Page 8, the Herald, Friday, December 7, 1979 RELIGION ... Pope Jahn Paul will celebrate midnight Christmas mass at St. Peter’s Basilica and deliver a Christmas message from the main balcony of the huge basilica in the Vatican City Wednesday by a Vatican spokesman, dispelled rumors that the Polish-born pope might go to Bethlehem for Christmas. TORONTO (CP) — The Anglican Church of Canada «ROUNDUP layperson, man or woman," The Canadian Churchman says. The church's national newspaper says in an editcrial that women aren’t being elected to national and at noon Dec, 25. can't afford to ignore “the The announcement, made leadership gifts of any wees ae ati te susan cane diocesan committees, comprising “only 13 per cent SPECIAL GUESTS: Terry Anne Camburn « Jon McGlocklin formor Mas Amenca 1973 former baskelboll player tor the Milwaukee Bucks SUBJECT: "Halling Between Two Decisions” : WITH: Cliff Barrows and the Crusade Choire Geo. Beverly Shea Tedd Smiths Don Hustad Fri. 7pm. Sat. 10p.m. QCFTK-FVY (Cable ch. 6) This Christenas, Give ‘The Holy Spirit’ by Billy Graham. ihe book that's changing livast 11:00a.m. Morning Worship Service 7:30 p.m. Singing and Bible Study Wednesday 8:00 Home Bible Studies “You Are Welcome at Uplands’’ Zion Baptist Church Corner Sparks and Keith of the total committee membership and 11 per cent of the National Executive Council.” The newspaper was com- menting on a recent survey by a number of Anglican women and presented to the House of Bishops, saying “the preaching, pastoral counselling and teaching functions of the church and its seminaries should be open equally te men and women. “Jt must be recognized that ‘submission of women’ doctrines have been used to oppress and victimize women in the past.” MONTREAL (CP) — PaulEmile Cardinal Leger leaves Monday for Cam- bodia to spend a week visiting refugee camps. The former archbishop of Montreal is co-chairman, with former governor- general Roland Michener, of the Canadian Foundation for Indochinese Refugees, which works with Canadians who want to make individual donations to the refugees. Leger, 75, spent 12 years in Cameroon, in Africa, where he established centres for lepers, the handicapped and children suffering from malnutrition. HALIFAX (CP) — A Christmas card program to focus attention on the plight of political prisoners in Argentina has been started by the Halifax Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church. Colleen O’Malley, speaking for the group, said the campaign also was designed to bring pressure on the Argentine govern- ment to soften its attitude toward ils domestic critics. “It is appropriate for all concerned Canadians, not just Catholics,” to take an interest in the project, she said. MARIA AND GERRY TAYLOR Doll offered as CDC raffle prize -Gerry Taylor, with mother Maria Taylor, displays the doli and quilt that are to be the prizes in the Terrace Child Development Centre’s annual. Christmas doll raffle to take place Dec. 22. Tickets are available at 635-9300. The doll was donated by Northern Drugs and the 28 cutfits were made by the parents friends and staff of the centre. The single-bed size quilt was made by Margrete Mutschke. All proceeds from the raffle will go directly to the centre. Churches aid world’s lepers By GAIL LEM TORONTO (CP) — Leproay. Few Canadians know much about it and probably fewer care, Yet experts aay 15 million people around the world suffer from the disfiguring disease. Canadian missionaries still are among the world leaders in helping aid victims. Leprosy strikes mostly in tropical and sub-tropical . countries but it is by no means limited ta the Third World. There are 100 known cases of leprosy In Canada, most of them in Metropolitan Toronto. Although Canadian medical personnel rarely choose to specialize in treating the disease, Canadians have been ac- tively involved in the fight to eradicate it since 1892, says Rev. Douglas Graham, executive director of The Leprosy Mission Canada, The Canadian branch of The Leprosy Mission In- ternational was formed then when Wellesley C. Bailey, an Irish Presbyterian missionary, addressed a small meeting in Guelph, Ont. Bailey had estabilshed the original organization in Dublin 18 years earlier when he interested Irish friends in the plight of lepers In India. Today the inter- denominational organization, which draws its support mainly from Protestant church groups, operates more than 40 centres In Bhutan, Burma, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lesotho, Nepal and Papua New Guinea. It also gives financial help and training and supplies drugs to other organizations which treat lepers in these and 27 other countries, The Leprosy Mission - usually operates through Uplands Baptist Church Pastor Boh Lesyk "635-2807. Corner of Halliwell and N. Thomas 9:45a.m. Bible Teaching Sunday School ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE ~~. THIS SUNDAY — Pastor Paul Mohninger Home 635-5309 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00a.m. BACHED HEANT pAxIOH St Matthew's Anglican Church 4726 Lazelle Avenue 635-9019 Sunday Services 10:00.a.m. Sunday School. Adults Discussion. 