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Show # 9, p 2 from Alaska, two from South Dakota. All are preparing for Christian work, three at leRst are postul~nts for Holy Orders in t he Episcopal Church and taking their Bible training at the Cook Bible School in Tempe, Arizonao It is encouraging to feel that not only a native lea dership, but a welltrained and competept native leadership, full (like St Stephen) of faith and of the Holy Ghost, is being raised up for these areas. Y~y it soon be so in Navajo Land! About us: El Padre puts in a few hours, on most days, building the stone altar for ~he new Church, but they won't leave him alone. A , priest in W. Virginia got the idea thgt his parish needed nobody as much as Father Liebler for a week-end Mission, so mid-September found him aboard a plane. That this was a call fr'om God bec~me evident when the old adversary began to try to prevent his completing the trip--a story all in itself involving smog and th~ repe ir of the clutch in a bus at about 2 a~m. But God was glorified. Those' of you who know Fatherf's family in Florida will know that they wouldn't let him get as close as tnAt without nragging him to the land of lovely people and you-know-what cllmateo Father 1l)issed only one Sunday at Hat Bock. Brother Juniper keeps busy with church plans and oversight of the bui111ng proJect, he can be seen in stoc~ing cap atop a scaffold securing plates or rafters. His latest toy is a Junked Datsun pickup which he bought for a song and from which he ta kes many parts for his " live" Datsun; he is now converting the Junked body into a trai1ero ' Joan no longer has to drive into Kayenta daily and is able to help even more with the work among the People, with making a home as ·well as writing letters and keeping the books. Says she could do better if she .. had a Victor electric adning machine. Anybony know of one lying around? Helen of course is the chief source of transpor tation for the "foot-back" Na va JOs who could not get to Chur ch on Sundays or to hospital; she also helps with the cooking, general housekeeping as well as car ing for the gardens and orchards. Friend s of Bill Sutherland will want to know about him. As most of you know, he is a skilled draughtsman , ann has drawn all the plans for the new church building and the necessary aPPointments. He has been confined to .8 wheel chair for the last ten years. ,A believing Chr istian all his life, he is, like the rest of us, learning. At one poin t in the planning, the roof construction raised problems. - We prayed. In pops, of all people, a professor of architecture from the University of Oregon--a man we had never heard ofo An hour of consultation: "Professor Bob," Bll1 and Brother Juniper, and the problem melted. l'lore recently Bill attended a charismatic week-end at Guadalupe Monastery in Pecos, and shows marked improvement in legs and back. Bill joined us to watch the work at close hand, and also to renew friendship with Joan whom he knew in her New York Days. Says he likes it here, but still can't believe the scenery is real! |