July 13, 1961
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:00 p.m.
on Thursday, July 13, 196l, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present:' L. Howard Jenkins, Oscar L. Hite, C. Bailey Jones, Horace Ford,
James Todd, Stuart Grizzard, Emmett xRobertson, Meredith Roberson, J.
Levering Evans, Lewis Morgan, Walter Martin, Joseph Edmondson, W. Rush
Loving, P. Earle Wood, T. F. Adams, Hyland Reamy, Herman P. Thomas,
Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson, Mrs. John Tyree, Baker J. Cauthen, Eugene
Hill, Elmer West, E. L. Deane, Edna Frances Dawkins, Bill Cody, Rogers
Smith, Cornell Goerner, Fon Scofield, Franklin Fowler, L. Wright,
Mary S. Fuqua.
Walter Martin led in prayer.
On the motion of Dr. Hite the following candidates were appointed as
missionaries:
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee Bivins, Israel
Dr. and Mrs. Jimmie Harold Carpenter, The Orient-
Rev. and Mrs. Richard Lee Lusk, Macao
Dr. and Mrs. William Donald Richardson, Ghana
Miss Sue Evelyn Snider, Ghana - Special Appointee
Each candidate gave a brief testimony of his Christian experience and
call to missionary service.
Dr. Cauthen gave the charge and Dr. Greene Strother, emeritus missionary
to China and father of Mrs. Jimmie Carpenter, led the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Cauthen gave the following report of the Executive Secretary:
REPORT1 OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
With the appointment of nine missionaries today the missionary staff
now totals 1,539 serving in forty-six countries.
In making these appointments we keep in mind two basic essentials in
sustained advance. For one thing, there must be an increasing number
of missionary volunteers. We have at this point appointed seventy-four
new missionaries in 1961. Our objective for the year is
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We
probably will not reach the full number, but we should come to the
end of the year with the largest number of appointments in the history
of the Board.
We keep in rr.ind that in advance in missionary personnel the highest
standards for missionary appointment are maintained. We recognize
the very great stewardship that is involved in the appointment of any
missionary, and, therefore, the most careful procedures are followed
in arriving at these important decisions.
It, is our hope and prayer that many splendidly trained Christian
workers in strategic positions of service will throughout the months
ahead offer themselves for our Lord's service overseas and will help
to meet some of the critical needs which are pressing upon us. It
is difficult to overstate the sense of relief that comes when after
many years of waiting and praying missionary appointees are found
for some of the critical places of need which urgently call to be
filled. We are grateful at this meeting to be appointing an agricultural
couple for Israel and a doctor and his wife for Ghana. These places
of need have long been on
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hearts.
We must not take for granted that the supply of mission volunteers
will come automatically. The Lord of the harvest sends out his
laborers into the harvest. We must pray, sound the call of need, and
look to our Lord to place a sense of direction into the hearts of
many people who will take their places on mission fields.
Vie also do well to remember that in the case of some who ’fegl\j.mpressed
to go but discover that the way Is not open to them that those
impressions have been placed in their hearts not to result in
frustration and confusion, but to produce f hifhsr quality of mission¬
ary service in their ministries at the home base than ever would
