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Show Our chapel is a primitive log structure cruciform in shape with the native stone altar set in the midst of the crossing. The priest faces the people as he officiates. The Chapel is the heart of our life and work here and therefore within the primitive standards of our people must be as beautiful as possible. The Navajo has a deep sense of and a high standard for beauty, as witness his silverwork and weaving. He is quick to sense the depth of our devotion in our desire to make our place of worship attractive. The Chapel needs an additional roof to keep off the summer heat and hold in the winter warmth. It needs another story over the porch, and a belltower. We need now $1500.00 to fmish the Chapel; we need $1000 a year to maintain it. Our Mission building, the original building of our group, is Spanish MIssion architecture built of native sandstone. It contains a large all-purpose common room behind which is the staff dining room and kitchen. This room is flanked on either side by cloistered cell blocks. These are staff living quarters. The three sides of the building- form a close or patio. This is the general utility building and is used continuously. It needs a new roof, plumbing, a range for the kitchen, new partitions and repointing on the stone work. We also need a n ew kitchen floor and additional refrigeration. For all these things, We need now $2500.00; we need thereafter $1000.00 a year to maintain it. Our school is similar to the Mission building in archtiecture. It is the only non-government school for Navajos in Utah. The off-reservation government schools have elaborate equipment and conveniences. Children are quick to make comparisons. Few realize fully the benefits we can give even now which the government can not. A recent gift of playground equipment makes us realize the need of more such. We need now $5000.00 to finish and furnish the school. We need $3000.00 a year to maintain it. -2- Our hospital is in process of construction which is now stopped for lack of funds. The walls are up and it is roofed but in its present state it is unusable. When finished it will have eight beds and as much modern technical equipment as you, our friends, are willing to give us. Our hospital work is the only medical care that the Navajo has ever known in this district, and very often serves the white native as well as the Indian. As to the Navajo, prior to our coming, if he could get a hundred miles or more to one of the government hospitals and was so obviously sick that he could not make the journey back home, he might get admitted. In any case he would get out-patient care. Many times b eds were not available. With our cOJ;l1ing consecrated churchmen and other doctors have been regularly flown down to us by C.A.P: from Salt Lake City. Through these connections drug companies have provided us with drugs and equipment and no Navajo need suffer from lack of emergency care. This work is a must. Because of the inadequate diet and the dusty hot climate the incidence of pulmonary trouble is tremendous. In relationship to tuberculosis the Navajo is today where the white man was many years ago. Out here among the Indians tuberculosis is a grim reaper. We need now $8500.00 to complete the hospital; we need $3000.00 a year to maintain it. -3- Transportation. We cover an area one-half the size of Connecticut. All of the Navajo reservation lying in the State of Utah. The Navajo are a nomadic people. That means that a pastor to the Navajo must be a constantly traveling person. He sets out in a car and his first stop is the first group of Hoghans he comes to. He visits, instructs, holds services, administers sacraments as the conditions call for and then on to the next group until he comes to the mission station at which he has previously decided to celebrate the Eucharist. He knows at this point he will find confirmed practicing Christians. He does not travel established roads, There are none. His traveling is through sand and over slick rock. Ordinary transportation is not adequate for this. The country demands four wheel drive jeeps and we are without even one. With our inadequate staff we cannot afford to have a Priest bogged down in the sand for a day or two when literally scores are waiting for his spiritual and medical ministrations. We need now $5000.00 for transportation; we need yearly $2500.00 thereafter to run it. Married Priest's House. In the past ten ye~Ts we have never been very seriously faced with the pr oblem of married staff members. In the early beginning of the Mission the primitive conditions would have made having such groups impossible. Now, however, it is not only desirable and possible but probable. There are several Priests with families presently considering coming. We must have a married Priest's house so that we may show the Navajo American family life in a desirable light. Till now they have only seen us living in community. We need now $3000.00 to build this house; we need yearly $1000.00 thereafter to maintain it. -4- |