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Foreign Mission Board Rooms
July 22, 1964
The Foreign Mission Board mot in regular monthly session at 3:30 p.m. on
Thursday, July 22, 1954, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, W. Rush Loving, J. E. Boyles, Garis T. Long,
H. B. Tillman, L. G. Mosley, Howard L. Arthur, Neal Ellis, H. P. Thomas,
Solon B. Cousins, J. Hundley Wiley, Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson, E. P. Buxton,
Emmett Y. Robertson, Mrs. Tom Smith, Oscar L. Hite, Mrs. Kenneth Burke,
George W. Sadler, Frank K. Means, Rogers M. Smith, E. L. Wright, E. L. Deane,
Mr. Arthur led in prayer.
On the motion of Dr. Hite the following candidates were appointed as
regular missionaries of the Board:
Rev. and Mrs. William P, Carter, Jr., Chile
Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Owen, Indonesia
Dr. Sadler gave the charge to the new missionaries and Dr. Cousins led
in the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Sadler read a cablegram from Dr. Gauthen sending greetings to the
Board and stating that he was having a good trip.
Dr. Sadler gave the following report:
REPORT OF DR. SADLER
On previous occasions reference has been made to the possibility of
Southern Baptists' entering areas of Africa other than the ones in which
we now operate. With this in vi ew, during the months of May and June,
Drs. I. N. Patterson and W. L. Jester visited Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika.
Several officials, including the Governor, Sr. Andrew Cohen, with whom our
representatives had two conferences j were eager to have us undertake work
in Uganda. Concerning the Governor
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interest, Dr. Patterson writes:
"V«e never had a Government Officer to take a keener interest in the
furtherance of our work... His friendliness grew largely out of an excellent
report, which we never saw, but which must have given the main facts about
our work in Nigeria, and which the Governor of Nigeria, so we were told,
had sent to the authorities in Uganda." Despite the wishes of the Governor
and his colleagues, the Church of England officials blocked our entry into
Uganda.
In Tanganyika, a country as big as I'exas and Oklahoma combined, three
possible areas of opportunity were suggested to our representatives.
In Kenya, it was recommended that our missionaries, if we should undertake
work there, might participate in a program of rehabilitating the Kiyukus,
the tribe of which the terrible Mau-Mau Movement is a part. A spokesman
said: "We have a whole tribe of 1,300,000 people who are suffering from
a neurosis, and we shall never have peace in Kenya until it is cured."
At a later date, definite recommendations relative to expanding the
spheres of our influence in Africa will be presented to the Board.
In a recent issue of the Religious Herald, an article by Dr. J. W. Storer
highly commends the work of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Ruschlikon.
He expressed the opinion that Southern Baptists were never wiser than when
they initiated the work of that institution. His opinion is in keeping
with comments from many whose good fortune it is to visit that important
center. One of these, Dr. II. T. Wiles, of Lawton, Oklahoma, wrote on
July 19: "We were in Zurich during the annual laymen's conference, a
meeting that strangely warmed our hearts. Vie were grateful for the work
we are being able to do through the seminary at Ruschlikon."
