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PiIFJv1I BEACH (BP)--Southern Bnptists were challenged here to quit bickering among them- selves and get about their job of making and training Christian disciples.

The plea by Landrum P. Leavell, a \.?ichitaFalls, Tex., minister, highlighted ceremonies opening a four-day run of the Southern Baptist convention.

Seating space in the 14,000 capacity Convention Hall was =a ?remiurn as Leavell, pastor of First Baptist Church, sought to propel Southern Baptists with his description of the church with a feature.

Leavell shared the podium during the two-hour ceremony with John Maguire of Jacksonvill~ executive secretary of Florida Baptists who welcomed convention goess to Miami Beach, and Clyde Skidmore, Bakersfield, Calif., pastor, who responded to the welcome.

Persons making up the church of the future must: be captivated by obsession, cognizant of obstacles and correlated by obeisance, Leavell said.

Southern Baptists can express this obsession through Christian love, Leavell explained. Results include the elevation of all human rights and the salvation of all who believe.

The Texas preacher said neglect of the Holy Spirit and the endorsement of the beatnik philosopliy as a way of life could be responsible for some of the problems of Southern Baptist churches.

The two words characterizing the beatnik philosophy are "~ngrateful~~and "undisciplined' he said.

"We've grown up physically, but emotionally we still possess the characteristics of the beatnik philosophy .It

Another obstacle hindering the progress of the church is the cleavage between education and evangelism, Lenvell said.

"In our denomination there are those who subconsciously or consciously believe evangelism is the product of ignorance, while others believe the well educated must be anti-evangelistic or anti-spiritual," Leavell said. "There seems to be little middle ground left for any who are not extremists."

Leavell added that the greatest of all evangelists--Jesus Christ--was also the greatest intellectual who ever lived in the history of the world.

On the danger of conflict, Leavell declared disagreement among Christians accomplished more in retarding Christian progress during the early period of Christianity than the armed might of pagan Rome.

Unfortunately, this problem exists today as an obstacle with which the church of the future must contend, Leavell said.

Leavell advised Southern Baptists to go back to the Bible and to personal Christian cxperience and reaffirm their commitment to Christ.

The convention sermon was aimed at setting the tone for Southern Baptist messengers to begin dealing with business matters.

Messengers were later expected to consider a record world missions budget of almost 27 million dollars, a re-apportionment proposal, and several work goals.

Also on the agenda were the reports of 19 agencies to give an account of their work during the past 12 months. May 30, 1967 Baptist Press -. Ope~nStar Irene Jordan Says She's Singing Missionary il By A1 Morgan

MILLMI BEACH (BPI--International opera star Irene Jordan unexpectedly captured the spotlight here when she gave her personal Christian testimony before singing to an estimated 1,500 Southern Baptist women.

Till, she said, asked that she perfrom in a classical music concert. Till is minister of music for Southern Baptist's largest First Baptist Church in Dallas, Tex.

Since that time, Miss Jordan has participated in numerous such crusades for Southern Baptists.

Southern Baptist foreign missionaries were featured in the 79th annual women's Missionary Union Convention which concluded its two-day meeting j;st before the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention.

On the same program, a Southern Baptist theologian labeled modern Christianity as being in a state of spiritual war.

J. Lyn Elder, addressing the denomination's leaders and workers, said: "We must recognize that things are far more serious in our world spiritually than we are often aware. This does not mean that we should become pessimists but activists. What is called for is not discouragement but increased effort.

"We are--no matter what the placid surface of life influences us to think--in a state of spiritual war. The normal condition of the Christian is combat."

On the same program with Miss Jordan was her sister, medical Dr. Martha Jordan Gilliland, who with her late husband was appointed in 1942 as missionary to Nigeria. The latter member of the Jordan family has been studying at PZayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., since the death of her husband in 1964. She returns to her Nigerian post later this year.

Irene and Martha are two children in a family of 10 children, Their mother was attending the evening session,

Allsinging foreign missionaryl'in her own tight, Miss Jordan has performed around the world in the past four years, singing her testimony to countless thousands who would other wise never hear the gospel. She has appeared in major Southern Baptist-led crusades in various parts of the world.

Apparently emotional at times during her speech, she told of her desire to now witness through song of her love for Jesus. This she does, she said, although neither her hustand nor business manager are Christians.

Miss Jordan had high praise for foreign missionaries, citing their efforts and devotion to what they believed.

Elder, speaking on "To Preach Deliverance to the Captives," said Jesus himself on at least one occasion used a military analogy as he represented the church assaulting the stronghold of hell whose gates could not stand against the attack.

Elder, a pastoral psychology professor at Golden Gate Baptist TheoLogicaL Seminary, Mi11 Valley, Calif., said today's Christian "continuously wrestles with those same forces of darkness and evil which Christ contended and of which Paul spoke,

"Any failure on our part (~hristians)to recognize this is to weaken our service to the point of uselessness .'I

The appointment of new missionaries was announced by Jesse C.. Fletcher, secretary for missionary personnel, Southern Baptist Foreign iiiission Board, who also decried a need for more foreign missionaries.

Fletcher said that in the past seven year period more foreign missionaries than ever before have been appointed. Yet, he said, more are needed.

The escalation is the result, he said, of widening fronts on which to serve. Baptist Press May 39, 1967 -- @

Chufch Staff Discord Called ,Detrimental to Christianity

MIAMI BEACH (BP)--A Florida pastor told Southern Baptist Church musicians here that nothing is more detrimental to the cause of Christ than discord in the church between his disciples.

James 1;. Pleitz, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pensacola, told nearly 200 musicians gathered at the Central Baptist Church here that not all church staffs work together in harmony.

He cautioned the church musicians to wurk with other staff members in order to create harmony rather than discord.

"Discord:' said Pleitz, "is caused by lack of communication, over specialization, laziness and the desire to be number one."

Over specialization causes a lot of sour notes to be sounded when "a worker seems to feel he is so specialized that he can't possibly do something other than the job he has been trained to do,!' said the Florida pastor.

Church musicians, like other staff members of churches, need to be versatile. "It makes for harmony when staff members are willing to try to meet the need regardless of how well they are qualified to do the job," said Pleitz.

He charged that the religious worker has a temptation toward laziness and the church is often slow moving.

"The reason a lot of our churches have bogged down is because of laziness," continued Pleitz. "But, hard work will keep down a lot of discord."

In his remarks to the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, the Florida pastor said that most of the time discord on church staffs is caused by "the desire to be number one .I'

Real greatness never hurt anyone but the desire for a false type of greatness has caused untold confusion and strife in our churches, charged Pleitz.

Church Musicians Told To Avoid Commercialism

By Lynn M . Pavis

MIAMI BEACH (BPI--Sacred music must be protected from the vulgar strains of commercialism, contended James Woodward in his presidential address to the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference I+;.i-c; Ti.-.csda;. :.;ijrning.

Woodward, chairman of the church music department for Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, urged the church musicians to be aware of present day musicial language.

He indicated that the established forms of sacred music are under attack, or at least are being intruded upon by tunes and texts off the radio, television, the motion picture and Broadway theaters.

"We must resist the subtle influences of the popular, the commercial, the worldly," said the Baptist professor.

History shows that religious music in different ages had its roots in paganism. "The musical system of the early church was largely derived from the secular forms of music practiced in the private and social life of that day," continued Woodward.

Nearly 200 Southern Baptist Church musicians at the Central Baptist Church here were told by their outgoing president that "There is nothing inherently sacred or secular in music per se.I1

Suitable worship music varies from century to century, culture to culture and even from church to church. The question of appropriateness in church music depends very much upon associations and customs,Woodward stated.

He continued, "Whether we like new music or not, we have to live with it, and we have to use it. To live only on our artistic inheritance is a static affair.!' *Baptist Press

' Itt.le must recognize and admit that no music of the past can adequately express the .needs and aspirations of the 20th century soul. We must have a musical language for our own time," Woodward told the audience.

Musicians must be alert to the finest our age and artists can produce whether secular or religious. However, the religious musician must be wary of the trite, the cheap and the crasq stated IJoodward.

The conference for Southern Baptist church musicians ends today.

Boy Sunbeams Work May Go To Brotherhood Group

MIMlI BELCH (BP)--The Executive Eoard of the Southern Baptist F!omants Missionary Union (wMu) offered here to turn over the responsibility for providing missionary education guidance for boys 6-8 to the Brotherhood Commission.

Primary-aged boys have been taught missions through Sunbeam Band, directed by WMU since its founding in 1888.

The change depends on an agreement by the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission at its annual meeting at Ridgecrest (N.c.) Baptist Assembly in late June to begin providing guidance materials.

The switch in responsibility is to facilitate production of materials for children 6-11 if a proposed grouping-grading system for all Southern Baptist church organizations takes effect in 1970.

WMU approved part of the proposed plan at its Gxecutive 3oard meeting in January. A recommendation for grouping of persons 18 and above (to be called hdults), got WMU approval in the Miami Beach session.

In other business, the board approved the outline of a new WMU records and reporting system. The simplified plan provides for all FMJ statistical reports to be made through the church letter to the association. Limited individual records will be kept.

The board also adopted curriculum framework statements for 1969-70, from which mission study lessons will be designed.

WMU Speaker Says American Culture Is kt Crossroads

By A1 Morgan

MIAMI BEACH (BPI--A Southern Baptist denominational worker and theologian decried the maladies of the thousands of individuals who are at the crossroads of life and said there is no remedy without the Christ of the Cross.

Jimmy R. Allen of Dallas, head of the Christian Life Commission for Texas Baptists since 1960, urged messengers attending the Southern Baptist blomants Missionary Union Convention here to stand at the crossroads, "to do something ...whatever the odds of success.. because it is right .'I

Allen, frequently outspoken on current social issues, painted a picture of "The Cross and the Crossroads" at the Miami Beach Auditorium.

The picture was one of squalid tenements, crowded shacks and truck loads of migrants locked in a cycle of want like their fathers before them and their children after them.

"Never seeing a way out, these vacant faces have long since quit looking. Victims, as well as culprits, they live from one moment to another, taking what the immediate has to offer ,'I said Allen.

"The Christless crossroads ignore this need in search of short cuts to social justice," he added,

He described the crassroads as crowded cities, filled with anonymous faces, homosexuals and hippies, conventioneers and call girls, shysters and gamblers, hatefilled faces both black and white, hucksters and con men, harried executives and bored wives." @ Baptist Press May 30, 1967 @

"This is Crossroads, USA," he said.

(I He pointed out the aching emptiness of laughter without joy also as the sound of the crossroads of human need. And, he added that "secularized men in a fun-oriented culture, shying away from harsh realities of suffering or questions about eternity, living from pleasure to pleasure until jaded by the natural they adventure with the unnatural on LSD trips .I1

"Everybody knows about the crossroads, It is out there for all to see. But without Christ there is no remedy," he added.

Allen also said optimistic social engineers plan their answers without reference to the eternal dimensions of the spirit, and "they miss the deepest dimension of the need." He cited a recent White House Conference on the tragic plight of the ghetto family where "expert1' answers concerned only economic measures.

"The sum total of the matter is that the cross at the crossroads demands involvement. Sensitive to need, Christians are to pay whatever price necessary to meet it in Jesus name," said Allen.

Government Said Changing Church's Social Roles

By Walker Knight

PIIAMI BEACH (BPI--~overnment-initiated programs of preschool education such as Headstart are changing the church's role in this field but it will not eliminate it, a professor of childhood religious education told Southern Baptist educators here.

Mrs. Mildred Souther of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary predicted that by 1970 all five-year-olds will be in public or private kindergartens.

"There will always be a place for the church kindergarten and nursery school because of the plus (spiritual emphasis) which always has been its basis, she said.

Citingtlthe federal government's intervention" in preschool education as one of three dominant problems emerging in this field, she said that if the states do not take care of the education of the very young, the federal government will.

If this comes to pass, salaries and training will be standardized, Mrs. Souther said.

Asked if she saw this trend as negative, she said she did not, but that there was a companion role for government and church to play, each supplementing the other.

"The government is meeting an overwhelming need of disadvantaged children. The greatest weakness of this program was and is not having enough qualified teachers to carry out a program that is designed to accomplish so much so fast."

The other problem areas she cited were the changing world of the child--working mothers, mobility of population, and a fast-moving world--and the extremes of preschool theories.

Mrs. Souther addressed the annual Southern Baptist Religious Education.Ccnfcrcncc, an auxiliary group: meeting here in advance of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The church educators, expldring areas in which churches minister to people, heard a Knoxville Baptist pastor, Charles A. Trentham, say that "when the church ceases to meet real human needs in Christ's name, she ceases to be the church."

He said the church is producing a "new breed1' of leadership that is both hard-headed and warmhearted and is bringing fire back to the church.

The new breed is hard-headed on intellectual problems and warmhearted and demonetrative in their love of Jesus and of humanity.

Calling for a new kind of saint who will turn around and face the world, Trentham lashed out: at a ministry "which harnesses our talent: and wealth to massage our institutional .CGL, to' ;>r,i.:otlc a kind vf -?ropa~andcrwhicl; convinkcs US that the instituticnal church is sacrosanct, whether or not she ever performs the ministry Christ has given into her hands." Other speakers pointed to values of church ministries. May 30, 1967 *Baptist Press

,hlton Yarbrough, a Jackson, Miss., minister of education, told how members of his church became concerned for the mentally retarded in the community and started special 'classes that now serve an average of 32.

Yarbrough said he had since learned that three of every 100 of the nation's population is mentally retarded, a problem that has little bearing on the geographic location, economic status, social, cultural, educational, or religious background.

h missionary to the deaf, David Richardson of Montgomery, hla , told of how a special sign language is used to interpret services, classes, and other meetings. He described the importance of television programs to teach the sign language and interpret events for the deaf.

Kermit King of Jackson, Miss., disclosed the result of a survey of churches to senior adults, now numbering 18 million past: 65. He found w2de interest but said it would be an exaggeration to say a trend is developing.

A composite of programs indicated meetings weekly for both members and non-members of the church with an zmphasis on intellectual, cultural, and spiritual stimulation, he said.

Churches provide such activities as study, hobby groups, typing, languages, ceramics, Bible study, investments, travel, and photography. Often conducted are "town hall" programs and service projects.

Executive Committee Refers Five Proposals to Sub-group

MIAMI BEACH (3P)--The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention in a pre- convention session here referred five proposals back to camittee for further study and approved an equal numbcr for recomnendat ion to messengers.

Held for more study and discussion was a proposal from the Convention's Committee on Boards which would keep at least 12 members of the Committee on Boards in office for a two-year term.

E. Herman Westmoreland, pastor of the Soilth Main Baptist Church of Houston, opposed the prcposal. I3e said that it cut down representation an the Committee on Boards and concentrated power in the hands of a few.

PJestmoreland said that he altsays hesitated to approve a recommendation from a board or committee seeking to perpetuate itself.

Archie Ellis, past-or of the First Baptist Church at Columbia, S. C., and chairman of the Administrative Commi.ttec of the Executive Committee, replied the only purpose of the recommendation was to divelop continuity and more efficiency in the Committee on Boards,

Other reco~niendationsreferred back to the Administrative Committee included: (1) an attempt to establish a three-year limit for persons serving on the Public Affairs Committee of the Convention; (2) a three-year limit to membership on the Denominational Calendar Committee; (3) an addition to the Convention procedures to create a seven-member credentials committee; and (4) a policy on the bindin3 nature of Convention-approved program statements for agencies.

Approved by the Executive Committee as an addition to the Business and Financial Plan for recommendation to the messengers was a 1965 action establishtng film, publication and merchandising policy. The purpose of this plan is to set up a policy and procedure for resolving disagreements among agencies over publishing, filming and distribution of materials.

In another action the Executive Committee recommended a new procedure for naming proxies to serve on the Executive Cotrmittee of the Baptist World Alliance. If the Convention approves this recommendation, the SBC members present at the meetings of the BIJA Executive Committee can name the proxies for those who are absent. Baptist Press

Scientist Blasts Baptists , For Ignoring KCY Issues

By Dallas Lee her (_: MIAMI BEACH (BP)--A Baptist scientisd~uesda~stamped a "herd mentality" label on modern Christianity, blasting Baptists and others for ignoring such desperate world crises as the population explosion.

George Schweitzer, a research physicist at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, said that in 1967 the world could feed,clothe and house every individual "if we had the moral guts."

By 1972 the possibility may not even exist if current population trends continue, he warned.

Schweitzer urged a crowd of about 10,000 at the Southern Baptist Pastors1 Conference here to use the marvels of science and technology to provide a creative influence in the world's arenas of struggle.

I1b7e have had the mechanical means of birth control for years and years, but we Christians have not had the concern to speak out for employing them," he said.

"We have a responsibility to plan for our planet's future, to look ahead not just for our children but for the children of the wor1d.I'

Every problem that mankind has faced in history has been magnified "and brought into crisis" by the powers of modern sciencq, he said, but Christians are still trying to speak from a basis of "zero data."

Christians, and Baptists in particular, he said, too often have attacked new hopes and new approaches to world problems, "stamping them out in the name of Jesus Christ."

"No man can be relevant to the modern world in the name of Jesus Christ unless he has the information to address himself to the problems with intellectual thought," Schweitzer said. "Unless we understand the issues, we cannot speak to them.'!

"We must be tough-minded and tender-hearted where we have been soft-hearted and tender-minded ,I' he said.

In addition to population control, Schweitzer cited burgeoning automation and urbanization, and the growing possibility of mass destructive warfare as other crises brought into focus by modern science.

The necessary centralization of government produced by these criscs is destroying individualism and integrity and creating a moral dilemma, he said. IIe cited brainwashing and manipulation by advertisers, government agencies and religious organizations as one of the major threats.

"If we claim we care for our fellow human beings, then we must be an influence in these arenas."

Schweitzer said Christians in an affluent nation that protects the individual rights of individuals have a responsibility to actively seek those rights for others in the world.

rt There is a threat that racial prejudice is not improving at all, but just getting ready to switch sides, that white man--who is a minority--is about to be hated and oppressed1!

Schweitzer said he could be optimistic in the face of these crises only because of his belief in God,

I1God, in the economy of the planet, has ways out of these problems. As Christians, we- are awaiting fundamental breakthroughs, people who can produce answers to these problems."

He said Christians today must seek to relate to and foster men in the world who will be able to produce the answers and not reject them for their explorations in "newness."

"We must demonstrate by ow actions the responsibility to investigate and assess and make decisions," he said. "We have loved things, worshipped structures and organizations, and we have manipulated people, That day is over; they are not going to take it."

Schweitzer drew applause when he emphasized that Christians need to think for them- selves, to break out of the "herd mentality." Baptist Press May 30, 1967

; "We allow some little men to stand up and tell us that we can have no fellowship , with a person who doesn't interpret the ninth verse of the 17th chapter of Revelation just the way we do," he aaid. "God help us!"

Schweitzer stressed repeatedly the need for action to communicate with the masses of people in the world today, and hammered away at the lack of it.

"I wonder sometimes if we as Southern Baptists have to publish our statements of belief because no one can tell what we believe from the way we act."

Other speakers at the same session were Ed Crow, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Brownfield, Tex.; William Hendricks, professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort ilorth, Tex.; Samuel Proctor, president of the Institute for Services to Education in Washington, D. C.; and Florida State Senator Mallory Horne of Tallahassee.

Sen. Horne bluntly told the Baptist preachers that politicians had long since decided ministers were inept in politics and paid little attention to their opinions.

But he admonished them not to hide behind cliches such as ttpolitics is dirtytt or let church-state views preclude their rights as citizens, but to be involved in and informed on government.

"The bartenders reach about 95 percent of the voters in the nation, Catholic priests about 90 percent, and Protestcnt preachers about 25 percent," he said. "You have physically set yourself apart from government to the extent that you hardly have an influence."

"1 invite you to look strongly at people in government,"he said. "That's the area in which compromise is made, the area in which idea is produced into action. If you don't give it attention, all the other forces that confront us will dictate the future."

Future of Church Rests In Cities, Speakers Say

By Walker Knight

MIAMI BEACH (Bp)--~he church's adjustment to a developing urban society and its survival in the inner-city hold the solution to the future of Christianity's impact on Ameri'ca,, Baptist religious educators were told here.

Tradition-breaking methods, myth-shattering concepts, and creative, flexible, knowledgeable disciples will spell the difference in a society that by 1370 will have 210 million people, 80 percent of them in the city, several convention speakers said here.

Speakers at the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association, an auxiliary meeting in advance of the Southern Baptist Convention here, called for an adjustment to meet the needs of people in the community, not simply the needs of church members.

The association was appropriately meeting in one of the most urbanized resort areas of the nation, in a hotel playing host to Miss USA, and in a Starlight room that had to be vacated every night by 9 for a floor show. There is only one Baptist church in Miami Beach, and it is a small one.

"A solution to our inner-city problems will not be found until the suburban and other churches realize that the inner-city and the downtown area is their problem, too," said James H. Landes of Birmingham.

h Fort Worth speaker added that all of society was responsible for creating the inner- city and thus must share in a ministry there.

"Avoid being an institution and become an instrument if you want to be effective in the i.nner-city," said J, Oscar Lumpkin of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort: Worth. ''The church as an instrument can accomplish the end toward which it was intended, and remember, it's not 'our1 church but the Lord's.

"If the church is an instrument it cannot choose where it will be used, only if it will be used."

Long-standing myths about urban people were shattered by Robert Smith, a Houston pastor. He said people in the inner city want to be treated just like other people. May'30, 1967 9 Baptist Press

"Why are we suddenly different just because we moved to an apartment?" he said.

"It's the high-rise apartment managers we must combat. They think the tenant wants absolute privacy.I1

Then he tackled the myth of who goes to church. "Rural people do not attend church as much as city people," Smith said. He cited a survey showing only 42 per cent of the rural people attend church while 46 per cent of the urban people do.

"The 'heathen1 East goes to church more than the Bible-belt South--44 per cent against 49 per cent.

"The educated go more than the uneducated and high income more than low income."

