Foreign Mission Board Rooms
June 9t 1 9h9
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session on Thursday,
June 9, 1 9h9, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. H. Jenkins, Clyde V. Hickerson, Hill Montague, J. Levering
Evans, Emmett Y. Robertson, J. G. Loving, Garis T. Long, Rupert Coleman,
Mrs. Tom Smith, M. T. Rankin, Everett Gill, Jr., George W. Sadler, Frank
K. Means, S. E. Maddox, Fon H. Scofield, E. P. Buxton, Louis P. Seay,
Everett Deane, Mary
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Hunter, Edna Frances Dawkins, and Genevieve Greer.
Visitors: Victor Koon of Hawaii, Rev. and Mrs. Burroughs of Fountain
Memorial Church, Washington, D. C., and Miss Ransdell of Fountain Me¬
morial Church.
Mr. Robertson led in prayer.
Dr. Hickerson introduced Mr. Robertson and Mrs. Smith to the members
of the Board as two of the new members. He expressed the regrets of
Rev. Elmer West and Dr. H. P. Thomas, who were unavoidably absent.
On motion of Dr. J. G. Loving, the following candidates were appointed
as new missionaries of the Foreign Mission Board:
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Young, Hawaii
Miss Lillian Pauline Taylor, Chile
Dr. Rankin gave the charge to the new missionaries and Dr. Means led in
the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Rankin gave a brief report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist
Convention in Oklahoma City and particularly of Foreign Mission Night.
The Convention accepted the program proposed by the Executive Committee
of the Convention for Advance and also the proposal that all Cooperative
Program receipts above $6, £00,000 be given to the Foreign Mission Board.
The Foreign Mission Board's program of advance constitutes only one
part of the over-all program of advance for the Convention, instead of
spearheading the advance. Naturally, the extent to which we can advance
will only be determined now by what takes place in the future. There
will be no actual advance until 1951 by the earliest since the regula¬
tion of the Convention is that all agencies must project their programs
for a given year on the actual receipts of the preceeding year. If
Southern Baptists support this program of advance in 1950, the Foreign
Mission Board will be able to advance in 1951.
Dr. Gill gave the following report:
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY FOR LATIN AMERICA
At the April Board meeting action was taken regarding the establishing
of two first-class seminaries in Cali, Colombia, and Buenos Aires, Ar¬
gentina. Various reactions are coming in from the fields, and many
details will, have to be worked out. But in general, we are trying to
set up a graded plan of theological education in the nine Spanish-
speaking countries of Latin America where we are engaged in mission
work to include:
(1) field institutes similar to the study courses sponsored by
our Sunday School Board,
(2) Bible institutes for ministers and lay preachers of meager
educational background, with the inclusion of some general
secondary school courses,
(3) two seminaries for more advanced students.
In Colombia, the conservative government, in league with the clerics,
is doing its utmost to keep out new missionaries. Some of our new
appointees are facing similar situations to those faced during the
war. However, our government is not holding up the issuing of pass¬
ports. We are still hopeful that the situation will change. Within
