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Show MESSAGE 121 Father Liebler Brother Juniper from at August, 1976 Helen Stur ges Joan Eskell HAT ROCK VALIEY RETREAT CENl'ER Po O. Box 5, Monument Valley, utah 84536 Tel. 801-727-3291 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Messages Nos. 1-20 have been issued at approximately semi-annual periods since September 1966. Many of the back numbers are available to persons wanting them. Just ask. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Living in a world of change , one ought to be accustomed to the i dea, and yet it is not easy. Our last two Messages have told you about Father Kawano coming to us as pastor. We regret to bring you the news that he has found other work in the vineyard of the Lord, and is now on the staff of st Mary's Church in Los Angeles, California. As ~ go to press, no new Vicar has yet been called to take his place, but ways and means of calling one are being worked out by the local congregation in consultation with the Navajo Episcopal Council and Bishop Charles. In the meantime, the parish is falling back on the services of Fr Liebler as priest, supported by the loyal Navajo and Anglo members of the Church of St Mary of the Moonlight. There have been other changes, too. As governed by a board - formerly just the past year new members have been added, Charles, Mr Robert Schumann of Kayenta, gren, D.D., of Alhambra, California • you know, the Retreat Center is a corporation, four of us formed the board, but within the the Bishop of utah, the Right Reverend E. Otis Arizona, and the Reverend Canon Harold Hult- . Bishop Charles has shown a deep interest in, and pastoral care for, the Navajo People in his diocese. He has devoted much time, thought and energy to their (and our) needs, having made many visits to our area, not only to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation, but also to encourage us with his advice,· good counsel and friendship. He is presently the "resource Bishop" of the year at the monthly meetings of the Navajo Episcopal Council, which involves travel, not only to the Utah mission areas, but also to San Juan Mission in Farmington, New Mexico and Good Shepherd Mission in Fort Defiance, Arizona. . Mr Schumann is a dedicated teacher of preponderently Indian classes in the Elementary School in Kayenta, and has earned the gratitude of many Navajo families for opening his house during the school ye~r to 6 or 7 boys whose homes are far from the school bus route, and who prefer to attend the Public School rather than go to boarding school. Canon Hultgren has long been a friend of Father Liebler's , and of the Navajo People, having, for the past 18 years, brought youth work groups to st Christopher's Mission and, more recently, to Hat Rock, in the interests of mutual acceptance and understanding between Navajo and Anglo youth. He, like Father Liebler, is a Nashotah House graduate. After ordination in 1944 he continued with graduate studies at General Theological Seminary in New York and Harvard Divinity School. A New Yi'orker, Canon Hultgren has held cures in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Long Island, New York; Boston, Massa- |