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Show 1 IMI UCH has happened since the MidSum-mer N ewslett el' went out. The Summer Workers were just arriving, and learning to find their way around; plans were being formulated, yet the regular routine of the Mission - care of the sick, teaching of the young, and the daily round of prayer and pra ise - continued in full swing. Many of our visitors and readers get the idea that we are so completely isolated from the world that we have little or no contact with the rest of the Church, and concentrate entirely upon the "Navajo Field". They will be interested to know that Fr. Liebler conducted a retreat for the women of the Church in Utah at the diocesan Camp and Conference Center up in the mountain near Salt Lake City; Fr. Moulton conducted a retreat at Evergreen, Colorado; both attended the Bishop's Clergy Conference later in the Summer. The Summer Workers restored the "flying carpet" roof ort the Pontious house, and completed it with roofing paper, besides undertaking numerous minor projects, and always cheerfully took over much of the mechanical routine which would otherwise slow down the work which staff members alone can do. One important project deserves detailed description: In past Summers we have held a daily Vacation Bible School here at the Mission. This year we undertook to have seven of them, five days each, in seven different locations. A team of three or four were assigned to each. As each location has its own problems, due to transportation, degree of education or literacy, etc., no two could be exactly alike, but the general outline was pretty much the same. Knowing that five days, or rather five sessions of three hours each, would not be adequate for any serious treatment of the Bible as a whole, we concentrated on the essences of the two Testaments, and particularly on the New Testament, not merely as a book or collection of books, but as J esus Himself declared it - "My Blood of the New Testament" and related it to the euchar istic life of the Mystical |