Landes, pastor of Firsr Baptist Church in Birmingham, outlined that church's dramatic attempt to relate itself to n ministry to the downtown community.

He cited work with the aged and deaf, with students, with downtown business groups, internationals, and the underprivileged. He told of prayer groups, recreational activities, juvenile rehabilitation, social work, Bible classes in high rise apartments, and a news- interview type of television program.

"The answer to the inner-city problem will be found through men who are creative, knowledgeable, and flexible; through laymen who are real disciples, though developing a larger interest in the total needs of people," Landes said.

Lumpkin said his Fort Worth church's concern for its community developed when nearby youngsters appeared at the church's recreation building and wanted to roller skate.

"They were invited in, even though our rules said 'for members and their guests,' The next week there were 25 youngsters, and then more than 100. This started a unique ministry to our community that we had overlooked," Lumpkin added.

The mushrooming church cljffee house ministry (more than 1,000 now estimated) came under appraisal as one approach for the inner city.

Bart Dorr of First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va,, told of that church's sponsorship af The Carriage House, a four-year venture open twice a week.

"We try to provide a setting where young people can engage in the lost art of communication .I1

He said their coffee house, which may not be best for every church, seeks "to help those who come to realize that the church is a part of life, is relevant to all of life and is responsible to meet the needs of all of life."

SBC President Urges Concern For Man' s Needs

By Roy Jenn ings

MIAMI BEACH (BPI--President H. Franklin Paschall called on Southern Baptists here to demonstrate concern for all of man's problems including his personal and social ones.

The mandate to minister to such persons as the poor, the dope addict, and the alcoholic highlighted the first morning session of the four-day annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.

President Paschall, pastor of First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tenn., told messengers they must practice an evangelism concerned with the whole man, including his body and soul.

"We must: demonstrate concern for all of the problems of modern man whether they be personal or social. And there are so many problems: war, poverty, racial tension, population explosion, breakdown of homes, alcoholism, dope addiction, gambling, immorality and crime, only to mention a few."

Paschall acknowledged Southern Baptists can't solve all of the personal, social, political and economic problems of the day but reminded they can show their concern by becaming involved personally in every area of life.

The Southern Baptist leader also dealt with the ways he felt God uses governments and churches. He expressed it this way: -more- May 30, 1967 10 Baptist Press

r l1Some people think God is doing more through government than through churches. Admittedly, God is working through the powers that be, but He is doing something through churches which He will not accomplish through government.

llGovernment is concerned with symptoms; churches are concerned with disease. Governments seeks to change man by changing his environment; churches seek to change m-3 by changing his heart. Government admtnf sters; churches minister. I'

l~fhileemphasizing that government and churches are ordained of God and should be mutually helpful, Paschall questioned the wisdom of churches becoming identified as churches with a particular political party or program.

In identifying the role of churches, the Tennessee preacher tiaid he felt a need today is for a ministry of worship that's vital and productive, He also stressed the need for a personal ministry to persons that showed warmth, friendliness, and compassion.

"In an age of population explosion and computers, bigger snd bigger organizations in church and state, it is easy to forget the dignity and worth of human beings and personal needs. 'I

Paschall came to the defense of churches repeatedly in his vaaJrte for messengers to minister,

llInstitutional churches are under bitter attack today. Sone say they are no more than ghettos of Christianity and islands of real estate. It is true that churches have spots and wrinkles and that many times they stumble and stutter.

'*There is a continuing need for repentance and renewal. Let u3 break out beyond ourselves--beyond our frozen orthodoxy, organizational rourines, religious rigmarole, prejudice and pride--and minister to the ~orld.~'

Final Religious Education Ivlrapup

-Institutional Church Criticized By Speakers

By Walker L, Knight

MIAMI BEACH--The insti tutionalized, method-bound " :ch nTms ---&. . -. - . *'-s grbC"?.?.? !5e fire turned up at the Southern Baptist Religious Education ~Esociationhere.

Speakers emphasized meeting the needs of the whole man :'_lrsi:;;l .;..:>istry.

The often asked question of whether the church should be meeting social needs was not debated; speakers simply told why and how it: ahould be done.

In fact, Charles Trencham, a Knoxville pastor said, "?*!hen the church ceases to meet real human needs in Christ's name, she ceases to be the church.I1

The association, an auxiliary group meeting in advance of the Southern Baptist: Convention, explored areas in depth where churches can minister to the needs of people,

And with the nation moving to the city where 80 percent of the expected 210 mlllion population will live in 1970, the sessions focused on the inner-city and urban problems,

Speakers indicated that the church's adjustment to a developing urban society and its survival in the inner-city hold the solution to the future of Christianity's impact on America.

The association was appropriately meeting in one of the most urbanized resort: areas of the nation, in a hotel playing host to Miss USA, and in a Starlight room that had to be vacated every night by 9 for a floor show. There is only one Baptist church in the city of Miami Beach.

"If people are hearing us stress a selfish, institutionalized, self-seeking, concern, then we are not pr perly communicating, I' A. V. Vashburn of the Eaptist Sunday School Board aaid in discussing the church growth plan. May 30, 1967 11 Baptist Press

• He was also echoing what other speakers had emphasized: that the needs of people called for tradition-breaking methods, myth-shattering concepts, and creative, flexible, knowledgeable disciples.

Trentham said the church is producing a "new breedttof leadership that is both hard-headed on intellectual problems and warmhearted in demonstrating Christian love and it is bringing fire back to the church.

Long-standing myths about urban people were shattered by Robert Smith, a Houston pastor, He said people in the inner city want to be treated just like other people.

"Why are we suddenly different just because we moved to an apartment?" he asked. "It's the high-rise apartment managers we must combat. They think the tenant wants absolute privacy,"

Four percent more urban people attend church than do rural people, he added in tackling the myth of who goes to church. "The heathen Easterner goes to church more than the Bible-belt Southerner. The educated go more than the uneducated and those with high incomes more than with low incomes."

James H. Landes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Birmingham, outlined that church's dramatic attempt to relate itself to a downtown community and reverse a trend of membership loss.

He cited work with the aged and deaf, with students, with downtown business groups, internationals, and the under-privileged. He told of prayer groups, recreational activities, juvenile rehabilitation, social work, Bible classes in high-rise apartments, and a news-interview type of television program.

"The answer to the inner-city problem will be found through men who are creative, knowledgeable, and flexible; through laymen who are real disciples, and through developing a larger interest in the total needs of people," he said.

The association heard speakers tell of new forms of ministry through coffee houses, senior citizens groups, classes for mentally retarded, day care programs, and fresh trys at long standing ministries such as kindergartens, deaf missions, and weekday programs.

Despite their criticism of institutionalism, some of the speakers dealt with such institutional questions as comparing salaries of religious education directors and paators, discussing how to deal with invited church guests, and entertaining other religious educators.

A1 G, Parks, education director of First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Ala. was elected president.

Vice presidents named were Harold Souther of Kansas City, Charles Tidwell of Fort North, and Charles Howell of Birmingham.

Miss Gracie Knowlton of Fort Worth was re-elected secretary-treasurer. CONVENTION BULLETIN

FORTY-FOURTH VOLUME MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, MAY 30, 1967 FIRST DAY

SBC REGISTRATION "Behold, 0 God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in Registration of messengers is in the thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the houee of lobby of the Convention Hall. my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and The constitutional provision for regis- shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhov from tration, as stated in the Southern Bap- them that walk upriohtly. 0 Lord of hosts, blesssd zx the man that trusteth m thee" tist Convention Constitution, is as fol- (Psalms 84 :9-12). lows : "Article 111. Membership: The Con- vention shall consist of messengers who are members of missionary Baptist churches co-operating with the Conven- tion as follows: SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTlON "1. One messenger for each regular Suggested Order of Business Baptist church which is in friendly cooperation with this Convention and May 30-June 2, 1967 Miami Beach, Florida sympathetic with its purpose and work H. Franklin Paschall, President 2: 16 Election of Officers and Miscelhneouu and has during the fiscal year preceding Business been a bona fide contributor to the Con- Robert E. Sneadp of Music 2:46 Education Commission-Rebun L. Brant- vention's work. GENERAL THEME : ley, Tennessee "2. One additional messenger for each "Mandate to Minister" a :oo Congregational Hymn 8:06 Re~ortof Theological Seminaries such church for every 260 members; or Golden Gate Seminary-Harold K. Graves. for each $260.00 paid to the work of the TUESDAY NIGHT California Convention during the fiscal year pre- Midwestern Seminary-Millard J. Berquist, THEME: "Mandate to Minister through Preach- Missouri ceding the annual meeting. ing'' New Orleans Seminary-H. Leo Eddleman. "3. The messengers shall be ap ointed 6 :45 Preseseion Music Louisiana and eertiled by the churches to tge Con- 7:00 Song Service Seminary Extension Deuartment-Ralph k Herring, Tennessee ventlon, but n:, church may appoint more 7:10 Scrigture--Lewis C. McKinney, Maryland Southeastern Seminary-Olin T. Binklw, than ten (10). Prayed. Earl Cooner.-. Florida North Carolina The registration of measen ers began 7: 16 Address of Welcome--John Maguire. Southern Seminary-Duke K. McCall, Ken- on Florida tucky Monday morning and wit continue 7:20 Response--Clyde B. Skidmore. California Sou

AMERICAN SEMINARY COMMISSION ASSETS Current assets ...... Plant fund assets ...... (1) ANNUITY BOARD Permanent fund assets . . Current assets . . Earning aisets ...... $166.691. 000 '.. BROTHERHOOD COMMISSION... Less amounts included in Current assets ...... 395.594 assets of other agencies; Fixed assets. less depreclation ...... 485.650 Foreign Mtssion Board ...... 5.144.194 161.546.806 Other assets ...... 203.709 1.084. 953 CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION Other assets ...... 322.766 Current assets ...... 11 537 FOREIGN MISSION BOARD Fixed assets . less deureciation ...... 4.'357 15.89d Current assets ...... 18 646 649 . . Property fund assets ...... 2'385'170 Current assets ...... Permanent fund assets ...... 9:207:882 Student loan funds ...... HOME MISSION BOARD Flxed assets. less depreciation ...... Current assets ...... 698.474 property fund- assets 977;906 HISTORICAL COMMISSION ...... 23.478 Program assets ...... 35.064.989 Current assets ...... Church loans ...... 20.109.989 Fixed assets, less depreciation ...... 6,072 Church bonds ...... 893.850 Other assets ...... 191,403 220.953 Church sites ...... 2.340.886 RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMISSION Mission properties ...... 11.639.264 Current assets ...... Investments ...... Fixed assets. less depreclatlon ...... 1.228.486 SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARO Special fund assets ...... 39.725 2.108.315 Current assets ...... STEWARDSHIP COMMISSION Fixed assets. less depreciation ...... Current assets ...... 210.988 Reserve fund assets ...... Reserve funds ...... GOLDEN GATE SEMINARY Fixed assets ...... - ...... ,. Current assets ...... 43 025 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Endowment and loan fund assets ...... 90:639 Current assets ...... 43.871 Plant fund assets ...... 5.877.979 investments ...... 272 184 Fixed assets 90~~922 406.977 MIDWESTERN SEMINARY ...... Current assets ...... 25.304 S.B.C .. BUDGET FUND Endowment and loan fund assets ...... 117.088 Current assets ...... 77.706 Plant fund assets ...... 2.985.321 Investments ...... 1,069,071 . . Fixed assets ...... 1,365,224 2,512,001 NEW ORLEANS SEMINARY Current assets ...... 1.279.882 TOTAL ASSETS ~.rDECEMBER 31. 1966 ...... $390.697.251 Endowment and loan fund assets ...... 737.719 Plant fund assets ...... 8.864.910 TOTAL ASSETS AT DECEMBER 31. 1965 ...... $356.208. 625 SOUTHEASTERN SEMINARY Current assets ...... 538.414 Endowment fund assets ...... 323.938 LIABILITIES Plant fund assets ...... 4. 999 377 ANNUITY BOARO Other assets ...... 218:367 Escrow funds and accounts payable ...... $478682. FOREIGN MISSION BOARD SOUTHERN SEMINARY Accounts payable ...... M v N M M u u N .... 46,766 Current assets ...... 327 921 HOME ...... Endowm~ntand loan fund assets ...... 8.228.476 Accounts payable ...... $ 120.748 Plant fund arsets ...... 13.202. 488 Notes payable ...... 4.200.000 SOUTHWESTERN SEMINARY SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD Current assets ...... 565.308 Accounts a able ...... Endowment and loan 'fund assets ...... 5.889.418 GOLDEN GAT[ IEMINAR~ Plant fund assets ...... 11.421.318 Current liabilities ...... 22 679 Plant fund liabilities ...... 137.'500 SOUTHERN BAPTIST FOUNDATION -..... Current assets ...... 36.949 MIDWESTERN SEMINARY Fixed assets. less depreciation ...... 5. 410 NEWCurrent ORLEANS liabilities . ' ...... Trust fund assets ...... 8.727.365 Less amounts included in Current liabilities ...... 32.915 assets of other agencies: Plant fund liabilities ...... 28.000 Sunday School SOUTHEASTERN SEMINARY Board ....$1.000. 000 Current liabilities ...... Foreign Mission SOUTHERN SEMINARY Board ... 50.000 Current 1iab;iities ...... 38.744 . 143.000 Plant fund liabilities ...... 600.000 Annuity Board .- Home Mission SOUTHWESTERN SEMINARY - Board ..... 100.000 Current liabilities ...... Christian Life SOUTHERN BAPTIST FOUNDATION Commission ... 263 Current liabilities ...... , . , . , . , . Rad~o& Television SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSPITAL-CONSOLIDATIO REPORT Commission . . 37. 147 Current iiabllitles ...... , , , . , . , . 929.496 New Orleans Plant fund liabilities ...... 9,978.516 Seminarv .... 89.456 AMERICAN SEMINARY COMMISSION Executive Current llabillties ...... Comm;ttee . . 272.184 BRJTHERHOUO COMMISSION Carver School . . 438.251 Southwestern Current liabilities CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION ...... '" '. " ' Seminarv . . 180.312 Current liabilities ...... American seminary EDUCATION COMMISSION Commission . . 336.872 Current liabilities ...... Southern HISTORICAL COMMISSION Sem~nary ..... 107.883 Education Current liabilities ...... 9.233 RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMISSION Commission ... Current liabilities ...... Brotherhood Plant fund liabilities ...... Commission ... 121.330 Historical Other liabilities ...... Commission . . 7.099 STEWARDSHIP COMMISSION Southeastern Current liabilities ...... ; .... Seminary . . 37.166 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Southern Baptist Current liabilities ...... 5. 861 Convention S.B.C. BUDGET FUND Budaet Fund . . 909.071 Current liabilities ...... 3.649 ~oldeiGate TOTAL LIABILITIES AT DECEMBER 31. 1966 ...... m!Fg Sem nary ..... 13.207 Steward~hip TOTAL LIABILITIES AT DECEMBER 31. 1965 ...... $2:467F86 Commiss~on ... 82.700 3.935.174 4.792.191 SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSPITAL-CONSOLIDATED REPORT...... (1) ANNUITY BOARD Current assets ...... 3.086.844 The assets reported are not free assets of the Annuity Board but represent Plant fund assets ...... 1.007.157 funds placed wlth the. Board by members of the retirement and savings plans Other assets ...... 26.972. 983 the churches. conventions. and institutions . Such funds will be returned t6 them as banefits under the varlous plans which they have selected . ,#\IO I

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W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE %h ~ln\sfl JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

ROUNDUP FOR TUESDAY AM 1-EDIA

14IAMI BEACH---The Southern Baptist Convention will die unless its churches open their doors to all races and church members become concerned about: the needs of people, Buckner Fanning, a San Antonio, Tex., pastor, predicted here Monday night. In an address to the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, Fanning, 41- year-old pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, called for an expression of Christian love \rhic1l would find church members involved as Christians on a personal level in all of the activities of their community. The pastors' conference is one of four Baptist auxiliary sessions underway in advance oE the 110th annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention which opens four days of activities Tuesday night in Convention Hall before an expected crowd of 10,GOa. Other auxiliary groups include the Woman's Missionary Union, Religious Education Association and church music directors. Speaking on the scragety of penetration, Fanning told how his church had turned from the traditional approach of inspiration to one of action, then made this prediction: "Unless our churches become placcs of worship where people of all races and classes meet together in Christ through worship and fellowship; unless we become great springs of new life flowing out from our sanctuaries into the hot parched prairies of human need; unless we Baptists experience a change of attitude and a change in direction, then we too will pass into the graveyard

of denominations. . .'I Funning said his church changed its approach after one of the members, a Christian businessman, told him he had all the inspiration he could stand and that he was ready to get his hands on some of the needs and problems of the world. "I believe this man was voicing the feelings of thousands of men and women in our churches today who are hungry for an opportunity to translate their commitment to Christ into practical deeds of Christian service, and we, the leadera of the church, are largely responsible for their frustrations." Fanning said his church members had only begun to see a church turn from an institution preoccupied with its own survival to a fellowship concerned with being a servant people in the world. The church is now meeting a variety of needs ranging from work in hospitals and nursing homes to rehabilitating juveniles, he said. In three missions in the community the church members are providing out- patient clinics, pre-school programs, and supervised study halls under the guidance of public school teachers. A few years ago the church opened a distribution center for food, clothing, and household supllies for persons in need throughout the world. Last year they (more) ROUIJDUP TUESDAY AN -2-

sent 3,000 pounds of clothing to seven churches in Jamaica. The church also offers legal help, job placement, location of children $n foster homes, and a ministry to alcoholics, F~nningsaid. He posed this question to fellow preachers then answered it: ''\hat would happen if 15,000 Southern Baptist pastors decided to go home ... to become the shepherd of the flock rather than the pet lamb? Some might lose their jobs, many would lose their status. But in losing we would find our souls. :' Sharing the limelight with Fanning were Howard Butt, Jr., of Corpus Chrisri, Tex., a grocery chain executive, Actress Anita Bryant of Niami, Golfer Gary Player who received a sports award, and James Jeffrey of Kansas City, executive director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes. About 5,COO women heard Dr. Daniel Gruver, a medical missionary to Panama, tell of problems he encountered in treating the sick among 25,OOb San Blas islanders and ~u,LuO Guaymi Indians. Dr. Gruver said he performed 10 cleft lip operations, Caesarenn sections, intestinal resections and other major surgery with the light of a kerosene lamp. "I did slcin grafts with the use of only a razor blade. I had no nurse or trained para-medical personnel. I have seen many diseases I have never seen before. While Dr. Gruver was willing to provide the varied medical services, Dr. Gruver said he found the patients sometimes reticent to accept them because of superstition. 1 Besides the medical worlc during the day, Dr. Gruver said he maintained a full preaching program at night. --3o--

Roy Jennings 5-29-67 11:10 a.m. from BAPTIST PRESZ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

MOTION TO BE DISCUSSED AT 9:3C FRIDAY MORNING

I movc the cppointmcnt of a study committee to bc ap~ointcdby thc prcsident and

to report in 1968, to discuss ;3ossiblc nrccs of coopcrati~bctwccn the SBC and other cvangclicnl groups with particular rcfcrcncc to witncss and cvangclism but with specific instructions toward no thdught J£ orgnnic union.

iisastair Walker Griffin, G2.. at*:-^‘"- 2 +,?. % .% ?. -,is 1 * * " A". HEWS from BAPTIST 5QUT~blWTiST CONVENTION CQNVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGEf4

YPTION TO BE DISCUSSED AT 9:30 FRIDAY MOWING

I move the appointmcne of a study-committee to bc appointed by the prcsi

to report in 1968, to discusa iaoseiblc areas of cooperation bctwcen the SBC an cwaiolical groups with partioular rofcrencc to witness and cvangclism but in~~ructionstoward no thought of organic union.

hsas tnir Walker "", Griffin, Ga. I I' NEWS mfrom BAPTIST PRES!' SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

RESOLUTION ON VLETNLM

Mr. President, and fellow Christians J£ tbc SBC, whet I have to say is related to the Christian Life Commission's report on "War and Peace" as 2rintcd on pages I43 and I44 in your Book of Reports. I am s2eaking for two reasons: (1) Thc CLC, in its rcport, suggests that we havc open disaussion of thc issuc. Thc rcport reads, "Wc bclieve that opcn discussion and public dcbatc arc necessary if wc arc to achieve a sense of moral ccrtainty about the course of our actions .I1 (2) Whi.1~I dcqly apprcciotc the report of the CK, I ncvcrthclcss belicvc that thc SBC should go beyond that which is suggcstcd in the report. For cxamplc, the rcport 'Iurgcs all Southern Bcptist churchcs and our fellow bclicvcrs cverywhcrc to unitc in earnest prayer for pcacc." Wc bclicvc in prayer, but wc should do morc. Let us remcmbcr that whilc we arc hcrc ducking issucs, our men in Victnam are ducking bullets, and while we are here passing resolutions, they arc passing muni- t ion.

Lct us not bc afraid bo spcak morc spccificinlly cn thc Victnclm issuc. With tl~c world in turmoil, with the Middlc Eost crisic, with thousands of Lmcrican soldicrs dying in an undcclarcd war, and whilc lifc gocs on hcrc in thc U.S. almost 3s if thcrc were no war--surely wc can do more than ask ;>coplc to prey.

Thc voicc of this convention should say to our nation that wc bclicvc in, and przrnotc, patriotism, but not fczlsc patriotism which leads our citizens to bclicvc that our government is infallible. A government can, and docs, mnkc wrong dccisions. Our national ?ride should not blind us to the 2assibility of bcing wrong in continuing to fight an undcclarcd war with o "No Win Policy." Scnator W~yncMorse said, "If you can't justify 3 war declaration, then you can't justify thc war."

Notional pride makcs all nations dcny nggrcssion. National pride makcs a11 nations pretcnd to scck pcacc only." Thc safety of uur fighting mcn is more important than our clinging to a ty?c of falsc patriotism which claims infallibility in making crrors. In Vietnam our soldiers arc fighting n war they arc not allowed to win. This kind of war can go on for gcncrations to come. Thc war cannot bc won as long as our military lenders must sit and look at ships, ladcn with war sup;~lics, bcing unloaded in the i~ortof Hai?hong, and not bc allowcd to destroy them.

