Foreign Mission Board Rooms
January 10, 1952
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The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:30 p.m.
on Thursday, January 10, 1952, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, J. G. Loving, W. Rush Loving, Elmer West,
Clyde V. Hickerson, Mrs. Tom Smith, Garis T. Long, Oscar L. Hite,
Emmett Y. Robertson, T. Shad Medlin, H. P. Thomas, J. Hundley Wiley,
Mrs. Paul LaRoque, E. P. Buxton, T. Rupert Coleman, M. T. Rankin,
G. W. Sadler, Everett Gill, Jr., S. E. Maddox, Frank K. Means, E. L.
Deane, L. P. Seay, Fon H. Scofield.
Dr. Long led in prayer.
On motion of Dr. Loving the following candidates were appointed as
missionaries:
Miss Vella Jane Burch, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Appointee)
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Elbert Spencer, Jr., Japan
Dr. Rankin gave the charge to the new missionaries and Dr. J. T. Williams
led in a prayer of dedication.
On motion of Dr. Hickerson the following report of the Administrative
Committee was adopted:
Recommendations :
1. That the balance of approximately $316,000 from the amount of
$901,000 received from the Executive Committee from funds over and
above the regular Convention budget, be used to appoint new mission¬
aries in 1952. Approximately $58ii,000 of the total amount of
$901,000 was anticipated in preparing the 1952 budget of the Foreign
Mission Board. If the balance of $316,000 can be used to appoint
missionaries, the goal for missionary appointees in 1952 can be
raised from 75 to 100.
2. That $3,500 be provided for the support of the assistant to the
mission treasurer, Argentina, inadvertently omitted by the Mission
from the 1952 budget requests.
3. That $3,380 be provided for additional operating funds needed in
1952 for the Colombian Mission budget due to a drop in exchange.
!|. That an increase of $10 per month per missionary above present
allowances be made for Dr. and Mrs. H. H. McMillan in the Bahama
Islands, effective January 1, 1952.
5. That the following amounts be provided for Miss Gracia Bailey,
missionary in Manaos, Equatorial Brazil, (1) for losses sustained
through fire, $500; and (2) an additional $250 for medical expenses.
6. That Rev. Lavell Seats be elected acting secretary and treasurer of
the Nigeria and Gold Coast Mission during the furlough of Dr. I. N.
Patterson. Any necessary powers of attorney are authorized.
7. That the salary of Mr. S. M. Jureidini of Beirut, Lebanon, in the
amount of $1,200 per year, and rent in the amount of $220 per year
be appropriated for 1952. These amounts were inadvertently omitted
from the 1952 budget.
8. That the following resolution be adopted:
"At a meeting of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention held at Richmond, Virginia on the 10th day of January, 1952,
it was resolved:
"That the Singapore Branch of The National City Bank of New York,
be and hereby is authorized and requested to pay all cheques purporting
to be drawn on behalf of the Malaya Mission of the Foreign Mission Board
of the Southern Baptist Convention and to debit the same to the account
in Malayan Currency kept with them by the said Malaya Mission of the
Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention whether such
account be in credit or otherwise; provided the said cheques are signed
by a person or persons duly authorized to do so by resolutions from
time to time passed by said Foreign Mission Board. That a list of
