SEQUEL
This photo o f migrant missionary L eon Day and little Laura started the sequel o f events told on these pages.
Help for little Laura
Last March T h e K in g ’ s B u sin e ss ran a six-page photo story on migrant missionaries Rev. and Mrs. Leon Day (“Cotton-Picking Preacher”). There’s an interesting follow-up to that story. A San Francisco reader couldn’t forget about little five-year-old Laura. Laura, a migrant child, was receiving no medical care though dangerously ill with rheumatic fever. According to doctors the lack of proper treatment could sooner or later mean death for the youngster. Then came the letter from the San Francisco reader. We sent the letter on to Mis sionary Day. Laura was to get all the care she needed and the reader in San Francisco would pay all the bills. Meanwhile in San Fernando, Calif., Mrs. Eleanor Lively, a widow with three children, read the story
of the cotton-picking preacher. She too determined to go into action. Mrs. Lively heads a Bible club (the Phelians—a name suggested by a friendly Cath olic priest and meaning “Christians working to gether” ) and the members (mostly highschoolers) decided to adopt the Days as their special missionary project. The club visited the migrant camps and arranged for the Days to come to San Fernando twice (once the club even got Mrs. Day on TV ’s “Queen for a Day”). The pictures on these pages show a get-together the club arranged with the help of Cowboy Preacher Leonard Eilers for the Days and some migrant young sters. And with the group was little Laura. Now well on the way to a normal life, Laura even joined the others splashing in the pool.
Phelians gave Days a stack o f food and a 'Ò9 Ford. L eft is Ralph Blakeman, head o f Mission to Migrants.
T h e Phelians, headed by Mrs. L ively ( second from le ft), adopted Rev. and Mrs. Leon Day as project.
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