Foreign Evangelism of the Churches of Christ: 1959-'60
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Abilene Christian University Digital Commons @ ACU Stone-Campbell Books Stone-Campbell Resources 1960 Foreign Evangelism Of The Churches of Christ: 1959-'60 Lane Cubstead Weldon Bennett Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/crs_books Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Cubstead, Lane and Bennett, Weldon, "Foreign Evangelism Of The Churches of Christ: 1959-'60" (1960). Stone-Campbell Books. 421. https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/crs_books/421 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Stone-Campbell Resources at Digital Commons @ ACU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Stone-Campbell Books by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ ACU. 1959-60 ~earbook FOREIGNEVANGELISM of the CHURCHESOF CHRIST CO-EDITORS: WELDON BENNETT , Associate Professor of Bible at Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Texas , and former missionary in ~rmany. LANE CUBSTEAD, Managing Editor of The Christian Chronicle, Abilene, Texas. Published February, 1960, by Gospel Broadcast Box 4427 Dallas, Texas ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Several excellent resource materials have been used to produce this booklet, includ ing: The Harvest Field (1947 and 1958 editions), Special 1953 Missionary Issue of the Gospel Broadcast magazine , Christian Chronicle (19 58-1959 issues), Directory of American Missionaries ( 1959) , the excellent series of m a ps and articles by Glover Shipp of Richmond, California, appearing in the Christian Chronicle in 1959 ; and recent issues of Contact. The fo ltowing were contributors of material and information to the editors of this yearbook:: Alaska - Pat McMahan; Argentina - R onald Davis; Australia - T. H. Tarb et, Jr., Coli n Smith and Carmelo Casella ; Barbad os - J. T. Marlin of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Belgium - Hilt on T erry; Bermuda - E . C . Maynard of Portag evi lle , Mi sso uri ; Brazil - Arlie Smith ; Canada - J . C . Bailey of Moose Jaw , Saskat chewan , and Major James Hanson of Newfoundland; Canal Zon e - Byrl Brockman; Chile- Ev ert P ickartz ; Cuba - J . R. Jimenez ; D enma rk - Cline P aden, H oll is Prine and Dow Evans; El Salvador - Dr. N. C Fin e ; England -L en Channing ; Finland - Dw ya tt Gantt of Musk o gee , Oklah oma; Formos a - R oy Mullinax ; France - L eo Hindsl ey; Greece - 8 / Sgt . John Hess of G ermany; G reenland - Sp / 4 Homer Carey ; Guam - John Bak er ; Guatemala - Jerry Hill and Carl James; Haiti - Dr . J. F . Kurf ees of Norf olk , Virginia, and Owen Aik in of Rule , Texas ; Hawaii - Elmer Shackelford; H ong K ong - M elvin Harbison ; Iran - Dr. E . K . Halbert of San Ant onio, Tex as; Ir eland - Hugh Tinsley; It a ly - Joe G ibbs; J apan - Logan Fox ; Korea - Daniel Hardin; Lib ya - Lawr en ce Taylor; Mor occo - Alan Foster; Netherlands Antilles - Joe Shaver ; New Zea land - Bill W atts; Nig er ia - W endell Br oom; Norway - Ca rr el And erson and Mason Harris ; Pakistan - J ohn Col eman; Philip pines - R alph Brashears; P oland -R . J . Smith , Jr ., of Dallas , Texas; Pu erto Ri co -H ar lan Overton; Saudi Arabia - H. G. Ellis; Peru - Harold Amberson ; Samoa - Matagi e se Tunoa of York, N eb raska ; Scotland - Earle M cMillan; Singapore - Ira Y . Ri ce, Jr .; Spain - Jimmie N e ff; Sw eden - Cline Pad en of D enma rk ; Switzer land -Jack M cKinne y; Thailand - Park e r H end erson; Trinidad - Mrs . Mar vin G roves; Vene zuela - Norman M erritt; Vi e nam - Jos ep h Albert ; Uganda - Frank Murphy; M exico - J . W . Treat of Abilene , Texas ; Southern Rh odesia - Alex Claas en and Roy P a lm er ; N orthern Rh odesia - Leon Cl ymore; Nyasaland - Andrew Connall y; T a ngan yi ka - Gu y Cask ey and David Cas key ; Ukra ine - Stephan Bilak of Rochest er , Mi chigan; Uni on of South Africa - Tex Will iams; India - Prenshon Kharlukhi . To the above and others who have helped in various way s the editors are truly grateful. TABLE OF CONTENTS THE WORLD PICTURE . 3 MISSION ACTIVITY CHART 4 WORLD WIDE EV ANGELI SM METHODS 5 WORLD DIVISIONS: North America 7 Latin America 14 Europe 25 Near East 39 Africa . 