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" I PREFER TO GO HUNGRY” It was the first time I had seen Con stantin Djeghennakis since 1953, and I was shocked at how greatly he had aged. Now, on my third missionary journey to Greece, this faithful missionary poured out his heart to me. For many years he has gone from village to village preach ing the Gospel and giving out Christian literature. My heart nearly broke as he told me that many nights he goes to bed hungry so that he may have enough money to go to the next town. "I never wanted to mention my finan cial difficulties, brother Zodhiates,” he said, "because I did not want you to think I was begging. I have been living under extreme privation in order to visit as many places as possible with the Gos pel. When it comes to lodgings, I choose the cheapest, and I must also pay my transportation out of the $50 monthly allowance that I receive from your Mis sion. The only savings I can make are at the restaurant. In spite of this, I am forced to leave towns and villages where there is still fertile ground for sowing the Gospel seed. I have never mentioned this to anyone before except God. "Last year as I was laboring for the Lord in a town, I slipped in the snow and dislocated my wrist. I could not af ford a doctor, and someone who did not know anything about it tried to fix it, but it is still dislocated and painful. "Sometimes I meet people who lack even their daily bread. I just cannot tolerate such conditions and prefer to go hungry myself and help others out of my necessity. However, I praise God for the privilege of suffering for Him.” Such a spirit of sacrifice shames us. How often have we gone hungry for the sake of the Gospel? This Christmas shall we not share our comparative abundance with those who are struggling against poverty and persecution to bring the Gos pel to the villages of Greece? We invite you to adopt this or another missionary in Greece by contributing regularly to ward his ministry—even $5 or $10 a month will go a long way. Each month you will be receiving thrilling reports and thus you will be a real missionary by proxy. Even one dollar will bring 22 lbs. of U.S. Surplus food to this or any of our other missionaries. Send your gifts to the American Mission to Greeks, Inc., Rev. Spiros Zodhiates, General Sec retary, P.O. Box 423, Dept. K, New York 36, N.Y. (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ontario.) Mr. Zodhiates’ diary of his third missionary journey will be sent free on request.
Unhappy Molokan
Sirs: It is my unpleasant duty to call your attention to some very serious misstatements about our denomina tion appearing in your October issue [“Molokans from the Flats” ]. These statements by their animosity have c a u s e d deep-felt indignation and resentment among our people. The author shows that he was ignorant not only of the most rudi mentary knowledge of Molokans and/ or their religion but also of socio logical conditions in Los Angeles. In East Los Angeles there is no “five mile circle of slums.” What slums there were have been cleared about 10 years ago and replaced by modem housing projects that are occupied by Mexicans, Negroes and other low- income groups b u t n o t by one Molokan. In the area formerly known as the Flats only about a dozen Molokan families now remain, the rest being widely scattered in some of t h e b e t t e r hou s e s of East Los Angeles, Alhambra, Monterey Park, etc. As for the churches in which they worship, two are old and of framed construction but not “dirty, ram- shackled, unswept.” One is a modem youth center costing approximately $75,000. One is a modem stucco building 23 years old and two are modem stucco structures five years old. These last four are newer by far and better kept up than Jack Green’s headquarters. This attempt at showing the Molo kans in a bad light is bolstered by a semi-truthfully c a p t i o n e d picture appearing on your cover. This picture captioned “Russian Molokan” . . . shows one of the poorer Molokan farmers living not in prosperous Los Angeles b u t in a m u c h p o o r e r community in Mexico. Showing this p i c t u r e as a typical Los Angeles Molokan would be as truthful as for some Russian newspaper to publish as a typical American Baptist a picture of some poor sharecropper sitting in front of his shack in some of our Southern states. We realize that one of the attri butes of Christian charity is forbear ance but there is a limit even to that. When by inference our preachers are accused of inciting to murder and arson, when our youth are falsely accused of being religious dupes and of wildly running around yelling for blood, are we to forbear? Los Angeles, John K. Berokoff, Secretary Calif. Molokan Advisory Council
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