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PAGE 2A —THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 2009
Jubilee ... cont’d from 1A
tionally. Now, 30 years later
Jubilee Partners will celebrate three
decades of service with a worship
ceremony, lunch and open house
on Thanksgiving Day.
Mosley will surely reflect this
Thanksgiving on those first days —
that taste of living like a refugee and
how the group decided to dedicate
itself to those who were displaced
by war, famine and other strife.
They created a refugee welcoming
station at the back of the property,
with staff and volunteers setting up
camp between the refugees and the
world beyond. It was a safe haven
for those who've seen some of the
worst the world has to offer.
Over the past three decades,
Jubilee Partners has welcomed
over 3,000 refugees from 30 coun
tries. Another 700 to 800 people
have lived on the camp to offer
help to the refugees, earning just
$15 a week, but gaining valuable
experience.
“We have, I think, the cream of
the crop of deeply committed vol
unteer's,” said Mosley.
Manal Tayar was scheduled
to return to Lebanon Tuesday
after three weeks volunteering at
Jubilee.
“I've learned how to have a rela
tionship (with the refugees) not as
an authority, but living together as
a family,” said Tayar. "We can learn
from each other.”
Amber Oda of Indiana has spent
six months at Jubilee.
“I've learned from the families
about what is done in Burma and
Thailand taking care of the animals
and the land,” said Oda on Monday.
“I've learned more from them than
they have from me teaching them
English."
As Mosley reflected Monday on
the early days of Jubilee, he recalled
his time at Koinonia Partners in
Sumter County. Koinonia is a farm
founded in 1942 by two couples,
Clarence and Florence Jordan and
Martin and Mabel England, where
residents divest themselves of per
sonal wealth and follow the teach
ings and principles of Jesus. Habitat
for Humanity was modeled after
the Koinonia Partnership Housing
project. Mosley was one of the
founders of Habitat for Humanity
and served as construction man
ager at Koinonia for several year's.
But as Koinonia grew, some looked
to expand the ministry. Mosley and
others developed a list of 16 poten
tial sites for a new Christian com
munity in north Georgia, South
Carolina or North Carolina.
“We visited each community and
as we went down the list we kept
checking them off the list for one
reason or another," said Mosley.
“The last one was Toccoa. We
decided it really wasn't quite the
right place. And so in defeat, after
two year's of this brilliant strategiz-
ing, we stopped by Carlton to see
Chip Chandler. And he said, ‘Hey,
you ought to check out this place
Comer up the street.’”
Mosley said the group met the
next week with B.W. Coile, who
led them around the Comer area.
“He brought us to this property
and we said, 'Hey, this is it! This is
what we’ve been looking for.”
Mosley said the land was beauti
ful and the group got away from
the "science” of the search.
“One man in our group said,
‘Look persimmon trees! I love
persimmon trees. They're growing
wild,”’ recalled Mosley. "One of
the women, who was a bird lover,
said, ‘Look at that great blue heron!
Oh, this place just feels right. We
all looked at each other and said,
‘Where are we going to find a place
better than this?”’
Of course, had Mosley followed
the family plan, he never would
have stood in Comer.
His father was a “Henry Ford"
type of genius, who became a
millionaire during World War' II
developing scrap metal industrial
processing equipment. Mosley got
an engineering degree and was
expected to take over his father's
business, but against his parents"
protests, he rode across Europe on
a bicycle and then traveled to the
Middle East.
“I discovered the refugees," he
said. “I knew nothing about refu
gees or really about suffering any
where in the world at that point. I
had been a teenager with a pilot's
license, encouraged to go out and
fly. We had six private planes. I
lived the life of luxury.”
But Mosley, who has written two
books — "With Our Own Eyes
and "Faith Beyond Borders,” which
is due out in the spring — said he
has found riches in an entirely dif
ferent way.
“I feel like I'm probably the
luckiest guy on the face of the
earth," said Mosley. “I don’t know
anyone in the world who enjoys
their work more than me. And it's
not just my work. This is not Don
Mosley's project. The thing is the
Gospel. When you put the Gospel
of Jesus Christ into action, and set
out to love people, your next door
neighbors and the people from the
opposite end of the world, your
enemies, along with all the rest,
that’s what Jesus said. Come to
think of it, man, what an exciting
life it leads you into.”
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GENERAL ELECTION RUN-OFF NOTICE
City of Colbert
Notice is hereby given that, in accordance
with O.C.G.A. 21 -2-501 (c), a General Election Run-off
shall be held in the City of Colbert for the Council
Person to succeed Chris Peck due to a lack of any of
the three candidates receiving a majority of the votes
cast for this seat in the November 3rd election. The
General Election Run-off will be held on December 1,
2009. The following candidates received the highest
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Comer’s Mosley works on
housing project in North Korea
By Zach Mitcham
zach@mainstreetnews.com
As one of the founders of
Habitat for Humanity, Comer’s
Don Mosley has seen his share of
ribbon cuttings.
Of course, none have been
quite like the one in North Korea
Wednesday, Nov. 11, when
the Fuller Center for Housing
and North Korea's Paektusan
Academy of Architecture met
to celebrate a planned 50-home
development and self-sustaining
community at Osan-Ri in the
Sunan District near Pyongyang.
Mosley, who will lead work
crews over in the spring to begin
the project, recalled last week’s
ceremony. After the dignitaries
put their shovels down, Mosley
wandered off into the crowd of
North Korean farmers.
