Foreign Mission Board Rooms
December 13, l?5l
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3*30 p.m.
on Thursday, December 13, 1931, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
'Rev. Rush Loving led in prayer.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, W. Rush Loving, J. G. Loving, T. Rupert
Coleman, Clyde V. Hickerson, Mrs. Tom Smith, Mrs. Paul LaRoque, J. H.
Wiley, T. Shad Medlin, H. P. Thomas, nmmett Y. Robertson, E. P. Buxton,
Reuben E. Alley, George ... Sadler, Everett Gill, Jr., Fon H. Scofield,
S. E. Maddox, E. L. Deane.
On the motion of Dr. J.G. Losing the following candidates were appointed
as regular missionaries of the Foreign Mission Board:
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bowdler, Jr., Latin America
Miss Carol Lei-h Humphries, Nigeria
Mr. and Mrs. William Allen Poe, Nigeria
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Seright, Brazil
Dr. Sadler pave the charge to the new missionaries and Dr. Coleman led
in the prayer of dedication.
The following are the reports of the Secretaries:
Report of Secretary for the Orient
Japanese Baptists are filled with pratitude for the beautiful new
buildinp which houses the Japan Seminary at Fukuoka. It is located
on a larre pine forested tract of land at the edpe of the city. It
is near enough Seinan Gakuin that the students can take literary
courses in that institution, but by having its own camous, its
distinctive life can be developed.
A splendid faculty of Japanese and missionaries provide instruction
for forty students. Missionaries identified with the Seminary are
' axfiela Garrott, Luther Copeland and George Hayes. Other mission¬
aries give part-time. From this institution will come the leaders
for Baptist work in Japan.
Nearer Seinan Gakuin Campus is located the Woman's Training School
which has just been strengthened by the addition of an excellent
kindergarten building as a gift of North Carolina Woman's Missionary
Union in honor of Mrs. Farmer. This school equips young women for
general service in the churches with special emphasis on kindergarten.
Two days after the Seminary building was dedicated, similar services
were conducted at the new senior high school buildinp on Seinan Gakuin
Campus. This institution is actually a system of schools extending
from junior high through senior college.
The college administration building is under construction and will be
ready for use April 1. These buildings are all first class structures
of the same splendid quality found in Mallory Hall at Seinan Jo Gakuin
in Kokura.
In Japan emphasis is being placed alike on evangelism and leadership
training. Churches are rapidly increasing their strength. Many new
church buildings are under construction or being planned. Missionaries
who have entered major centers are rapidly taking up responsibilities.
A large group of missionaries will be ready to leave language study
in Tokyo and enter new centers by summer.
As this report is read, I will be on a journey with Edwin Dozier and
several other missionaries to Hokkaido, the most northern island of
Japan, to study the possibility of placing missionaries in that area.
It is the purpose of the Jaran Convention to have a nation wide
ministry. This ideal is rapidly coming into reality and by the time
our staff of 100 missionaries is complete, it will be possible to have
missionaries in strategic locations throughout the length of the entire
land.
Baptists of Korea are rejoicing in the coming of Dr. N. A. Bryan who
arrived in Pusan on December 1 by plane. We were able to spend nearly
two hours with him at the airfield in Tokyo. Rev. Rex Ray is on his way
