) Week of Pra ye r for Christian Unity 7983 : Jesus Christ--the Life Hospice Care: Hard and Loving Work; Justice, John ...... July-Aug. (3 16) of the World ...... Jan . (14) Mustard Seed in Korea, A --Ewha 's New Speech Center; Powills, Carol What Word from Vancouver on Mission?; Stockwell, Nov. (465) Eugene L...... July-Aug. (337) Health and Welfare Division; Sartin, Nancy E...... Apr. (183) Editorials Heisey, Beth ...... May (22 8) An Ambassador for the Vatican? ...... Nov. (455) Herb, Carol M ...... Apr. (163)

New World Outlook • December 1983 [539] 43 . Caro poWI 11 S, d Homeboy; Baker, James E...... Dec. (518) Making a Way Out of No Way; Matejka, Michael G ...... Nov. (479) putting foo Hong Kong's Boa t People--Time is Running Out; Matejka, Michael G ...... Nov. (479) Racism d Navarro, Nelson A ...... June (289) Mcfarren, Peter J...... July-Aug. (320) Race an '1 Hong Kong's Methodist Maverick; Navarro, Nelson A ...... May (234) Mclanachan, Mary ...... Nov. (484) Taylor, Hong Kong Media Attacks Rae, Keith C Hong Kong's Boat People--Time is Running Out; Do You Know Where Your Church Offerings Co?; Edwin Melhorn Randolph Ni Navarro, Nelson A ...... June (289) and James P. Monroe ...... Apr. (204) Reaching Ba Hornbeck, Carol...... Sept. (368) Gospel According to Morley Safer, The; Brown, calema1 Hospice Care: Hard and Loving Work; Justice, John ...... July-Aug. (316) Robert McAfee ...... Apr. (199) Reaves, Mal How Many Children Do You Want?; Warren, Mary ...... Sept. (378) Pa stor's Response, A; Benton, Donald R...... Apr. (206) Reflec tions c Howell, Leon ...... July-Aug. (330) Report on the /RD, A; Askin, Steve ...... Apr. (201) Rae, Ke Human Rights · Melhorn, Edwin ...... Apr. (204) Relief African Churches and Human Rights; Brewster, Charles E. .... Oct. (436) Men in Mission; Taylor, Winston H ...... May (216) Somalia 's Hunger and Povert y in the U .S.--What Can the Church Do?; Methodism in Africa; Kurewa, John W Z ...... Oct. (415) Report on ti Ammons, Edsel A...... Mar. (108) Methodism in Bolivia: Interview with Bishop Rolando Villena; Respire Cari Huston, Robert W ...... May (248) Mcfarren, Peter J...... July-Aug. (320) Resvucrurm In Search of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters and Methodism in Cuba--Where Two Worlds Meet; Rivas , Yola1 Robert H. Wateman, Jr ...... Oct. (443) Whitehead, Tom ...... Dec. (508) Roots Withe Miller, Margaret H ...... Sept. (364), Dec. (523) In Tampa An Umbrella of Love; Miller, Margaret H ...... Sept. (364) Rose Catch, India Milly Daniel and Sue Shaughnessy ...... May (220) Samuelsson Compatible Technology: Survival or Services?; Franklin, Doris. Feb. (74) Mission and Evangelism--An Ecumenical Affirmation ...... July-Aug. (334) Sartin, Nan Exploiting India 's Tribal Workers; Gandhi, Arun ...... Jan . (20) Mission and the Resurrection; Brewster, Charles E...... Mar. (104) Savuto, )en Letter from lndia--Youth in Turmoil; Gandhi, Arun ...... July-Aug. (341) Mission in a Worldwide Stream, interview with Eugene Stockwell; Schiffert, N Sexual Exploitation of Women in India; Franklin, Doris ...... Nov. (477) Early, Tracy ...... Dec. (515) Missionaries Seminars lntermedia Fights Illiteracy; Boynton, Ernest B Jr ...... Mar. (127) Getting< Is the U .S. Losing Interest in the Uprooted?; Early, Tracy ...... June (273) What I Have Learned as a Volunteer in Mission; Navan Settle, Frank A ...... Sept. (387) JNAC: Two-Way Bridge for Cooperative Mission; Settle, Frar Monroe, James P...... Apr. (204) Patterson, Patricia ...... Jan . (37) Sexual Exp Jackson, Henry F...... Oct. (408) Moore, Arthur) ...... Nov. (456) Sexual Japan Mosley, Don ...... June (283) Exp Female JNAC: Two-Way Bridge for Cooperative Mission; Murdock, John