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Show I / #12 p2 The Jesus Power buttons are still available. We distributed 2,000 of them in one month last year, but as we forgot to mention them in last 2 Messages, others forgot. And while we're on co~ercials, a good printer friend has run off a few hundred copies of Vic's famous prize- winning picture of Father, so although he says he can't imagine why anybody would want any, they're free for the asking. Just send an 8,.- x 11" envelope and stiff card • . + + + Don't be fooled by the third person singular. all the above was written by Fr Liebler. The rest is by the rest of us. Brother Juniper Saysz When we moved into this house in 1966 we left the ground story unfinished. it soon became ~ catch-all like the old fashioned attic. The new church provided space for the church things, and we took advantage of winter weather to work indoors; shelving was put in and a combination kitchen and class-room came into being. A 2nd-hand tub, with shower, and a few other conveniences were added and 101 we have an apartment on the ground floor. We still need ceiling and some light fixtures. In March I was invited to speak at the Governor's Prayer Breakfast . I accepted, and found that I was to address about 300 state, religious, military and business leaders. For my subject I took "Navajo Medicine Men. " This 20-minute talk in Salt Lake City took me from Monday night to Thursday morning, only 800 miles round trip, but by bus. The first of the year I was re-appointed to the San Juan County Travel Council which encourages tourist travel in the area (So, come to San Juan County, you-alll). Another honorz Several years ago I joined the Lions Club of Kayenta, Arizona, and having served as Chaplain, 2nd vice-president, vice-president. I just got word that the current president has been transferred, so I'm itl Wi th the arrival of warm weather, we began to prepar 'e for the planting of trees and shrubs which Mr. George Kelly of Cortez was to bring. This involved levelling ground--thanks to Dick Frank and Scot Hurst it was done with -heavy equipment--and erecting fences, as we live in "open range country" where cattle and other livestock have the right of way on unfenced land. The poles we had to haul 60 miles, from a piece of bottom land that Paul McPherson is clearing . Navajos helped with the fence work. The picture on page 1 shows some of the native shrubs that now adorn our church yard which is slowly taking on the appearance of an oasis in the desert. The 120 russian olives, Mr. Kelly says -in three years will be just beautifull" But it means constant irrigation until the roots get well down. At the time of writing, a dry wall .to retain the higher levels of ground is being laid up by twa lads from California--Paul Hultgren and Bruce Hayden. We have all been involved in the planting and irrigating of trees and shrubs around the church. Picture on page one shows views of the church rather in contrast to the foreground of rocks, ladders and wheelbarrows of our last Message. |