[Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical

[Ann Shafer]

And I so enjoyed working with everyone in Fifth City but most especially
Velma Brocks who is my daughter, Catherine's, godmother. Velma could say so
much without saying anything. She and I handled the Fifth City payroll for
awhile. Plus David and I had a wonderful time on the Fifth City to the World
trip to the Bahamas so beautifully enabled and spiritized by Alice and Jim
Baumbach. Remember Peggy who led the singing on our bus all the way there
and back? I know the Fifth Citizens were not O:E but they were our
colleagues and mentors. Ann Stewart Shafer

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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical

Phylis Christmas

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:
> Dear Ones,
>
> Our common memory is such a gift.  Each of us can let go of some of 
> our worry about loosing our own.  Thanks for sharing your memories with
me.
>
> Love,
>
> Nancy
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM, E B <marosel2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Who can forget Dawn Lingo and Lynette Shanklin?
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Mary Laura Jones <mljones2022 at gmail.com>
>> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Being Black in the Order Ecumenical
>>
>> I learned so much from Lois Reeves and Emma Melton in the Cleveland 
>> Region. I am so grateful for their presence in our lives. Many things 
>> they said still make me smile. Their wisdom and leadership were very 
>> important in the ICA's work.
>>
>> Mary Laura Jones
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, McCabe, Diann A <dm14 at txstate.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Sharon Turner stands out for me. Vincent Scott and Mary. And deep 
>> colleague in Mississippi, the late Ruth Wilson.
>>
>> Diann McCabe
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/1/12 8:17 AM, "Nancy Lanphear" <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Randy,
>>
>> I, too would appreciate hearing some of the stories about what it was 
>> like to be black in the Order.  I remember Phoebe Reynolds, Christine 
>> Harris, and some of the children  .... Tad and Todd Mueller, Eric 
>> Shropshire, Adam and Kaira Lingo, Emanuel Ward, Kevin Woodward   ... 
>> I am sorry , who are the others who have slipped through my memory 
>> ...?  Thank you Joyce and Randy
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:55 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Joyce,
>>
>> Your brief comment, in remembering Robert Shropshire, about what it 
>> was like to be black and to have been in the O:E has me wanting to 
>> hear more about what that experience was like, and trying to recall 
>> our black Order colleagues prior to our being dispersed around the 
>> globe, embracing cultures of color everywhere.
>>
>> In addition to you, Carlos and Shropshire, I remember Larry Ward, 
>> Nadine Ward, Harold Williams and Richard whose last name was, I think,
Epson.
>> Other faces are pictured in my mind's eye whose names I cannot 
>> recall.  Who were they?
>>
>> My interest is peaked by the fact that the white majority, in the U.S 
>> at least, is shrinking and will likely soon no longer exist, combined 
>> with the fact that there is a glimmer of indication that cultural 
>> diversity of all kinds is coming to be not only tolerated but 
>> embraced by more and more people.
>>
>> On behalf of the future, with an eye toward how all people may live 
>> together in peace on this flat, increasingly diverse and crowded 
>> planet, I would love to hear more of your reflections, as well as 
>> those of others, on what it was like then to be black and in the O:E 
>> and what, with
>> 50 years of experience behind us, we all have learned.
>>
>> A conversation like this could be a fitting tribute to Robert, 
>> Nadine, Harold and others now departed who have impacted our 
>> community and consciousness over the years.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in 
>> the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it
desires."
>> -Martin Buber (adapted)
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