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Foreign Mission Board
September 10, 1959
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday
September 10, 1959, with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, J. Levering Evans, Horace Ford, Stuart Grizzard, Mrs.
Clyde V. Hickerson, Lawrence Bradley, James Todd, Garis T. Long, Howard Arthur,
C. Bailey Jones, Emmett Robertson, Elton Phillips, H. P. Thomas, Mrs. Kenneth
Burke, Oscar L. Hite, Baker J. Cauthen, Frank K. Means, Winston Crawley, Cornell
Goerner, Elmer West, Luke Smith, Bill Cody, James Stertz, Bill Dyal, Rogers Smith,
E. L. V, ’right, E. L. Deane, Fon Scofield, lone Gray, Edna Frances Dawkins, Mary
E. Fuqua.
Mr. Grizzard led in prayer.
On the motion of Dr. Hite the following candidates were appointed as missionaries:
Rev. and Mrs. George Arden Canzoneri, North Brazil
Rev. and Mrs. Hunter Hammett, Formosa
Rev. and Mrs. Earl Jolley, Argentina
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Samuel Moody, Thailand
Each candidate gave a brief testimony of his Christian experience and call to
missionary service.
Dr. Cauthen gave the charge and Dr. Robertson led in the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Cauthen filed the following report:
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Since the last meeting of the Board Dr. Cornell Goerner and I have made a journey
to West Africa. It was our privilege to visit French West Africa where extensive
areas are in need of mission service. We also visited Ghana and Nigeria to parti¬
cipate in conferences with the missions. Dr. Goerner will report more extensively
on the journeys and will make recommendations growing out of observations and studies
It is evident that Baptist work in Africa is challenged by vast opportunities which
await to be served. It is our hope that in the days ahead we may see an extension
of ministries in the many areas of Africa where we have never served.
Following the meeting of this Board Dr. Frank K. Means and I will go to Jamaica
for several days of conferences with representatives of Jamaican Baptist work and
representatives of the British Missionary Society which has for many years sponsored
work in that island. The conferences have been planned for many months and are
designed to help us evaluate what steps should be considered in the future in Jamaica
Our efforts date back to some years ago when we extended temporary assistance grow¬
ing out of extensive hurricane damage and other losses. We are at this point called
upon to study what further steps in Jamaica may be necessary.
We are now engaged in the preparation of the budget for 1960. As is true each year,
the requests for funds across the world far exceed our resources. The largest bud¬
get in the history of the Board will be recommended at the October meeting next
month, based on a figure which has been recommended by the Administrative Committee
after careful study.
Preparations are under way looking forward to the October meeting of the Board, and
the appointment service which is to be held in the Mosque in Richmond. In many
respects it will be a most remarkable experience. We are anticipating a capacity
attendance in that large auditorium. The possibilities for influencing many lives
toward a greater understanding of Christ's Commission for a needy world are very
great on that occasion.
As the missionary family grows larger, we are constantly aware of the many personal
crises which come to God's Servants across the world. A number of missionaries
now are in hospitals suffering from malignancies and other grave illnesses. We
were saddened a few days ago by the death of the little child of Dr. and Mrs. George
Faile in Nalerigu, Ghana, and word has come this week of the critical injury of
Missionary Charles Whitten in Spain in an automobile accident. As the missionary
family grows , our heart ties must be brought ever closer together through inter¬
cessory prayer as we help one another in trial and emergency.