I move therefore, (1) That thc SBC convcy to our Presidcnt, Lyndon B. Johnson, our concern and prayers in his behalf, 3s we rccognizc his tremendous rcsponsibilitics. Wc furthcr plcdgc our support and prayers to our men in uniform. (2) That thc SBC go on record as supporting in cvery way possible efforts to win the Victnam War, reversing the prcscnt No Win Policy, so that our men can rcturn home to their fcmilics. If wc arc not in Victnam to win thc war wc should gct out. (3) That wc return home and write our congressional lcadcrs, urging thcm to irnplcmcnt thc cxprcssions of this body on thc "Win thc War Policy .I1

Ray 0. Joncs, ?astor, First Baptist Church of Fountain City, Knoxville, Tenncsscc

(nlsd, Moderator of thc Knox County Lissociation of ~aptists)

RESOLUTION ON OBSCENE LITERATURE

We rccognizc thc tragic results of this tide of obsccnity and filth in thc corrcs~und- ing rise in juvenile delinqucncy and crimc. Wc rcsolvc to usc our influcncc and that of our churchcs to combat this vast evil influcncc of obsccnity in literature and cntcrtain- mcnt, and to join with ?eaplc, of all faiths and in a11 organizations, who will fight for decency by thc prcssurc of public qinion, and if ncccssary by thc use of legal action, to suppress and outlaw pornography in all our communitics. We furthcr resolve to dedicate? our influcncc, in Our homes, schuols, churchcs, and communitics, to makc available, cspccially for our children and young pcoplc, literature and entertainment that is wholesome and clean; and to support avcry agcncy of our Southcrn Baptist Convention that can assist us in this urgent task. O.K. Lxrnstrong Univcrsity Hcights Baptist Church spring£icld, M3. 1 Y

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W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE WM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

Mr. President, and fellow Christians of the SBC, what I have to say is related to^ the Christian Life Comission's report on "Wax and Peace" ns printed on pages I43 and , +?&& in your Book of Reports. 1 an &peaking for two rcasong: (1) Thc CLC, in its rfiport*, . uqgcsrs that we have open disnussian of the issue. The report reads, ''We bclieve that opan discuseion and public debate are necessary if we arc to achieve a sense of moral certainty about thc course of our wtions." (2) Whilc I dccply appreciate tbc togort Qf the CU, I neverthelcss bclicve thac the SBC should go beyond thac which ie suggeetcd in the report. For example, the report "urges all Southern Baptist churches and our follow kliavere cverywherc to unito in carneet 2rayer for peace," Wc believe in prayur, but we should do morc, Let us remember that while we arc hcrc ducking issucs, our men in Vietnam are ducking bullets, and while we are here passing resolutions, they arc pasaing arrrrartni-

> ~ t ton.

Let us not bc afraid bo spcok more specificially on the Vietnam issuc, With the world in turmoil, with thc Middle Ezst crisic, with thousands of kicricun soldiesas~dying in an undeclared war, and wBilc lZfc gocs on herc in thc U.S. zlrncret as if thbrc word &o war--surely wc con do morc than ask i~coplcto pray,

The voice of this convention 6hould say to our nation that wc believe in, md pramota, patriotism, but not false pntriatism which lcads our citizens to believe that our government is infallible, A gavarnment can, and does, makc wrong decisions. Our notional pr%de should not blind us &cs the possibility of bcing wrang in continuihg ta ftght w *n- declared war with a "No Win P~licy.~'Scnntor Wayne Morsc said, "If you can't justify a war declaration, then you can't justify the war."

National pridc mdkcs all nations' deny a~grcssion. National pride makcs all nations prctcnd to ecck peace only." Thc safety of our fighting men is more important th~nour c;l;$ngirxg to a typa of false pacriotiam which claims infa'llibility in making crrorai In-. . x Vietnam our soldiers arc fighting a war thcy arc not allowed to win, This kgnd of war can go on for generations to cme. Thc war cannot be won as long as our military leadcrs must ,sS& and look at: ships, ladon with war supplics, bcing unloadcd in the port a£ HaAphCih& and not bc allowed to dnstroy them.

I metheref ore, <.E) Thac the SBC convey to our President, Lyndon B. Johharan, auf , concern and prayers in his behalf, oa wc recognize his trcmcodoua rcspaneibilitfes. Wc Purthcr pledge our aupport and prayers to our men in uniform. (2) That thc SBC go on xccard as supporting in crvcry way paesible efforts to win thc Viftnam War, reves~ingtZIG , present No Win Policy, so that our men can return home to their Tmilics. ff wc are aat $q*Vietnma to win the war wc should get out. (3) That we return home and write our Td~~grassionalZeadcrs, urging them to implement thc cxprcssions of this body on fhc "Win the War Policy ." I Ray 0. Jones, pastor, First Baptist Church of Fountain City, Knoxville, Tenncssec

(also, Moderator of the box County Association of Bbpttsts)

3 RESOLUTION ON OBGCENE LITERATURE ' ,* ,.^ *+::2::': caults af this tide of obaccnity end filth in tbc q~rrcsp~nd- cy and crime. Wc rcsolv~to usu our influcncb and it$cf.t ot s vast uvil influcncc of obscenity in litcraturc and cntertnin- af a15 faiths and in all organizatAons, who d&g6$@b$for lic opinion, and if necessary by thc usc of Ig.&tvE:~@tior~~to svrppress and-outiaw porpopaphy in.trll our ccxqm1~1itics. We further rcsolvc to dediccrtc our inf lumco, in aur h-s, eshrrols, chrchcs, and communities, to make av~lifP&X@L csqccinlly for our children &id.p&ung people, litcrahlrc and entertainmmt thct"i

I I1 NEWS =§ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

Portion of the Report Of the Resolutions Committee To Be Presented Friday morning, June 2

GESOLUTIOI~T OF APPRECIATION

Miami Beach is one of the most pleasant places Southern Baptists are privileged to conduct their Convention. Its adequate and comfortable convention hall, its numerous and comfortable hotels, the wonderful parking facilities and the hospitality of its officials, its police and its people have made this year one of the most mem- orable of conventions. We are deeply grateful for this hospitality and kindness.

We are also grateful for the consistent and adequate coverage given to us by the Miami daily newspapers. These have helped us see ourselves in better perspective and have provided us records to take home with us. In the months to come we will have many pleasant memories becouee of their faithfulness and their integrity.

Fle acknowledge with deepest appreciation the splendid coverage of out-of-town newspapers and take note that about 35 daily and weekly newspapers and 55 religious papers have been at work in the press room and in thc press ' gallery. *" 1Je are very proud of the work of the Baptist Press and our press representatives as they serve their out of totm guests.

Radio and television coverage has been without equal. We appreciate very much the devoted and efficient service of the local stations as they have sought to present us acceptable to the citizens of greater Miami.

The local committee has performed without reservation of time or strength in helping us feel welcome, The general chairman is Hankins F. Parker of Miami Springs, Florida. The chairmen of the sub-committees are:(see listing bclow). appreciate their splendid services.

We are especially grateful for the poise, good humor, and preciseness of the presiding of our distinguished president, Dr. H. Franklin Paschall. He has performed with distinction and effectiveness the difficult duties of his high office. We are grateful too for those who have assisted him so well, for the vice presidents, Fred D. Hubbs, and Howard H. Aultrnan; for the secretaries, Clifton J. Allen and 24-r. Fred Kendall; and for the treasurer and executive secretary of the Executive Committee, Porter Routh. The services of these men have been indispensible to the success of the Convention.

Respectfully submitted,

Resolutions Committee

Information - Mrs. James Boston Transportation - Kurray McCullough Mrs. R. A. Mull ins Wallace Rivcrs Ushcrs - W. B. Carson, Jr. Post Officc - Ladislau Biro J, E. Fcrguson, Jr. Martin Sapp First Aid - Jim Bcnton Publicity - Homer G. Lindsey, Jr, Chester E. Yoff Ray Spcars

Housing - Jamcs Copcland Tours - Thomas W. Watson R. P. Tomlinson Morris Elliott Dinners - Floyd Folsom Registration - Kclly Blanton Ray Mclton Mrs. Ida M. Clark

Nursery - Donald Manual Pogcs - SBC Brotherhood Charles Stanley Decorations - Association Lfi1U SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM) W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

FOR YOUR INFOFNATION

Motion By: +. . Jimy ~krcud. . Park Lane apt i s t Church Knoxville, Tennessee

Ruled out of order by president.

Mr. President,

I move you sir, that the Southern Baptist Convention recommend to its churches:

(1) An open door policy to all racial groups within our territory who wish to attend our churches for the purposes of Worship and Bible Study .

(2) Secondly, we furthor recommend that whenever a genuine Christian who is scripturally qualified, applies for church membership, that he be accepted into the membership of that church regardless of his race or color.

(3) That this Convention recogniae that each local church is free to accept or reject this recommendation. SOUf HERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W, C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

FOR YOUR INFOWTION

Verbatim on motions

TWO MOTIONS PRESENTED FRIDAY MORNING TO SBC

By Jmcs Efird, Columbus, Ohio

1. That we instruct the committee on order of business to remind those responsible for making reports to thc convcntion to rcspcct Bylaw 20 directing that one-third of the time for each report bc rescrved for discussion by thc convention body.

Motion was adopted after discussion by Jimmy Wogd, ~issi&i~~i

2. In view of the resolution on the subject of pcace, and because of the similar statement by the Christian Life Commission, I move that the secretary delete from the minutes of the convcntion the statement on pcace by the Christian Life Commission.

Motion was tabled aftcr discussion and point of order that committee on order of business would have to schedule tirile for this mattcr. 0 .I, NEWSRIIIINII from BAPTIST PRE~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Information

Editors and reporters covering the convention have been requested to kill the story in the press kit on the report of the Stewardship Coarmission to the Southern Baptist Convention. Merrill D. Moore, director of the cormloaim, will not be saying the things he originally planned to say prior to the canvention. Moore, who recently returned from a visit to the Middle East to see hie son who is a Baptist missionary in the Gaea Strip, said: "Because of the changed international situation, the message ae prepared earlietwill not be ueed." "Z feel confident that: each of you will honor the request, underrtanding that this matter ia quire important and urgent. Thank you for your cooperation." Moore did not want to say anything which might feapordite the safety of his son and his family in the tension-ridden Middle E~st.

Jim Newton 5/29/67 8:58 a.m. ,a \I,

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C. A. Roberts, president of the Eouthern B~ptistPastors' Conference, is ill and will not be present for the Southern Baptist Convention. Roberts, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of T-llahassee, Fla., and professor-elect at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, was scheduled to preside at the meetings of pastors Monday and Tuesday, and to deliver the opening address. He will be unable to do either. "Due to tension and pressure, C. I. Roberts' personal physician ordered him not to attend the convention and to camel all engagements," said Gerald Martin, vice-president of the Pastors' Conference and Memphis, Tenn., Baptist pastor. Martin will assume conference duties here. -

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Your schedule shows the Southern Baptist Press Association Breakfast to be Wednesday morning. At the meeting in Mobile in February the association voted to meet: instead on Tuesday morning. It is at 7 a.m. in the Terrace Roam of the Sea Xsle Hotel, Tuesday morning.

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CHRISTIAN ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

In searchins for the first: recipient of the Christian Athlete qf the Year award, there were two majx factclrs t7 be considered. First, the recipient needed to be nnc who had reached the apex, not ~nlyJ£ his own sport, but 3f world recognition in the field of athletics. Secand, it was necessary that he be a person who ernbadied the qualities one looks for in a followcr of Jesus Christ.

This year's recipient is a man who could have won this award, not only this year, but any year during the past decade, Gary Player, at the age of 31, stands at the top nf world golfers. He is one of only three men in history who have won the grand slam of plf.- the P. G. A., U. S. Open, Masters and British Open.

Furthermore, Gary Player is a committed Christian, By his own words he lives for two things: to serve G3d and help South Africa. Young people all over the world know the man dressed in black who strides down world fairways, taming golf courses, only to give away great shares of his winnings to help young boys less fortunate than himself,

It is with great pride that we join hands with a great champion and a grand Christian sentleman in presenting the Christian Athlete of the Year award to Gary Player. ---

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In searching for the first recipient of the Christian kthletc of the Year award, there were two major fnctprs t3 be considered. First, the recipient nee t~ be one who had reached the apex, not only of his own sport, but of world taco@nitfon in the field of akhlet$.cs. Second, it was necessary that he be person who embodied the qualittea one looks for in a follower of Jesue Chris

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anday night at Southern B~ptistPastors' Conference) ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Trcasurcr: Portcr Wroc Routh, Nashville, Tann.

Rccording Sccrctary: Clifton LAllcn, Nashvillc, Tcnn. Registration Sccrctary:William Frcdcrick Kcndall, Nashvillc, Tcnn.

1968 CONVENTION SERMON

Preacher: Douglas Hudgins, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jackson, Miss. tltcrnatc: John Ncwport, professor of philosophy, Southwestern Baptist Thcologicnl Seminary, Ft. Worth, Tcx,

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Franklin Paschall, Southern Baptist Convcntion, Convcntion Hall, Miami Bcnch, Pln: 3aptists in Isrncl canvcy ~rcletingsto our coraorkcrs in the grcnt: conlmission of our faith in God and may your prnycrs bc grat sources of strength in thcst days.

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C3?JRECTION ON GILL "TALLACE CACKGROUNDET:

Grezory Balcott and T. C. "rang have requested a corrdction be noted in the backgrounl information supplied earlier on the movie, Cill D7allace of China, (See blue paper report in background [not news] style.)

Z;r, T. C. 'Tan:; was NOT the asian production mana;;cr ol "Sanc? Pebbles ' as statecl in tho informaelon rsleaser! l!i?iay 31. ::is s9n, Charles Vans, was second unit cameraman on "'Sand pebble^,'^ T. C. Van2 was ~simunit manascr on ''Lord Jimi' for Columbia Studios. 7 vyr, ". d*:.; I -

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Gregory 'Frolcott and T, C. Vang have requested a correction be noted in the - background information supplied earlier on the movie, Dill 'Tallace of China. (See blue paper report in backeround [not news] style.) t Mr. T. C. 'Tang rsa ~OTtho asian production mqnasar of "Sand Pebbles': as * .. stedted in the information roteased Kay 31. Xis son, Charles tlang, laas second unit caeraman on "Sand Pebbles." T. C. Vang was asim unit manaser on "Lord Jim" Par Columbia Studios.

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#l - 1D Studcjts fr~mMary Hardin-Baylor Ccllege, Delton, Texas, p~rtrayfirst century Christians in a Bible episode dramatized during the -'cnanls Lissionary Union Convention opening session, ifiami Beach :,uditoriur,l. i/ 1F . Qpening session of !RW Convention

+I 2 Dcn Squrgis, radio news director, and Ed Ilal~ne,radic program director of the Radio md Te1evisj.cn C~mission,SBC, staff the mcbile radio-TV trailer parked behind Convention Iiall. In assisting the convention netrs team Stureis and rialone feed 5-minute and one- minute nev~scaststo more than 10C radiu stati~nsin 12 states. Net~scastsare done each day during the convention sessions.

114 , Scne people just can't relax during the convention. Leon Hill, pastor cf Calvary Baptist Church, Enid, Glrlahorna, is deeply involved with the SBC Book of Ccports while his fellow pastors threw care to the wind,

/I5 and 5L The newest appointees of the Rme &iission B~ardcame tc the SBC as a group Pionday cn Eastern flight 955. d%rolyn Dannar of Jacksonville, Fla,, l'lliss Baptist Hospital,' presents a pamphlet to Hers~helN. Hobbs, pastor, First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, at the exhibit of Southern Baptist Hospitals in the lobby of the bliami Beach Convention Hall.. Carolyn, a senior student at the Mather School of Nursing, Southern Baptist Hospital, Jacksonville, was elecqid "Miss Baptist Hospital:' by her fellow students.

#7 , New otficers of the Southern Baptist Pastor's Conference are, 1-r: Gerald Martin, president, pastori of Poplar Avenue Baptist: Church, Plemphis; Harper Shannon, vice-president, pastor, Firsq:Baptist Church, Dothan, Ala,; and re-elected secretary-treasurer, Warren Littleford, superintendent of missions for Minnesota Baptists, Colfax, 1Iinn.

118 and 8A bdid, television, and movie star Anita Bryant answering questions at the SBC press roam Monday. i JI8B E4oviqg radio, and television star, Anita Bryant, left, and her accompanist, Gloria Roe, pose at a press conference Monday. The two appeared on the program of the SBC Pastor's Conf aience. C1I dB Metrapolitan opera star Irene Jordan (left) and her sister, Dr. Martha Jordan Gillilernd, SBC t$issionary physician working in Nigeria, pose following their appearance at the Id't.IlT Conventisn Idonday night. ail SBC Pastor's Conference pers~nalitiea, left to right: Gerald Martin of Memphib, newly elected president of the Pastor's Conference; Buckner Panning of San Antonio, speaker; Howard E. Butt, Jr., Corpus Christi, speaker; Anita Bryant, Miami, program personality; Gary ?layer, South P,frica, recipient of the'award for Christian Athlete of the Year; James Jeffrey, Kansas City, speaker, and Don Dendy, Ft. Lauderdale, participant in Celebrity Golf Tournament. (Dendy is minister of education and administration at First Baptist Church, Pt. Lauderdale, )

;I1 2 Sports and entertainment stars' smiles brighten the SBC Pastor's Conference. Left to Right: golfer Gary Player, recipient of the first Christian Athlete of the Year award from the Conference: Anita Bryant of I~Iianii, actress and singer; and James Jeffrey of Kansas City, executive director of Pellot~shipof Christian Athletes, A11 gave testimonies at the Pastor's Conference session knday night.

!I13 Pirst Negro missionary appointed by Foreign lassion Board in 84 years, Sue Thompson of llissouri, appointed to Nigeria (center). Xiss Areta Privette of Texas, journeyman for Nigeria. Sam Choy of Hawaii, named missionary associate for Korea.

#13A Jesse Fletcher (extreme left ) personnel secretary, WE, presents missionary appointee to the W.1u Convention. Left to Right: ldrs. Cobert C. (Helen) Pling of Cleburne, Tex,, IbpW president; Miss Alma Hunt, executive secretary of VIMU, page; Areta Privette, journeyman appointee; Sue Thompson, appointee to hyigeria; Szm Choy appointee to Korea; blurse Johnnie Braswell to Yemen, Irene Jordan, Metropolitan Opera Star speaker for VPlU convention standing to extreme right. Not pictures: Plr. and Mrs. Ruford Hodges appointed to the Orient.

#14 Dr. Franklin Fowler, I;'1.1D, addresses the medical missions breakfast.

1115 President of Baptist Press Association James Cole, editor of the Louisiana Baptist Hessage, presents press identification to new editors TI. Ross Edwards, center, editor-elect of the --Word and %, i:issouri, and C. Eugene IJhitlo~v, editor of the Baptist New Mexican, at right. B16 Ex-presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention with the present president H. Franklin Paschall (66-), Left to Right: Top row - Ramsey Pollard, (59-61); W. Wayne Dehoney (64-66); R, R. Hobbs (61-63); IC. Owen White (63-64); Brooks Hays (57-59); R, G. Lee (48-51); C. C, I~Jarren (55-57); J. B. Storer, (53-55); J. D. ~rey(51-53) and Paschall.

/I17 Mew officers of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association are, left to right, seated: re-elected secretary-treasurer, Gracie ICnowlton, professor of secretarial training, Southwestern Baptist: Theological Seminary, Ft. IJorth; president, Alva G. Parks, minister of education, 7irst ilaptist Church, Montgomery, Ala.; standing: vice president for field workers, Harold A. Southern director of Christian education, Kansas City Baptist Associa- tion; vice president for teachers, Charles A. Tidwell, professor of religious education, Southwestern Seminary; and vice president for church workers, Charles Ed iIowell, minister of education, Central Bark Baptist Church, Birmingham,

Souther is also president-elect.

4/18 Panelist for Pastors' Conference Dinner-Dialogue, Left to Right: Poy Valentine, executive secretary-treasurer, Christian Life Commission; Keith Miller, author; George Schweitzer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

#19 Frees Room Staff.

85 3 qenine of 'Bill 7Jallace cf Chinai, in Miami Beach's Beach Theatre, Left to Right: lIankins F. Park eralocal chairman on SDC arrangements; James bi. Pbrgan, I-Iurst , Texas, and vice president of Logos Corp,; Greg~ryVralcott, producer and star of "Bill Wallace of China"; Mrs. Itlalcott; T. C. llang, Production manager for the film; Miss Lucy Wright, retired SBC missionary, and Dr. Jesse Fletcher, author of both film story and book by the same name.

/I5 3A Crowd entering the opening showing of ItBill I?slllace of China'' Tuesday night of the convention. The showing began at 11: 00 p.m.

$20 New officers of the Southern Baptist Church IiIusic Conference are: (L to R), seated, secretary-treasurer, Gerald P. Armstrong, River 9aks Baptist Church, Houston; president Donald Winters, head of music department, "Tilliarn Carey College, Battiesburg, Miss. ; and vice president Robert L, Snead, Pirst Baptist Church, Nashville.

Standing: A, Joseph King, University Baptist Church, Houston; Carroll Lowe, state music secretary for Louisiana; and Frank Stilwell, FirstBaptist Church, East Point, Ga. Cut 1 ine s 3

All are members of the executive council. Icing and Stilwell represent the local church division, Lowe the denominational workers' division.

Not pictured axe vice presidents Jay Wilkey of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Duane Barrett, state music secretary for California, and executive council members Bob Burroughs of FirstBaptist Church, Abilene; James Jones, First Baptist Church, Atlanta, 11. G. Stroup, Florida Baptist: Convention; IJilliam Haoper, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; and David Appleby, Houston Baptist College.

