FOREIGN MISSION BOARD MINUTES
June 29, 30 and July 1, 1976
Ridgecrest, North Carolina
The Foreign Mission Board held its Conventionwide meeting, June 29, 30 and July 1, 1976,
at the Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center, Ridgecrest, North Carolina, with the Board's
first vice-president, J. Roy Clifford, presiding.
State Members: Alabama : L. Earl Tew, J. R. White; Arkansas : James F. Sawyer; California
Mrs. Cherry Y. K. Chang; Colorado : Glen E. Braswell; District of Columbia: B. Ross
Morrison; Florida: Mrs. R. J. Alexander, Andrew M. Hall; Georgia: Mrs. L. G. Hicks,
Jr., William L. Self, Mrs. W. Jack Smith, Ohlen R. Wilson; Illinois : A. F. Tuck; Indiana:
Ronald P. Liesmann; Kansas: J. W. Pace; Kentucky: Rollin S. Burhans, Mrs. Ray Mullendore
Louisiana: John G. Alley, Miss Myra Gulledge; Maryland: Ralph D. Walls; Michigan:
Mrs. Fern Dannelley; Mississippi: Joe Neil McKeever, James Richardson; Missouri :
Homer D. Carter; New Mexico: J. D. Ratliff; North Carolina: Mrs. J. E. Collette, Grady
Baxter Wilson, Mrs. Thomas C. Womble; Ohio : W. Paul Payne; Oklahoma: Harvey Albright,
William Neptune; South Carolina: Ira Q. Craft, Lonnie H. Shull, Jr.; Tennessee : Jonas
L. Stewart, C. Clifton Ward; Texas : Harold T. Branch, Morris G. Cobb, Lory Hildreth,
Joe E. Trull, E. H. Westmoreland; Virginia : W. Curtis English, Lonnie E. Quillen, Jr.
Local Members: V. Allen Gaines, Franklin D. Hall, Scott C. Humphrey, Neal T. Jones, M.
Hunter Riggins, Jr., Mrs. E. S. Stratton, Robert B. Bass, J. Roy Clifford, Paul E.
Crandall, John W. Patterson, Raymond L. Spence, Jr., H. I. Willett.
Board Attorney: Paul D. Stotts.
Staff : Baker J. Cauthen, J. Bryan Brasington, Charles W. Bryan, Louis R. Cobbs, Robert
Covington, J. Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, Everett L.
Deane, Franklin T. Fowler, Cornell Goerner, lone Gray, Ward S. Hildreth, Dwight A.
Honeycutt, J. D. Hughey, Stanley A. Nelson, Floyd H. North, R. Keith Parks, Samuel M.
Pittman, G. Norman Price, Don A. Reavis, Sidney C. Reber, Davis L. Saunders, Fon H.
Scofield, Rogers M. Smith, Truman S. Smith, W. L. Smith, Richard M. Styles, Wilbur Todd,
Melvin E. Torstrick, Joseph B. Underwood, William R. Wakefield, E. L. Wright, Elizabeth
Minshew.
Monday, June 28, 1976
On Monday, June 28, Special Committees of the Foreign Mission Board met as follows:
2:00 P.M. - COMMITTEE on RELIEF & DISASTER RESPONSE - Rm.
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- Dining Hall Building
J. R. White, Chrm. Ira Craft H. I. Willett
Travis Berry John G. Alley Hunter Riggins, Ex Of
Neal Jones Mrs. E. S. Stratton James Harris, Ex Of
2:00-3:00 P.M. - COMMITTEE on NEW BOARD MEMBER ORIENTATION - Rm. C - Dining Hall Bldg.
Andrew Hall, Chrm. B. Ross Morrison Lonnie Shull
John G. Alley Ohlen Wilson James Harris, Ex Of
2:00-3:00 P.M. - SUB-COMMITTEE on TREASURY DEPARTMENT - Rm. D - Dining Hall Bldg.
Ralph Walls, Chrm. James Richardson
Curtis English H. I. Willett William 0. Crews
3:00-6:00 P.M. - COORDINATING COMMITTEE for ADVANCE STUDY - Rm. E - Dining Hall Bldg.
James Harris - Bd. Pres.
J. Roy Clifford - 1st. V-P
J. R. White - 2nd. V-P
Mrs. E. S. Stratton
William L. Self
J. D. Ratliff
Ralph Walls
Scott Humphrey
Allen Gaines
Travis Berry
6:00 P.M. - DINNER - Ridgecrest Dining Hall
Mrs. Ray Mullendore
Robert Bass
J. W. Patterson
Neal Jones
Hunter Riggins
Tuesday, June 29, 1976
On Tuesday, June 29, Special Committees of the Foreign Mission Board met as follows:
8:00-9:00 A.M. - COMMITTEE to STUDY PROCESS OF SELECTING AREA SECRETARIES - Rm. B. -
Dining Hall
Mrs. Ray Mullendore Bldg.
Mrs. E. S. Stratton
J. R. White
Allen Gaines
Travis Berry
William L. Self
James G. Harris
J. D. Ratliff
Ralph Walls
Scott Humphrey
