—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 7,1979
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By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
NEW WINDSOR, Md. -
“Programs of compassion”
they call them. And to some
of die millions of homeless,
injured and needy around
the world, the outreach that
begins at a small campus
here has literally meant life
Itself.
The Brethren Service
Center at New Windsor sits
atop a knoll at the edge of the
quiet town, overlooking the
neb soils and well-tended
farms of Carroll County.
Through the efforts of a
dedicated staff of 125, and
devoted volunteers who
come to help for a day or a
year, aid pours out from the
interdenominational efforts
of Church World Service
(CWS).
Founded in 1848 as a
Catholic College, the Cen
ter’s history includes a
penod as a men’s prep
school, a Presbyterian co-ed
college and later use as a
Brethren liberal arts
facility.
In 1944, a far-sighted
layman envisioned the
potential of the campus and
the property was purchased
for $34,400. As the needs
have grown, so have the
compassionate programs of
the Service Center, based on
the philosophy of the major
peace churches, the
Brethrens, Mennonites and
Quakers.
As a headquarters for
Church World Service
programs, the outreach
deals with emergency
disaster aid, health
assistance and long-term
self-improvement technolo
gy, much of it in the area of
basic agriculture.
One major thrust is
through the “heifer
project,” established as an
alternative to sending
powdered milk to hungry
families. Recipients of a gift
heifer must, in turn, pass on
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Outreach means life itself to millions
the animal’s first female
offspring to another needy
family.
“We’ve had 10,000 sea
going cowboys through this
effort,” proudly relates
guide Blanche Geesaman, a
current resident-volunteer
whose home is in Lebanon
County, Pa.
National headquarters for
the heifer program was
housed at New Windsor for a
period of time. A regional
branch of the present
headquarters at Little Rock,
Ark., will be established
here soon to help coordinate
this farmer-to-farmer
sharing. In addition to the
meat and milk heifers sent,
shipments of other basic
farm breeding stock include
sheep, swine and rabbits.
CROP, (the Christian
Rural “Overseas Program),
is another agriculture
program. With funds and
commodities raised by in
dividuals and church groups
in nationwide drives, CROP
provides cash gifts for seeds,
tools, tractors, wells and
windmills to subsistence
farmers.
Even ladybugs have been
sent as a tool of self-help to
some tropical countries.
They’re used in areas where
aphids, a ladybug’s favorite
food, destroy the date palm
trees, a major source of
some food staples.
Through the phenomenal
growth of medical
assistance needs, a huge new
packing warehouse has been
built to house drug and food
stocks. Established in 1961,
the Inter-Church Medical
Assistance (IMA) lupsUes
tons of drugs, health sup
plies, contraceptives, dental
needs, physical therapy
equipment and hospital
beds, some donated by
private manufacturers or
government programs and
others purchased at reduced
cost.
Shipments depart
Mary Little, a secretary of CROP (Christian volunteer for an easily-constructed infant wrap.
Rural Overseas Program) displays a “Remsen Hundreds of these warm scrap-yarn creations
baby blanket" a pattern especially designed by a have been sent to families worldwide.
frequently by tractor-trailer
from the Center to deep
water harbors at Baltimore
and New York, or to New
Orleans for South American
destinations. Workers at
in large metal barrels, with
the tops welded shut, both to
deter theft of the contents of
the vital shipments and so
that female missionaries can
roll the heavy containers
New Windsor pack the cargo into their jeeps.
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