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Foreign Mission Board Rooms
February 12, 1953
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:30 p.m.
on Thursday, February 12, 1953, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, ll-. C. McDanel, H. r . Thomas, Perry F.
Mitchell,
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Rush Loving, T. Rupert Coleman, Mrs. Paul LaRoque, Emmett
'Y. Robertson, Mrs. Tom Smith, Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson, T. Shad Medlin,
M. T. Rankin, George W. Sadler, bverett Gill, Jr., Baker James Cauthen,
Frank K. Means, E. L. Deane, L. P. Seay.
Visitors: Dr. J. b. Loving, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson
Dr. J. 0. Loving led in prayer.
On the motion of Dr. Thomas the minutes of the January Board meeting
were amended as follows:
figures for the January meeting were prepared uncer pressure before
all accounts were closed and definitely settled for December. Since
the January meeting, slight errors have been located which affect
the statement of Receipts and Disbursements for Recember 1952.
The Treasurer requests a change in the January minutes so that the
balance at December 31, 1952, will be shown as §810,521* «DO rather
than §810, 661*. 00. This net adjustment of §11*0.00 is accounted for
by reducing the figure reported as Receipts by §116.00 and increasing
the Disbursements figure by §21*. 00. corrected statement is as
follows :
Recorded
in
Minutes
Correct
Figures
Balance in Banks, Dec. 1, 1952
Receipts in December
§ 81*6,329.00
718,693.00
§1,565,022.00
§ 81*6,329.00
716,577.00
§I7^U,906 .00
Disbursements in December
71*8,761.00
§ 816,261.00
71*8,785.00
§ 8l6,12i:oo
Less:
Transfer of funds for
investment - Permanent Funds
5,597.00
5,597.00
§ 810, 661*. 00
§ 810, 521*. 00
Dr. Rankin gave the following report:
A prominent pastor who has had long connections with the Executive
Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention was speaking recently
about the exoandinp interest and support coming up from Southern Baptist
churches for foreign missions. He referred to the fact that it took
several years for people at large to catch the idea of advance and to
become awake to the pressing world need and then he added "But now
advance has taken hold and it is snowballing."
This opinion is confirmed far and wide as I travel about the country.
Literally, currents of enlargement are pushing at our boundaries. The
Cooperative Program is being expanded almost month by month. Over and
above that channel, people are constantly calling for additional
avenues or nutting sunport into missions abroad over and abo"e what
we are now doing. This impact is being felt strongly in the Lottie
Moon Christmas Offering. We do not yet have sufficient reports to
make a definite prediction as to what the L0ttie Moon Christmas Offering
for 1952 will be but present indications are that it will show a con¬
siderable increase over last year.
This ground swell of interest and concern is registered in the constantly
increasing appeals that we receive in the Foreign Mission Board for
enlarged oromotional activity. We are having more requests for information
and for setting up oro grams of promotion than we can possibly respond to.
1 have returned from a recent series of engagements which took me to
a school for preachers, combined with a district associational meeting