1\22 & 23 Convention Mall audience during the Convention sermon, delivered opening night (~ueaday) by Landrum Leave11 I1 of llichita Falls, Texas.

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Throc Preaidcnts meet in ncws confcrcncc. Lcft to Right: I. D. McBain, president, American Baptist Convcntion; J. H. Jackson, president, ~ationalBaptist Convention a£ America, Inc. ; H. Franklin Paschall, president, SBC. 8 0

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Foreign missionaries in native costume at Foreign Mission Board reception. L-R seated, Rev. and Mrs. Paul S. C. Smith, Jordan. L-R standing, Paul W. Noland, Brazil; Rev. and Mrs. Bob IJ, Hunt, Taiwan; Nobel D. Brown, Nigeria,

Cutline /,45 New Officers of the SBC executive committee are, 1 - r: Claude Gaddy, North Carolina, secretary; James Pleitz, Florida, chairman; Joe Coleman, Oklahoma, vice chairman; Porter W. Routh, Tennessee, secretary and ireasurer .

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A chaplain and four missionaries at the Home Mission Board reception: L-R: Daniel and Carmon Sanchez, Panama; Galen Irby, Indiana; Enrique Pina, Cuba, and Chaplain B. J. Williamson, Rochester, Minn.

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New appointees for overseas missionary service are recognized during the Foreign Mission Board report to the convention.

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Foy Valentine, executive secretary of the Christian Life Commission, speaks ro his agency's annual report to the convention.

Douglas W. Hudgins, Jackson, Miss., outgoing chairman of the SBC executive camnittee, presents a plaque to Mrs. Ramon T, Davis in appreciation of her service as a member and as secretary of the committee, I,\I4 I from BAPTIST PRE8 NEWS^~ulFIUl#.g SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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Youth Handbell Ringers of River Oaks Baptist Church, Houston, directed by minister of music Gerald P. Armstrong, provide pre-session music for SBC session.

Mrs. Bcn Thompson, Yazoo City, Miss,, one of three surviving members of the original (1927) SBC Executive Committee, receives an orchid from SBC Exccutivc Committee chariman W. Douglas Hudgins, Jackson, Miss. Looking on is Mrs. Thompsonls son-in-law, Owen Cooper (left 1, layman of Yazoo City, and currently a member of the Executive Committee.

Mcsscngcr Earl McWherter, pastor of First Baptist Church, Hot Springs, Ark., tries to get the floor in the discussion on the adoption of an amendment of bylaw 18 during the report of the Executive Committee.

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working press pictured at work (?) in the SBC press room.

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SBC,Rcsolutions committee at work. Chockwise from left: Lamar Jackson, Birmingham, Ale; Clyde Skidmore, California; R. J. Robinson, Georgia; H. H. Hobbs, Okla.; Albert McClcllan (sBC Executive Committee staff): Albert E. Simms, Va.; W. Henry Crouch, N. C.; fohn J. Hurt, Texas; and E. Warren Rust, Missouri.

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Mrs. John Maguirc of Jaclcsonville, Fla., (left), stands at dockside with Mrs. Herbert Howard of Dallas. Mrs. Maguire is outgoing president of thc Confcrcncc of Baptist I.lin$stersl Wives. Mrs. Howard is the new president. The Wives had a lunchcon and boat trip in their agenda Wednesday. #37k

~rb,Maguire and Mrs. Howard welcomc the ministers' wives to their luncheon.

prFks conference Wednesday. L to R: Rabun Brantley, executivc secretary, Education ~okission;Foy Valentine, cxccutivc secrctary, Christian Lifc Commission; N. Franklin Paechall, SBC president; Porter W. Routh, executivc secretary-treasurer of the SBC cxccutive committee; and C. Emmanuel Carlson, cxecutivc sccrctary of the Baptist Joint ~o@itteeon Public Affairs. Carlson is from Washington, the others from Nashville. 1ljsB

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Newly appointed home missionaries hear the charge from Arthur Rutlcdgc, cxccutivc secretary-treasurer of thc Home Mission-more- Board. I b7. Fred Kendall, SBC registration secretary, congratulates C. Henry Preston, pastor of East Ridgc Baptist Church, Chattanooga, Tcnn., the 400,000th messenger to register at tbc SBC since its beginning in 1845. Preston was thc 14,647th mcsscngcr to thc Miami Bcach Convention.

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Re-elected president of the Confcrcncc of Associational Superintendents of Missions was Gene Strahan, lcft, currently serving as superintendent of missions, Kay Association, Oklahoma, and becoming supcrintcndcnt of missions of East Ccntral hssociation, Champaign, Ill., Junc 1, Secretary of thc confcrcncc is Ray Dobbins, superintendent of missions, Miami Baptist Association.

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I~IIALIIBZACiI--Alumni of thc Southcrn Captist Thcolo2icnl Scminary in Louisvillc, Kcntuclcy, honorccl a Vir,:inia pastor and kicked off a $500,000 cndowmcnt-funcl campclip nt their annual mccting herc Thursday.

Thcodorc Adams, former prcsidcnt of thc Baptist '!orld Alliancc and for i'orty ycars a lcadcr in Eaptist lifc, rcccivcd the E. Y. Mullins Denominational Service Award.

L native Flew Yorkcr, ~Idamshas bccn a mcmbcr of thc Baptist World Alliancc cxccutivc! committfe sincc 1934 and pastor of First Baptist Church in Richr,ond, Virsinia, siqcc 1936. For six ycars hc has bccn n dircctor of the Rockcfcllcr Brothers Theolozical Fellowship Propam. Hc was prcsidcnt of thc trustccs of Virzinia Baptist Children's IIomc for 17 ycars and is scrvin; currently as a member of the Southern Baptist Forei2n Mission Board. ilc is author o: thrcc books.

At ~hcirannual lunchcon, hclc! in conncction with thc Southcrn Baptist Convention mectin;; herc, Southern Seminary alumni also launched thc campai~nto cndow thc Billy Graham Chair of Evm:;clism at the seminary.

;Icrschel 11. Hobbs, pastor of First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, an4 Joscph E. Stophcr, Louisvillc nttorncy and chairman of the scrninary trustees, wcrc announced 3s national co-charimcn of the $500,000 fund drive.

Hobbs is onc of four previous rccipicnts of thc E. Y. Mullins a'tlrarcl. Othcrs are Gaincs S. Dobbins, ions-time pro:cssor at Southern and Goldcn Gate Eaptist serqinarics; Sydnor L. Stcalcy, former prcsidcnt of Southeastern Baptist Theolozical Scqinary in North Carolina; and thc latc L. D. Johnson, Eormcr pastor of Third Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. .A . NEWS from BAPTIST PRER SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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MIAMI BEACH--South&rn Baptist pastors werc advised Tuesday morning to examine their religious leadership and theology.

Making the suggestions were Samuel D. Proctor of Washington, president of the In- stitute for Services to Education, and William L. 1-Iendricks, professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth.

Speaking on religious 1.endership in human relations, Proctor, former associate director of the Peach Corps, told members of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference they need the courage to grant that only the government can do somethings the church thinks somebody should do.

His next suggestion was to invest mnrc time, effort, concern and lqynlty to the ecumenical efforts that seek to pool thc resources of tllc church and bring them to bear upon crucial issues where no me church has the staff or time to makc an effective witness.

"This is not a tnattcr of paying someone else to appeal fgr us. It means joining others and speaking together."

Reminding that most decisions are made in an impersonal way in the legislature, by referendum, and in smoke-filled caucus rooms, Proctor said it's going to take more than one preacher or even one church rising up in protest to favorably influence them.

Proctor criticized churches that followed congregations "to suburbia to the grass- , * carpeted, tree-lined satellite communities, and planned developments, . ' - planning to heal those that are well and to servc those who need no physician."

In the admonition about theology, Hcndricks claimed same Southern Baptists are substituting their individual experianccs for the authority of the Biblc and are con- fusing the Bible with God himself,

!'It is a mistake of the worst sort to place Christian experience above the Scrip- turc. It is also wrong to put Scripture FII the place of God."

Hendricks focuscd on child evangelism, the doctrine of eternal security, programs, and the unwritten niotto of "don't qualify, just multiply'' to support his thesis.

In the evangelism of children, ministcrs are being satisfied with very superficial answers, he contended.

Last year Southern Baptist churches baptized 400 children four and five years old. Ten per cent of all baptisms were six through eight years old, he said.

Hendricks said Southern Baptists may be developing in thcir children the feeling they are spiritually lost because they chew buhble~umor disobey their mother.

The theology professor revealed some of hFs studcnts question his Christianity whcn he tries to help them understand and express the historic Baptist dcctrinc of eternal security or "once saved, always saved."

"Wc are practicing what we don't preach, namely a form of falling from grace. It isn't really a falling from grace for many were never there in the first place."

Baptists also need to start aeking how deep the requirements are for Christian faith instead of how broad the terms are for garnering people into the kingdom, Hcndricks added.

Sendricks was critical of persons who seek to justify and bolster their culture, rhcir programs, and custuma by Scripture. Ile called it idolatry of the worst sort.

"Most :I£ our rcligious arguments and much of our misunderstanding riscs, not because we arc asking men to believe the Biblc..,(but) because wc are asking them to bclieve some fantastic interpretation of our own which is not what the Biblc is saying.

"Granted there may be one true final intcrprctntion of the Bible, if this be the case, it: rests with God alone.'! -nor e- Also sharing the pastors1 confcrcnce podium were W. Wayne Dehoney, Louisville, Ky., pastor and formcr pastor of the Southern Baptist Convention, who give a progress report on a hmisphcric-wide cvengelistic crusade; George Schweitzer of knoxville, professor at the University of Tennessee, and Florida state senator Mallory Borne.

In ezrlier sessions, thc mipisters chose Gerald Martin 3f Memphis, Tenn., as their next president, succeeding C. A. Roberts ~f Tallahassee, Fln. Harper Shannon of Dothan, Ala., was elected vice president and Warrcn Littleford of Colfnx, Minn., re-elected secretary-treasurer .

The pastors1 conference was one of four auxiliary meetings prcckding the Southern Baptist Convention which begins four days of activities here Tuesday night.

At the annual meeting (3f Wornsn's Missionary Union, (Timnly R. Allen of Dallas, Tex., lauded new efforts by Southern Baptist wonen to participate in Christian service in the community. Allen is executive secretary of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission.

In encouraging the womcn to be crcativc and courageous, he rcrninded that the brush arbor in religion met the need of its day "but that day is gone."

Other auxiliary groups in session include church music directors and t!lc Xeligiaus Education Association.

Roy Jennings 5-29-67 G p.m. Pa , SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ,":,": ,967 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

CONVENTION HALL Miami Beach, Florida

THEME: "Mand;lte to Minister"

OFFICERS: H. Frrtiik!in Pasctiall, president (pastor, First Bilptist Church, Nashville. Tennessee)

Frcd D Hubbs, first vlce pres~dent(executive secretary, Rapt~st State Convention of M ch~gan Detro~t)

tlowart Aulttnan, second vice president (pastor. First Baptist Church, Columbia, Mis- si;s~pp~l

Ci~ftonI Allen, recording secretary (ed~tor~al scc.retary, SBC Sunday School Board, N,jshv~lle,Tennessee)

W. Frtd Kentlall, registration secretary (ex- ec utive scclctnry. Tennessee Bapt~stCon- vfntion. Nasliv~llc,Tennessee)

Pr,'tcr W Ro~~th.treasurer (executive secre- { lLbv-trcas~~rer.SRC Executive Comrr~ittee, Nashbillr. Tennessee)

Robert L. Sneal;, niuslc d~rector(minister of musir:, F~tst bmt~stChurch, Nashville, l'i!nnessec)

W. C. F~clds,press rcpresentbtivc (public re- litions secretary, SHC Executive Commit- tt:e, Nashville. Tennessee) PROPOSED ORDER OF BUSINESS TUESDAY NIGHT, May 30

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through Preaching"

6:45 Pre-Session Music-Church Orchestra, West End Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. James Hayes, director 7:00 Song Service 7:10 Scripture-Lewis C. McKinney, pastor, Allen Me- morial Baptist Church, Salisbury, Md. Prayer-C. Earl Cooper, pastor, Riverside Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida 7:15 Welcome Address-John Maguire, executive secretary, Florida Baptist Convention, Jacksonville 7:20 Response to Welcome-Clyde Skidmore, pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, Bakersfield, California 7:25 Report of Registration-W. Fred Kendall, executive secretary, Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nash- ville 7:30 Committee on Order of Business-H. Cowen Ellis, pastor, First Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Virginia 7:35 Announcement of Committee on Committees Committee on Resolutions Tellers 7:40 Hymn 7:45 Special Music-Ministers of Music SBC; James Woodward, Oklahoma Baptist University, director 7:50 Convention Sermon-Landrum P. Leavell Ill, pastor, First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas Alternate: Albert Simms, pastor, Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia 8:25 Benediction-William H. Puckett, pastor, First Baptist Church, Mount Gilead, North Carolina WEDNESDAY MORNING, May 31

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through the Churches"

8:45 Pre-Session Music-Youth Bell Choir, River Oaks Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, Gerald Arm- strong, director 9:00 Song Service 9:10 Scripture-John B. Shelton, pastor, Kelham Bap- tist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Prayer-Edward Hughes Pruden, pastor, First Bap- tist Church, Washington, D.C. 9:15 Miscellaneous Business 9:35 Executive Committee Report-Porter W. Routh, executive ~ecretary~treasurer,Nashville, Ten- nessee 10:55 Special Music-Ouachita Baptist University Choir, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, Charles W. Wright, director 11:05 Radio and Television Commission-Paul M. Ste- vens, executive secretary-treasurer-director, Fort Worth, Texas 11:30 Special Music-Men's Ensemble, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Robert L. Snead, minister of music 11:35 President's Address-H. Franklin Paschall, pastor, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee 12:10 Benediction-Lehman Webb, pastor, First Baptist Church, Hot Springs, Arkansas WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, May 31

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through Education"

1:45 Pre-Session Music 2:00 Song Service 2:10 Scripture-R. Carrington Paulette, pastor, First Baptist Church, Staunton, Virginia Prayer-Jack Rodgers, pastor, North Hillside Bap- tist Church, Wichita, Kansas 2:15 Election of Officers and Miscellaneous Business 2:45 Education Commission-Rabun L. Brantley, execu, tive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee 3:00 Congregational Hymn 3:05 Report of Theological Seminaries Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary-Harold K. Graves, president, Mill Valley, California Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary-Millard J. Berquist, president, Kansas City, Missouri New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary-H. Leo Eddlernan, president, New Orleans, Louisiana Seminary Extension Department-Ralph A. Herring, director, Nashville, Tennessee Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary-Olin T. Binkley, president, Wake Forest, North Carolina Southern Baptist Theological Seminary-Duke K. McCall, president, Louisville, Kentucky Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary-Rob- ert E. Naylor, president, Fort Worth, Texas Special Music-The Seminarians, New Orleans Bap- tist Theological Seminary, Ray Baker, director Address on Theological Education-H. Leo Eddle- man, president, New Orleans Baptist Theologi- cal Seminary 420 Benediction-Atanley R. Hahn, pastor, First Baptist Church, Dublin, Georgia WEDNESDAY NIGHT, May 31

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to America"

6:45 Pre-Session Music 7:00 Song Service 7:10 Scripture-0. R. Rice, pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri Prayer-Charles F. Polston, Training Union and church music secretary, Baptist Convention of New Mexico, Albuquerque 7:15 Sunday School Board-James L. Sullivan, executive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee 8:00 Special Music-Sons of Jubal, Georgia, ministers of music, Paul McCommon, director 8:10 Home Mission Board Report and Commissioning Service-Arthur B. Rutledge, executive secretary-treasurer, Atlanta, Georgia Special Music-Joe Ann Shelton, director of program music, SBC Radio-Television Commission, Fort Worth, Texas Address: "The Ministry of Reconciliation"-W. A. Criswell, pastor, First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas 930 Benediction-Jerald R. White Jr., pastor, Central Baptist Church, Altavista, Virginia

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1 NO CONVENTION SESSION

THURSDAY NIGHT. June 1

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to the World"

6:45 Pre-Session Music 7:00 Song Service 7:10 Scripture-Sam Choy, director of cooperative church development, Hawaii Baptist Conven- tion, Honolulu Prayer-Richard Judd, pastor, Penn-Junction Bap- tist Church, St. Louis, Missouri 7:15 Annuity Board-R. Alton Reed, executive secretary, Dallas, Texas 7:35 American Bible Society-W. C. Fields, public relations secretary, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee; chairman SBC American Bible Society Committee 7:45 Woman's Missionary Union-Mrs. Robert Fling, president, Cleburne, Texas and Miss Alma Hunt, executive secretary, Birmingham, Ala- bama 8:00 Congregational Hymn and Special Music-Claude Rhea, Houston Baptist College, Houston, Texas 8:10 Foreign Mission Board-Baker James Cauthen, executive secretary, Richmond, Virginia 9:35 Benediction-Ralph Norton, pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee FRIDAY MORNING, June 2

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through Christian Fellowship"

8:45 Pre-Session Music 9:00 Song Service 9:10 Scripture-Herman E, Jacobs, pastor, Crievewood Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee Prayer-John A. Wood, pastar, First Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky 9:15 Committee on Resolutions 9:30 Miscellaneous Business 10:OO Special Music-Baylor University Choir, Waco, Texas, Euell Porter, director 10:10 Stewardship Commission-Merrill D. Moore, executive director-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee 10:25 Recognition of Fraternal Messengers-Response by Joseph H. Jackson, president, National Bap- tist Convention, Inc., Chicago, Illinois 11:05 Baptist World Alliance-Robert S. Denny, associate general secretary, Washington, D.C. 11:15 Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs-C. Emanuel Carlson, executive director, Wash- ington, D. C. 11:35 Special Music-Ramona Goff Bond, Music Faculty, New Orleans Baptist Theological Semniary 1140 Address: J. D. Gray, pastor, First Baptist Church 1 New Orleans, Louisiana 12:05 Benediction-Frank Trotter, pastor, Logan Street Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, Illinois FRIDAY AFTERNOON, June 2

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through the Laity"

1:45 Pre-Session Music-Handbell Choir, Central Bap tist Church, Miami, Florida, Kenneth Osbrink, director 2:00 Song Service 2:05 Scripture-Richard E. Myers, pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Virginia Prayer-W. LeRay Fowler, pastor, West University Baptist Church, Houston, Texas 2:15 Miscellaneous Business 2:30 Brotherhood Commission-George W. Schroeder, executive secretary-treasurer, Memphis, Ten- nessee 2:45 Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation- Arthur B. Rutledge, executive secretary-treas. urer, SBC Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Georgia 2:50 Special Music-Clint and Jarvis Rose Nichols, New York City 3:00 Address: James Pleitz, pastor, First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Florida 330 Benediction-Samuel G. Shepard, pastor, First Bap- tist Church, Tupelo, Mississippi FRIDAY NIGHT, June 2

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to Youth"

6:45 Pre-Session Music 7:00 Song Service 7:10 Scripture-Robert F. Cochran, pastor, Bon Air Bap- tist Church, Richmond, Virginia Prayer-R. Richard Smith, pastor, First Baptist Church, Athens, Tennessee 7:15 Special Music-Combined Youth Choirs, Miami area Baptist churches-Frank Jacobs, director 7:25 Address-Jim Vaus, Youth Inc., New York City 7:55 Special Music-Anita Bryant, Actress and Singer, Miami, Florida 8:00 Address-Carl Bates, pastor, First Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina 8:30 Benediction-Robert Woodward, pastor, First Bap- tist Church, Frederick, Maryland ADJOURN CONVENTION ORGANIST: Sharron Lyon, organist-music assistant, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee CONVENTION PIANIST: Max Lyall, assistant professor of music, Belmont College. Nashville, Tennessee

Program recommended by COMMITTEE ON ORDER OF BUSINESS

H. Cowen Ellis (chairman), First Baptist Church, Charlottes- ville, Virginia Morris Wall, First Baptist Church, Kaufrnan, Texas Archie E. Brown, First Baptist Church, Vandalia, Illinois Anson Justice, Crestwood Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Richard Kay, layman, Fresno, California Elmer F. Ruark, layman, Salisbury, Maryland H. Franklin Paschal1 (ex officio), SBC president, First Bap- tist Church, Nashville, Tennessee SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

TUESDAY NIGHT

Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man . . . not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.-When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, we are unprofitable servants: We have done that which was our duty to do. Our rejoicing is thls, . . . that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. Acts 20. 19. Matt. 20. 26-28 Gal. 6. 3. Rom. 12. 3 Lk. 17. 10 2 Cor. 4. 7. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

WEDNESDAY MORNING

Put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. As Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 1 Peter 2. 24 Eph. 4. 22-24 Col. 3, 3. Rom. 6. 4, 6, 7, 11-13 SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deed were evil. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. love ia of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shin- eth more and more unto the perfect day. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. 2 Cor. 6. 14. John 3. 19. 1 Thess. 5. 5. 1 John 2, 11 Psa. 119. 105 Psa. 74. 20. 1 John 4. 7, 8. Pr. 4. 19, 18. John 12. 46 Eph. 5. 8. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

WEDNESDAY NIGHT

The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto hlm, and make our abode with him. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 1 John 2. 5. Heb. 13. 20, 21. 1 John 2. 3-John 14. 23. - 1 John 3. 6, 7 - 1 John 4. 17. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

THURSDAY MORNING

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit. After that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our Inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy un- speakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. We walk by faith, not by sight. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. Heb. 11. 1 1 Cor. 15. 19. 1 Cor. 2. 9, 10. Eph. 1. 13, 14. John 20. 29. 1 Pet. 1, 8, 9. 2 Cor. 5. 7. Heb. 10. 35. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS THURSDAY NIGHT

As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one spirit. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ. If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. These words spake Jesus. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word: that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that thoy also may be one in us. Phil. 1. 5. 1 Cor. 12. 12, 13. 1 Cor. 1. 9. 1 John 1. 3. 1 John 1. 7. John 17, 1, 20, 21. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

FRIDAY MORNING

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. God hath called us to peace. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth In thee. The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell' safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Great peace have they which love thy law. Gal. 5. 22. Rorn. 8. 6. 1 Cor. 7. 15 John 14. 27. Rorn. 15. 13. 2 Tit. 1. 12- lsa. 26. 3 Isa. 32. 17, 18-Prov. 1. 33. Psa. 119. 165. 'i SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable. Ye were as sheep going astray: but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant: for I do not forget thy commandments. He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? Isa. 53. 6. 1 John 1. 8. Rom. 3. 10-12 1 Pet. 2. 25. Psa. 119. 176. Psa. 23. 3. John 10. 27, 28. Lk. 15. 4. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS

FRIDAY NIGHT

I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all prin- cipality and power. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Search me, 0 God and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Matt. 5. 48. Gen. 17. 1 Lev. 20. 26 1 Cor. 6. 20. Col. 2. 10. Tit. 2. 14 2 Pet. 3. 14. Psa. 119. 1 Jas. 1. 25 Psa. 139. 23, 24. CONVENTION HYMNS

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

1. All hail the power of Jesus' name! T,et angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all.

2. Ye chose11 seed of Israel's race. Ye ransomed from the fall, IIail Him who saves you by His grace, And crown Hirn 1,ord of all.

