A26-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 20, 1993
One of the Romanian families supported by the personalized “Adopt-A-Famlly”
program. North Americans provide monthly food parcels for their adopted families.
For just $69 a month, sponsors can “adopt” a Romanian family. Names and addresses
of these families are provided. More than 3,000 families In Romania have been
adopted by individuals, families, churches, Sunday School classes, sewing circles,
women’s groups, and schools.
Christian Aid Ministries
Sets Up Example Farm In Romania
And the King shall answer and
say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~Matthew 25:40.
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HINKLETOWN (Lancaster
Co.) —The people involved with
Christian Aid Ministries are mod
est. Plain people, they don’t like to
be photographed, and they don’t
brag about their accomplishments.
But the program to help fami
lies, children and farmers in Roma
nia is not modest. Tons and tons of
food, clothing, seeds, building
materials and farm equipment have
been donated, processed and
shipped to those with needs. An
orphanage has been built as an
example of how to care for the
many children that need help in this
former Communist country. And
now the Benuel Lapp family of
Lapp Valley Farm, New Holland,
has moved to Suceava to build a
dairy bam and milk processing
plant as a boost to the economy and
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New dairy bam under construction in Suceava, Romania. The Benuel Lapp family
from Lancaster County moved there to oversee the work and provide help to upgrade
their local farm economy.
as a model farm to show the people
there how to feed and care for a
good herd of cows.
By April, 100 heifers are sche
duled to be sent to the Lapps, 75 of
them having already been donated
for the project. Many local
businesses have donated equip
ment and goods.
Work in the warehouse, located
along Route 322, is done by a large
number of volunteers. Various
Christian schools send classes of
children to help with the work in
the warehouse as extracurricular
activites for the children. Funds
used for administration and fund
raising is an amazingly low five
percent.
One hundred twenty-three
40-foot sea containers of food,
medical supplies, clothing and
Christian literature were shipped in
1991 to Romania, Russia, Nicar
agua, and Haiti. Volunteers spent
more than 32,000 hours processing
the shipments. A 50-bed orphan
age was completed with materials
donated by businesses and built by
volunteer carpenters, plumbers and
electricians who travelled to
Romania at their own expense.
Fifteen trucks owned by the
association travelled 18,000 miles
every four weeks in Romania to
deliver 70 pound aid parcels to
over 3,000 families. A new ware
house in Sucevana provides con
trol of shipments and distribution
of relief supplies.
Right now if you have any good
used equipment or cash donations
earmarked for pipeline equipment
to help complete the dairy barn,
please call.
Or if you would like to know
more about the project, contact
David Laid, Christian Aid Mini
stries, 1353 Division Highway,
Ephrata, PA. 17522. Phone; (717)
354-2434.
Another contact person is Amos
Fisher, Fisher and Thompson, 15
Newport Road, Leola, PA 17540.
Phone: (717) 656-3307.
-■For I was an hungred, and ye
gave me meat: I was thirsty, and
ye gave me drink: I was a stran
ger, and ye took me in: Naked, and
ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye
visited me: I was in prision, and ye
came unto me.
-Matthew 25:35-36.
A 40-foot sea container of clothing and shoes ready for
shipment on a tractor-trailer truck to the ocean liner.
Deadline Nears
For Western Pa. Dairy
Farmers
CLEVELAND, Ohio Dairy
fanners in eastern Pennsylvania
have until Friday to vote on prop
osed amendments to the federal
milk marketing order for the east
ern Ohio-western Pennsylvania
area.
Dairy farmers who may not
have received a ballot through the
mail and who feel that they are
eligible to vote should call Marvin
Baumer, USDA referendum agent
with an office in Cleveland, Ohio,
at (216) 826-3220.
According to a news release
from Baumer, all dairy farmers
who delivered milk to pool plants
in that federal order during April
1992 are eligible to vote.
Further details of voting proce
dure include that a producer who is
not a cooperative member is to
vote by individual ballot.
Qualified cooperative associa
tions of producers will be permit
ted to cast bloc votes on behalf of
their members on all provisions of
the amended order.
If the order, as proposed to be
amended, is not approved by at
least two-thirds of those casting
ballots, the Eastern Ohio-Western
Pennsylvania federal order will be
terminated.
As proposed, the amendments
include changes of milk classifica
tion to three uniform classifica
tions for all federal orders; and to
determining the price of reconsti
tuted milk when it is made from
nonfat dry milk or concentrated
milk shipped in from an outside
area.
The classification amendment is
an effort to standardize the pricing
for a more equitable marketing
base. Currently, a few orders have
two classes of use, while some
have three, and even others differ
in the definitions of what kind of
uses apply to each class.
The reason for the reconstituted
milk amendment is to make sure
that the farmers who sold milk for
the lower class use of manufacture
To Vote
of nonfat dry milk or concentrated
milk have an opportunity to
receive some payback if a proces
sor then hauls to milk to another
order, reconstitutes the milk and
markets it for a higher class use.
In Baumer’s terms, “Concen
trated milk (milk that has had some
of the water removed) that is
shipped in bulk form from a plant
regulated under one order to a
plant(s) regulated under another
order will now be treated the same
as any other shipment of a bulk
fuild milk product between such
plants.
“If such milk product is distri
buted as a labeled reconstituted
fluid milk product by the receiving
plant, the Class I use will be passed
back to the originating order.
“Currently, if such milk is
assigned to Class I uses, the receiv
ing market imposes, on the handler
that made the reconstituted milk, a
compensatory payment for the
benefit of local producers.
“Also, if a reconstituted product
made from nonfat dary milk that
was manufactured from producer
milk under another federal order is
distributed as a labeled reconsi
tuted fluid milk product, the hand
ler may elect to make a payment to
the market where the nonfat dry
milk was made.
“Such an option does not cur
rently exist,” according to Baumer.
Notices of the referendum and
ballots have been mailed to all
known eligible voters, according
to Baumer. No voting by proxy is
permitted and each producer is
entitled to one vote, regardless of
the number of farms under control.
Partnerships, corporations, and
other business organizations
which operate dairy farms are
entitled to only one vote, regard
less of the number of partners,
shareholders, or others which
make up the organization.
The amended order was consid
ered at public hearings held in Sep
tember, October and November
1990, according to Baumer.