Adriel School at West Liberty, Ohio
In 1957 the Adriel School, a residential institution for slow-learning teenage boys and girls, replaced the Mennonite Orphanage. The school is licensed by the Department of Public Welfare of the •state of Ohio.
is issued quarterly and for the past decade has kept local units informed and alerted about the activities and goals of Mennonite Youth Fellowship. In 1966 James Helmuth was appointed as the conference youth worker with the responsibility of visiting congregations and to work with the local MYF's in their programs of spiritual life, witness, and service.
Scores of young people enter the Voluntary Service projects of the church. These projects may take them ta a hospital in Puerto Rico, to a hostel in Japan, or to an agricultural unit in Nigeria. Others serve in city hospitals in Cleveland and other urban centers. A number work with handicapped children in the Adriel School (for retarded children) at West Liberty. This school is the successor to the Mennonite orphanage or children's home. Since 1957 it has served higher grade mentally retarded children and is operated under the Mennonite General Mission Board.
Some of the young men who elect the alternative to military service, called I-W service, work in hospitals as orderlies or as occupational therapists in mental hospitals. Orientation programs are sponsored by the conference to prepare the young men for this undertaking.