A ...... Feb. (64) Fighting Murphy, Cecily ...... Mar. (137) Patterson, Patricia ...... Jan . (37) Shaug Roots Without Rights--Koreans in Japan; Francis, Carolyn .. ... Nov. (481) Mustard Seed in Korea, A --Ewha 's New Speech Center; Rose Ca Je wish-Christian Relations--A Basis for a Fresh Start?; Early, Tracy .. Jan. (8) Powill ~ , Carol...... Nov. (465) Sexual I Jo hnson, Helen L...... May (212) National Division; Lerrigo, Charley ...... Apr. (167) Jubilee Partners; Mosley, Don ...... June (283) National Missions Shaughne! Justice, John ...... Mar. (122), July-Aug. (316) An Ethnic Answer to the Missional Priority Program; Silverman Somalia 's Kelly, Leontine ...... Dec. (535) Rivas, Yolanda E...... Sept. (384) Kerr, Clara L ...... Nov. (467) Community Developer in Chinatown; Early, Tracy ...... May (225) Stalker, P1 1 Korea Funding Community Economic Development; Standing Mustard Seed in Korea , A --Ewha 's New Speech Center; Hornbeck, Carol...... Sept. (368) MoOI Powills, Carol...... Nov. (465) Good Neighbors in Calexico; Sartin, Nancy E...... July-Aug. (324) Stockwell Korean Missioners in the U .S. ; Brewster, Charles E...... June (286) Homeboy; Baker, James E...... Dec. (518) Struchen, Kromer, Helen ...... Apr. (186), June (267), Dec. (529) Hunger and Poverty in the U .S.--What Can the Church Do?; Talk with Kurewa, John W Z ...... Oct. (415) Ammons, Edsel A ...... Mar. (108) Tanzania Lacy, Creighton ...... Jan . (40), June (297), Sept. (391), Nov. (485) In Tampa An Umbrella of Love; Miller, Margaret H ...... Sept. (364) Poor: I Lara-Braud, Dorothy ...... Feb. (62) Korean Missioners in the U.S. ; Brewster, Charles E...... June (286) Bran Latin America Lonesome Louie's Alaskan Kids ; Miller, Margaret H ...... Dec. (523) Taylor, V Argentina After the Wa r: An Interview with Jose Miguez Bonino; Peninsula Conference Reach ; Taylor, Winston H ...... Feb. (84) The Wor Lara-Braud , Dorothy ...... Feb. (62) Reaching Back and Moving Forward at Atlanta's Bethlehem Center; Hairiar Educating Retarded Children in Chile; Goodwin, John ...... Mar. (117) Coleman, John W Jr ...... Mar. (130) Hong Ethnic Minorities--An Opportunity for Third World Mission; Women in Crisis; Daniel, Milly ...... Feb. (56) Nav Boots, Nora Q ...... : : ...... May (241) Navarro, Nelson A ...... Jan . (30), Apr. (181 ), Apr. (191 ), May (234), ls the Jubilee Partners; Mosley, Don ...... June (283) June (289), Oct. (432) /ubilet Making A Difference in Bolivia; Heisey, Beth ...... May (228) Neighbor, Chad ...... Feb. (70) Korea1 Methodism in Bolivia: Interview with Bishop Rolando Villena; New Cold Rush, The; Stalker, Peter ...... Sept. (379) Look< Mcfarren, Peter J...... July-Aug. (320) New Hope in Dark Times for the World's Children; Nigeri Methodism in Cuba--Where Two Worlds Meet; Grant, James ...... Mar. (133) Pacifi1 Whitehead, Tom ...... Dec. (508) Nigeria Expels Two Million People; Samuelsson, Tore ...... June (270) Plant Pacification in Guatemala; Silverman, Ken ...... June (278) Nigeria : Democracy Despite Economic Woes; Maga I is, Elaine ... Oct. (412) UM(I Reflections on Church Development and Renewal; Nigeria Upro1 Rae , Keith D ...... Sept. (360) Nigeria Expels Two Million People; Samuelsson, Tore ...... June (270) TreasurE Triple Treat Trip to Costa Rica, A; Struchen, Donald E...... Feb. (81) Nigeria: Democracy Despite Economic Woes; Magalis, ElaineOct. (412) Triple T We Walk on the Edge of the Soles of Our Shoes; No Handicap to Ministry; Burton, Garlinda ...... Dec. (533) UMCOI Gera ld, D ietra ...... Dec. (513) Nugent, Randolph ...... Apr. (148) Unders1 La w of the Sea Treaty, The ; Murphy, Cecily ...... Mar. (137) Pacification in Guatemala; Silverman, Ken ...... June (278) Ra1 Lerrigo, Charley ...... Apr. (167) Painting the Human Condition; Kromer, Helen ...... Dec. (529) United Letter from lndia--Youth in Turmoil; Gandhi, Arun ...... July-Aug. (341) Pastor's Response, A; Benton, Donald R...... Apr. (206) Uproar, Liberia : 1SO Years of Church Growth; Reaves , Malik S...... Oct. (421) Patterson, Patricia ...... Jan . (37) Vancou Liberia Peace Preacher in England; Neighbor, Chad ...... Feb. (70) View pc Liberia : 150 Years of Church Growth; Reaves, Malik S...... Oct. (421) Peninsula Conference Reach; Taylor, Winston H ...... Feb. (84) Lacy What I Have Learned as a Volunteer in Mission; Pfisterer, A'."ln Rader ...... Feb. (87) PfiStE Settle, Frank A ...... ·...... Sept. (387) Plant Closings in California; Maga I is, Elaine ...... June (292) Lacy Wors hip in Liberia; Settle, Frank A ...... Oct. (418) Poor: Problem or Solution,The? A Look at Tanzania ; Hust Life of Service, A--Justina Lorenz Showers; Mclanachan, Mary. Nov. (484) Brandenburg, Arthur ...... Mar. ('113) Laq Lonesome Louie's Alaskan Kids; Miller, Margaret H ...... Dec. (523) Population Coo Look at the Wo rld's Refugees, A; Clark, Ellen ...... June (264) How Many Children Do You Wa nt?; Warren, Mary ...... Sept. (378) Laci Magalis, Ela ine ...... June (292), Oct. (412) New Cold Rush , The ; Stalker, Peter ...... Sept. (379) Bive Magubane, Peter ...... Jan. (22) Putting Food on the Map; Harrison, Paul...... Sept. (381) Laq Making A Difference in Bolivia; Heisey, Beth ...... May (228) World's Population 7983 , The ...... Sept. (375) Ke ll

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----~~- Powills, Carol...... Nov. (465) Volunteers Putting Food on the Map; Harrison, Pau I...... Sept. (381) CHOSEN Helps O verseas Hospitals; Kerr, Clara L...... Nov. (467) Racism Making a Way Out of No Wa y; Matejka, Michael G ...... Nov. (479) Ra ce and the UMC--Part I and Part II, Interview with Woodie White; Wainright, Geoffrey ...... Feb . (77) Taylor, Winston H ...... Nov. (462), Dec. (530) Warren, Mary ...... Sept. (378) Rae , Keith D ...... Sept. (360) We Walk on the Edge of the Soles of Our Shoes; Randolph Nugent and Jesse R. DeWitt ...... Apr. (148) Gerald, Dietra ...... Dec. (513) Reaching Back and Moving Forward at Atlanta's Bethlehem Center; Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 7983 : Jesus Christ--the Life Coleman, John W Jr ...... Mar. (130) of the World ...... Jan . (14) Reaves, Malik S...... Apr. (153), Sept. (382), Oct. (421 ), Oct. (430) What I Have Learned as a Volunteer in Miss ion; Reflections on Church Development and Renewal; Settle, Frank A ...... Sept. (387) Rae , Keith D ...... Sept. (360) What Word from Vancouver on Mission?; Stockwell, Relief Eugene L...... July-Aug. (337) Somalia 's Ali Matan--From Despair to Hope; Magubane, Peter. Jan. (22) Whitehead, Tom ...... Dec. (508) Report on the /RD, A; Askin, Steve ...... Apr. (201) Women in Crisis; Daniel, Milly ...... Feb. (56) Respite Care--A Plan for Volunteer Action; Gould, Toby ...... Jan . (34) Women's Division; Herb, Carol M ...... Apr. (163) Restructuring: 'An Affirmation of Unity' ...... Apr. (152) World Division; Reaves, Malik S...... Apr. (153) Rivas, Yolanda E...... Sept. (384) World's Population 1983, The ...... Sept. (375) Roots Without Rights--Koreans in Japan; Francis, Carolyn ...... Nov. (481) Worship in Liberia; Settle, F·rank A ...... Oct. (418) Rose Catchings : A Methodist Viewpoint...... Nov. (476) Zaire: How Poverty Challenges U .S. Policy; Jackson , Henry F... Oct. (408) Samuelsson, Tore ...... June (270) Sartin, Nancy E...... Apr. (183), July-Aug. (324) Savuto, Jerri...... Nov. (470) Schiffert, Margaret...... Oct. (427) Seminars Getting at the Core of Issues : UN-Washington