“I broke away from the group
and went over to a group of 50
or 60 farmers, who lined up in
rows, proper North Korean style,
watching us,” said Mosley. "And
this is in a country where the
people of the country are forbid
den from talking with foreign
ers. There has been such a wall
between us for all these years."
Mosley said Dr. Han Park,
professor of political science at
the University of Georgia and an
advocate of improving relations
between North Korea and the
United States, walked over to
the farmers, too. Park is known
for helping negotiate the release
of U.S. journalists Euna Lee and
Laura Ling, who were held this
year as prisoners by the North
Korean government.
“Han speaks fluent Korean,”
said Mosley. “That’s his first lan
guage. And they were laughing
and joking. He’s a very funny
guy, and they all started looking
at me. And I said Han, "What are
you saying to them?"’
Park said he asked the crowd
how old they thought Mosley
was, but they told him they
couldn’t tell. But Park told them
that Mosley is 70, and they didn’t
believe it.
“Bless their hearts, they very
seldom live to be 60 or 70 and
they surely aren’t out climbing
on ladders and building houses,”
said Mosley. "By the time it was
over, they were talking about how
they were looking forward to us
having a good time. And this is
not what you would expect from
the normal stereotype.”
Mosley and Park traveled to
Pyongyang last week, along with
David Snell and LeRoy Troyer,
both of The Fuller Center for
Housing, for the groundbreaking
event.
Mosley, the director of Jubilee
Partners in Comer, said last
week’s visited culminated a
three-year effort to get a hous
ing project under way in North
Korea.
Of course, a U.S. housing proj
ect in North Korea seems like
an unlikely endeavor, considering
that the country is led by dicta
tor Kim Jong il, who has pur
sued nuclear weapons as many
of the country’s citizens struggle
to survive, with limited food and
housing — a typhoon wiped out
thousands of homes in the coun
try in 2006.
But Mosley said the housing
effort is part of a broader effort to
promote peace.
“These are people (the North
Koreans working on the hous
ing project) we’ve come to know
as individuals and friends, who
are very strong in their search
for opening up peaceful commu
nications between North Korea
and South Korea, the United
States, China, Japan and moving
away from this arms race they
have toyed with and toward a
more peaceful coexistence," said
Mosley.
David Snell, the president of
The Fuller Center, echoed that
sentiment.
“We may not change interna
tional relations by this venture,
but we will provide the opportu
nity for Koreans and Americans
to come together for good and to
get to know one another as fel
low travelers and trusted friends,”
said Snell.
Kim Sok Joon, president of
the Paektusan Academy in North
Korea, shared those feelings, too.
“By building these houses
together with our American
friends we will begin to build
trust," Joon told the Fuller Center.
“By building trust we can begin
to make peace."
Flu
cont’d from 1A
vims to H1N1 that circulated in the
1970s.
“That's why this (older age group)
is not a priority for receiving the vac
cine," he said.
And distribution of the vaccine is
“perplexing,” Burnett said, noting
that Gwinnett County public health
departments recently received 15,000
vaccines, while health departments in
the entire Northeast District, encom
passing a 10-county area including
Madison County, received only 1,700
vaccines, though population totals
for the two areas are comparable.
The Madison County Health
Department received 100 H1N1
vaccines last week officials said,
but those were gone in just over 24
hours.
“We get calls about it (H1N1 vac
cine) every day,” said health depart
ment office manager Carol Phillips.
Burnett said the H1N1 vaccine is
proving “very effective” against the
vims and pointed out that it is a more
precise vaccine, matching the H1N1
strain that is circulating in the com
munity. "That's unlike the seasonal
flu vaccine, where it’s based on a
‘best guess’ of what’ll be out there
this season,” Burnett said.
Dr. Burnett submitted a memoran
dum to all Northeast Health District
employees, urging them to “strictly
adhere” to the five CDC priority/
target groups when giving the vac
cine. These groups include: pregnant
women, anyone from six months to
64 years old who has certain chronic
medical conditions or a weakened
immune system, people who live
and/or care for infants younger than
six months, health care and emer
gency medical personnel who have
frequent direct patient contact and
anyone age six months to 24 years
of age.
Thanksgiving... cont’d from 1A
free dinners are provided for
those who are disabled, elderly,
out of work, alone.
"Tire important thing is to reach
out and connect and let them
know that we care about those
families in need," said Daniel
Costello, son of the late Carmine
Costello. "It's not just my family
that does this but about 50 vol
unteers. We feel is important to
remind those in the community
that we are giving this food to,
how much they are cared about
and how much they are drought
about. We just want to make sure
that at least once a year they have
a nice, home-cooked meal, a nice
hot plate."
The annual dinner costs about
$2,500 to $3,000 to put on.
"We do rely on the commu
nity to help support this,” said
Costello. “But it’s not just mon
etary. People donate food, donate
a turkey, donate their time, des
serts, their prayers, everything.”
Costello said they serve a tra
ditional Thanksgiving nreal, with
"nice full plates for everybody."
“Everybody gets a traditional
Thanksgiving turkey, dress
ing, spiral hanr, sweet potatoes,
stuffed mushrooms, green bean
casserole, squash casserole, des
sert and fruit,” he said. "As well
as my father's tradition — some
mixed nuts. We’re an Italian fam
ily, so the more food die mer
rier.”
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