Foreign Mission board
July 18, 1956
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 18, 1956 in the Chapel of the First Baptist Church, Mr.
Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, Howard L. Arthur, Mrs. Earl Brown, T. Rupert
Coleman, Solon B. Cousins, Oscar L. Hite, C. Bailey Jones, Perry Mitchell,
Emmett Y. Robertson, Herman F. Thomas, H. B. Tillman, P. Earle Wood, F.lton
Phillins, Neal W. Ellis, V. Clyde -Atkins, Baker J. Cauthen, George W. Sadler,
Eugene L. Hill, Ro ers M. Smith, Fon H. Scofield, F. L. Wrright, Bill Cody,
E. L. Deane.
Guests: Dr. Paul M. Stevens, Mrs. L. B. Bible, Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Carroll,
Mr. and Mr.-. Webster Benner, Rev.
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V. Cook, Jr. , Mr. and Mrs. L. G. McKinney.
On the motion of Dr. Hite, the following candidates were appointed as mission¬
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Miss Mat-tie Lou Bible, Brazil
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L. Glynn Breeden, Colombia
Rev. and Mrs. 0. Webster Carroll, Southern Rhodesia
R«v. and Mrs. Samuel A. DeBofrd, Southern Rhodesia
Rev-, and Mrs. W. Donaldson Frazier, Nigeria
Rev. and Mrs. James E. Hampton, Nigeria
Miss Shirley Louise Jackson, Brazil (Special Appointee)
Rev. and Mrs. L. Gene .Legg, Nigeria
Rev. and Mrs. L. G. McKinney, Jr., Hon,- Kong
Miss Faye Virginia Tunmire, Philippines
Hiss Barbara Lee Wensel, Mexico
Each missionary gave a brief testimony. Dr. Cauthen gave the charge to the
new missionaries and Dr. Paul Stevens led in the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Cauthen gave the following report:
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
The meeting of the Foreign Mission Board today is outstanding because of the
appointment of lR missionaries. This brings the total appointments for 1956
to 83. Our expectations are strong that we will be able to appoint 125 before
the end of the year.
The appointment of missionaries at our regular monthly Board meetings we hope
will become a constant feature. It is necessary for us to limit the number of
appointments at the April and October meetings roughly to 20 each. This means
that if we apooint 125 missionaries annually, the monthly meetin s of the
.Board wi '1 he blessed by many occasions of appointing the same size groups' as
we now see today.
A study of1 our expenditures also indicates that the supnort and maintenance of
missionaries is our nriority responsibility. In 1955 our largest exnenditure
for any pumose was for the support and maintenance of missionaries on fields
of work. This represented a total of more than #3,300,000. The second
largest exnenditure was for construction of churches, missionary residences,
hospitals, schools and other buildings on the mission fields. For this purpose
we spent $2,975,000. The third largest expenditure was for direct evangelism.
By this term we mean the work devoted to winning necple to Christ and organizing
them into churches. We snent nearly ••.'1,200,000 for this purpose. On educational
work, including all that was done from kindergarten through college and seminary
training we snent $893,000. On literature we spent $289,000 and on medical
work, $261,000. All of this gives great joy to us as we see how missionaries
are sent to the fields and reinforced for the work they have to do.
Advance in world missions is not limited simply to placing a larger number of
missionaries abroad and providing more buildings and equipment for them to use.
It also calls for stepping un the impact of our witness upon the world. We
live in a day of many new developments in Christian witness. Uur work in the
home land has been greatly blessed by well tested approaches in Sunday School,
Training Union, women's work, brotherhood work, radio evangelism and many other
devices. On an ever increasing scale there will be utilized throughout the
world approaches calculated to strengthen the churches and their ministries.