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January 12, 1967
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The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session on Thursday, January 12,
1967 at 3:00 P.M. in the chapel of the Foreign Mission Board with Dr. J. Roy Clifford
presiding.
Present: State Member: C. J. Humphrey, Texas. Local Members: T. F. Adams, Wade
Bryapt, J. Roy Clifford, Curtis English, V. Allen Gaines, David S. Hammock, Mrs.
Clyde V. Hickerson, John W. Kincheloe, W. Rush Loving, J. Walter Martin, John L.
Moran, James E. Rayhorn, Hunter Riggins, D. 0. Rose, Edwin L. Shattuck, Dalton Ward.
Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, Rogers M. Smith, Frank K. Means, Cornell Goerner, J. D.
Hughey, Franklin T. Fowler, E. L. Deane, E. L. Wright, Jesse C. Fletcher, Edna Frances
Dawkins, William W. Marshall, Samuel A. DeBord, E. L. Hill, lone Gray, G. Norman
Price, Harold Basden, Floyd North, Emily Lenz.
Guests: Dr. and Mrs. James Dorriety, Jackson Way Baptist Church, Huntsville, Alabama;
Missionary Elizabeth Hale, Malaysia.
Mr. C. J. Humphrey read a Scripture passage and led in prayer.
Dr. Fletcher presented the following candidates for employment as missionary associates:
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Choy - Korea
Each candidate gave a brief testimony of his Christian experience and call to mis¬
sionary service.
On the motion of Mrs. Hickerson, Mr. and Mrs. Choy were employed as missionary asso¬
ciates .
Dr. Fletcher presented the following candidates for appointment as missionaries:
Mr. and Mrs. George Fitzhugh Livingston, Jr. - Colombia
Each candidate gave a brief testimony of his Christian experience and call to mis¬
sionary service.
On the motion of Mrs. Hickerson, Mr. and Mrs. Livingston were appointed as missionaries i
Dr. Cauthen gave the charge to the new missionaries and missionary associates and
presented certificates of appointment and employment.
Rev. David S. Hammock gave the prayer of dedication.
The business session followed the appointment service.
The minutes were approved as printed and previously mailed to members of the Board.
Dr. Cauthen gave the following report of the Executive Secretary:
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
At the close of 1966 the Foreign Mission Board received through the Cooperative
Program the sum of $1,829,531 for Advance. This represents two thirds of the money
received by the Southern Baptist Convention through the Cooperative Program above
the Convention budget adopted for 1966.
The grand total received by the Foreign Mission Board through the Cooperative
Program during 1966 was $11,829,531. This represents 49.287. of the total amount
received by the Southern Baptist Convention through the Cooperative Program for the
year. This percentage is exactly the same as that which was received in 1965.
At this point it is interesting to review the support of foreign missions through
the Cooperative Program since the Advance Program was launched in 1948.
In 1948 the Foreign Mission Board received through the Cooperative Program a grand
total of $2,107,984. This represented 35.17. of the total Southern Baptist Conven¬
tion Cooperative Program Funds.
As will be recalled the Advance in foreign missions was set before the Southern
Baptist Convention at its meeting in Memphis in May, 1948. Southern Baptists
responded to the idea of moving ahead in a larger worldwide mission endeavor. It
was recognized that an enlarging missionary enterprise would call for greatly
expanded resources.
During the following year funds through the Cooperative Program for foreign missions
increased by the sum of $196,026, giving a total for 1949 of $2,304,010 received
through the Cooperative Program. This represented 36.37. of the Southern Baptist
Cooperative Program Funds.
