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September 11, 1969
The Foreign Mission Board held its regular monthly meeting on September 11, 1969, at
3:00 p.m. in the Parlor (in view of renovations in the Board's Chapel), Richmond,
Virginia, with M. Hunter Riggins presiding.
PRESENT: State Members: Mrs. John I. Alford (Georgia).
Local Members: M. Hunter Riggins, Mrs. R. B. Carter, Sr., Curtis English, Austin W.
Farley, Joseph B. Flowers, V. Allen Gaines, David S. Hammock, Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson,
John W. Kincheloe, Jr., Julian H. Pentecost, James E. Rayhom, Edwin L. Shattuck, Mrs.
Thomas Whalen.
Staff : Baker J. Cauthen, Rogers M. Smith, Winston Crawley, Frank K. Means, Cornell
Goerner, J. D. Hughey, Charles Bryan, R. Keith Parks, James D. Belote, Jesse C. Fletcher,
lone Gray, Louis R. Cobbs, Edna Frances Dawkins, Samuel A. DeBord, Melvin E. Torstrick,
Eugene L. Hill, Fon H. Scofield, Jr., G. Norman Price, Floyd H. North, Sidney C. Reber,
Everett L. Deane, Elbert Wright, William K. Dawson, Elizabeth Minshew.
Visitors : Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Chambless, Jr., missionaries to Mexico; Rev. Henry V.
Langford, executive secretary, Alcohol-Narcotics Education Council, Inc., of Virginia
Churches; and Rev. Thomas C. Allen, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia.
The meeting was called to order.
The meeting opened with the Hymn: "0 Worship the King," led by Mr. Dan Evans of the
Foreign Mission Board staff.
Board members and friends were extended a warm welcome.
Dr. John W. Kincheloe, Jr., local Board member, read a passage of Scripture and led in
prayer.
Mrs. John I. Alford, Board member from Georgia, and the visitors were recognized.
Minutes of the Board for August 18-20, 1969, at Glorieta, New Mexico, were approved as
mailed out from the Board.
Dr. Baker J. Cauthen gave the following report:
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Preparation of the budget is a major matter now occupying the attention of the staff
looking toward the October Board meeting.
We will be considering a budget in excess of $33,000,000 which will be the largest
budget in the history of the Board. The preparation of this budget calls for a great
amount of detail. The work actually begins on the mission fields where the needs are
carefully studied and recommendations are submitted to the Board by the mission organi¬
zations in business session. Experience has taught us that even when the most careful
consideration is given to items on the field, the needs exceed available resources by
at least $4,000,000.
The chief problem in these days is at the point of inflation. It has been necessary to
make some adjustment in order to keep up with the trend. Adjustments made at the
August Board meeting concerning allowances for missionaries on furlough will call for
$100,000 increase.
While inflation is a major problem both in this country and throughout the world, it is
gratifying to note that the budget represents real advance. We keep in mind that in
addition to an enlarged staff of missionaries, work continues to expand both in newly-
opened fields and in older places.
