Foreign Mission Board Rooms
April 19, 19ii9
.The Foreign Mission Board met in semi-annual session on Tuesday night,
April 1?, 1 9h9, at 7:30 p.m., in the chapel of the First Baptist Church,
with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present (either at evening or morning session): State Members : J. L.
Slaughter, Ala.; M. Ray McKay, Ark.: L. D. V.hite, Ariz. ; ET P. German,
D. C.j R. Kelly White, Fla.; R. C. Gresham, Ga.; Searcy Garrison, Ga.;
Vernon B. Richardson, Md.; Earl Keating, 1!. Mexico; Ralph A. Herring,
N. C.; R. Knolan Benfield, N. C.; J. E. Rawlinson, S. C.; J. Vp« Storer,
Okla.; Rissell B. Jones, Tenn.; 0. E. Turner, Tenn.; F. C. Feezor, Texas;
C. S. McKinney, Texas;
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E. Hereford, Texas; R. P. Dovmey, Va.
Local Members : T. F. Adams, Mrs. S.
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Atkinson, R. E. Alley, T. R. Cole¬
man, S. B. Cousins, J. L. Evans,
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V. Hickerson, L. H. Jenkins, Mrs.
Paul LaRoque, Oaris T. Long, J. G. living, Rush Loving, R. C. McDanel,
Hill Montague, R. Hugh Rudd, Mrs. P. E. Wood, John C. Williams .
Staff:
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T. Rankin, G. iff. Sadler, Everett Gill, Jr., F. K. Means,
S. E. Maddox, Josef Nordenhaug, L. P. Seay, E. ?. Buxton, Everett Deane,
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Hunter, Han F. Weeks, Marjorie E. Moore, Edna Frances Davkins,
Genevieve Greer.
Visitors: Dr.
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E. Mad dry, Miss Alma Hunt, Dr. Wayne Oates, Dr. Gal Guy,
Dr. John Cay lor.
Dr. Storer gave the devotional.
Dr. Rankin gave the following report:
SOME ESSENTIALS FOR ADVANCE
Southern Baptists are standing on the threshold of great things. For
several years we have felt in our midst an undercurrent of insistence
and even demand that vre undertake greater things in behalf of world
missions than we have ever done before. Before his death, Dr. George W.
Truett had given expression to this undercurrent in these words, "It is
high time for Baptists to take a great step forward. A lassitude seems
to have settled upon many of Christ's people. Something grandly heroic
and sacrificial needs now to be done to quicken the pulsebeat of our vast
Baptist family and start our people in every land on the upward march."
At the April meeting last year, the Foreign Mission Board sounded a call
for advance by outlining a program of foreign missions based upon an
annual budget of $10, 000,000 and a total staff of 1750 missionaries.
This proposal for advance was drawn up after a thorough survey had been
made in the fall of 19b 7 by our missionaries and the national Baptist
conventions with which we are related overseas, and after the secre¬
taries had carefully studied these surveys.
In view: of the fact that such a program of advance in foreign missions
would have to be carefully integrated with the entire Cooperative Program
of the Southern Baptist Convention, this call for enlargement was pre¬
sented to the Southern Baptist Convention at its meeting in Memphis last
year, with the recommendation that it be referred to the Executive Com¬
mittee of the Convention for study and recommendation. At its next
meeting in June, the Executive Committee made this matter a main item
of consideration. The promotional Committee and the Finance Committee
of the Executive Committee were requested to hold a special meeting of
two days in September, with the executives of all southwide agencies,
to formulate recommendations to be submitted to the Southern Baptist
Convention. The recommendations from this meeting were made to the
December meeting of the Executive Committee, and the following program
was adopted for presentation to the Southern Baptist Convention at its
meeting in Oklahoma City in May of this year.
1. That the Convention adopt a goal of 310,000,000 of distributable
funds for all Convention agencies. Receipts for these agencies in 19U8
amounted to $6,200,000.
