European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes religion saturday october 22, 1994 green7 for in blooms order Ruma 111. A sister Mary Sebastian Kollman remembers a time when there were Many nuns around to tend the Garden that feeds the precious blood order. Groups of dark Clad Catholic nuns braved the sum Mer Sun to Weed Plant and sow beside their imposing Convent. But now she s one of two nuns doing the work.   v a Yas Long As i can do something 111 go out Here and work said sister Kollman who took her vows in 1929. Time has done More than reduce the sisterhood which traces its roots to a Small band of German nuns who arrived in 1876. It also has radically changed the Way the order treats the land so strongly entwined with its history. The emphasis today is on environmentally Safe manage ment of the 275 acres of Corn soybeans wheat and vegetables. That Means spreading fewer pesticides and More Nat ural fertilizer and using bugs that eat harmful insects. The change is embodied in a 10-year plan developed in 1990. A consultant helped design the project to make the Convent s produce As organically grown As possible / " -.  is the fourth year in a Row that it s been totally organically grow said physical properties director Lloyd Roscow pointing to the 3-acre Garden where Sis Ter Kollman worked. It s been very Well accepted and we be had really Good Luck with  the Back to nature strategy includes using sheep and goats instead of Lawn mowers planting crops that put nutrients Back into the ground and possibly turning one or two lakes into Catfish Ponds. The Convent which sends nuns to work As teachers nurses and social workers in Illinois Missouri new Mexico Kentucky Guatemala and Bolivia sees the new approach As part of an evolving Green ministry 0 a Rul f 4&\ " /. V after three years he decided on a recent sunday to Tell the 1,900-Rnernber congregation that he has his the human immunodeficiency virus that can Lead to aids. James 44, said worshippers came Forward after the service offering hugs and words of encouragement. He said the support he received from his wife his two adult children head pastor Charles b. Johnson and the members has been  have not heard any negative comments whatsoever he said. But he does t want their sympathy. He said he wants them to open their eyes and see the reality of his and aids. There is a heed there for us to speak omit and break the silence and let people know that this disease is affecting everybody James said i think we be reached a state of apathy right now and we need to get away from  Pep Banner rejected Marietta a. About 10 Miles from a school where a controversy is raging Over a Pep Banner with religious wording another Cobb county High school stadium displays a Church sign saying go wildcats. You re in god s  Earl Holliday principal of Wheeler High school said last week that he does t have a problem with the sign at his school. Mount Bethel United methodist Church paid the Wheeler Booster club for space for the Banner. Nobody s objected to it at this Point Holiiday said. We be got More important things to be addressing than a sign on a playing  in the other Case Cobb school officials supported Lassiter High school principal Fred Sanderson last week when he refused to allow a Banner at the school stadium from the open door Fellowship Church of god in Marietta. The officials said the Church could hang a Banner but not one with the words Jesus is  school officials said that such a Banner would appear to be a school endorsement of a religious message and that principals had the authority to review All advertisements. Moravian diary found Winston Salem . A recently discovered diary of an Early moravian settler details the hardships moravian faced in 1754 their firs year in North Carolina. Their cows kept running off bears took a liking to their pigs and snakes had a fondness for biting their flesh according to a diary that Church officials say has been lost for a couple of Hundred years. We re calling it the lost diary but i guess it was just misplaced said c Daniel Crews the archivist for the moravian archives of the Southern province. Moravian Are an evangelical Christian communion that was heavily involved in missionary work among indians and White settlers on America s frontiers during the 1700s. Crews said he recently stumbled upon the diary among the volumes of Church records stored at the archives. The 15 single Brothers arrived from moravian settlements in Pennsylvania in november 1753. Eleven remained to carve the Little Colony of be Habara now surrounded by Winston Salem from the nearly 100,000 acres that the moravian Church had bought in North Carolina