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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD MINUTES
November 6, 1973
The Foreign Mission Board held its regular monthly meeting at 3:00 p.m. , November
6, 1973, in the Foreign Mission Board Chapel, Richmond, Virginia, with the
President, W. Douglas Hudgins, presiding.
PRESENT (Committee Meetings and/or Board Meeting): Alabama: J. R. White; Kentucky:
Mrs. Ray Mullendore; Mississippi : W. Douglas Hudgins; North Carolina: Mrs. Carl
E. Bates.
Local Members: Robert B. Bass, Mrs. R. B. Carter, Sr., J. Roy Clifford, Paul E.
Crandall, Austin W. Farley, Joseph B. Flowers, Scott C. Humphrey, John W. Patterson,
Julian H. Pentecost, Bruce H. Price, M. Hunter Riggins, Jr., Meredith K. Roberson,
Mrs. Ross S. Shearer, Mrs. E. S. Stratton, Mrs. Thomas Whalen, H. I. Willett.
Board's Attorney: John C. Williams. Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, Charles Bryan, Louis
R. Cobbs, Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, E. L. Deane,
Samuel A. DeBord, James G. Edwards, Jesse Fletcher, Franklin Fowler, lone Gray,
Ward Hildreth, Eugene L. Hill, Dwight Honeycutt, J. D. Hughey, Frank K. Means, Stanley
Nelson, Sam Pittman, Norman Price, Sidney C. Reber , Fon H. Scofield, Rogers M. Smith,
W. L. Smith, Richard M. Styles, Wilbur Todd, Melvin Torstrick, J. B. Underwood, E.
L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew.
Radio-TV Commission Representative (working in liaison with Foreign Mission Board
in Richmond): Fred Laughon.
The meeting was called to order.
J. R. White, Board member from Alabama, read a passage of Scripture and led in an
opening prayer.
Board Minutes for October 10, 1973 (Annual Meeting of the Board) were approved.
The Executive Secretary was recognized.
Appreciation was expressed for the members of the Board who were present.
In view of the necessity to leave Richmond for an overseas tour of mission work,
Charles Bryan, secretary for Middle America & the Caribbean, brought a report as the
Area Secretary assigned to bring a report in November.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY FOR MIDDLE AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
"The year 1962 was one of the most significant years in the history of Guyana ... .signi¬
ficant, because the country was in a state of political unrest which resulted in factional
clashes and racial strife between the two major ethnic groups, East Indian and African,"
so stated Mr. Gordon Ogle in a "History of Baptist Work in Guyana," prepared for the
In-Depth Survey Study. Mr. Ogle goes on to pay special tribute to the missionary who
started the work' in Guyana.
It was in the height of this that the Otis Brady family arrived in Georgetown
and took up residence in a large wooden three-story building....
It was evident that the Holy Spirit's call to the Bradys "Come over into
Macedonia and help us" was heeded and timely....
It is not (my) intention to magnify any one human personality, but mention must
be made of this great pioneer missionary whose untiring and unselfish effort
bound together in his personality ... .everything to be admired. It was evident
that this man was totally committed to the work which he started from scratch.
It was also plain to all that he adapted easily and became oriented to condi¬
tions in an undeveloped country, as it was at that time, and made the sacrifice
of leaving the "good things" he was accustomed to in a vast and more developed
nation of the U.S.A. He cameto devote his life to winning Guyanese to the
Kingdom."
What has happened in Guyana since the Otis Bradys' arrival in 1962? You will receive a
full report of an In-Depth Study of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana which was made by
Dr. William W. Graves, Field Representative for the Caribbean Area, Dr. Alan P. Neely
of the Colombia _ Baptist Mission, and a committee of the Guyana Mission. The study
focuses on:
I. The Guyana Scene
II. The Baptist Work
III. Mission Philosophy and Methods