:3. T,et every kindred, every tribe, On this terrestrial ball, To Him all majesty ascribe, And crown Him 1,ol.d of all.

Edward Perronet Alt. by John Rippon Amazing Grace

1. Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wrctch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

2. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fcar, And grace lny Ee,ars relieved; IIow precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed!

3. Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace hath bro't me safe thus far, And grace will lead mo hornc.

4. When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first begun.

John Newton America the Beautiful

1. 0 beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above thc fruited plain! Amcrica ! America ! God shrd His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

2. 0 h~autifulfor pilarim feet, Whosr stern, ilupil~sionedstress .\ thorough-fare for frtwdom heat, Across the wilderness ! America ! America ! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in ~elf-control, Thy liberty in law.

3. 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees, bcyond the years, Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears! America ! America ! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood Froin sea to shining sea.

Katharine Lee Bates At the Cross

1. Alas, and did by Saviour bleed And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head I For sinners such as I? 2. Was it for crimes that I have done Be groan~rlupon the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown, And love beyond degree!

3. But drops of grief can ne'er repay The debt of love I owe; Here, Lord, I give myself away, 'Tis all that I can do.

At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, And the burden of my heart rolled away, It was there by faith I received my sight, And now I am happy all the day!

Isaac Watts Refrain, Ralph E. Hudson Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine

1. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a forctaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of Itis Spirit, washed in His blood. 1 2. Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight: Angels descending, bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

::. Perfect submission, all is at rest, I in my Saviour am happy ant1 blest: Watching and waiting, looking above, Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

REFRAIN This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Saviour all the day long; This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Saviour all the day long.

Fanny J. Crosby Blessed Be the Name

1. 0 for a thousand tongues to sing, Blessed be the name of the Lord! / The glories of my God and King, I Blessed be the name of the Lord!

2. Jesus, the name that calms my fears, Blessed be the name of the Lord! 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, Blessed be the name of the Lord!

5. Be breaks the power of canceled sin, Blessed be the name of the Lord! His blood can make the foulest clean, Blessed be the name of the Lord!

REFRAIN Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord! Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord!

Charles Wesley Breathe on Me

1. Holy Spirit, breathe on me, Until my heart is clean; Let sunshine fill its inmost part, With not a cloud between.

2. Holy Spirit, breathe on me, My stubborn will subdue; Teach me in words of loving flame What Christ would have me do.

3. Holy Spirit, breathe on me, Till I am all Thine own, Until my will is lost in Thine, To live for Thee alone.

Breathe on me, breathe on me, Holy Spirit, breathe on me; Take Thou my heart, cleanse every part, Holy Spirit, breathe on me.

Edwin Hatch Alt. by B. B. McKinney

1. Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of lourlest praise: Tcach mr! some melodious sonnet, Sung hy flaming tongues above; Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it Mount of Thy redeeming love.

2. Here I raise mine Ebcnczer; Hither by Thy help I'm come; I And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home: ! Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wand'rinp from the fold of God; He, to rescue me from danger, Interposed His precious blood.

3. 0 to grace how great a debtor I Daily I'm constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wand'ring heart to Thee: Pronc to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave tho God I love; Hero's my heart, 0 take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above.

1 Robert Robinson Down at the Cross

1. Down at the cross where my Saviour died, Down where for cleansing: from sin I cried, There to my heart was the blood applied; Glory to His name.

2. I am so wondrously saved from sin, .Icsus so cweetly ahides within; There at the cross where He took me in; Glory to His name.

3. Oh, precious fountain so rich and sweet; Cast thy poor soul at the Saviour's feet; Plunge in today, and be made complete; Glory to His name.

REFRAIN Glory to His name, Glory to His name: There to my heart was the blood applied; Glory to His name.

Elisha A. Hoffman Glorious Is Thy Name

1. Blessed Saviour, we adore Thee, Wc Thy love and grace proclaim; / Thou art mighty, Thou art holy, Glorious is Thy matchless name!

2. Great Kcclccmcr, 1,or.d and Master, 1,ight of all eternal days; 1,et the saints of every nation Sing Thy just and endless praise!

:3. Come, 0 come, immortal Saviour, Collie and take Thy royal throne; Come, and reign, and reign forever, Be the kingdo~nall Thine own!

REFRAIN Glorious, Glorious, Glorious is Thy name, 0 I,ord! Glorious, Glorious C$lor.ious is Thy name, 0 Lord!

1. Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt, Yonder on Calvary's mount outpoured, There where the blood of the Lamb was spilt.

2. Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, Freely bestowed on all who believe; You that are longing to see His face, Will you this moment His grace receive?

Grace, grace, God's grace, Grace t,hat will pardon anti cleanse within; Grace, grace, God's grace, Grace that is greater than all our sin.

.Julia H. Johnston

Cupyright 1910. Renewal 1938 by A. P. Tuwner. As- sian~dto Hupe Puhlifihing Company. Used by permission. 30 Have Faith in God

1. Have faith in God when your pathway ia lonely, He sees and knows all the way you have trod; Never alone are the least of His children; Have faith in God, have faith in God.

2. Have faith in God when your prayers are unanswered, Your earnest plea He will never forget; Wait on the Lord, trust His Word and be patient, Have faith in God, He'll answer yet.

3. Have faith in God though all else fail about You; Have faith in Gd,He provides for His own; We cannot fail though all kingdoms shall perish, Be rules, He reigns upon His throne.

REFRAIN Have faith in God, He's on His throne; Have faith in God, He watches o'er His own; He cannot fail, He must prevail; Have faith in God, Have faith in God.

B. B. McKinney

1. I serve a risen Saviour, He's in the world today; I know that He is living, whatever men may say; I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer, And just the time I need Him He's always near.

2. Rejoice, rejoice, 0 Christian, lift up your voice and sing Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus Christ the King! The hope of all who seek Him, the help of all who find, None other is so loving, so good and kind.

REFRAIN He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how 1 know He lives: He lives within my heart.

Alfred H. Ackley !

1. Heralds of Christ, who bear the King's commands, Itnmortal tidings in your mortal hands, Pass on and carry swift the news yo bring, Make straight, makc straight the highway of the King.

2. Through desert ways, dark fen and deep morass. Through jungles, sluggish scas, and mountain pass, Ruiltl ye the road, and falter not, nor stay, Prepare across the earth the King's highway.

3. Lord, give us faith and strength the road to build, To see the promise of the day fulfilled, When war shall be no more and strife shall cease Upon the highway of the Prince of peace.

Mary A. Thomson

From the Lutheran Service Book and Hymnal. Used by i permission of the Cummiasion on the Liturgy and Hymnnl. How Firm a Foundation

1. How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

2. "Fear not, I anr with thee: 0 be not dismayed, For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.

S. "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake 1'11 never, no, never, no, never forsake!"

"K" in Rippon's Selection, 1787

Words and Music Copyright, 1981 Renewal, The Rode- heaver Co., owner. Uaed by permission. 34 I I Know Whom I Have Believed 1. I know not why God's wondrous grace To me He hath made known, Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love, Redeemed me for His own.

2. I know not how this saving faith To me He did impart, Not how believing in His Word Wrought peace within my heart.

3. I know not when my Lord may come, At night or noonday fair, Nor if I'll walk the vale with Him, Or meet Him in the nix.

REFRAIN But "I know whom I have believed, And am persuaded that We is able To keep that which I've committed Unto Him against that day."

Daniel W. Whittle I Love to Tell the Story

1, I love to tell the story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love: I love to tell the story Because I know 'tis true; It satisfies my longings As nothing else can do.

2. I love to tell the story; For those who know it best Seem hungering and thirsting To hear it, like the rest: And when in scenes of glory I sing the new, new song, 'Twill be the old, old story That I have loved so long. REFRAIN I love to tell the story, 'Twill be my theme in glory To tell the old, old story Of Jesus and His love,

Katherine Hankey I Will Sing the Wondrous Story

1. I will sing the wondrous story Of the Christ who died for me, How HE:left His home in glory For the cross of Calvary.

2. I was lost, but Jesus found me, Fouild the sheep that went astray, Threw His loving arms around me, Drew me back into His way.

3. Be will keep me till the river Rolls its waters at my feet; Then He'll bear me safely over, Where the loved ones I shall meet.

Yes, I'll sing the wondrous story Of the Christ who died for me Sing it with the saints in glory Gathered by the crystal sea.

Frances IT. Rowley Jesus, Is All the World to Me

1. Jesus is all the world to me, My life, my joy, my dl; He is my strength from day to day, Without Him I would fall : When I am sad, to Him I go, No other one can cheer me so; When I am sad Be makes me glad, He's my friend.

2. Jesus is all the world to me, My friend in trials sore; I go to Him for blessings, and He gives them o'er and o'er: He sends the sunshine and the rain, He sends the harvest's golden grain; Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain, He's my friend.

3. Jesus is all the world to me I want no better friend; I trust Him now, I'll trust Him when Life's fleeting days shall end: Beautiful life with such a friend, Beautiful life that has no end; Eternal life, eternal joy, He's my friend. Will L. Thornpnon 1. Jesus keep me near the cross, There a precious fountain, Free to all, a healing stream, Flows from Calv'ry's mountain.

2. Near the cross, a trembling soul, Love and mercy found me; There the Bright and Morning Star Shed His beams around me.

3. Near the cross! I'll watch and wait, Hoping, trusting ever, Till I reach the golden strand, Just beyond the river.

In the cross, in the cross Be my glory ever, Till my raptur'd soul shall find Rest beyond the river.

Fanny J, Crosby Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun

1. Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom spread from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

2. From north to south the princes meet To pay their homage at His feet; While western empires own their Lord, And savage tribes attend His word.

3. People and realms of every tongue Dwell on His lovo with sweetest song, And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on His name.

Isaac Watts Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

1. Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven, to carth come down; Fix in us Thy humble dwelling; All Thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, Thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation; Enter every trembling heart.

2. Breathe, 0 breathe Thy loving Spirit Into every troubled breast! Let us all in Thee inherit, Let us find the promised rest; Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be; End of faith, as its beginning, Set our hearts at liberty.

3. Finish, then, Thy new creation; Pure and spotless let us be; Let us see Thy great salvation Perfectly restored in Thee: Changed from glory into glory, Till in heaven we take our place, Till we cast our crowns before Thee, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

Charles Wesley Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned

1. Majestic sweetness sits enthroned Upon the Saviour's brow; His head with radiant glories crowned. His lips with grace o'erflow, His lips with grace o'erflow.

2. No mortal can with Him compare, Among the sons of men; Fairer is He than all the fair Who fill the heav'nly train, Who fill the heav'nly train.

3. To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave, And snvcs me from the grave.

Samuel Stennett My Jesus, I Love Thee

1. My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine, For Thee all the follies of sin I resign; My gracious Redeemer, my Saviour art Thou; If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

2. I love Thee because Thou hast first loved me, And purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree; I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow; If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

3. In mansions of glory and endless delight I'll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright; I'll sing with the glittering: crown on my brow, If ever I love Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

William R. Featherstone 0 for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

1. 0 for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise, Thc glories of my God and King, The traiumphs of His grace!

2. My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim, To spread through all the earth abroad The honors of Thy name.

3. Be breaks the pow'r of canceled sin, He sets the pris'ner free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me.

4. He breaks the power of canceled sin, He sets the pris'ner free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me.

Charles Wesley Onward, Christian Soldiers

1. Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before! Chr'i~t,the royal Master, Leads against the foc; F'o~wardinto battle, See His haliner go!

2. At the sign of triumph Satan's host doth flee; On, then, Christian soldiers, On to victory! I-Tell's foundations quive~ At the shout of praise; Brothers, lift your voices, 1. Loud your anthems raise! 3. Onward, then, yc people, Join our happy throng, Blend with ours your' voices In the triuniph song; Glory, laud, and honor, Unto Christ the King; This thro' countless ages Men and angels sing.

REFRAIN Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before !

Sabine Baring-Gould Rise Up, 0 Men of God

1. Rise up, 0 men of God! Have done with lesser things ; Give heart and mind and soul and strength To serve the King of kings.

2. Rise up, 0 men of God! His kingdom tarries long; Bririg in the day of brotherhood And end the night of wrong.

3. Rise up, 0 men of God! The church for you doth wait, Her strength unequal to her task; Rise up, and make her great!

4. Lift high the cross of Christ! Tread where His feet have trod; As brothers of the Son of man, Rise up, 0 men of God!

William P. Merrill Send the Light

1. There's a call comes ringing o'er the restless wave, "Send thc light! Send the light!" There are souls to rescue, there are souls to save, Send the light! Send the light!

8. We have heard the Macedonian call today, "Send the light! Send the light!" And a golden offering at the cross we lay, Send the light! Send the light!

3. Let us not grow weary in the work of love, Send the light! Send the light! Let us gather jewels for a crown above, Send the light! Send the light!

REFRAIN Send the light! the blessed gospel light; Let it shine from shore to shore! Send the light! the blessed gospel light; Let it shine forevermore.

Charles H. Gabriel Take the Name of Jesus With You

1. Take the name of Jesus with you, Child of sorrow and of woe; It will joy and comfort give you, Take it then wher'e'er you go.

2. Take the name of Jesus ever As a shield from every snare; If temptations round you gather, Breathe that holy name in prayer.

3. At the name of Jesus bowing, Falling prostrate at His feet, King of kings in heav'n we'll crown Him, When our journey is complete.

REFRAIN Precious name, 0 how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of heaven; Precious name, 0 how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of heaven.

Lydia Baxter 1. The church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is His new creation, By Spirit and the Word: From heaven He came and sought her To be His holy bride, With His own blood He bought her, And for. her lift. He died.

2. Elect from every nation, Yet one o'er all the earth, Her charter of salvation, One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy name she blesses, Partakes one holy food, And to one hope she presses, With every grace endued.

1 3. Yet she on earth hath union With God the Three in One, And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won; 0 happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we, Like them, the meek and lowly, On high may dwell with Thee.

Samuel J. Stone The Solid Rock

1. My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness; 1 dare not trust; the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus' name.

2. When darkness seems to hide His face, I. rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil.

3. When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh, inay I then in Him be found; Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne.

REFRAIN On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.

Edward Mote I

There Is a Name I Love to Hear

1. There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; It sounds like masic in mine ear, The sweetest name on earth,

2. It tells me of a Saviour's love, Who died to set me free; It tells me of His precious blood, The sinner's perfect plea.

3. It tells of One whose loving heart Can feel my deepest woe, Who in each sorrow bears a part, That none can bear below.

REFRAIN Oh, how I love Jesus, Oh, how I love Jesus, Oh, how I love Jesus, Because He first loved me. I Frederick Whitfield 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

1. 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, And to take Him at His word; Just to rest upon His promise, And to know, "Thus saith the Lord."

2. 0 how sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to trust His cleansing blood; And in simple faith to plunge me 'Neath the healing, cleansing flood!

3. I'm so glad I learned to trust Thee, Precious Jcsus, Saviour, friend; And I know that Thou art with me, Wilt be with me to the end.

REFRAIN Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How I've proved Him o'er and o'er! Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! 0 for grace to trust Him more!

Louisa M. K. Stead I To God Be the Glory

I. To God be the glory, great things He hath done ; So loved He the world that He gave us His Son, Who yielded His life an atonement for sin, And opened the lifegate that all may go in.

2. 0 perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, To cvcry believer the promise of God; The vilest offender who truly believes, That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

3. Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done, And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son, But purer, and higher, and greater will be Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.

REFRAIN Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the earth hear His voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the people rejoice! 0 come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, And give Him the glory, great things He hath done. Fanny J. Crosby We Have Heard the Joyful Sound

1. We have heard the joyful sound: Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Spread the tidings all around : Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Bear the news to every land, Climb the steeps and cross the waves; Onward! 'tis our Lord's command; Jesus saves ! Jesus saves !

2. Waft it on the rolling tide: Jesus saves ! Jesus saves! Tell to sinners far and wide: Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Sing, ye islands of the sea; Echo back, ye ocean caves; Earth shall keep her jubilee : Jesus saves ! Jesus saves !

3. Give the winds a mighty voice: Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Let the nations now rejoice, Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Shout salvation full and free; Highest hills and deepest caves; This our song of victory: Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

Priscilla J. Owens We Praise Thee, 0 God

1. We praise Thee, 0 God! for the Son of Thy love, For Jesus who died, and is now above.

2. We praise Thee, 0 God! for Thy Spirit of liiht, Who hath shown us our Saviour, and scattered our night.

3. Revive us again; fill each heart with Thy love; May each soul be rekindled with fire from above.

REFRAIN Hallelujah! Thine the glory, Hallelujah! amen; Hallelujah! Thine the glory, Revive us again. William P. Mackay We're Marching to Zion

1. Come, we that love the Lord, And let our joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne, And thus surround the throne.

2. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God; But children of the heav'nly King, But children of the heav'nly King, May speak their joys abroad, May speak their joys abroad.

3. Then let our songs abound, Afid every tear be dry; We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground, We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground, To fairer worlds on high, To fairer worlds on high.

We're marching to Zion, Beautiful, beautiful Zion; We're marching upward to Zion, The beautiful city of God. Isaac Watts When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

1. When I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

2. Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood.

3. See, from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown.

4, Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts When We Walk with the Lord

1. When we walk with the Lord In the light of His Word What a glory He sheds on our way! While we do His good will, He abides with us still, And with all who will trust and obey.

REFRAIN Trust and obey, for there's no other way To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

2. Not a burden we bear, Not a sorrow we share, But our toil He doth richly repay; Not a grief or a loss, Not a frown or a cross, But is blest if we trust and obey.

3. Then in fellowship sweet We will sit at His feet Or we'll walk by His side in the way; What He says we will do, Where He sends we will go; Never fear, only trust and obey.

John H. Sammis CONVENTION HYMNS

20 All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name 21 Amazing Grace 22 America the Beautiful 23 At the Cross 24 Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine 25 13lessed Be the Name 26 Breathe on Me 27 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing 28 Down at the Cross 29 Glorious Is Thy Name 30 Grace Greater Than Our Sin 31 Have Faith in God 32 He Lives 33 Heralds of Christ 34 How Firm a Foundation 35 I Know Whom I Have Believed 36 I Love to Tell the Story 37 I Will Sing the Wondrous Story 38 Jesus, Is All the World to Me 39 Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross 40 Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun 41 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling 42 Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned 43 My Jesus, I Love Thee 44 Oh for a Thousand Tongues to Sing 45 Onward, Christian Soldiers 46 Rise Up, 0 Men of God 47 Send the Light 48 Take the Name of Jesus With You 49 The Church's One Foundation 60 The Solid Rock 51 There Is a Name I Love to Near 52 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus 53 To God Be the Glory 54 We Have Beard the Joyful Sound 55 We Praise Thee, 0 God 56 We're Marching to Zion 57 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 58 When We Walk with the Lord

I You'll want to visit the book store exhibit in the South wing of Convention Hall. Follow the signs, or ask anyone In the maln exh~blt area for directions. Remember your trip-and the folks back home-.- with a gift from the choice selections at the book store exhiblt. And, you may charge your purchases here to your account back home.

AFTER YOU RETURN HOME. . . LET YOUR BAPTIST BOOK STORE SERVE YOU!

When Southern Baptists need help in preparing sermons, Sunday School lessons, Training Union, WMU, Brotherhood, and rnusic programs, worship services, and for daily living, they have traditionally turned to their local Baptist Book Store for assistance. Here is a store- hriuse of knowledge that exists for the sole purpose of serving its denorninaton: a lighthouse of Christian truth in the local community, and a vital factor in communicating God's love to all who support it.

Baptist Book Store:; are the only stores which return their earnings to Southern Baptists. The Sunday School Board, which owns and operates the stores, uses a large portion of its earninps to assist churches, associations, and state conventions in establishing, conducting, en- larging, and irr~provin~educational programs. A sizeable portion of the Board's total earnings is distributed to respective state Baptist conventions annually for the promotion of Sunday School, Training Union, church music, student, and church architecture programs.

Nowhere does you1 dollar do as much good for your church and denomination as it does when you call, 1 write, or visit your Baptist Book Store for Bibles, music, recordings, books of every publisher and subject, church record supplies, children's furniture, offering envelope and anthem services. Let your local Baptist Book Store serve you always . . . it helps you in so niany ways!