11:00 a.m. - Holy Communicn for the family Minister: Reverend Lance Stephens . 635-5855 Christian Reformed Church Sparks Street and Straume Avenue — Reverend §. Yan Daalen ' Sunday School - Terrace 10:00 a.m. Sunday School. Remo 1:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Worship Service 5:00 p.m, Worship Service 3406 Eby Street 4830 Straume Avenue, Terrace 635-2312 SATURDAY EVENING ?7:30r.m. SUNDAY MASSES 9-004 m. it:15 a.m. 730 p.m, KNOX UNITED CHURCH 4907 Lazelle Avenue SALVATION ARMY 4637 Walsh Avenue SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Christian Education Hour 11:00 a.m. Family Worship Service 7:30 a.m, Evangiistic Salvation Meeting TUESDAY NIGHT 7:30 p.m, Bible Study and Prayer Meeting WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m, Ladies Home League Fellowship SATURDAY 7:30p.m. Youth Group Christian Counselling Emergency Welfare Spiritual Resources 635-5446 or 635-2626 635-3015 — 635-3657 Sie A class for all ages House of Praise , Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Cs. Education & Instruction. Thurs. 7-8: 30 Welcomes You To Worship CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH Corner Sparks Street and Park Avenue Minister Reverend Dave Martyn 635-6014 Worship Service #1:00 a.m. CHURCH OF GOD 3341 River Drive Terrace, B.C. 638-1561 Reverend R.L. White Sunday School 10:00 a.m Reverend R.L. White Morning Worship 11:00 a.m, Evening Worship 7:30 p.m, Prayer Service Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Worship Service - 11 a.m. Church School 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, Confirmation Youth and Adult Classes Hoty Communion first Sunday each month Rey. Herman Hagen B.A. M.Div.0. 635-3485 organizations such a3 the Christian Medical Society of Zambia in countries where has no centres of its own, says Graham, a. Baptist minister who joined the mission in Scotland 2t years ago and has directed its; Canadian branch for the last decade. He says giving financial. and other asslatance through: Christian organizations is one way of ensuring that the aid reaches the people it is intended to help. There are some non- secular groups which do leprosy work but there are practically no non-Christian oups. oThia may have something to do with the fatalism of some non-Christian religions, Graham says, which lead people to simply accept their illnesses and hope for a better lot in the next life, The mission treats all who have the hee alike regardless of religion. ett will always be a fact of history that it was Chriatian missionaries who pioneered eare and treatment of leprosy sufferers.” Attending religious ser- vices offered at mission centres is optional for patients, but Graham says many do convert to Chris- tlanity. He says they have become accustomed to ostracism: and are ‘tremendously impressed with the dedication of the Christian staff’ who are not afraid to touch them, Paramedical workers em- ployed by the mission are often former leprosy: patients who have been cured by regular treatments of an inexpensive drug called Dapsone, which has been | ‘used since the late 1940s. "It's a lonely task from every point of view," _Graham says, because paramedics are often the- only Christians in the com- - munity and are feared by the villagers, who think they” represent a threat to both health and religion. Leprosy ns caused by in- fection with a small, rod-' shaped germ first identified It is not hereditary and Is only mildly, infectious, but medical personnel are still baffled by how it spreads, The leprosy Mission estimates that only three taillion of leprosy sufferers are receiving treatment — and the treatment in many ! cases is inadequate. Graham says it is difficult to convince many leprosy sufferers to come for regular treatments because it. 150 kilometres over moun- losing pay. The mission says one-third of leprosy sufferers are children and it estimates that another one miilion people will contract the disease during the next five years. Yet the days of the leper ‘colony are past, Graham says, although some older leprosy sufferers who are serjously crippled and have been ostracized-for moet of their ilves will always need a mercy home. He says miasion membera . — which include several Canadians, such as Trudy nurse at Naini Leprosy Dr, and Mrs, Bill Norrie assignment in Nepal; and Joan Nolting from Stratford, Ont., seconded to the Southern Asia Office by the Lutheran Church in America — “are motivated of course by the fact that Chriat touched the lepers,” : ok San! Whe Most Famous @astet in (he World: Hoe tin It's time to eall your Welvomw Wagon hostess, Lois Mohninger 635-530¢ ‘ Evelyn Anweiler 638 5571. irom Lethbridge, Alta., on « in 1972. : .Sometimes means walking ! tains on infected feet or — Baumann from Toronto, a | Hospital in Allahbad, India; | 7 ’