Seminars; STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION Navarro, Nelson A ...... Jan . (30) Settle, Frank A ...... Sept. (387), Oct. (418) (Act of October 23 , 1962; Section 4369, Title 39, United States Code) Sexual Exploitation of Women in India; Franklin, Doris ...... Nov. (477) Sexual Exploitation 1. Title of Publication : New World Outlook Female Sexual Slavery; Clark, Ellen ...... Sept. (372) Publication No. 692400 Fighting Sexual Exploitation of Women; 2. Date of Filing: November 17, 1983 Shaughnessy, Suzanne M ...... Nov. (474) 3. Frequency of issue : Monthly, except July-August Rose Catchings : A Methodist Viewpoint...... Nov. (476) No. of issues annually: Eleven Sexual Exploitation of Women in India; Franklin, Doris ...... Nov. (477) Annual Subscription Price: $7 .00 Shaughnessy, Suzanne M ...... May (220), July-Aug. (312), Nov. (474) 4. Location of known office of publication : Silverman, Ken ...... June (278) 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10115 Somalia's Ali Matan--From Despair to Hope; Magubane, Peter .... Jan . (22) 5. Location of the headquarters of general business offices of the publishers: Stalker, Peter ...... Sept. (379) 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10115 Standing With Awe at the Feast of Life : the WCC at Vancouver; 6. Names and addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor Moore, Arthur J...... Nov. (456) Publisher: General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Stockwell, Eugene L...... July-Aug. (337) Church Struchen, Donald E...... Feb. (81) 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10115 Talk with Margaret Walker Alexander, A; Reaves, Malik S...... Sept. (382) Editor: Arthur J. Moore Tanzania 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10115 Poor: Problem or Solution, The? A Look at Tanzania ; Managing Editor: George M . Daniels, Executive Editor Brandenburg, Arthur ...... Mar. (113) 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10115 Taylor, Winston H ...... Feb. (84), May (216), Nov. (462), Dec. (530) 7. Owner: General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist The World's Uprooted Church (a non-profit religious corporation) Haitian Refugees : Three Success Stories; Bates, Lucille M ...... June (276) 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N .Y. 10115 Hong Kong's Boat People--Time is Running Out; Stockholders: None Navarro, Nelson A ...... June (289) 8. Bondholders, Mortgages, and other Security Holders: None Is the U.S. Losing Interest in the Uprooted?; Early, Tracy ...... June (273) 9. The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of this organization and Jubilee Partners; Mosley, Don ...... June (283) exempt status for Federal income tax purposes have not changed during Korean Missioners in the U .S.; Brewster, Charles E...... June (286) the preceding 12 months. Look at the World's Refugees, A; Clark, Ellen ...... June (264) 10. Extent and nature of circulation: Nigeria Expels Two Million People; Samuelsson, Tore ...... June (270) Single Issue Pacification in Guatemala; Silverman, Ken ...... June (278) Average No. Copies Each Nearest to Plant Closings in California; Maga Iis, Elaine ...... June (292) Issue During Preceding 12 Months Filing Date UMCOR Ministers to the World's Uprooted; Kromer, Helen ... June (267) A. Total No. Copies Printed Uprooting the Elderly; Bethke, Christine ...... June (295) (Net Press Run) 47,305 38 ,274 Treasurer's Report; Brimigion, Stephen F...... Apr. (192) B. Paid Circulation Triple Treat Trip to Costa Rica, A; Struchen, Donald E...... Feb. (81) 1 . Sales through dealers and carriers, UMCOR Ministers to the World's Uprooted; Kromer, Helen ...... June (267) street vendors and