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The Sun Herald
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PRtL 5, 1997
In The Spirit
Catholics organize for immigrant rights
NEW YORK ? Catholics from around the New York City area have condemned new federal immigration rules and have formed a new organization, Voices for Immigrant Justice.
?We believe it is the function of the church to protect and promote human dignity/? said the Rev. John Duffell of the Ascension Church in Morningside Heights.
The new law makes it easier to deport foreigners who are in the United States illegally.
Schoolteacher leaves $1.1 million to church
PINEY CREEK, N.C. ? Not long before she died at 89, Ruth H. Hendrix said she would leave ?a little something? to Mount Zion United Methodist Church.
That little something turned out to be stock and land valued at $1.1 million.
The retired schoolteacher was not a member of the congregation, but her parents and several of her relatives are buried in the church?s cemetery
?It?s a remarkable thing,? said Robert E. Black Jr., chairman of the church?s board of trustees.
?It was a real surprise to all of us.?
Va. Methodist cabinet has big turnover
RICHMOND, Va. ? Retirements and reassignments have opened nine positions on the bishop?s cabinet of the United Methodist Church?s Virginia Annual Conference, the largest turnover in its 213-year history.
Under the reorganization, the cabinet will include for the first time two women and two blacks.
While there have been both
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?I?ll just have to talk to the good Lord and see if he wants me to go back. I guess you just don?t know when God is finished with you.?
Jo Ann Mumme
Jo Ann Mumme?s primary task at Camp Santa Eulalia during her seven weeks in Peru: teaching crafts to the campers. Here, several proud youngsters stand with Mumme to model the hats they have made under her tutelage.
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Mission
Retired teacher spends weeks in Peru
By NAN PATTON EHRBRIGHT
THE SUN HERALD
WAVELAND ? Not everyone would call it fun ? seven weeks in a foreign country with primitive living conditions and people who mostly don?t speak your language.
?I don?t recommend it for everyone,? said Jo Ann Mumme of Waveland, a retired teacher who attends First Baptist Church in Bay St. ? Louis. ?You have to be agile and you have to be flexible.?
But Mumme, who spent seven weeks with missionaries Uless and Mary Lee Bergeron at Camp Santa Eulalia in Peru, already is talking about going back.
?The counselors want me to go back and teach them English,? Mumme said this week. ?Mary Lee and Uless want me to go back, and I would like to go back. So I?ll just have to talk to the good Lord and see if he wants me to go back. I guess you just don't know when God is finished with you.?
The Bergerons have been in predominantly Catholic Peru about seven years, working in Lima or at the camp in Santa Eulalia which, Mumme said, is about 90 minutes away ?after you run out of sidewalks and good roads.?
When they came home on a furlough last year, Mary Lee Bergeron needed volunteers to help with the camp and asked Mumme to volunteer.
?I thought, ?God doesn?t need a 60-year-old woman who can?t speak Spanish/? said Mumme. ?But the doors just opened up and it all fell into place.?
The church and its members
running water.
Before the Bergerons and Mumme departed for camp, they stopped for gas and a soft drink. The ?state-of-the-art, knock-out-gorgeous Shell station? had no refrigeration, Mumme said. Restrooms were equipped with small buckets and pitchers for hand-washing, larger buckets for flushing toilets.
Mumme paid for gas and received candy mints as change.
?No one has change,? she said. ?The post office didn?t have change to give me for mail.?
Mumme spent her weekdays helping out at camp. On weekends, and after camp was over, she saw as much of Peru as she could.
?You bring your own towels, toilet paper and soap to hotels,? she said. ?One day, in order to heat up the ?bathroom, we turned on the hair dryer.?
She visited the mountains in Caja-marca and the desert in Trujillo. She saw the Masca Lines ? pre-Inca geometric designs drawn in the desert, visible only from the air ? and the cemetery with bones, skulls, mummies, pottery and fragments of cloth dating back to the late Masca period.
She was appalled that grave robbing and selling grave items is acceptable until she learned it is the only way some people can feed their children.
But she brought back a supply of stolen artifacts.
?This is their way of making a living,? she said. ?It may not be what we consider correct, but this is what they do.?
Besides, she joked, ?What would a Mumme do without graveyard