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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD MINUTES
November 7, 1978
The Foreign Mission Board mec in regular monthly session, Tuesday, November
7, 1978, 3:00 p.m., in the Baker James Cauthen Chapel. William L. Self,
president, presided.
PRESENT : State Members: Alabama: Charles T. Carter, J. R. White; Arkansas :
James F. Sawyer; California: Mrs. Cherry Y. K. Chang; D. C. : 3. Ross Morrison;
Georgia: J. Hoffman Harris, Mrs. L. G. Hicks, Jr., William L. Self; Illinois :
A. F. Tuck; Kentucky; Rollin S. Burhans , Mrs. Ray Mullendore; Louisiana: W.
N. Prather, Sr.; Maryland : Ralph D. Walls; Mississippi : Joe Neil McKeever;
Missouri : Homer D. Carter, John W. Goodwin; North Carolina: Ray W. 3enfield,
Mrs. J. E. Collette, William Henry Crouch; South Carolina: Lonnie H. Shull,
Jr., Alastair C. Walker; Tennessee : Trevis Otey; Texas : Travis S. Berry,
Harold T. Branch, Morris G. Cobb, Ralph M. Smith, Joe E. Trull; Virginia:
Mrs. R. L. Rhodes, Jr.
Local Members : V. Allen Gaines, Scott C. Humphrey, Neal T. Jones, Bruce H.
Price, M. Hunter Riggins, Jr., Mrs. Ross S. Shearer, Mrs. E. S. Stratton,
Robert B. Sass, J. Roy Clifford, Gurney W. Grant, J. Leonard Moore, John W.
Patterson, Raymond L. Spence, Jr., H. I. Willett.
Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, J.
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Brasington, Charles W. Bryan, Thurmon E.
Bryant, James W. Cecil, John R. Cheyne , Louis R. Cobbs, Robert C. Covington,
Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, Everett L. Deane,
James G. Edwards, Franklin T. Fowler, W. Eugene Grubbs, Ward S. Hildreth,
Thomas W. Hill, J. D. Hughey, Harold E. Hurst, William W. Marshall, John E.
Mills, Lewis I. Myers, Jr., Floyd H. North, William R. 0'3rien, Samuel M.
Pittman. G. Norman Price, Sidney C. Reber, Harold D. Richardson, Davis L.
Saunders, Rogers M. Smith, Robert L. Stanley, Truman Smith, Melvin E.
Torstrick, William R. Wakefield, E. L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew.
The President called the meeting to order.
The audience joined in singing the Hymn: "Amazing Grace," led by Sidney C.
Reber.
Ralph Smith, Board member from Texas, read a passage of Scripture and led in
the opening prayer.
Minutes of the Board for October 9-11, 1978, were approved.
The President recognized the Executive Director, Baker J. Cauthen.
Report of the Executive Director
The appointment of the Search Committee in October has brought a wave of con¬
fidence and assurance throughout the Southern 3aptist Convention. We believe
that Southern Baptists will give earnest prayer support to the work of this
committee because the responsibility is of significance in our total 3apcist
life. We also feel that missionaries throughout the world will pray in great
faith because they are aware of the vast opportunities and needs which stand
before us in the years ahead.
It is our prayer that the year before us will be a time of much progress and
preparation. There is a warm spirit in the staff of the Foreign Mission Board
and unity of heart that blesses all the work we try to do.
The year 1978 is rapidly coming to a close. God has seen fit to let the work
of foreign missions reach a new height during this year. It looks as if the
total number of missionary appointments will exceed 340, and the number of
those who engage in volunteer work will be well in excess of 2,000.