counter sales none none Understanding Ourselves--Report of the President and General Secretary; 2. Mail Subscription 33 ,820 31 ,366 Randolph Nugent and Jesse R. DeWitt ...... Apr. (148) C. Total Paid Circulation 33 ,820 31 ,366 United Methodist Committee on Relief; Kromer, Helen ...... Apr. (186) D. Free Distribution by Mail, Uprooting the Elderly; Bethke, Christine ...... June (295) Carrier or other means 1,547 1,354 Vancouver Preview; Howell, Leon ...... July-Aug. (330) E. Total Distribution 35 ,36 7 32 ,720 Viewpoint F. Office Use, Left Over, Lacy, Creighton ...... Jan . (40) Unaccounted, Spoiled After Printing 11 ,938 5,554 Pfisterer, Ann Rader ...... Feb. (87) G. Total (sum of E and F should equal Lacy, Creighton ...... March (136) net press run down in A) 47, 305 38,274 Huston, Robert W ...... May (248) Lacy, Creighton ...... June (297) Cook, Samuel D ...... July-Aug. (343) I certify that the statements made by me are correct and complete. Lacy, Creighton ...... Sept. (391) Bivens, Isaac A ...... Oct. (440) (signed) George M . Daniels, Executive Editor Lacy, Creighton ...... Nov. (485) Kelly, Leontine ...... Dec. (535)

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February 28-March 2, 1984 Medicine (Wheaton, Illinois, 1981). Co­ Missions, Assistance, and the Problem of sponsored by American Leprosy Missions Oppression: Correcting Dependency and BMMF/lnternational (U.S.A.). Patterns. Dr. Ted Ward, Michigan State April 10-13, 1984 University. Contextualization Then and Now: March 6-9, 1984 Perspectives from the Early Church and Barriers and Bridges in Cross-Cultural Contemporary Africa. weeks on the Gospel and Urbanization Communication. Dr. Donald R. Jacobs, Mennonite are co-sponsored by Inter-Varsity Dr. Eugene A Nida Leadership Foundation, former Mennonite Evangelism, Latin America Mission, United Bible Societies. Bishop in East Africa. At Maryknol/, Theological Students Fellowship, and March 12-16, 1984 New York. World Vision. Evangelism and the Poor.• Vinay April 23-27, 1984 Samuel, Evangelical Fellowship of India. The Gospel and Urbanization: ------,,...... r T., March 20-23, 1984 Contemporary Issues in Urban Evangelism-A Global Perspective (1).• "i InternationalPublishers of Bulletinthe Lessons from Northeast Asia for Global -....."1 Dr. Raymond Bakke, consultant to of Missionary Research Witness. Dr. James M. Phillips, former t:... .Jr... Lausanne Committee for World missionary to Korea and Japan. Evangelization; Raymond Fung, specialist Overseas Ministries Study Center March 27-30, 1984 in labor evangelism in Hong Kong, Now \.\!ntnot NJ 08406 U.S.A. How My Mind Has Changed about editor of the WCC Monthly Letter on Gerald H. Anderson, Director Mission. Bishop Stephen Neill, Evangelism. James M. Phillips, Associate Director Oxford, England. In an inspiring setting by the sea, we offer highly relevant April 30-May 4, 1984 coun;es of study for cross-cultural and international ministries, and accommodations with a family atmosphere. April 2-6, 1984 The Gospel and Urbanization: You r Registration: $30/ $45 per course, J?IUS room and meals. The Church's Role in Healing: Ministry as Pastor, Evangelist, and Regisrration waived for OMSC residents. (Coun;es with • are $45.) (2).• Challenges and Opportunities in Catalyst for Change D Send application and more information Community-Based Primary Health Dr. Roger Greenway, Westminster Care.• Theological Seminary; Professor Samuel Ors. James and Jean Morehead. Escobar, International Fellowship of Addre5s ------­ Cily ------Incorporating the findings of the Ninth Evangelical Students; Dr. Michael Haynes, s... ,. ______z;p ___ International Convention on Missionary Gordon Conwell Seminary. The above two ------