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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NTM and Mennonite missions in South America</b>
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->To learn what missionaries do today let us follow two visits to protestant Missions in Southern America, as recorded by eyewitnesses less than two decades ago, the first leading us to an NTM mission station in Paraguay. [ Link ]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NTM mission station in Paraguay</b>
WE LEFT before dawn the next day in Riester's Land Rover, and found the missionary camp at the end of a jungle track, along which threatening notices had been posted in the hope of keeping visitors away. Nearer the centre of the camp grimed and dishevelled women squatted round a fire on which a tortoise was being cooked... In the centre of the camp we found a large wooden hut with several male Ayoreos propped against its walls... dazed with apathy and unable or unwilling to speak...
A commotion began, led by some weeping women, who had broken through to tell us that the camp's water-supply had been cut off as a punishment for some offence, and that many sick children in the camp had been without water for some days. It seemed a matter of urgency to do something to rectify this situation so we went to see the missionary, Mr Depue, whose trim compound was adjacent to the bedraggled camp area... Mr Depue and his family were at lunch when we arrived and we were shown into an anteroom... After Mr Depue had said grace the family rose from the table... and Mr Depue joined us...
He unhesitatingly confirmed that he had ordered a collective punishment he believed most effective to deal with a case in which two or three children had broken into a store... There was to be no more water until the culprits were found, and brought into his compound there to be publicly thrashed.
"Would you be administering the thrashing, Mr Depue?" I asked.
"That is my intention," he said, "although I should not be averse to supervising the necessary chastisement undertaken by another person. But I'm afraid that's unlikely."
He went on to explain... in all the many years he had spent as a missionary he had never heard of a single instance of an Indian punishing a child...
"And do you still believe that this is a better life?" I asked Mr Depue.
"Yes," he said. "I cannot describe to you in words how much better it is."
"The Ayoreos who left the camp and went to Santa Cruz," I told him, "are living on the women's earnings from prostitution."
"There would be little alternative," he said..."I am only comforted by the knowledge that a soul once truly saved can never be lost." [LM119-122]
Of course a different picture is painted in the many colorful books and leaflets published by the missionary headquarters, intended for readers back home: "Missionary descriptions of such operations are often disarmingly simple and direct... God Planted Five Seeds, by Jean Dye Johnson, a classic of its kind, is the account of a young missionary wife... Only once in 213 pages does she refer to Indians, and then in quotes, as if real Indians were to be found only in North America. Otherwise the mission is out to capture 'naked savages', or bárbaros...
Mrs Johnson noted that the householders, 'most of whom owned ranches or farms just out of town were shameless in their desire to get their hands on some Ayoreo who would become a labourer without pay'.
The use in this passage of the adjective 'shameless' is the single example of implied criticism in this book of the servitude imposed on the Indians. For years Mrs Johnson lived among 'captives' and 'labourers without pay', but the word 'slave' is never used. On a single occasion she expressed regret for the murder of an Indian.
He (Paul Fleming, founder and head of the NTM) was troubled by the fact that the second search party had killed a savage.
Mrs Johnson's concern here is likely to have been less with the death of a savage, which was a matter of frequent occurrence, than with the mission's responsibility for a soul's condemnation to everlasting hell." [LM123f] "Contact work, one learns from a study of the missionary publications, when not undertaken by the missionaries themselves is confined to native 'deacons'. These, in the style of the London Missionary Society's police of old, carry guns. At this time some 850 Ayoreos thus contacted are in NTM camps, and a very large, but unrecorded number have died. Cultural Survival, a US organization not wholly unsympathetic to missionary endeavour, admitted that inmates of an NTM camp... were held against their will. In the legal sense, therefore, they had been kidnapped." [LM127]
Missionary accounts of their activities display almost incredible insensitivity. A letter back home from the McClure family, dated March 1979 reads:
Dear Prayer Partners,
Early last year we asked you to claim 1978 as the year we contacted the Totobigosode or 'pig people'. The Following is what your prayers have effected.
It started the 28th December... [on] a site about 200 kilometres from El Faro [...] When the El Faro men were close they started shouting their names, and that they had come in peace. To this the 'pig people' shouted back, 'These men are saying that they have come in peace but what if it is a trick, because they have done this to us long ago.'
The turning point seemed to come when Cadui, one of the El Faro men, threw his rifle behind him and walked forward... However, they had to wait three days before all the women were rounded up; they were scared to death. One lady was injured when she fell from a tree. [She broke a leg in two places and was obliged to walk back to the mission on it, and subsequently died. Ed.] It was a joyous occasion when we arrived at the mission station...
The El Faro Indians and missionaries are just praising the Lord for his faithfulness in bringing all this about...
