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-oreign mission hoard unites
Mav 9. 1978
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session. Tuesday, May 9, 1978,
3:00 p.m. , in the Baker James Cauthen Chapel. The President, William L. Self,
presided.
Charles Carter
PRESENT : State Members: Alabama:/ J. R. White; Arizona: Mrs. Glen E. Crocts;
California: Mrs. Cherry Y. K. Chang, Mrs. Wilma G. Eurich; Florida: Mrs. R. J.
Alexander, Mrs. James A. Ponder; Georgia: Mrs. L. G. Kicks, Jr., William L.
Self, Mrs. W. Jack Smith; Illinois : A. F. Tuck; Indiana : Ronald ?. Liesmann;
Kansas : J. W. Pace; Kentucky: Mrs. Ray Mullendore; Maryland : Ralph D. Walls;
Missouri : John W. Goodwin, Mrs. Carter Reed; New Mexico: J. D. Ratliff;
North Carolina: Ray W. Benfield, Mrs. J. E. Collette, william Henry7 Crouch;
Ohio: W. Paul ?ay7ne ; Oregon: William 0. Crews, Jr.; South Carolina: Ira Q.
Craft, Lonnie H. Shull, Jr., Alastair C. Walker; Tennessee : Trevis Otey7;
Texas : Travis S. Berry, Harold T. Branch, Morris G. Cobb; Virginia: W. Curtis
English, Lonnie E. Quillen, Jr., Mrs. R. L. Rhodes, Jr.
Local Members: V. Allen Gaines, Franklin D. Hall, Scott C. Humphrey, Bruce H.
Price, M. Hunter Riggins, Jr., Mrs. Ross S. Shearer, Mrs. E. S. Stratton,
Robert B. 3ass, J. Roy Clifford, Paul E. Crandall, Gurney W. Grant, J. Leonard
Moore, John W. Patterson, Raymond L. Spence, Jr., H. I. Willett.
Board ' s Attorney : Paul D. Stotts.
Staff- J. Bryan Brasington, Charles W. Bryan, Thurmon E. Bryant, James W.
Cecil, John R. Cheyne , Louis R. Cobbs, Robert C. Covington, Winston Crawley7,
William K. Dawson, James G. Edwards, Franklin T. Fowler, lone Gray, W. Eugene
Grubbs, George H. Kay7s , Ward S. Hildreth, Thomas W. Hill, J. D. Hughey, Harold
E. Hurst, William W. Marshall, John E. Mills, Floyd H. North, William R.
O'Brien, R. Keith Parks, Samuel M. Pittman, G. Norman Price, Don A. Reavis,
Sidney C. Reber, Harold D. Richardson, Rogers M. Smith, Robert L. Stanley,
Melvin E. Torstrick, Joseph B. Underwood, E. L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew.
The President called the meeting to order.
The audience joined in singing the Hymn: "Crown Him with Many Crowns."
Mrs. James A. Ponder, Board member from Florida, read a passage of Scripture
and led in prayer.
Guests were recognized and given a warm welcome. These included Dr. Thompson
Brown, director. Division of International Mission, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Board members who will rotate off membership of the Board at the meeting of
the Southern 3aptist Convention in June, were recognized: Paul Payne, Ohio;
J. D. Ratliff, New Mexico; Harvey Albright, Oklahoma (absent); Paul Crandall,
local Board member.
Minutes of the Board for April 12, 1978 were approved.
The President recognized Rogers M. Smith, administrative associate to the
Executive Director. In the absence of Dr. Cauthen, Dr. Smith brought a brief
report, as follows :
Reoort of Administrative Associate
The organizational meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was held May
6 - 12 , 1845, Baptist Church - August, Georgia. A total of 236 "Delegates"
registered from:
165 - Churches
9 - Associations
1 - Ministerial conference - District of Columbia
1 - Board of the state convention of Alabama
1 - Executive committee of the state convention of Georgia
1 - Executive committee of the Georgia Association
1 - Pennfield Young Men's Missionary Society - Georgia
Mercer University
Furman University