BAPTIST A BOOK STORE Service with a Christian Distinction Wednesday Morning "Mandate to Millister through th~Ch~irrhes"

P r e - S e s s i o n Music-Youth Bell Choir, Gerald Armstrong, Texas, Director Song Service Scripture-John B. Shelton, Okla- homa Prayer-Edward Hughes Pruden, D. C. Miscellaneous Business Exccutive C o m m itt e e Report- Porter W. Ronth, Tennessee WOMAN'S MISSIONARY (INION Special Music -0 u a c h i 1 a Baptist Minrrii Beach Auditoriurrr, May 29-30 University Choir, Charles W. Wright, Arkansas, Director PASTORS' CONFERENCE Karlio and Television Commission- Paul M. Stevens, Texas Con,~~rnrionHall, Way 29-30 Special Music-First Raptjst Church, Nashville, Tennessee * RELIGIOIJS EDIICA'I'ION ASSOOT1A'I'ION Prcsidcnt's Address-H. Franklin SI~rlhornr,Hotel, May 29-30 Paschall, Tennessee Bcnediction-Lehman Webb, Arkan- CHIIRCH MIISlC CONFERENCE sas Central Hopris~Chl~rvh, May 29-30

Wednesday Afternoon "Ma~lclulrto Minister thro~lrrli FJr!-rfion"

Southern Baptist Canvertion 1 :45 Prc-Session Music GENERAL THEME : "Mandate to Minister" 2:00 Song Service 2: 10 Scripture-R. Carrington Paulette, Virginia Tuesday Night 7:30 Committee on Order of Husiness- Prayer-Jack Rodgers, Kansas "Mrrndata to Minister ihmrcgh Preaclring" H. Cowen Ellis, Virginia 7:35 Announcement of Committee on 2: 15 Election of Officers and Miscel- 6:45 Pre-Session Music Committees laneous Business 7:00 Song Service Committee on Resolutions 2 :45 Education Commission-Rabun L. 7:10 Scripti~re-Lewis C. McKinney, Tellers Brantley, Tennessee Maryland 7:40 Hymn 3 :00 Congregational Hymn Prayer-C. Earl Cooper, Florida 7:45 Special Music-Ministers of Music 3 :05 Report of Theological Seminaries SRC; James Woodward, Okla- 7: 15 Welcome Address-John Maguire, homa, Dircctor Golden Gate Baptist Theological Florida 7: 50 Convention Sermon-Lindrurn P. Seminary-Harold K. Graves, 7 :20 Re\ponse to Welcome-Clyde Skid- T.eavcll TTT. Texas California more, California Alternatc: ~ibertSimrns, Virginia Midwestern Baptist Theological 7:25 Report of Registration-W. Fred 8:25 Benediction-William H. Puckett, Seminary-Millard J. Berquist, Kendall, Nashville North Carolina Missouri New Orleans Bliptist Theological 10:55 Southern Raplist Fo~~ndation-J. W. 11 :05 Baptist World Alliance-Josef Nor- Seminary--H . Leo Eddleman, Storer, Tennessec denhaug, D. C. Louisiana l l :0S Christian l ife Comnlission Report 1 1 : 15 Baptist Joint Committee on Public Seminary Extension Dcpartment- --by Valentine, Tennessee Affair-C. Bmanucl Carlson, Ralph A. Hcrring, Director, Ten- 1 1 : 15 Adrlrebs on Pcace-U. S. Senator D. C. nessee Mxk Hatficld, Oregon 1 1 : 35 Specla1 Music-Ramona Goff Bond, Southeastcrn Raptist Theological Louisiana Serninarv-Olin T. Rinklev, North 1 1 :45 Special Music-A1 Fennell, Florida C;irc)lina Sermon-'Theodore P. Adams, Vir- I1 :40 Address-J. D. Gray, Louisiana Southern Hnptist hheological Semi- ginia 12:05 Benediction-Frank Trottcr, Tllinois nary-Duke K. McCall, Ken- 12:15 Benediction-Ted Roberts, Cali- fornia tucky Friday Afternoon Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary-Roberl E. Naylor, f hursday Afternoon "Manduto to Adit11rrpr lltro~lghthe Laity" Texas No Cor~vt,n~ionS~ssion 1 :45 Pre-Session Music-Handbcll Choir, Spccial Music-Thc Seminarians, Kenneth Oshrink, Florida, Direc- Ncw Orleans Baptist Theological Thursday Night tor Seminary, Ray Baker, Direclor "Mrrrldule to Mi11i~tc.rto the World'' 2300 Song Service Address on Theological Education -H. Leo Eddleman, Louisiana 6:45 Pre-Session Music 2:05 Scripture-Richard E. M ycrs, Vir- 7:00 Song Service ginia 4:20 Benediction3 t anl e y K. Hahn, Prayer-W. LeKay Fowler, Texas Georgia 7: 10 Scripture-Sam Choy, Hawaii Praycr-Richard Judd, Missouri 2: 15 Miscellaneuus Business : Annuity Board-R. Alton Reed, 2: 30 Rrotherhood Commission-George Wednesday Night Texas W. Schroeder, Tennessee "Mnrldatf to Mirlistfr tt7 .4merica" 7:35 American Bible Society-W, C. 2:45 Committee on Canadian Baptist Co- Fields, Tcnnessee operation-Arthur-. B. Rutledge, h:45 Pre-Session Music creorgla 7:00 Song Servicc 7:45 Woman's Missionary Union-Mrs. Helcn Fling, Texas 2:50 Spccial Music-Clint and Jt-lrvis 7: 10 Scripture-0. R. Rice, Missouri Rose Nichols, New York 8:OO Congregaticnal Hymn and Special Prayer-Charles F. Polston, New 3:00 Address: James Pleitz, Florida Mexico Music-Claudc Rhea, Texas 8: ~i~~i~~~~~~d-~~k~~3 : 30 Benediction-Samuel G. Shepard, 7:lS Sunday School Board-James L. Sullivan, Tennessee ~ar'ies{huthen, Virginia Mississippi 8:00 Special Music-Sons of Jubal, Rencdiction-Kalph Norton, Ten- Georgia, Paul McCommon, Di- nessce Friday Night rector 8: I0 Home Mission Board Report and Friday Morning 6:45 Pre-Session Music Commissioning Servic-Arthur "Mnnilittr to Mir~isterthrurigll 7:00 Song Service B. Rutledge, Georgia rlrriltiari F~llowship" 7:10 Scripture-Robert F. Cochran, Vir- Special Music-Joe Ann Shelton, Pre-Session Music ginia Texas Song Service Prayer-R. Richard Smith, Tennes- Addrcss: "Thc Ministry of Kecon- see cilialion"--W. A. Criswcll, Texas Scripture-Hcrman E. Jacobs, Ten- Special Appeal-Arthur R. Rutlcdge ncssec 7: 15 Special Music-Combined Youth Prnycr-John A. Wood, Kentucky Choirs, Miami area Baptist 9:30 Benediction-Jerald R. White, Jr., churches Virginia Committee on Resolutions Miscellaneous Business 7:25 Address-Jim Vaus, New York Spcci:~l Music-Haylor University 7:55 Special Music-Anita Bryant, Thursday Morning Choir, Eucll Porter, Director Florida "Adarldure to Ministpr to Persorrs" Ste~~~rdshipCommission-Mcrrill 8:OO Address-Carl Bates, North Caro- lina 8 :45 Pre-Session Music D. Moore, Tennessee 9:00 Song Scrvicc Rccognition of Fraternal Messen- 8: 30 Benediction-Robert Woodw a r d , gers-Response by Joseph H. Maryland 9: 10 Scripture-Otto J. Brown, Indiana Jackson, Illinois Adjourn Prayer-Kenneth A. Estep, Pcnnsyl- vania 9.15 Report of Committee on Boards and Miscellaneous Busines? WomanysMMissfonary Union Y:45 Elcct~onof Ofiicers 10.00 Chaplain's Commi\sion--George W. THEME: In His Name Cummins, Georgia 10: 10 Southern Baptist Hospitals-Hardy Monday Morning, 9:30 Joseph Pipkin, Florida Hymn M. Harrell, 1,ouisiana Organ Mcditation---Mrs. Charlcs Walker, 10:20 Historical Commission-Davis C. Solo-Irene Jordan, New York Florida To Build in His Name-Roy F. Lewis, Woollcy, Tennessee 'I'o Prcach thc Gospel to the Poor-J. I,yn ccnrgia 10:30 Committee on Denominational Cal- Elder, California Meditation Hymn-Irene Jordan endar-Dan Bryson, Mi\souri Song Service-W. Hines Sirns, Tcnnessee Adjournment 10:35 Amcrican Baptist Theological Semi- First Ccnt~~ryChristians-A Rihlc Tableau nary-Rabun L. Brantley, Ten- Twentieth Century Christians-The Gift Monday Afternoon, 1 :45 nessee of Going 10:45 Comrr~itteeon Baptist State Papers Sarah Ann Hobbs, North Carolina Piano Meditation-Mrs. W. G. Stroup, -Herschel H. Hobbs, Oklahoma Mrs. Ben Thompson, Mississippi Florida To Heal the Brokenhearted-L. Lyn Elder Tuesday Afternoon, 1 :45 Mrs. Jamie C. Maiden, Missionary Associate, Nigeria Song Servicc Organ Meditation Hymn First Ckntury Christians-A Bible Tableau To Set at Liberty Them That Are Bruised- ~~l~-i~~~~jordan Twenticth Century Christians-A Loaf or J. Lyn Elder a Coat in His Name 13eep Is the Hunger-Mrs. Robert Fling, Song Service Prcsident, Woman's Missionary Union Mrs. Howard L. Shocmakc, Mission- First Century Chr~stians-A Rible Tableau Meditation Hyn~n-Trcnc Jordan ary, Dominican Republic Twentieth Cenlury Christians-What Do Mrs. Joscfina Henitez, President, CLI- Missionaries Do? Adjournment ban WMU, Miami Hymn Solo-lrene Jordan Pulse Beal in Panama-Daniel Gruver, M.D., Panama PastorspConference Meditation Hymn-Irene Jordan THEME: "Mandate to Minister" Adjournment

Monday Morning Prayer Special Music Music 7: 30 "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . Invocation Monday Evening, 7:30 To the World of Religionv- President's Messag-. A. Roberts, Howard Butt, Jr., grocery chain pastor, First Baptist Church, executive, Corpus Christi, Texas Organ Mcditation Tallahassee, Florida 8: 15 Offering '1'0 Proclaim Deliverancc to the Captives- "The Minister Addresses Himself . . . 8:25 "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . J. L.yn Elder To the Many Worlds About Us" To the World of Entertainment" Song Service -John Wood, pastor, First Bap- -Anita Bryant, actress and sing- tist Church, Paducah, Kentucky First Ccntury Christians-A Riblc 'Tableau er, Miami, Florida "The Minister Addresses Himself.. Twentieth Ccntury Christians-To a World . 9:00 Athletic Award to Golfer Gary To the World of His Church"- Player in Kevolulion W. Fred Swank, pastor, Sagamore Missionary Appointees Hill Baptist Church, Fort Worth, 9:30 "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . Missionary Journeymen Texas To the World of Athletics"- James Jeffrey, executive director, Missionary Associates Offering Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Prcscnted by Jesse C. Fletcher, Music Kansas City, Missouri Forcign Mission Board "God Isn't Dead"--Gert Behanna, Hymn author and lecturer, Kerrville, Missions and Music-Irene Jordan Texas Tuesday Morning Encounter with Pain-Martha Jordan Gilli- 9:00 Song Service land, M.D., Missionary, Nigeria Monday Afternoon Praver Medilalion Hymn-Irene Jordan Song Service "1t7H All for Evangelismw-Ed Crow, pastor, First Baptist Church, Adiournment Prayer Brownfield, 'Cexas Election of Officers 9:30 "Christianity and World Issues"-- Music George Schweitzer, professor, "Multiplication versus Addition9'- University of Tennessee, Knox- C. E. Garrison, pastor, First Bap- ville Tuesday Morning, 9:30 tist Church, Altus, Oklahoma 10:lO Offering Offering 10: 15 "The Minister Addresses Himself . . . Piano Meditation Music To the World of Religious Au- To Prcach Recovery uf Sight to the Blind- "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . thority"-William Hendricks, pro- J. Lyn Elder To the World of the Working fessor, Southwestern Baptist Man'-Benny Bray, postal super- Theological Seminary, Fort Song Service visor, Dallas, Texas Worth, Texas First Cent~iryChristians-A Bible Tableau Testimony and Song 10:35 "The Minister Addresses Himself . . . Twenticth Century Uhri\tians--US-2 Mis- "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . To the World of Government"- sions . . . on the American Scene To the World of the Studentw- Mallory Horne, state senator, Freddie Neal, Inner City and Lan- Miss Jackie Fain, student Tallahassee, Florida guage Missions, Chicago "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . 1 1 :00 Music Ncil Joncs, Juvenile Rehabilitation, To the World of the Home"- 11 :05 "The Minister Addresses Himself. . . El Paso Jess Moody, pastor, First Baptist To the World of Human Rela- Hymn Church, West Palm Beach, Flor- tions"4amuel Procter, Institute Hcrein Is LoveAlma Honl, Executive ida for Services to Education, Wash- ington, D. C. Secretary, Woman's Missionary Union Solo-Irene Jordan Monday Night Tuesdoy Afternoon The Cross and the Crossroads-Jimmy R. Music Allen, Texas "The Strategy of Penetrationv- 1: 10 "The Training of the Witness1'- Buckner Fanning, pastor, Trinity Philip Harris, Training Union Meditation Hymn-lrcne Jordan Baptist Church, San Antonio, Secretary, Sunday School Board, Texas Nashville, Tennessee 1 :30 "Crusade of the Americas''-Wayne Dehoney, pastor, Walnut Street Church Music Conference Baptist Church, Louisville, Ken- tucky Monday Afternoon Florida, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Irey, 1 :55 "The Minister Addresses Himself . . . Directors To the World of Foreinn Mis- Organ Prelude 4:00 Any Questions or Comments? sions'-Paul Bellington, Mission- Call to Order and Welcome 4: 15 Ministers of Music Sing ary to Brazil Worship through Hymn Singing 2:25 Offering Concert-The Sons of Jubal: Special Music Georgia Ministers of Music Monday Evening 2:35 "A Heart to Care and a Spirit to "Staff Relations-Harmony or Dis- Trym--W. A. Criswell, pastor, cord"-James Pleitz, First Baptist 6:30 FSBCM Banquet, Everglades Hotel First Baptist Church, Dallas, Church, Pensacola, Florida rwf-Grady Nutt, Master of Texas Concert-Jim Davis, First Baptist Ceremonies Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma 4:30 Dinner-Dialogue, Carillon Hotel 8:30 Concert-The Tune Clippers, Okla- Panelists: George Schweitzer, pro- Worship through Hymn Singing homa Baptist. University, James fessor, University of Tennessee, "The Radio and Television Cornmis- Woodward, Drrector Knoxville; Foy Valentine, ex- $ion"-Joe Ann Shelton, Fort ecutive secretary, Christian Life Worth, Texas 3 :35 Worship Through Hymn Singing Commission SBC, Nashville, Tuesday Morning Tcnnessee; J. Keith Miller, 3:45 Concert-Combined Junior Choirs, graduate student, Austin, Texas First Baptist Church, Orlando, 8 :45 organprelude 9:00 Worship through Hymn Singing

- 9:10 "Music Missions in Japanv'-Miss : Rennie Sanderson, Music Mis- THEME "The Ministering Church" sionary, Southwestern Baptist Mondov Afternoon Texas; James Griggs, Abilene, Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas "The Clturch Fulfilling Its Mission Texas 8:45 Questions to the Panel-John Way- Concert-Hand Bell Choir, River through Ministry" land. Wake Forest. North Caro- Oaks Btlpt~st Church, Houston, 2:00 Music-Harold Souther, Kansas lina Texas, Gerald Armstrong, Direc- City, Missouri tor Scripture and Prayer-Otis Strick- Tuesday Morning "Secular Influences in Sacred ler, Avon Park, Florida "A Church Ministering to the Inner City" Musicv-J arnes Woodward 2: 15 Introductions 9:00 Music--Harold Souther Worship through Hymn Singing 2.30 Theology of Ministry--Charles Scripture and Prayer-Roy Lee Wil- Concert-First Baptist Church Trentham, Knoxville, Tennessee liams, Houston, Texas Choir, Tampa, Florida 3:00 The Church Ministering to Mem- 9: 15 The Inner City-Kenneth Chafin, World Premier of a new Anthem hers' Needs: The Latest Develop- Louisville, Kentucky commissioned by the executive ments 9:45 Testimonies of Inner City Ministries committee of the Music Confer- Children in Special Education- The Outreach-James Landes, ence, written by Phillip Young, Alton Yarbrough, Jackson, Birmingham, Alabama First Baptist Church, Henderson, The Coffee House-Bart Dor, North Carolina, and dedicated to Mississippi the 1967 Music Conference. Deaf Groups-David B. Richard- Richmond, Virginia son, Montgomery, Alabama Week Day Program-Elton Hinze, Worship through Hymn Singing Emerging Problems in Preschool Fort Worth, Texas Reports Education-Mildred Souther, 10:30 Teaching Doctrine Through the Concert-The Tune Clippers New Orleans, Louisiana Education Program-Raymond Any Questions or Comments? Senior Adults-Kermit King, Rigdon, Nashville, Tennessee; Dismiss for Lunch Jackson, Mississippi Dan McLendon, Corpus Christi, 3:40 Discussion-Richard Kay, Fresno, Texas California 11:00 Your Questions or Observations Tuesday Afternoon 4:00 Adjourn 1 1 : 15 Adjourn Organ Prelude Tuesday Afternoon Monday Evening "A Church Ministering in the Future" Worship through Hymn Singing "The Church Ministering through 2 :00 Music-Harold Souther Concert-Church Orchestra, We41. Improved StaD Concepts" Scripture and Prayer-R. L. Pat- end Baptist Church, Atlanta, 7: 00 Music-Harold Souther tillo, Jr., Fresno, California Georgia, James Hayes, Conductor Scripture and Prayer-Allen Graves, 2 : 15 Projected Programs Through Our Election of Officers and Department Louisville, Kentucky Churches-W. T,. Howse, Nash- Conferences 7 : 15 Panel Discussion ville, Tcnnessee; and W. Hines Interviewing Prospective Staff Sims, Philip B. Harris, Howard Worship through Hymn Singing Members-Cliff Elkins, Hou- Foshee, George Euting, A. V. "Tradition or Worship" James ston, Texas Washburn, Elaine Dickson Fleming, First Baptist Church. Entertaining Church Guests-Dan '70 Onward Abilene, Texas McLendon, Corpus Christi, Church Training Center Worship through Hymn Singing Texas Grading Staff Survey Reports-Wendell Church Growth Concert-Chinese Youth Choir, Sloan, Augusta, Georgia 3: 15 Election of Officers and Miscel- Flagler Street Baptist Church. 7:45 Reactions-Marion Hayes, Tallahas- laneous Miami, Florida see, Florida 3:30 Educational Aspects of the Crusade Introduction of New Officers 8: 15 Meeting Personnel Problems-Leon- of the Americas-Wayne Dc- ard Wedel, Nashville, Tennessee; honey, Louisville, Kentucky Worship through Hymn Singing Charles Tidwell, Fort Worth, 4:00 Adjourn Ministers of Music Sing EN~I *1 h NEWS from BAPTIST PRES~ ~uLfaLlN@ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

May 30-June 2, 1967 Convention Hall Miami Beach, Florida

THEME : "Mandate to Minister"

OFFICERS : H. Franklin Paschall, president (pastor, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee) Fred D. Hubbs, first vice president (executive secretary, Baptist State Convention of Michigan, Detroit) Howard Aultman, second vice president (pastor, First Baptist Church, Columbia, Mississippi) Clifton J. Allen, recording secretary (editorial secretary, SBC Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tennessee) W. Fred Kendall, registration secretary (executive secretary, Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee) Porter W. Routh, treasurer (executive secretary-treasurer, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee) Robert L. Snead, music director (minister of music, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee) W. C. Fields, press representative (pub1i.t relations secretary, SBC Execut-jvr Committee, Nashville, Tennessee) H. Cowen Ellis, chairman, committee on order of business (pastor,First Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Virginia)

PROPOSED ORDER OF BUSINESS

TUESDAY NIGHT, May 30

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through Preaching"

Pre-Session Music Song Service Scripture - Lewis C. McKinney, pastor, Allen Memorial Baptist Church, Salisbury, Md. Prayer - C. Earl Cooper, pastor, Riverside Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida Welcome Address - John Maguire, executive scc~e~a~y,Flv~ida nnp+i~~ Cnnv~ntion, Jacksonville Response to Welcome - Clyde Skidmore, pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, Bakersfield, California Report of Registration - W. Fred Kendall, executive secretary, Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville Committee on Order a£ Business - H. Cowen Ellis, pastor First Baptist Church, Chawlottesville, Virginia Announcement of Committee on Committees Committee on Resolutions Tellers 7 :40 Hymn 7 :45 Special Music - Ministers of Music SBC; James Woodward, Oklahoma Baptist University, director 7:50 Convention Sermon - Landrum P. Leave11 111, pastor, First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas Alternate: Albert Simms, pastor, Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia 8:25 Benediction - William H. Puckett, pastor, First Baptist Church, Mount Gilead, North Carolina WEDNESDAY MORNING, May 31

THEME : "Mandate to Minister through the Churches"

Pre-Session Music - Youth Bell Choir, River Oaks Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, Gerald Armstrong, director Song Service Scripture - John B. Shelton, pastor, Kelham Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Prayer - Edward Hughes Pruden, pastor, First Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. Miscellaneous Business Executive Committee Report - Porter W. Rauth, executive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee Special Music - Ouachita Baptist University Chgir , Arkadelphia , Arkansas, Charles W. Wright, director Radio and Television Commission - Paul M. Stevens, executive secretary-treasurer - diwec tor, Fort Worth, Texas Special Music - First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Robert L. Snead, minister of music President's Address - H. Franklin Paschall, pastor, First Baptist Church, Nashville Tennessee Benediction - Lehman Webb, pastor, First Baptist Church, Hot Springs, Arkansas

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, May 31

TWEME : "Mandate to Minister through Education"

