Portland/Ohserver
Methodists aid Viet adoptions
Holt agency is dedicated and
The United Methodist Com
a mixed experience, even
niittee on Belief (UMCOK) is committed to meeting the
though there have been some
cooperating in a program to
needs of ahondoned children.
amazing success stories. One
Indeed, it goes behind the
help place children of mixed
baby that was picked up un
problem with a counseling
blood left liehind in Vietnam
der a bridge in Seoul, Korea
by American tils either in service to reach unwed
and raised in orphanages,
the United States or Europe mothers before they abandon
last year received his 1’ h.D
or Canada, and is open to their children, urging them
from Stanford University in
to consider alternate solu
inquiries on adoption prore
California and has now re
lions, or preparing a mother
dures from interested per
turned to work for the Kor
sons. UM COK entered into a to relinquish her child for
ean Government.
close w o rkin g relationship adoption into a new home.
But the situation in Viet
The ideal solution for Viet
with Holt Children's Ser
nam is more complex than
vires, which is giving as its namese children is to keep
we found in Korea. The war
num ber one p rio rity the them in Vietnam and to place
has never really ended, so
adoption abroad of these them w ith local fam ilies.
there continues to be more
mixed blood children, who are The economic turmoil in the
casualties, more children
totally unaccepted by the country makes this difficult
abandoned, more economic
V ietn am ese and th ere fo re though not ini|Hissible.
turmoil which makes it less
Dom estic adoptions are
have no future.
possible for the Vietnamese
Granting the agency $7,600 first on the list, with tern
to rare for their orphans.
to enable it to set up an |Mirary foster homes an alter
The concern of UMCOR is
adoption office. UM COK is native along with “Group
that ways In- found to help
also currently searching for Homes" in which children
process the lost children and
from 3 to 9 years of age are
two short term volunteers
relocate them in Vietnamese
a |*ediatrician and a nurse to placed in a family related
homes wherever possible, or
help staff the agency's Health group setting, where they
also get schooling before
to find homes abroad for
Services Department.
rhildren of mixed blood who
Many of these children are they are put up for perma
face extreme prejudice and
nent adoption; intercountry
brought into the Holt Recep
discrimination.
lion renter in desperate con adoption is another answer;
A further grant will be
dition and must hr cared orphanages are the last and
least desirable answer.
for
built up to full physi
made to the Holt agency in
1971. and UMCOK will sup
cal strength before they ran
Experience in Korea has
port a similar program early
shown that institutionalizing
be put up for adoption.
in the new year in I<aos.
Overseas adoption is only from b irth to age 16 is
one way UMCOK. working
through Vietnam Christian
Service and the Holt agency
is helping the nearly 200,000
abandoned children in South
Vietnam.
Some of these children are
war orphans
some am
putees. some maimed and
disfigured
but many are
not.
A vast number have
been injured in home a m
dents: a kerosene lamp over
turns, a makeshift shelter
collapses. And many children
are victims of diseases which
may or may not tie related to
war:
polio, tuberculosis of
the bone, mental retardation.
Holt Children's Services is
presently studying and eval
uating the most effective
way to help the mentally and
. ...
physically handicapped.
"NOAH, Y O U ’VE GOT TO SEPARATE
A private, non profit, non
political organization, founded
TH E ELEPHANTS.’
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How to fare the New Year.
1974. Text:
Acts 28:15
“Paul thanked God and took
courage.”
Several days ago. while
thumbing through the scrip
lures, my eyes fell upon an
arresting incident in the life
of the apostle Paul that
gathered up all of the mean
ing and significance of the
New Year about to be born.
The incident to which 1 refer
happened after Paul spent
twelve hectic months at sea.
His voyage took him to
Home by way of Malta, a
little island 80 miles south of
Sicily, and then to Alexandra.
Syracuse, Khegione and Put
eoli. And finally, at the end
of the 12 month journey,
Paul, in the words of our
text;
"Thanked God and
took courage."
Here, my Christian friends,
is the way you and 1 must
face the New Year. During
the past 12 month period,
we, like Paul, have visited
many strange and unfamiliar
places.
We've met new
faces, formed new friend
ships and confronted chai
lenging situations
Some of
us grew weary of the jour
ney, turned sour, grew bitter,
became cynical.
O thers
among us fared the stormy,
cough seas in the same calm
ness of mind and serenity of
soul as did Paul
"Thank
ing God and taking courage."
Paul thanked God and took
courage because he knew the
laird had brought him a
mighty long way. so he
thanked God and took cour
age. And that, I submit, is
the best way to bid farewell
to an old year and to wel
come in the new.
Gratitude is the memory of
the heart.
John Henry
Jowett said, "Gratitude is a
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February issue is w ritten by
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Jr
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vaccine, an antitoxin, and an
antiseptic." This is a most
«earching and true diagnosis.
Gratitude can be a vaccine
that can prevent the invasion
of a disgruntled attitude. As
antitbxins prevent the disas
trous effects of certain poi
sons and diseases, gratitude
destroys the poison of fault
finding and grumbling. Grati
tude takes the kick out of
kickers and makes them
peaceful workers; gratitude-
makes the profane pious, it
turns haters into lovers, and
sinners into saints.
An arresting sentence in
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
reads: “In thankfulness for
present mercies nothing be
comes for us a losing sight of
past ills."
