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ever the women’s work is named) is dead, ineffective, and it hasn’t grown in years and years.” That’s followed by, “What can we do?” Frankly, I don’t know, but the thought occurs to me to ask you. You, my readers, represent churches all over the United States and many foreign countries. So let me ask you about your women’s work. I’ve tried to narrow it down to six questions, and while I know you are busy wives, homemakers and mothers, think what it would mean if we could take a survey and come up with some practical answers to this se rious problem! If your women’s work is like ours, it is sadly in need of revising or revamp ing, but maybe yours is really reaching the needs of your women, reaching your neighbors’ needs and it’s reaching out around the world. If so, tell us about it. Send in your answers to me, Joyce Landorf, in care of this magazine, and we will prepare a report from our find ings. 1. What are the goals of your wom en’s work? 2. How successful are you in reach ing these goals? 3. What denomination are you and what help (literature or spoken word) do you get from your denominational headquarters? 4. If you were president of your women’s work, what would you change? What would you continue? 5. What does your present women’s work do in the area of reaching: (a) women members; (b) women’s neigh bors; (c) women in foreign countries? 6. Have you tried (or ever heard about) some ideas that are reaching the needs? Would you share them in your own words? Tired of potatoes, rice or macaroni? Try barley!
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His-Name on TV, but a predictor, nev ertheless. For instance, I predicted three times this past year that Laurie would catch her death of pneumonia if she didn’t wear those slippers in the morning and, sure enough, three times she caught the worst cold (once it did go into pneumonia). Even when I was a child I predicted things. I remember one beautiful sum mer day in Owen Sound, Ontario, when I said to my mother, “ If God can put blue sky and green grass together and have it so beautiful, why can’t I have a blue dress trimmed in green?” She answered with the traditional saying, “ Because blue and green don’t go to gether” and I said prophetically, “ Some day they will put blue and green togeth er and it will really sell!” I had basic ally the same conversation concerning pink and orange and I’ve lived to see both predictions come true. The saddest prediction I ever made was uttered when I was about ten years old. I had the tail end of a cold and my mother didn’t want me to go to school but she had to be at the ladies’ mission ary society meeting, so she bundled me up and then proceeded to torture me by making me sit through two boring hours of the ladies’ monthly meeting. I muttered about it all the way home and finally, putting all my disgust into one remark, stated flatly, “ The ladies’ missionary society is dead and I won der when they are going to bury it.” My mother didn’t take too kindly to those words, but she chalked it up partly to my cold and partly to my weird (creative!) way of looking at things. This past year I’ve seen my 20-year- old prediction come true. Over and over I’ve visited churches and heard, “ Joyce, our ladies’ missionary society (or what
This is probably the way the biblical housewife cooked her barley. Place the butter and the barley in a very heavy pot or skillet and heat, stirring, over the flame until it browns a little and gives off a fragrant, nutty flavor. Add the bouillon or consomme very slowly, then the onions. Cover tightly and sim mer until the barley has absorbed all the liquid and is tender—about an hour. Stir occasionally to prevent sticking; you may need more liquid. Add the washed and sliced mushrooms which have been sauted in a little butter and toss lightly. This is a fine dish to serve instead of potatoes. Mary or Martha probably hoarded bits of leftover meat until she had a cupful or two and stirred these into the barley, thus making a main dish of it. THE BIBLE COOKBOOK by Marian Maeve O’Brien Xvxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works quitx wxll xxcxpt for onx of thx kxs. . . . It is trux thxrx arx forty-six kxs that function wxll xnough, but just onx kxy not working makxs thx diffxrxncx. Somxtimxs it sxxms to mx that our group is somxwhat likx my typxwritxr. You may say to yoursxlf, Wxll, I am only onx pxrson. It won’t makx much diffxrxnxcx.” But, you sxx, thx group to bx xffxctivx nxxds thx acticx par ticipation of xvxry pxrson. So thx nxxt timx you think you arx only onx pxrson and that your xffort is not nxxdxd, rxmxmbxr my typx writxr and say to yoursxlf, “ I am a kxy pxrson and nxxdxd vxry much!”
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