Pre-Session Music Song Service Scripture - R. Carwington Paulette, pasror, Yil-st Rnptiot Chr~rch, Staunton, Virginia Prayer - Jack Rogers, pastor, North Hillside Baptist Church, WI~lrii-n. Kansas Election of Officers and Miscellaneous Business Education Commission - Rabun L. Brantley, executive secretary-treasurer, Naehvllre, Tennessee Congregational Hymn Report of Theological Seminaries Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary - Harold K. Graves, president, Mill Valley, California Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary - Millard f. Berquist, president, Kansas City, Missouri New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary - H. Leo Eddleman, president, New Orleans, La, Seminary Extension Department - Ralpn A. Herring, director, Nashville, Tennessee Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary - Olin T. Binkley, president, Wake Forest, North Carolina Southern Baptist Theological Seminary - Duke K. McCall, president, Louisville, Kentucky Southwestern Baptist Tl-ieological Seminary - Robert E. Naylor, president, Fort Worth, Texas Special Music - The Seminarians, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Ray Baker, dixec tor Address on Theological Education - B. Leo Eddleman, president, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Benediction - Stanley R. Hahn, pastor, First Baptist Church, Dublin, Georgia

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, May 31

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to America"

6:45 Pre-Session Music 7 :00 Song Service 7:lO Scripture - 0. R. Rice, pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri Prayer - Charles F. Polston, Training Union and church music secretary, Baptist Convention of New Mexico, Albuquerque 7:15 Sunday School Board - James L. Sullivan, executive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tenr 8:00 Special Music - Sons of Jubal, Georgia ministers of music, Paul McCommon, directo; 8:10 Home Mission Board Report and Commissioning Service - Arthur B, Rutledge, executive secretary-treasurer, Atlanta, Georgia Special Music - Joe Ann Shelton, director of program music, SBC Radio-Television Commission, Fort Worth, Texas Address: "The Ministry of Reconciliation" - W. A. Criswell. wastor, First Baptfs t Church, Dallas, Texas Special Appeal - Arthur B. Rutledge 9:30 Benediction - Jerald R. White Jr., pastor, Central Baptist Church, Altavista, Virginia THURSDAY MORNING, June 1

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to Persons"

Pre-Session Music Song Service Scripture - Otto J. Brown, pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, Evansville, Indiana Prayer - Kenneth A. Estep, pastor, Emmanuel Baprist Church, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Report of Committee on Boards and Miscellaneous Business Election gf Officers Chaplain's Commission - George W. Cumrnins, director, Atlanta, Georgia Southern Baptist Hospitals - Hardy M. Harrell, acting executive secretary-treasurer, Net7 Orleans, Lou is iana Elistorical Commission - Davis C. Woolley, executive secretary, Nashville, Tennessee Committee on Denominational Calendar - John W. Salzman, pastor, Hillcrest Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas American Baptist Theological Seminary - Rabun L. Brantley, executive secretary- treasurer, Education Commission, Nashville, Tennessee Committee on Baptist State Papers - Herschel H. Hobbs, pastor, First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, chairman Southern Baptist Foundation - 5. W. Storer, executive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee Christian Life Commission Report - Foy Valentine, executive secretary-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee Address on Peace - U .S , Senator Mark Hdtf ield, Oregon Special Music - A1 Fennell, minister of music, First Baptist Church, Pompano Rearh, Fln Sermon - Theodore F. Adams, pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia Benediction - Ted Roberts, Narbonne Avenue Baptist Church, T,omita, California minister of education and music

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, June 1

NO CONVENTION SESSION

THURSDAY NIGHT, June 1

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to the World"

Pre-Session Music Song-Service Scripture - Sam Chay, director of cooperative church development, Hawaii Raptist Convention, Honolulu Prayer - Richard Judd, pastor, Penn-Junction Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri Annuity Board - R. Altar1 Reed, executive secretary, Dallas, Texas American Bible Society - W. C. Fields, public relations secretary, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee; chairman SBC American Bible Society Committee woman's Missionary Union - Alma Hunt, executive secretary, Birmingham, Alabama Congregational dymn and Special Music - Claude Rhea, Houston Baptist College, Houston, Texas Foreign Mission Board - Baker jarnes Cauthen, executive secretary, Richmond, Virginia Benediction - Bennett Cook, director, church sexvices division, Baptist General Convention of Oregon-Washington, Portland, Oregon

FKIDAY MORNING, June 2

THEME : "Mandate to Minister through Chris tian Fellowship"

8 :45 Pre-Session Music 9 :00 Song Service 9:10 Scriptu~e- Herman E. Jacobs, pastor, Crievewood Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee Prayer - John A. Wood, pastor, First Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky 9:15 Committee on Resolutions 9:30 Miscellaneous Business 10:00 Special Music - Baylor University Choir, Waco, Texas, Euell Porter, director

(continued) Fxiday Morning, June 2 (cont.)

10:lO Stewardship Commission - Meruill D. Moore, execurive director-treasurer, Nashville, Tennessee 10:25 Recognition of Fraternal Messengers - Response by Joseph H. Jackson, president, National Baptist Convention, Inc., Chicago, Illinois 11:05 Baptist World Alliance - Josef Norderlhaug, general secretary, Washington, D. C. 11:15 Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs - C. Emanuel Carbon, executive director, Washington, il. C. 11:35 Congregatianal Hymn 11:40 Address: 3. D. [Xsy,, pastor, First Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana 12:05 Benediction - Frank Trotter, pastor, Logan Street Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, Illinois

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, June 2

THEME: "Mandate to Minister through the Laity''

1:45 Pre-Session Music - Handbell Choir, Central Baptist Church, Miami, Florida, Kenneth Osbrink, director Song Service Scripture - Richard E, Myexs, pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Virginia Prayer - W. LeRsy Fowler, pastor, West University Baptist Church, Houston, Texas Miscellaneous Business Brotherhood Commission - George W. Schroeder, executive secretary-treasurer, Memphis, Tennessee Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation - Arthur B. Kutledge, executive secretary- treasurer, SBC Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Georgia Special Music - Clint and Jarvis Rose Nichols, New York City Address: James Pleitz, pastor, Fixst: Baptist Church, Pensacola, F:,+r~dd Benediction - Bob McPherson, pastor, Riverside Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado

FRIDAY NIGHT, June 2

THEME: "Mandate to Minister to You thl'

Pre-Session Music Song Service Scripture - Robert F. Cochran, pastor, Eon Air Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia Prayer - B7:on Bruce, pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Case Grande, Arizona Special Music - combined Youth Choirs, Miami area Baptist churches Address - Jim Vaus, Youth Inc., New York City Special Music - Anita Bryant, actress and recording star, Miami, Florida Address - Carl Bates, pastor, First Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Caroline Benediction - Robert Woodward, pastor, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland ADJOURN

CUNVENTION ORGANIST: Sharron Lyon, music assistant, First Bap~,,I ~nurch,Nashville, Tennessee CONVENTION PIANIST: Max Lyall, assistant professor of music, Belrnont College, Nashville, Tennessee

Program recommended by

1 COMMITTEE ON ORDER OF BUSINESS

H. Cowen Ellis (chairman), First Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Virginia Morris Wall, First Baptist Church, Kaufman, Texas Archie E. Brown, First Baptist Church, Vandalia, Illinois Aneon Justice, Crestwood Baptist Church., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Richard Kay, layman, Fnesno, California Elmer F. Ruark, layman, Salisbury, Maryland H. Franklin Paschal1 (ex officio), SBC president, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, P!?ESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

PROPOSED AGENDA

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Southern Baptist Convehtion Miami Beach, Florida - May 30, 1967 Seville Hotel - Alhambra Room West

Chairman W. Douglas Hudgins , Presiding Mrs. Ramon Davis, Secretary

1. Call to Order

2. Prayer

3. Roll Call

4. Introduction of Visitors

5. Adoption of Agenda

6. Reading of Minutes

7. Recognition of Retiring Members

8. Request from Committee on Boards

9. Request from Historical Commission

10. Request from Stewards hip Commission

11. Report of Hospital Committee

12. Report of Program Committee (1) '70 Onward Report (2) '68 and '69 Goals

13. Report of Administrative Committee (1) Making Film and Merchandising Policy adopted in 1965 part of Business and Financial Plan (2) Report on 19 72 Date (3) Recommendation for Convention record on Annuity Board and Old Annuity Plan (4) BWA Proxies (5) Convention Procedure on Credentials Committee

15. Ad~~urrmertt Note: The organization meeting of the Executive Committee will be on adjournment of the morning sesaion 2n the Pine Room in the Auditorium on Thursday, June 1, 1967. All members who do not rotate and all new members are urged to attend. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W* C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Release After 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 30

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ed Crow, a native of Fort Worth, was a high school heavyweight boxing champion at Polytechnich High School, Fort Worth. A four-year letterman in football at Hardin-Simmons University, he also is a graduate of that Baptist school and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth. Since 1960 he has been pastor of First Baptist Church, Brownf ield, Tex., and in 1963 was named the Outstanding Young Man of Brownf ield. Previously he was pastor of First Baptist Church, Cisco, Tex.

"It ' s A11 For Evange 1ismt' by Ed Crow

My subject is evangelism. My text is the story of Zacchaeus. (~eadingof Luke 19:l-10)

The theme of my message and the theme of our conference go hand in hand. The mandate to minister and the imperative to evangelize are companion parts of the same task. Jesus never drew a hard and fast line between the two. He practiced both side by side. His ministry was evangelistic, and his evangelism was a ministry to basic needs of men in the truest sense of the word.

From the story of Zacchaeus, I want to point out three things about the ministry of evangelism as practiced by our Lord.

I. The evangelism of Jesus is a personal evangelism. Out of a crowd of thousands Jesus singled out one man and called him by name. He walked with that man down the street. He went to be a guest in that man's home, and before the day was ended that man's life had been transformed by the power of God.

This is a picture of personal evangelism at: its best. "~acchaeus, come down, today I must abide at thy house." What could be more personal than a man's own name and a man's own house? You always find this personal touch in the evangelistic ministry of Jesus.

This is not to say that Jesus did not believe in and practice mass evangelism, He did. "When he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion r - ..:,, on them." The fourth gospe 1 says that "he made and baptized more disciples than John the Baptist ." That ' s no small statement when you remember the size of John's ministry. Great multitudes of people going out into the desert: to see and hear this prophet of God. Mark says, "There went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins." Yet Jesus made more disciples than John. He was the master of mass evangelism. But the personal element was always there.

With Jesus men never became numbers. They were names. They were faces. They were persons with individual problems and possibilities, and hopes and dreams, and fears and aspirations. Throughout his ministry Jesus emphasized the personal nature of evangelism. He told a story about one shepherd searching for one aheep, about one woman in quest of one coin, about one father waiting and longing for one boy. He preached his sermon on the new birth to one man. He preached his sermon on the living water to one woman. He believed explicitly in the worth and dignity of the individual before God.

One spring day I was walking through the patio that's located between the main auditorium and the chapei of our church. In the spring of the year the birds build their nests in the eaves of the auditorium. One of the birds, a baby sparrow, had gotten out of the nest. and fallen to the ground below. As I looked at the dead body of the little bird there on the hot pavement, I remembered something that Jesus said, "Not one sparrow falls to the ground but that God takes note. Fear not ye are of more value than many sparrows."

The gospel of Mark tells of a day when Jesus was walking down a crowded road. The multitudes were there, thronging him on every side. In that crowd that day there was a timid but desperate woman. For twelve years she had suffered. Twelve long years she had searched for help and found none. Hope was almost gone, then Jesus passed her way, Little by little she made her way through the crowd. And in one final bid for Life, she reached out from behind and touched the hem of his garment. Immediately Jesus was aware. He turned around singled that one woman out of the multitude and said to her, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace ." Ed Crow 2

A11 of this means that with Jesus no man ever gets lost in the crowd. Every man is an individual of infinite worth. Every man is important. Every man counts with God.

Society may have written him off, and his own sin and greed may have him up a tree, out on a limb. But God knows where the tree is, and he knows the name of the man on the limb. He loves him, reaches out to redeem him.

If we would walk in the ministering steps of Jesus, we must never lose sight of the personal e lement in evange lism.

11. The evangelism of Jesus is a practical evangelism.

Through this encounter with Christ something very real happened to the tax collector of Jericho. His life was changed all the way from the center of the circumference. At the center of life a new master was enthroned. He called Jesus "~ord''. Once he had worshipped at the shrine of things material, at the altar of self-seeking. Now he kneels before the throne of Christ. There is a new center, a new focus, a new direction to life. He has found a new Master. Jesus is Lord.

Then there followed an inevitable result. Zacchaeus sought to give outward expression to the new life he had found in Christ. He became concerned about someone other than himself. He gained a social consciousness, a sense of obligation to his fellowman. ''Lord, the half of my goods 1 give to the poor." And he isn't keeping the other half just for himself. Zacchaeus had some restitution to make, some fences to mend. "If I have taken anything from any man by false accusation I restore him fourfold," There is proof positive of rea 1 repentance.

In response to all of this, Jesus said, "This day is salvation come to this house .'I That's a present-tense salvation. The evangelism of Jesus doesn't just look to the future; it looks to the here and now. When Jesus saves a man he gives him a new citizenship in heaven, and at the same time he strengthens the significance of his citizenship here on earth. When Christ redeems a man he prepares him to walk the streets of the celestial city; at the same time he prepares him to walk the streets of his home town. He sends him out to minister to the needs of his fellow man. He sends him forth to give visible evidence of an invisible spiritual fact, the indwelling presence of Jesus Christ.

If we would emulate the ministry of our Master, we must remember that his salvation is moral and ethical. The evangelism of Jesus is a practica 1 evangelism.

111. Then there is one more thing, the evangelism of Jesus is a positive evangelism,

The words "to seek and to save" are not passive words. They are words of positive action, They indicate more than a casual willingness, They indicate a determination, a resolve, and expenditure of energy, a positive effort.

How was it that Jesus happened to notice an insignificant little man in the branches of a tree? The answer is simple - he was looking for him. When Jesus stopped at the base of that Sycamore tree, it was not by accident. It was consequence of a positive search. He had come to seek that which was lost, and he had found him.

How was it that the miracle of salvation came to the house of a crooked politician? The answer is simple - Jesus brought it there. From a human viewpoint it would have been an easy thing for Jesus to have passed by Zacchaeus. His face was set steadfastly to go to Jerusalem. The burden of a world was on his heart. The shadow of a cross was on his path. About twenty miles down the road, death was waiting and Jesus knew it. Time was running out. Only about a week was left for him to fulfill his purpose in coming to the earth. Still he had the time to befriend a friendless man and patientky guide him into the kingdom of God. The evangelism of Jesus is an evangelism of positive action.

In July of 1960 we experienced a dramatic tragedy in our city of Brownfield, Late in the afternoon, on the west side of town, a large grain elevator exploded and started to burn. Four men were killed outright, and three died later.

When I arrived on the scene the first thing I observed was a man standing at the window of the header house. (I later learned that he was just a 17 year old boy.) The explosion had trapped him there, He was more than 100 feet from the ground, badly burned, and pleading for help.

It was immediately obvious that the only hope of rescue was a helicopter. There was no way to reach him from the ground. A call went to Reese Air Force Base and in a few minutes a helicopter was on the scene. But in the initial rescue attempt a prop was damaged, and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a nearby field. Ed Crow

Then a call went out for a second helicopter. In the meantime it seemed that all we could do was wait and hope that help would get there in time. So we waited and listened to the boy's pathetic pleas for help.

In the crowd there was a thoughtful young man who decided to do something more than wait and hope. He got in his pick-up and drove to the sight of the damaged helicopter. . He then requested the captain to radio the incoming pilot to land and take him on board. While he waited he made a harness out of rape and put it on himself, In a few minutes he was on board the second helicopter hovering above the trapped boy.

It was a dramatic moment. Our town almost stopped breathing as we watched Don Ethington start: his descent from the belly of the chopper. At: that height he looked more like a spider on a string than a man on a cable. The pilot moved into position, and Don seized the boy around the waist, pulled him from the burning elevator, and together they were drawn up to safety.

Now, here is my point - there were hundreds of people there that day. I think I can honestly say that every one of them cared. Some cared even to the point of tears. There were many who prayed. Some audible, not caring who around them might hear. But there was one young man who cared and prayed and acted. And it was his prayerful concern, coupled with his decisive action that resulted in the rescue of a doomed boy.

This is the thing we must see. In New Testament evangelism it is not enough to meet and care. It is not enough to sing "Rescue the Perishing". It is not even enough to pray. There must be someone who is willing to bridge the gap between prayful concern and decisive Only then will the rescue be effected.

"The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." "As the Father hath sent me even so send I you. " It's all for evangelism. , . I. I from BAPTIST PRE~ NEWSB!U!IElLUrvc -4 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH dfiI PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM) W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE %~IY' JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER '-' I

For Release After 10:lO a.m., Tuesday, May 30

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE SOUT'rlEBN BAPTIST ClUKII E.iUSIC CONFERENCE

By James :?oodward

BIOGRAPIIICAL IUFORMATION: James Voodward is chairman of the church music department for Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma, and president of the Southern Baptist Church 14usic Conference. IIe is a former minister of music for the First Baptist Church of Tulsa, Okla.

"IN DEFENSE OF SACRED pIU51C" By James Tloodward

You have just heard a bit of "sacred" music, or at least you heard words which are generally associated with the holiest aspects of our Christian faith. TIords like "Godt', "Jesus", "prayt', words that: ordinarily inspire devotion or reverence set to a shaving cream jingle that tends to bring to mind the world series, an animated parrot, or Dizzy Dean. This little classic is not found in our hymnals, at least not yet, but it is being sung and heard in Churches in various parts of the country... some of them Baptist, and some of them very close.

Perhaps you like the catchy little melody, and would enjoy singing it on Sunday morning for a change instead of say ...the Doxology. Or perpaps you find the wedding of this text and tune offensive, irreverent, or even blasphemous. The point I want to raise is that the established forms of sacred music are apparently under attack, or at least being intruded upon, by tunes and texts right off the radio and T. V., the motion picture and Broadway theaters. :!e must protect our sacred music from the vulgar strains of corrmercialisrn. Church musicians and worshipers alike must rise up in defense of the lovely music that vre hold sacred. :7e must resist the subtle influences of the "popular", the "commercial", the "worldly".

Or must we? 13ore to the point, CAN we? Can we isolate and insulate ourselves from all of these "secular" sounds that constantly pound away at us, and the real question of the morning is - do we want to?

This is not the first point in history when the secular music of the day threatened to inundate the existing church music. One of the earliest recorded show-downs occurred during the reign of Pope Gregory in the 7th Century. Gregory found his liturgical chants becoming too intermingled with the ditties sung at the local tavern that the worshippers had to look around when the melody started in order to know which set of words to sing, but Gregory did something about this deplorable situation. Though historians do not agree at this point, many believe that it was he who collected all the existing chants, regardless of their origin; threw out the bad, or "profane" ones, and declared to all and sundry which music was fit for the worship of God and which was not. IIe also is reported to have been so unhappy with the performance of his church music that: he established a music school in order to elevate the calibre of the singing. His attitude was that only the very best performances could be worthy of a place in the worship service... an opinion not without merit, I might add.

But let's examine briefly the nature of the sacred music that Gregory codified; that which many believe to be the purest, most sublime in all of history. It is unison, unaccompanied, and unmetrical. The rhythm is that of speech, a seccession of syllables combined into expressive groups by means of accent, varied pitch, and prolongations of tone. The fundamental rule for chanting is: sing the words with notes as you would speak them without notes.

(more) 1 Jmes 17oodwarcI 2 .- - The motu proprio of 1903 was another attempt by an established church to give direction La sacred music. Ifhile stressing the liturgicdl virtues of the Gregorian chant and of tha classical polyphony of the 16th century, it condemns conuentionalisnl. It requires directness and clarity in the setting of the literatur . It farbids "frivolous" iastruments, and suggested that compositions should be of a grave and auitable style. I quote:

Sacred milsic should ...possccs, in the highest degree, the qualities proper to the liturgy, and preccsclp sanctity aad goodness of form, from which its othar character of uni.vcrsality spoiltanecrssly springs.

It must be true art for otherwise it a rill bc imp~ssiblefor it to exercise ou ths minds of those who listen to it that .,:Efacacy which the Church aims at obtaining in rgixitting 2nto h2r liturgy the art of m~eicalsounds.

But it must, at the same time, bc ucivczsal in the sense that while every nation is permitted to admit Lrlto its ecclesiastical ccmpo- sitions those special forms which ma;r be said to constitute its nativs music, otill these forms rdust bz subordinatcti in such a manner to the general chari,cteric:ic:; of sacred music tlrat nobody of any nation may receive an ir~pressi~nother tha2 good on hearing thela.

Surely, we migi;"rzt say, this is gencineLy naccsd music, a~dfree from the taint of the eecular. No2 ~o...Eor history shows that even this magnificent body of literature had its roots in pagan?-l:m, that tha musical systm of the early Cllurch was largely d rived from the secular forms of music practiced in ::be private and social life of that day, Apparently, Gregory and his colleagues sirply latched on to the best from all possible 8OUrCeS.

Let's move quickly to a second m~jorencounter between sacred and secular, From 1543 to 1563 tho Council of Trent s~tbil aession in an eftort to curtail the aeculaxization of the nilcic of the Catholic Cksrch, Thic was in a Cime when Church music ruled sv2rc;me and t?,3 only secular music tl-nt cxistd v~can inferior imitation of that heard in Church. Nevertheless, the C'n::li:?i fathers were gravely concerned with the embellishment and improvi~ationwhich wer 3 becornins iilcrc -.singly common in the performances of the worship music. The Council felt that the previo~sscenturies had so corrupted and secularized the music of the Church that it sct*iously considered the abolishment of all polyphonic msic ill their worship and t!lought: of permitting only the unison chant.

Actually therc was little di.ffer=:r:-,c I:ctsrec:: ~III;ccrcred and secular music of the Renaiassance. They t:ms both made o:!t of tlz2 :jiime "::tuff", Therrl were good craftsmen aroand 'If.ke PAX estrina and Vi tcorla 7hc verc ccn::ta:~tly sif tin8 the dross from the gold. Thc Co~tncil.wisely decided to per-:iit tile ~olypholzyand a few ather secular innovations and threw out the cheap prcctices t;?st I~rlcrept in. Had they zlafeaded the status-quo too vigorously tE:.: mzsic;il Renaissance might never have happened. As it was, the Colden Bgc of Church Muci..: cccur-red an history.

