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Foreign Fission Board Rooms
December 10, 1953
The Foreign Fission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:50 p.m. on
Thursday, December 10, 1953, with r. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. .oward Jenkins, Oscar L. ite, T. Shad -odlir, Ferry itchell,
I.. C. 1 os ley, --"rs . Kenneth Burke,, Emmett
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Robertson , J. Hundley Filey, Frs.
Paul Lrhoque, E. P. Buxton, J. Boyles, ■ &ueh Loving, Reuben E, Alley,
Mrs, Clyde V. Hiokerson, Beal Ellis, George V.. Sadler, Everett Gill, Jr., Fan
. . Scofield, F. L. Beene,
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. L, Tiright, Louis F. Seay.
,r. i rank Lido, missionary to the Philippines, led in prayer.
Oh the motion of Dr. ite : : follovir. candidates
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appointed as regular
missionaries of the Board:
.,ov. and -rs . Tod . Cadger, - hilippine Is lends
F.ev. and .rs . ..alter I. ' unt, Fhili- pine Islands
_r. Sadler gave the charge to the new missionaries and Fr. osley led in the
-payer of dedication.
r. Sadler rave the follov/in • report:
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secretary
Fever, oerhaos, in the history ,.f this Board have i' s seerr-tarios beer, more
busily engaged. The others will speak for themselves. For my own part,
within
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ra Lvely brief compass, I have visited our seminaries at Fort
■ h, ••• - Orleans, and Loui lllej the First Baptist Churo r sbpr ,
:rorth Crr -.l-ina, Au.-usta, Georgia, Decatur, Georgia, -“eshville, ' er.nessee; the
Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia; the Culpeper, For op or one, and
Boh Air Churdhes in Virginia. In all o" : - • Is evidence of
sympathy and devotion. A week ago last Sunday, for example, I spoke t© + • e
me be -s of three audiences in the First Baptist Church of Lfshville. At tho
conclusion of each service an offering for Porei n issions -.
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in* As
hr. Deane's report will show, money is flowing into 6ur treasury at on
• n re ce dented rate.
' conferred with scores of students who are
offering the- selves for service in the areas for which I have special respon¬
sibility. Other score s whom I did net see dan to
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to some of the other
parts of the world in v.hich o r card operates •
Dr. Out a ' s cnM Tr a-' ystor ay declarer, f at “progress in -11 fields
gives evidence of God's leadership and -over of the Gospel.” Others of us
could make simil r statements • Such reports, as these
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to me rece:
Prom Southern Rhodesia Mrs. D vid Lockard writes, "David baptized fourteen
i . : ttie s 1e -cay. hac
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pleted a six months' stndv on Few
Testament. doctrine and each u-.seed an oral test." She con'.i.nuss to say, "ho
our first Ti.M, i. Convention in Rhodesian history,- October 23-25, and it
..as oert&ir.ly a success."
In & rccont letter Fiss Edythe B'ohtroy stated that - iss ionary ^avid Saunders
had recently baptized twelve lepers Who lived in a clan settlement near two.
■ zareth comes the folio'. '- enc ' • . "
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: -ht
i 1951 at an T-.A. camp, thirteen of the older s accept -1st. It was
unforgettable and marked the beginning of a lie zareth revival. During the
next eighteen hs over one hundred fifty students and young people became
C ristiar.s."
Thus it comes about that money contributed to the support of men and women
whom God. has called yields large returns in regenerated life and redeemed
souls. It is hardly sc« s • rej ind you that it was ''or this purpose
thi t this Board was founded. It is for this reason that it is being maintai .
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is Soar ' ' ' ' ■ ‘rica. The needs ©f that vast con-
tinent are of such tremendous proportions that only sen and women of sympathy
