Foreign Mission Board Rooms
January 11, 1951
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:30 p.m.
on Thursday, January 11, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, H. P. Thomas, E. P. Buxton, Emmett Y.
Robertson, J. G. Loving, Elmer West, T. Rupert Goleraan, Clyde V.
Hickerson, Hundley Wiley, Reuben E. Alley, Mrs. Paul LaRoque, Mrs.
T. W. Smith, Garis T. Long, M. Theron Rankin, Everett Gill, Jr.,
George W. Sadler, Fon H. Scofield, S. E. Maddox, Frank K. Means,
Louis P. Seay, Edna Frances Dawkins, Genevieve Greer, lone Gray,
E. L. Deane.
Mr. B. Johnson led in prayer.
On the motion of Dr. Loving it was voted to appoint the following
candidates as regular missionaries of the Foreign Mission Board:
Mr. and Mrs. John Curthbert Abell, Jr., Africa
Mr. and Mrs. John Nathaniel Thomas, Colombia
On the motion of Dr. Loving it was voted that Mr. and Mrs. Reiji
Hoshizaki who are serving in Japan be put on the financial basis of
special appointees of the Foreign Mission Board, including the
regular allowances.
Dr- Rankin gave the charge to the missionaries and Dr. J. B. Hipps
gave the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Rankin gave the following report:
A matter of grave concern to the Foreign Mission Board at the moment
is the arrest of Dr. William Wallace, Superintendent of the Stout
Memorial Hospital, Wuchow, China, by the Communists. He was arrested
in Wuchow on December 19, charged with being a spy. Our last report
written on January 1, indicated that he was still in custody. We
have been unable to secure direct information about him. Dr. Cauthen’s
report for January deals with this matter more fully.
An item of great encouragement is the fact that the Foreign Mission
Board received during December $6 7 5> 000.00 over and above the regular
program receipts from the Cooperative Program of the Convention.
This amount came through the arrangement of the Convention that the
Foreign Mission Board would receive all receipts in the Cooperative
Program above $6, $OQ, 000.00.
The receipt of these funds will enable the Foreign Mission Board to
set a goal of appointing 100 missionaries in 1951- We are recommend¬
ing that we set aside $275,000.00 to be used for the appointment of
missionaries.
The Administrative Committee v/ill present recommendations for
appropriations to cover the remaining $L00, 000.00 for building
purposes in Latin America, at the Seminary in Zurich, and for the
new hospital in Trans-Jordaru The receipt of this money is enabling
us to meet these needs toward which we have been planning for two
and three years.
The local members of the Board who attend ohe monthly meetings will
probably be relieved to know that the secretarial staff has arranged
to streamline our monthly reports to the Board so that they will
average not more than five minutes each. We will tiy to call
attention to items of information which you should have but this
will be done in brief points. We shall depend upon members of the
Board to ask for fuller information concerning any items about which
they may desire details. In this way we believe th.t our monthly
meetings, including the appointment of missionaries, can be kept
within an hour and a half.
Dr. Sadler gave the following report:
Encouraging reports come from a number of areas for which ] have
special responsibility. Rev. L. R. Brothers wrote sometime ago saying:
"We have just concluded some of the finest revival meetings I have ex¬
perienced in Nigeria. The tnree churches, Aipate, Olukun and Oluponna
had simultaneous meetings and together saw over two hundred professions
of faith."
