Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

dence. Therefore it was felt that we should send a member of the Executive Committee to view the situation in person in both fields, for the purpose of giving counsel and aid and still more to secure first hand information for the committee. Besides the two fields already mentioned there were the appeals from the German Refugee Camps, Lechfeld near Augsburg in Bavaria, and Schoenberg in Meckienburg which needed our attention; further, there THE MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 67 was the question of our codperation with the Dutch and the German Mennonite Relief Commissions in the Rus- sian undertaking. After an extended and careful con- sideration the following resolution was passed: That the Executive Committee be authorized and instructed to con- sider the advisability of sending a representative of the Mennonite Central Committee to Russia to assist in car- rying out the present plans of work and to make further arrangements for the extension of the relief operations. After adjournment of the Mennonite Central Com- mittee, the Executive Committee took the matter under further consideration and decided after careful delibera- tions to ask the Chairman Bro. P. C. Hiebert of Hills- boro, Kansas, to go across as the special representative of the Committee, and there to assist in carrying out present plans and to make such further arrangements for the enlargement of the work as might be found necessary. The final definite call was sent to Bro. Hiebert from Scottdale on Jan. 9, 1921. After having obtained leave from his school duties at Tabor College, for the second semester of the year, and also the consent of his family for him to enter into a country where things were still quite unsettled politically and where disease and danger lurked on every hand, Bro. Hiebert wrote on Jan. 15 that he would accept the call and could be ready to leave by the first of February. Permission had just been obtained from the A.R.A. to send two men, which was in keeping with the request of A. J. Miller, who had written “It will be a hard and dangerous position for one man to work alone in the Ukraine. No one should be requested or urged to go, for no man or organization on earth has a right to ask another to expose himself to death.” So it was decided that a companion be sought to go with Bro. Hiebert. After due consideration Bro. C. E. Krehbiel of Newton, 68 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Kansas was selected for this place. Bro. Krehbiel was a very desirable man, not only because he represented the second largest relief organization for and with whom our Mennonite Central Committee was functioning, but also because of his sterling Christian character and his broad experience and splendid training. Preparations for the trip and the passports delayed the departure for some days, so that the sailing date was finally set for Feb. 21. Enroute for New York a stop was made at Philadelphia to meet with the Executive Commit