According to the tradition,
Stephen Hopkins of Rhode
Island, who was nearly 70
years old at the outbreak of
the revolution, was one of
the most courageous and in
domitable spirits who signed
the Declaration of Indepen
dence.
“Sir, your hand trembles,"
said someone as Hopkins
stepped up to sign his name
to that immortal document.
"True, sir," came the reply
from the aged statesman,
"but my heart does not."
Facing a new year, my
friends, with its uncertain
ties, its energy crisis, its food
shortage, its sorrows and
heartaches and burdens to be
borne, “My hand trembles
but not my heart. Like the
psalmist,
“I will not fear, though th<
ea rth
be rem oved, ano
though the mountains be
carried into the midst of the
sea; Though the waters there
of roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake
with the swelling thereof.
“There is a river, the
streams of whereof shall
make glad the city of God . . .
God is in the midst of her;
she shall not be moved; God
shall help her, and that right
ta rly . . . The Lord of hosts is
with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge."
To a member of an op
pressed minority in America,
this aspect of Christianity is
hard to digest. In the midst
of an energy crisis, people
out of work, a preacher
stands and declares, "God
our refuge".
A preacher
takes bull dog tenacity and
says “Thank God and take
courage", in spite of being
deprived of the full rights of
citizenship, victims of segre
Ration and racial discrimina
tion, victims of violence to
our person and property,
taking the crumbs that fall
from the table of a half loaf
democracy, we are saved
from utter despair only when
we "Thank God and take
courage.''
Why?
James
Cone put it this way: Jesus'
work is essentially one of
liberation.
Jesus is God
himself coming into the very
depths of human existence
for the sole purpose of strik
ing off the chains of slavery.
Jesus himself defines the
nature of his ministry in
these terms:
"The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me . . . because he has
annointed me to preach the
good news to poor.
"He has sent me to pro
claim to the blind.
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"To set at liberty those
who are oppressed;
"To proclaim the accept
able year of the Lord." Luke
4:18.
I thank God and take
courage because it was Yah
weh who emancipated Israel
from Egyptian bondage and
he is going to throw the
shackles off the Albina com
munity. He is going to make
right i^hat men have made
wrong. He will deliver us.
The old song that my
Father is rich with houses
and land should inspire us in
the New Year.
1 believe
i t . . . and since He is a lib
erator, water in dry places,
shelter from the storm . . .
is rich with houses and land
we are not poor, we are
Sons of God wiating for our
inheritance.
What troubles have we
seen . . . what conflicts have
we passed . . . fighting with
out, and fears within, since
we assembled last . . .
But out of all the Lord,
Hath brought us by his
love;
Thank God and take cour
age . . .
I can face the future un
afraid because He has re
assured me in His Holy word:
“Fear thou not; for I am thy
God; I will strengthen thee;
yea, I will help thee; yea, I
will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteous
ness."
I can fare the unknown
dangers of the new year
because while I do not know
what the future holds, I do
know who holds the future -
not Nixon, Kissinger, but
God.
"I know not where His is
lands lift their rounded palms
in air.
"I only know I cannot drift
beyond His love and care.”
The New Year facing us
offers what every year of
fers -- hardship and happi
ness, pain and joy. heart
break and hope, struggle and
strength, stormy nights and
•aim days. Everything de
pends upon what you will do
with the time, the days, the
hours, the minutes Ood_has
entrusted to your keeping.
Will you face the future with
a sigh or with a song?
Wendell Phillips, the great
abolitionist, was severly criti
cized for the stand he took
toward human slavery. Be
fore he would leave for a
lecture, his wife, an invalid
who could not accompany
him, would bid farewell with
these words: "Now Wendell,
don't you shilly-shally."
As you venture out of
the old year into the new, the
Christ of Calvary, the Babe
of Bethelem calls you by
name and bids you "don't
shilly-shally". Rather, "take
courage in the fact that I
have overcome the world."
Candied yams.
Collard
greens. Cornbread. Southern
fried chicken.
Blackeved
peas.
Chitterlings.
They
delight the eyes and tickle
i he taste buds.
And like
other foods, they help keep
the body alive.
But we are more than
Jody. W e are soul. The soul
is the inner self -- the real
us. It needs food. too. Yet
we stuff the body, but starve
the soul.
As good as the foods are
that we eat to nourish our
physical selves, they can't
satisfy soul hunger. The soul
needs special food.
Jesus, the Master Chef,
gave us the recipe: “Bread
won't feed men's souls: Obe
lienee to every word of God
is what we need". M att. 4:4.
As you read God's Word in
the New Year, let your soul
eat the whole thing. Better
to have an overstuffed soul
than an overstuffed body.
The body is temporary, the
soul is eternal.
In a broadcast during
World War II, King George
V I quoted the following lines
from "The Gate of the Year"
by M Louise Hasking;
“And I said to the man
who stood at the gate that
year: 'Give me a light that I
may tread safely into the
unknown.' And he replied:
‘Go out into the darkness
and put your hand into the
hand of God. That shall be
to you better than light and
safer than a known w ay .'"
Alright, my brothers and
sisters, the New Year is
upon us. Don't shilly shally.
Go out from here and face
it bravely and courageously.
Put your hand into the hand
of God. Walk with a sense of
His abiding presence. Like
Paul. "Thank God and take
courage."
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