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Show 3 It's really a very nice house - two bedrooms, living room, kitchenette, bath, storeroom. Meanwhile, we get along as best we can with our regular staff at the clinic. Not long ago three mammas went into labor at the same time as a highway accident called upon the resources of the only two medical workers ' we had. But everything went off fine. We cannot express too often or too enthusiastically our gratitude to the doctors who visit us periodically - Dr. Oaks, Dr. Bayer and Dr. Van Wieren. Without their help we would be in a bad way. School is of course closed for. the Summer, but children are always with us, and it is a joy to have those from far-off Government schools camping nearby or visiting from across the River. Whether or not we can have anything like a "Vacation Bible School" remains to be seen, but there are co un tless ways in which we can make the Church's life a reality to these children. fSb OFTEN does our emphasis lie upon our ~;ocial service in health and education that we may perhaps give the impression that our main purpose is neglected, which is of course to make the means of grace available to the Navaho People, so long neglected. Since the day before Easter we have had more than 60 Baptisms - some here at St. Christopher's but most of them in the outlying districts, the fruit of many many hours of patient instruction. Statistics are often misleading - both to those who read them and those who write them. We hasten to add that we realize that, while these baptisms are the frujt of many hours of work they represent only the beginning of the spiritual life of these People, and the great increase of responsibility resting upon us to enable them "to lead the rest of their lives according to this beginning." fJlr'S Not exactly news about the Mission, l!lbut will interest you to know that Fr Liebler spent two weeks shortly after Easter in the Los Angeles area, as guest of Father Hultgren and' of Trinity Church, Alhambra. |