42 Far East 53 FOREIGN SCHOOLS 65 DIRECTORY OF WORKERS 66 2 THE WORLD PICTURE By LANE CUBSTEAD Co-Editor The Year of Our Lord 1959 was the end of the most productive missionary decade in the history of the Lord's church since the first century. As World War II ended in the 1940s there were perhaps 15 countries which had Churches of Christ, and only a few of these had active evangelists. In the past 10 or 15 years giant steps have been taken (which of course will have to be increased in the future) to show this picture: • Over 1,400 Churches of Christ in some 70 countries and political areas. • Over 60,000 Christians outside the continental United States . • 198 evangelists working as missionaries in 40 countries. • 1,017 nationals preaching the gospel in their native lands and tongues . • Over 5,600 baptisms outside of the U. S . in 1959. As thrilling as these figures are, they are , as we realize, far from adequate com pared to what others are doing, and especially against what God has commanded us to do . There are 135 or more countries in our world today. At present we only have strong mission works in about .SO of them (missionaries in 40) . Easy subtraction leaves a total of 85 countries which have not even been attempted to date . The mission vision of our brethren is gradually growing and we hope to see it expand enormously in this new decade. In 1959 alone strong new works were started in Guatemala , Hong Kong and Formosa. In 1960 an entry with the gospel into Israel is planned by two evangelists, and another evangelist plans to preach for the first time in St. Vincent , a Caribbean island . In 1961 , as plans now stand, two missionaries will take the gospel to Ethiopia. And another is looking toward Turkey . Perhaps the strongest and most exciting new work of the past decade hes been Nigeria, where there are 25,000 Christians - almost half as many as the rest ·of the world outside the U .S. combined . In addition strong works ere being done in Germany , Italy , France, the Rhodesies, South Africa, Japan, the Philippines , Mexico, end other areas. We ere all encouraged by these signs of mission awakening. And of course the end product, baptisms (and the development of these new converts) is the most important thing. Our sources report over 5,600 baptisms outside the continental U .S. in 1959. The editors of this yearbook hope it will accomplish one thing in addition to its interesting and informative statistics : Inspire more of us to get behind our mission programs end to begin new ones . 3 MISSION ACTIVITY - 1960 Outside of U . S . but IncludinA A/aka and Hawaii - FiAures in Some Casea Appro:rimation.s Country or Baptisms Political Division Congregations Christians 10..1-58 to 10·1·59 Alaska ( U . S.) .... .... ... ...... 8 8 16 0 11 456 81 Argentina ··----------------------- 2 0 2 0 3 23 9 Australia --------------------------- 5 5 10 12 22 317 Unk. Austria ____________________________., 4 4 8 0 2 85 38 0 0 0 3 2 30 I Bahamas -------------------------- Unk. Barbados -------------------------· 0 0 0 1 1 32 5 Be chuanaland ..... _______________ 0 0 0 Unk . Unk . Unk . Unk . Belgium ...... ....... ... ..... ..... 5 5 10 0 7 118 37 1 60 9 Bermuda ···· ··--------------------- 1 1 2 0 Brazil .. ···· ·----------------------- 2 2 4 1 2 22 14 British Cameroons _____________ 0 0 0 Unk . 7 250 Unk . 41 43 102 3 ,300 183 Canada ----····· ·· ····-------------- 22 19 Canal Zone and Panama ___ 2 2 4 0 3 100 35 Chile ....... ............... .... ... .. 1 0 1 2 1 40 33 0 0 Unk . Unk . Unk . Crete -------------------------------- 0 0 Cuba ....... ............. .. ...... ... 0 0 0 18 40 2 ,300 107 D enmark ___________________________ 6 7 13 2 3 40 29 E cuador ------------------· _______ 0 0 0 0 Unk . Unk . Unk. El Salvador .... .... ..... .......... 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 England and Wales ........... 0 0 0 3 29 713 Unk. Formosa ____________________________ 2 2 4 8 9 20 0 100 Unk. France _· ------------------------· 12 12 24 2 18 275 Fren ch Equatorial Africa __ 0 0 0 0 Unk . Unk . Unk. Germany ____________________________ 8 11 19 24 57 1,850 100 Ghana .... .... .... ................. 0 0 0 Unk . 1 (?) Unk. Unk. Gree ce _________________________ 0 0 0 0 . Unk. Unk . Unk. Greenland _________________________ 0 0 0 0 1 25 0 34 Guam . --·------------------------ 1 1 2 0 1 85 Guat emala ________________________ 4 4 8 0 1 12 1 H aiti ·------------------------- 0 0 0 0 1 24 12 Hawaii ( U . S.) ............. .... 5 5 10 0 5 402 112 3 4 7 0 1 16 3 H ong Kong ········ ··· ···········- 1 11 260 Unk . India -------------------------------- 0 0 0 Italy . ..... ......... ... ... ... ..... 14 14 28 29 48 969 243 6 83 Jamai ca ----------------------------· 0 0 0 6 276 Japan ......... .... .. ........ ....... 13 15 28 40 70 1,400 Unk . Unk. Unk . Unk . Unk . Unk . Unk. Unk . Keny a ------------------------------ Unk. Korea -------------------------------- 2 2 4 18 21 1,100 Lib y a ..... ....... ....... .. ..... .... 1 1 2 0 2 60 10 M exico ______________________________ 0 0 0 83 75 1,87 5 200 Mor occo ___ ___ ____________________ 1 0 1 1 4 58 3 N et her lands .... .. ....... ....... 3 3 6 0 3 70 20 N et herlands Antilles ...... 1 1 2 0 1 21 5 5 5 10 0 6 85 II ~i;J:~~-an~::::::~::::~·::::::~::: 7 7 14 415 357 25 ,000 1,200 N orth ern Ireland ...........