Reaching the lost for Christ,
The McClures [LM127]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>From:</b> Mission: Possible at <i>The Christian Heritage</i>,
where [LM] references N.Lewis, <i>The Missionaries</i>, New York: McGraw-Hill 1988.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->The author of that book (Norman Lewis) is a journalist.
http://freetruth.50webs.org/D4a.htm#Miss...uthAmerica
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NTM and Mennonite missions in South America</b>
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->To learn what missionaries do today let us follow two visits to protestant Missions in Southern America, as recorded by eyewitnesses less than two decades ago, the first leading us to an NTM mission station in Paraguay. [ Link ]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NTM mission station in Paraguay</b>
WE LEFT before dawn the next day in Riester's Land Rover, and found the missionary camp at the end of a jungle track, along which threatening notices had been posted in the hope of keeping visitors away. Nearer the centre of the camp grimed and dishevelled women squatted round a fire on which a tortoise was being cooked... In the centre of the camp we found a large wooden hut with several male Ayoreos propped against its walls... dazed with apathy and unable or unwilling to speak...
A commotion began, led by some weeping women, who had broken through to tell us that the camp's water-supply had been cut off as a punishment for some offence, and that many sick children in the camp had been without water for some days. It seemed a matter of urgency to do something to rectify this situation so we went to see the missionary, Mr Depue, whose trim compound was adjacent to the bedraggled camp area... Mr Depue and his family were at lunch when we arrived and we were shown into an anteroom... After Mr Depue had said grace the family rose from the table... and Mr Depue joined us...
He unhesitatingly confirmed that he had ordered a collective punishment he believed most effective to deal with a case in which two or three children had broken into a store... There was to be no more water until the culprits were found, and brought into his compound there to be publicly thrashed.
"Would you be administering the thrashing, Mr Depue?" I asked.
"That is my intention," he said, "although I should not be averse to supervising the necessary chastisement undertaken by another person. But I'm afraid that's unlikely."
He went on to explain... in all the many years he had spent as a missionary he had never heard of a single instance of an Indian punishing a child...
"And do you still believe that this is a better life?" I asked Mr Depue.
"Yes," he said. "I cannot describe to you in words how much better it is."
"The Ayoreos who left the camp and went to Santa Cruz," I told him, "are living on the women's earnings from prostitution."
"There would be little alternative," he said..."I am only comforted by the knowledge that a soul once truly saved can never be lost." [LM119-122]
Of course a different picture is painted in the many colorful books and leaflets published by the missionary headquarters, intended for readers back home: "Missionary descriptions of such operations are often disarmingly simple and direct... God Planted Five Seeds, by Jean Dye Johnson, a classic of its kind, is the account of a young missionary wife... Only once in 213 pages does she refer to Indians, and then in quotes, as if real Indians were to be found only in North America. Otherwise the mission is out to capture 'naked savages', or bárbaros...
Mrs Johnson noted that the householders, 'most of whom owned ranches or farms just out of town were shameless in their desire to get their hands on some Ayoreo who would become a labourer without pay'.
The use in this passage of the adjective 'shameless' is the single example of implied criticism in this book of the servitude imposed on the Indians. For years Mrs Johnson lived among 'captives' and 'labourers without pay', but the word 'slave' is never used. On a single occasion she expressed regret for the murder of an Indian.
He (Paul Fleming, founder and head of the NTM) was troubled by the fact that the second search party had killed a savage.
Mrs Johnson's concern here is likely to have been less with the death of a savage, which was a matter of frequent occurrence, than with the mission's responsibility for a soul's condemnation to everlasting hell." [LM123f] "Contact work, one learns from a study of the missionary publications, when not undertaken by the missionaries themselves is confined to native 'deacons'. These, in the style of the London Missionary Society's police of old, carry guns. At this time some 850 Ayoreos thus contacted are in NTM camps, and a very large, but unrecorded number have died. Cultural Survival, a US organization not wholly unsympathetic to missionary endeavour, admitted that inmates of an NTM camp... were held against their will. In the legal sense, therefore, they had been kidnapped." [LM127]
Missionary accounts of their activities display almost incredible insensitivity. A letter back home from the McClure family, dated March 1979 reads:
Dear Prayer Partners,
Early last year we asked you to claim 1978 as the year we contacted the Totobigosode or 'pig people'. The Following is what your prayers have effected.
It started the 28th December... [on] a site about 200 kilometres from El Faro [...] When the El Faro men were close they started shouting their names, and that they had come in peace. To this the 'pig people' shouted back, 'These men are saying that they have come in peace but what if it is a trick, because they have done this to us long ago.'
The turning point seemed to come when Cadui, one of the El Faro men, threw his rifle behind him and walked forward... However, they had to wait three days before all the women were rounded up; they were scared to death. One lady was injured when she fell from a tree. [She broke a leg in two places and was obliged to walk back to the mission on it, and subsequently died. Ed.] It was a joyous occasion when we arrived at the mission station...
The El Faro Indians and missionaries are just praising the Lord for his faithfulness in bringing all this about...
Reaching the lost for Christ,
The McClures [LM127]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>From:</b> Mission: Possible at <i>The Christian Heritage</i>,
where [LM] references N.Lewis, <i>The Missionaries</i>, New York: McGraw-Hill 1988.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->The author of that book (Norman Lewis) is a journalist.