Minutes of the October 7-9, 1968 Foreign Mission Board Conventionwide Meeting

October 7-9, 1968 The Foreign Mission Board met in Conventionwide session, October 7-9, 1968, in Rich¬ mond, Virginia, with Dr. W. Morris Ford presiding. PRESENT: State Members: Mrs. John I. Alford, Joe L. Allbritton, Mrs. Carl Bates, Barney Bayles, Doyle E. Carlton, Clyde J. Childers, Virgil Clark, T. Rupert Coleman, Milton Collum, Robert L. Deneen, Mrs. H. Cowen Ellis, Howard J. Ford, W. Morris Ford, Clay Frazier, C. Wade Freeman, J. Ray Garrett, B. Greer Garrott, Drew J. Gunnells, James W. Hackney, James D. Hall, David G. Hause, W. Douglas Hudgins, C. J. Humphrey, Charles Lassiter, B. J. Martin, Gerald Martin, Mrs. W. K. McGee, D. E. Meade, Bruce H. Price, J. Howard Reynolds, Perry R. Sanders, Loyed R. Simmons, Miss Mary Essie Stephens, Eldred M. Taylor, W. 0. Vaught, Jr., 0. K. Webb, Clifton W. Woolley, W. A. Criswell, SBC President, (Ex Officio). Local Members: Wade Bryant, Mrs. R. B. Carter, Sr., Curtis English, Austin W. Farley, Joseph B. Flowers, V. Allen Gaines, David S. Hammock, John W. Kincheloe, Jr., Robert T. Marsh, Jr., J. Leonard Moore, John L. Moran, Lucius M. Polhill, James E. Rayhorn, Hunter Riggins, Meredith K. Roberson, D. 0. Rose, Edwin L. Shattuck, Dalton Ward, John C. Williams (Board's Attorney). Staff : Baker J. Cauthen, Paul Box, Charles Bryan, Louis Cobbs, Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, Everett L. Deane, Samuel A. DeBoard , Roger G. Duck, Jesse Fletcher, Franklin Fowler, Cornell Goerner, lone Gray, Victor Greene, Genevieve Greer, Eugene L. Hill, J. D. Hughey, W. David Lockard , Ralph A. Magee, William W. Marshall, Frank K. Means, Floyd North, R. Keith Parks, Norman Price, Claude H. Rhea, Jr., Fon H. Scofield, Rogers Smith, Truman Smith, Melvin Torstrick, Ralph L. West, Elbert L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew. Visitors : Miss Helen McCullough, originally appointed for China, retired from service in Hawaii in 1957; Mr. and Mrs. Loy Y. Johnson, brother and sister-in-law of Miss Pearl Johnson; Mrs. Clifton Root, sister of Miss Lucy Smith; Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wood- bery, parents of Mrs. Doyle E. Carlton. Guests : Dr. Paul Crandall, Executive Secretary, Richmond Baptist Association; Miss Fern Hurt, Assistant Editor, Baptist Messenger; Dr. Julian Pentecost, President, Virginia Baptist Association; Dr. and Mrs. Richard Stephenson, Executive Secretary, Virginia Baptist Association; Dr. and Mrs. Preston Taylor. Retiring Missionaries (recognized at the Luncheon on Wednesday, October 9): Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Bagby, Miss Pearl Johnson, Mrs. A. C. Muller, Miss Eva Sanders, Miss Lucy Smith. The meeting of the Board opened on Monday evening, October 7, with a Dinner, in the Metropolitan Room, Executive Motor Hotel, 5215 West Broad Street, scheduled for Board members and the Administrative Staff of the Board. Dr. Bruce H. Price, Board member from Newport News, Virginia, led in prayer. Dr. Cauthen extended a cordial welcome to Board members and expressed appreciation of their efforts to be present for this significant occasion. Members of the Board and the Board's staff were introduced. Dr. Ford and Dr. Cauthen expressed a deep sense of loss felt so keenly by the entire Board, by the death of Dr. Chester Quarles (July 1968). Special mention was made of the immeasurable contributions he had made to the cause of missions - as a member of the Foreign Mission Board and as Executive Secretary of the State Baptist Conven¬ tion of Mississippi. Dr. W. Douglas Hudgins, member of the Board from Mississippi, introduced Rev. Johnny Lee Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist Church, McComb, Mississippi, the man selected by the Southern Baptist Convention Committee on Boards and the Board member from Mississippi for election by the Foreign Mission Board, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Chester Quarles, (deceased July 1968). Mr. Taylor was recognized. He expressed deep appreciation of the faith and confi¬ dence implied in his selection to fill this strategic post. He pledged himself to service in the cause of missions, especially through membership on the Board, to the very best of his ability. Dr. Cauthen gave the following report: REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Baker J. Cauthen For many months we have been engaged in a careful study of the administrative struc¬ ture of our work. Twenty years of constant growth have brought about far-reaching