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Reflections by Alta Nye Oxendine THE RE\. MIKE CI MM/SOS At long last, after his term was already up. I remembered to congratulate Rev. Mike Cummings on hav ing served as moderator ol this stale's Southern Baptist Convention. kjuite an honorl Even though I came to North Carolina as a Methodist rural church and community worker. I am a Methodist CHRISTIAN, with Christian being the bottom line! Fortunately I've had lots ot' Baptist friends since coming to Robeson Count). In fact, even in Montana. Mother and I attended a weekly Bible studv at her sister-in-law Clara Redfield's home, conducted by the Southern Baptist preacher in that communitv. I also treasure friendships with other Protestants, as well as with Catholics. And. thanks to retired professor. Inhn R imhrrg. hack in the '80s I attended a meaningful (even to me) evening Jew ish serv ice during the High Holy Days. I have never attended a Muslim serv ice (held on Fridays. I understand). I'm not even sure if that religious group invites others to join in their religious observance But I do have a Muslim (fiend! And 1 care about members of all other religious groups, as well, including, of course, the Native American people who still practice their traditional religion. However. I have come to honestly believe that Jesus'teachings, his earthlv life, death, and resurrection opened up the way for us to go farther in our SEARCH lor. and especially our EXPERIENCE of. a Creator with a deep, caring, personal love for EACH and EVERY person in this world. I've said before. I came to this conclusion my sophomore year in college, at the University of Montana as we students made comparisons of the "religions of the world" in a class bv that name. The reason I talk and write so much about mv beliefs is because I want EVERYONE to have the kind of wonderful faith which I began experiencing in mv early youth. After the agonizing doubts during mv junior vear in college. I was one of the fortunate persons who came BACK (with help from a Christian woman) to believing in God again! Then I began rebuilding, to gradually achieve a stronger, more personalized faith than before! I his faith has carried me through things that I did not choose to go through (such as tunnels of depression and bereavement) and brought me out. into the sunshine of the other side. Thanks be to God! "O LITTLE TOM S Oh BETHLEHEM, HOU STILL HE SEE THEE LIE." ( These words by Phillips Brooks. 1 believe) keep coming to my mind since the Bethlehem "Church of the Nativity" came under siege! "AS E YE FOR A V EYE, A YD I TOO TH FOR 1 TOO TIL'" I understand that Jews keep this old law of retribution, and I believe that Muslims do as well. One explanation for the not-so-quiet-now "little town of Bethlehem". We must do what we can to stop terrorist aggression. But I hope that WE Americans are merely trying to ROOT OUT terrorists in our "war against terrorism" rather titan using the "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" method of GETTING REVENGE. I believe Jesus taught his followers a BETTER way than that. This is almost impossible for most of us to believe. But Jesus even expressed love and forgiveness for those who put him to death!! DESTRL CTION H ITH PRC GS Last week I w rote about the part the communist leaders of Cuba (along w ith leaders of other communist countries) have play ed in using drugs to destroy our way of life in this country for more than 40 years. (Drugs were first used by Chinese and Soviet Communist leaders to hook American soldiers during the Korean War, according to what I have studied.) I can't think of a surer way to accomplish their overall goal. My heart continues to go out to persons of vary ing ages all around us who are caught up in this web. (To think that I wondered why Donny's fourth grade teacher would subject her little nine-year-olds to a problem like that at such an early age!) By now my concern is for the addicted users AND for the people who push this addiction onto anyone of any age who may be vulnerable, because of their own con-. cem for an easier way to make money. Surely we need to continue our prayers for those who are hooked on "using" and for those who are hooked on selling. Both groups ARE redeemable! But 1 can't help being angry at Fidel Castro and others who DELIBERATELY took advantage of human weaknesses to carry out their plan to destroy nations, one or two at a time, so that their "liberating" Marxist-Leninist "program" could proceed faster than would have been possible otherwise. JAMMI LOH'RY, MISS LL'MBEE It was good to see Jammi Lovvry at the Cultural Festival at the Farmers' Market on Highway 41 last Sunday. As 1 was leaving a birthday celebration for one of Bvron's friends. 1 noticed a sign: "FARMERS' MARKET I mile". Recently I went to the Perforning Arts center to hear Spokane Indian. Sherman Alexie. Then last week 1 watched Lumbee. Bobby Hurt, and Navajo. Eric Runningpath. demonstrate Native American dances and describe their regalia at the Native American Resource Center in Old Main. Bobby closed the program that night by playing the flute, whose rich tones I really enjoyed. But I had gone hoping to see a husband and wife couple who were familiar with the Blackfeet Reservation, where 1 had lived and worked in the mid-twentieth century for a year and a half between getting my undergraduate degree in social science (1949) and coming south (1951) to work on my master's degree in town and country (rural) church and community work. I was really disappointed to learn that their plane had arrived too late for them to make that meeting. Afterward, however. I vvas told that they would be at the "farmers' market" during the weekend. I practically FORGOT about making an effort to go. And I did not know where the farmer's market was. Until I "happened" to see that sign! I decided it was too close not to check it out. Maybe someone would still be there. At the pavilion I asked Jammi Lowry (whose family I have counted among my friends for many years) about the Indian couple. She told me to look for a man and woman dressed in Native American regalia. I located them and explained to the wife why I was so interested. Macilc Reevis is a Blackfoot Indian from what is now Alberta (north of Montana). Her husband. Steve, is from the Blackfeet Reservation where I worked a half century ago. As she explained, the tribe was divided in the 1800s. w ith some members placed in Canada and the rest in northem Montana LLrememhered the smaller reservations in Alberta as being called "Piegan" and "Blood". Perhaps one or more-names have been changed since I left and eventually ended up in North Carolina.) I also remember "Piegan" as the traditional language spoken by the Blackfeet. although the younger people were using English when I was there.) Both Steve and Macile were very busy selling Native American products. In fact. Macile was selling attractive, interesting women's clothing that she had designed. I chose to buy a beadwork bracelet with the typical Blackfeet mountain design. (The beadwork I brought with me when I said "good-bye" to Browning has not weathered the yearsand all the handling by my curious kids. Donny thought I was the RE AL Indian because lb was thcone with beadwork and ecausc I taught children the timy sign language segment Chief Bull had personally taught me ) Whenever I got a chance. I spoke to Steve, as I recalled names of families I had known while I was living in his hometown, lie told me he had heard of but never seen Dick Sanderville (Chief Bull) because he was not born until the yearafter I left. (Dick Sanderville. whose grandfather was a Spanish fur trader. I was. to Id. died in his 80s at the Browning hospital while I was still there. My last memory of him is of three ot us women who were working at the mission, now called the Blackfeet Methodist Parish, responding to his requests that we sing the song. "He l.eadcth Me ") It was really a joy to meet Macile and Steve and to reminisce about some of the people I had met in the Bowning area during my first job out of college. As someone remarked, they both have very nice personalities! I 80-year tradition of quality. Subsidy book publisher offers publishing I services for books of all types. 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