Put these ocqaunts axe mcient history. Cur prob1.e~~is deciding what direction our pre,oent day Chxck Music s:lould take. Ocr concert halls resound with some exciting innovations in musical so~nd,Fur our church msicians ;re pressed by those who feel that ccz~~nunicatingwit11 the nasses is primnry, a2d t,b~tbyhat we actually are able to co~mnu~zicatein secondary. :%fiat:are we ", do?

Let ma digress for a few moments to dLdcuss briefly thode elements out of

A .- . .;which music is made. You ami I vere taugh!: that eli rn~1,:i.c i.s made up of five different

+, ' - ' Wwsrties.. .melody, harmony, timbre, form, and rhythm. Mow I appreciate that this is " . . @%&'hatto the musicians in the audience, but grant me a few moment$ to discuss these ' p*perties in tc::r~; of sacred and secular.

First of all, let's consider melody. Even a cursory examination reveals there is nothing sacred or secular about a given combination of pitches. All of us probably tend at times to think in terns oE ''sccred axid secular" melodies, and yet we know that it is not the melody but the extra-musical zssociation that malca a tune sacred or secular to our cars. Cons&quently, any labeling we do might be purely subjective.

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For this reason, I've always had difficulty enjoying -The Master I4ath Come, ---I Love Ilim, and He Lives on High, not because these are bad tunes, but because my earliest rememberances of them have been with different words and in "secular" environments. Obviously, the interchanging of texts and tunes does offer some problems. I heard, for instance, of an evangelistic singer who was fond of using the hymn Amazing Grace LO the tune of Ghost Eiders in the S&. This is not really a bad wedding when you think of it, but my problem occurs when I get to the end of the stanza, for I immediately want to sing Yipi-i-a, Yipi-.i-o. But what about harmony. Are there some combinations of notes thar have characteristics that are peculiarly sacred or secular attributes? I doubt it - even though I heard of a pastor once who asked someone to play him an evangelistic chard. So much fur sacred harmonics.

Next we enter the world of timbre, which is described as the quality or color of a tone; the difference between tones of the same pitch produced on various instruments have remained pretty much in the domain of either the "classical" or the jazz musicians. Now most instruments are used for all kinds of music. For instance, the flute, harpsichord and the organ are commonly used in pop arrangements, while the saxaphone, guitar and accordian are finding their way into todays concert literature. Consequently, it is increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to associate certain timbres with a particular kind of music.

Next we come to form. Surely we think sacred and secular music each will distinguish itself in ferns of the form in which it appears. Nothing could be farther from the truth for popular music long ago borrowed from virtually all the classical forms. Leonard Bernstein is fond of pointing out that a *'blues'' is generally written in iambic pentameter. Do you remember blues singer Billie Holiday? She used to do a tune that went something like this:

"liy man don ' t love me, Treats me awful mean, I repeat- My man don't love me, Treats me awful mean. Oh, he's the lowest man I 've ever seen,"

As you well know, this means that any verse set in iambic pentameter could become a ligitirnate blues, TJe might even borrow from '7illFam Shakespeare and come up with a Macbeth Blues like so: "I will not be afraid of death or pain ,"

This leaves only rhythm to truly separate the sacred from the secular. At first glance, we might feel that syncopation and shifting cross rhythms are the providence of- the secular world and yet cl~urchmusicians have been using the same devices for centuries. Did you hear the Tuneclippers sing that Each fugue last night? There was certainly nothing square about "old Johann."

By now you should have gathered that there is nothing inherently sacred or secular in music per se, and that those labels are generally applied because of extra-musical associations rather than purely musical ones.

This would suggest, then, that suitable worship music would of neces- sity vary from century to century, culture to culture and even from church to church. This means that before we pass judgement on any body of sacred music we must bear in mind that the question of appropriateness in church music depends very much upon associations and custom. A style that would be execrated as blasphemous in a Calvinist assembly for instance would be received as perfectly becoming in a Catholic or Lutheran ceremony. A style of music that has grown up in the very heart of a certain church, identified for generations with the peculiar history of that church, is proper ecclesiastical music so far as thar particular institution is concerned. It may not be great art, and, of course, would not be universal. You and I don't necessarily have to like it, approve of it, or be nourished by it in order for it to be useful worship music for a specific group.

Idany of the choir directors in modern c11urches have gone to extremes. And the Plinisters of Nusic often become so obsessed with showing off the harmonizing ability of their singers that they miss the main point of Church Music.

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For a choir is not supposed to be a show-off group who wish to demonstrate their vocal pyrotechnics! The primary purpose of hymns in the sanctuary is to resurrect the religious moods and idealistic memories linked with mother, God, bedtime prayers and those stirring altruistic ambitions that usually exalted us in the middle teens.

In order to "resurrect" such moods, however, it thus becomes essential that the old familiar tunes be played or sung.

Strange music and unfamiliar lyrics will not help the clergyman very much. At the outset, if there are 1,000 people in the pews, they may be thinking 1,030 different thoughrs. 'Ye call them an unpolarized audience.

A good choir can quickly polarize the group and make them think the same noble thoughts and experience the same exalted moods, if familiar hymns are sung.

Alas, too many modern choirs muff this golden opportunity. So the audience is not appreciably inspired nor polarized.

Just a duet by an untutored couple who sing a familiar hymn, vill do more £0.1. a congregation than the most beautifully robed and pyrotechnic choirs who employ music that is strange to the majority.

Now, I would be the first to agree that good hymns should evoke religious moods and altruistic ambitions. I'm not so sure of that part about Mother and the bed-time prayers. I do lcnow that we need a constantly renewing body of hymnody that is relevant to the needs of 20th century man, and I suspect that the "old" tunes he has reference to were written in the 19th century. I would suggest to Dr. Crane that not all sacred music must make us happy or comfortable. It could make us angry at the injustice around us. It could make us ashamed of our measly little faith. It might make us sorrowful or perhaps even encourage us to love a little more.

Our problem with new music is that: we almost instinctively reject the unfamiliar, How mmy of us have heard people say "I don't kcnot7 anything about music, but I know whar I like." Columnist Sidney IIarris says that that statement immediately brands one as an ignoramus. !?e like that which is familiar, that which makes us feel secure and flatters our egos. But apparently history is trying to tell us that a truly zreat art of cl-rurch music cannot maintain itself by remaining static, es~eclallyif there is a rising enthusiasm for secular music. Either the two styles will be amalgamated, and church music be transformed to the measure of the other, as happened in the case of Catholic music, or Church song will stagnate, as was the case of Protestarlt Germany after the death of Bach ... and which may be the case in America today.

I do not pretend to know which directions church music will take during the rest of this century. I do know that whether we like new music or not, we have to live with it, and we have to use it ... for to live only on our artistic inheritance is a static affair.,,"playing too ~alely,~'and that is not the true function of art in any form.

"Great art must be a disturber of the status quo, af complacency and satisfaction with things as they are. Perhaps today's church music has been de- fended almost to its very death, It seems co be one of the fields of musical activity which has remained in a cloistered area, which means that most music of the church becomes an acquired music and not an inherent music - between which there is a vast difference. James IJoodward 5

The December issue of Chorz: & Organ Guide suggested tha~: "Church music, adopting its own methods and standards - even its own voca- bulary - has acquired an ingrown tradition that gathers about it perogatives not valid in the larger field of music; it has tended to enclose and separate itself from the main current of art today. It has become isolated. No one dares to criticize church music by the standards of other musical undertakings - much less composers of present day church music."

It may well be that the greatest favor that lovers of church music can do for the art is to stop defending, or protecting it, I'm not suggesting that we need embrace every fad or experiment that comes upon the scene. Tle have no Gregory or Council of Trent to serve as watchdog on behalf of artistry, pertainance, and good taste. Let's insist that our church music stand or fall, in the harsh light of comparison, on a survival of the fittest, if you please. The ~enuinewill be separated from the merely sensational, and I personally doubt that the T.V. comcrcials are eoing to make it over the long haul!

:?e must recognize and admit that no music of the past can adequately express the needs and aspirations of the 20th century soul. Tie must have a musical language for our own time. If the secular musician should happen to write it first for the concert hall, so be it. :!e must be alert to the finest our age and artists can produce and then glean from it all that is applicable and appropriate to our faith and needs. On the other hand, we must be wary of the tritc, the cheap, the crass. Of course, we must communicate with the world araund us, but I don't believe that we must use slang, musical or otherwise to do the job. Jesus communicated with common people in simple language, but I believe he used "good English" as it were. So must our musical communication be clear, tasteful, dignified and relevant. It must honor God and edify man. It should call us to prayer and praise, incite us to service or devotion. Any music that does less is not worthy sacred music. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Release After 3: 10 p.m., Tuesday, May 30

ADDRESS TO THE SBC CHURCH MUSIC CONFERENCE

By Jim F lamming

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Dr. James Flamming is pastor of the First Baptist Church, Abilene, Tex., and a native of Texas. He is former pastor of Royal Lane Baptist Church, Dallas, 1963-67; associate pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, 1962-63; and former Baptist Student Union Director, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Tex. He is a graduate of Hardin-Simmons University, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, where he earned the doctor of theology degree.

"BAPTIST WORSHIP IN THE SPACE AGE" Text: Isaiah 6: 1-8

By Jim Flamming

If you were to write a Profiles of Courage for the Old Testament, you would almost certainly have to include the prophet Isaiah. Born in the mid-eighth century B.C., his career spanned the reigns of four Judaic Rings: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. How can one describe this man? He was a statesman, a spokesman for God, a man of courage during more than one national crisis. Louis Cassels in his new book Christian Primer says, when you start reading the prophets begin with Isaiah. Tradition says he was sawn asunder during the reign of Manesseh, becoming a martyr because of his vision of God.

From where does courage like this come? Where is the dayspring of this faithfulness even unto martyrdom? Where is the source of this man's strength? Isaiah 6 will tell you. It began after the worship experience he had in an eighth-century B.C. church house. Through the death of his dear friend, God encountered Isaiah in the temple. What a vision of God he did have! (Read Isaiah 6: 1-4),

This is symbolism to be sure, but there is no question but that God was mediated to Isaiah through the vision. He worshipped. Worship is the process of meeting and responding to the living God. Isaiah met God.

The by-products of this warship can be seen in the verses following. (Read Isaiah 6:4-8). So worship produces confession, forgiveness, command, and decision.

Worship, the process of being met by the living God and responding to Him, produces these flowers of the Godly personality we so desire to seek and to promote. Worship is the source from which one explains Isaiah. Worship is the dayspring, the core, the hub. No wonder W. T. Conner (who is the greatest theologian Texas Baptists have ever produced) said, "The main business of the church is worship." When people truly worship God, the fruit of the Christian life becomes visible . Without worship we become loud promoters, beating drums from the podiums of our own desperation. We keep trying to get people to do what only God can get them to do.

Worship the Key

Then when we gather together on Sunday morning we are about a holy and awesome business. We are about the business of worshipping the living God. If it is so important, how shall we as Baptists go about it? It occurs to me we must understand three things.

I. The Channe 1s of Baptist Worship

11. The Character of Baptist Worship

111. The Challenge of Baptist Worship

- more - Let us look at them in turn,

I. The Channels of Baptist Worship

God does not come to us except through channels, through mediation. Christ is, of course, our main channel. Through Him we have access to the Most High God. He is our mediator. But in a more practical way, the Spirit of the Living Christ also comes to us through channels.

The Catholics have said Christ's presence is channeled through the Mass. Our more liturgical Protestant brethren have seen it mediated through the Lord's supper and through baptism. But we have said both are but symbols.

Therefore we must ask, through what channels on Sunday morning do Baptist encounter the Living God. To ask it another way, by what means does God get through to us? Five channels seem to me to be used by God to get through to us: prayer, scripture, music, preaching, and invitation.

Not everyone is alike. Some respond most to music, some best to scripture, some best to sermons, some only during invitations. But whereever I go Baptists seem to respond to these five. Our people respond to quoted or well-read scripture; they love good music; they insist upon good preaching; they are programed to respond during our invitations. In their own way they pray. It is not my purpose to question whether these five are the best channels, They are at least for me as a Baptist. And I would suggest that anyone who is going to become a Baptist understand this about us. For better or for worse this is the way we are.

Baptist people express this in discernible ways. They might say to the pastor; that sermon got to me. They mean, that sermon was God's channel into my inmost being,

They might say, that SWg,that anthem moved me deepky; they mean, God used that song to stir up confession and response.

One said to me the other day from a hospital bed, having heard the service over the radio, thank you for quoting that scripture at the beginning of the service, it has helped me all week. She was saying, "The quoted Word was God's tool to work withjin me."

And who can seriously question that the invitation has almost sacramental value for us. It is a time when we are literally thrown into the presence of God. If the invitation is handled with awesome care, people meet God in those solemn moments.

So then, prayer, scripture, music, preaching, and invitation are the channels. Leave out announcements, promotional gimics, and careless gab from the pulpit. These have never been used by God to enter the holy domain of a man's soul. And as for the offering, baptize it with some meaning at least by making it part of the invitation. Is not every gift a decision? Why put the offering in the middle of the service where it has no meaning except paying for the light bill. Stewardship is part of Christian service. Why not make the offering the second part of the invitation: dedication of life first - dedication of money second.

As water cannot flow from lake to city without a pipe-line, neither can the Spirit of the Living Christ flow to us without some channels. So much for the channels - what of the character of Baptist worship.

11. The Character of Baptist Worship

The character of Baptist worship is congregational. The paid staff are not professional entertainers, they are only members of the congregation. Elton Trueblood in his new book, The Incidiary Fellowship says the staff should be seen as playing-coaches. That is so good! We are not only servants of the congregation, we are member of the congregation. In Presbyterian churches the ministers are not members of the church they serve but of the Presbytery. But we are Baptists. The Baptist way is congregational, To me this is very important.

You see, some churches, in an effort to bring more meaning to worship on Sunday morning have turned their 11:OO hour into a professional performance. As the chimes toll everyone promenades from the wings as it were. Only the paid staff take part. They do a good job, an excellent job. But it is a performance, not a congregational attempt at worship. It only widens the growing split between minister and layman, In the New Testament there was no split.

You as a part of a congregation are involved in worship. You are a player-coach. To- gether with the congregation you ought to try to meet the Living God. Little things serve me as symbols of this congregational character of our worship. When I come up to the - more - f irn F lamming SBC Music Conference 3

platform I come from the congregation. I refuse to come in from the wings as a performer about to take a bow. I am to lead the congregation in worship, but I am onty a part of tbe congregation, Also for this reason the deacons assist me in the sentice with prayers and scripture. This seems to emphasize, that we all, as congregation, are involved, not just a few paid performers going through a weekly ritual. The larger the congregation the more difficult it is to stay congregational.

111. Finally, I want to speak of the challenge of Baptist Worship.

All over the world Christians are discontent. The Vatican Council opened a kind of pandora's box. Venerated rituals are being questioned. The mass has been put in English. Nuns are leaving their convents, and priests are leaving their orders to marry. It is a time of ferment and unrest. Pope John XXIII called for an "updatingv or streamlining of the church.

It is almost as if God has been preparing Baptists for such a time as this. We are streamlined. We came into being as an attempt to streamline the Christian message in the language and practice of the people. But alas, we too often find to our dismay that we too have encrusted traditions that drag us down.

Modern man needs a church that deals only with essentials, gets right down to brass tacks, speaks the language of the people, acts with integrity, and refuses to get bogged down with ancient tradition that has no meaning today. Modern man needs a church that believes in good music, quoted and read scripture, adequate preaching, and the presentation of the gospel. Above all man needs a personal message rather than an abstract one. He needs to hear ~od'sword for his problem without any folderol in between.

I am telling you that Baptists, if they could only understand their genius, could meet our modern age on its own level. We don't have to argue over sacramental meanings of the Lord's supper, or debate over birth control, or argue over what the nuns and priests shall wear. That is behind us, We don't have to argue over changes of the wording in our creeds, as have the Presbyterians of late, for we have no written creed!

I tell you 11:OO o'clock for every preacher, deacon, minister of music and choir member ought to be the most exciting hour of the week. It ought to begin with a thrust - to catch the spirit of the age. Quickly people ought to hear the word of God. Prayers ought to be short and to the point.

We are about the awesome business of worshiping the Living God. Seldom has any denomination been so uniquely equipped to minister to its age, But we must fight to stay Baptist and dea 1 only with essentials. We must stay streamlined, "putting aside every weight which so easily besets us; looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith." SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE %h ~inisf~~ JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

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RESPONSE TO THE WELCOME TO THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

By Clyde B. Skidmore

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Clyde B. Skidmore is pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church, Bakersfield, California,

TEXT OF HIS ADDRESS

That: was a warm-hearted welcome, wasn't: it? I appreciated it, It reminded me f California Sunshine,

Thank you, Dr. Maguire, and friends of the Greater Miami Beach -unity, On behalf of the thousands a£ messengers who are here from Hawaii--

The paradise of the Pacific To the Golden Gate, and the Gol&n State, From Kodiak to Key West, From Maine to Mexico, and From re en land's Lcy mountains To ~ndia's coral strands ---

We accept your most warm greetings and your cordial hospitality.

st's great to be here in Miami Beach. I had a wonderful trip down, One thing I did notice, however, and that was the large number of streams, rivers, creeks, lakes and ponds. At first glance you'd think that most of the state of Florida was under water,

I mentioned this to the bellboy at the hotel--and he told me I hadn't seen anything. He said back in the old Florida real estate boom days, it was a common thing to hear a man say--

"Hey, fellows, f've struck it rich, They found -land on my property!" Come to think of It, that bellboy may be from California.

We departed from the great Southern Baptist Mission field of California, Monday morning and before sun-down we were in the Baptist Empire of Florida--I submit to you--that's keeping fast company.

As we left the city of Los Angeles we noticed a slight haze hovering over the city of Angeles--some people call it smog!

"Jed1I, of the Beverly Hillbillies, said that Los Angeles was the only place in the world where you could see what you were breathing.

Citizens of the city of Los Angeles are required to make the following pledge:

I pledge allegience to the city of Los Angeles, And to the smog under which it stands; One city, invisible under the haze, With tear drops and &ugh drops for all:

There are more people living in California than in Texas and Alaska put together--in fact there are more people living in one county in California than in all of Texas--(Los Angeles County).

After Alaska has made Texas the second largest state--I know these wards may not set too well with Texans, but it's so! Clyde B. Skidmore - 2 -

God, in xis Holy Word, has told Southern Baptists where and -bow to stand. I know that during this one hundred and tenth session of the Southern Baptist Convention we will be called upon to take a definite stand on many important issues. May God give us courage to do so without apology.

The meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention is always a joyful occasion--it is also a solemn andsacred time. We come together from many places representing many races, but we have only -one purpose--that is to find the mind and will of our Lord Jesus.

I know it will be thrilling to hear about the world-wide ministry of our Convention through the reports of all of our Boards, agencies, auxiliaries, and Commissions,

In a recent Associational School of Missions, one of our splendid foreign missionaries gave the following testimony:

As he would go into a new village where they had not heard the gospel, he would first play ball with the children. Then he would tell them he was going to show a film that night, They would tell the news to others and the whole village would turn out to see the film. The Holy Spirit would take over and God would bless and save soula.

He gave us a vision of the Cooperative Program alive and at work, Your Mission money and churches putting a man on the foreign field. Your financial support providing the story of Jesus an film through our Radio and Television Commission. God blessing your prayers and saving the soulo of thousands that you will never know---until you get to heaven:

This is our purpose for coming to this lovely state and gracious community. May God give us receptive and grateful hearts and open ears as we hear the clarion sounds a£ the Master 's "Mandate to Minister". t~fiall~6 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE

'O@h MII\S~~~ JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Rclcasc after 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 30

WELCOME ADDRESS TO THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

By John Maguire

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: John H. Maguire of Jacksonville, Fla., has been executive secretary-treasurer of the Florida Baptist Convention since Jan. 15, 1945. He recently announced plans to retire from this position after nearly 23 years as executive secretary, plans to retire effective December 31, 1967. Maguire, 67, is a graduate of Howard Payne College (Baptist), Brownwood, Tex., and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. He has been awarded honorary doctor of divinity degrees from Howard Payne College and Stetson University, and the doctor of laws degree from Florida Memorial College. He was pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., before becoming executive secretary of the Florida convention.

WELCOME ADDRESS

By John H. Maguire

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention: We welcome you to favored Florida. Ours is a large state. We stand 9th among all the states of the nation in population, Our 1,404 Baptist churches are glad you came our way. Our 600,000 Baptists feel honored to have you in our midst.

Our state is nature-blessed, with its friendly sunshine, beautiful beaches, lakes and semi-tropical beauty. It abounds in good things and good times for permanent residents and visitors alike. In fact, Jackie Gleason calls the place we are meeting the sun and fun capitol of the world.

Be that as it may, your presence here these days will bless us, and maybe it is not too much for me to believe that we will be a blessing to you.

You are in a metropolitan area of more than one million people, more than half of them non-evangelicals. The 1960 census showed that we have in this county 41,000 Russians, 19,000 Polish, 8,000 Chinese, 8,000 Hungarians, 90,000 Jewish, and 275,000 Spanish-speaking people. Of this number, approximately 175,000 are Cuban. One out of every five people here are Spanish-speaking, many of them being brought in by the famous Interama now being built. It will employ 70,000 people by 1970.

On this beautiful beach where we are meeting are 150,000 people every day. 80,000 of these are permanent residents and 70,000 are tourists. Yet we confess with sorrow that we have only one small Baptist church on Miami Beach with less than one hundred active members.

Lest you get a wrong picture of metropolitan Miami, let me tell you that this is a most progressive area.

In ten years we have organized 28 new churches and 45 full missions with 100 institutional missions. Here in this area we have the Baptist church that led all Baptist churches in the Southern Baptist Convention in bapitsms. Northwest Baptist Church baptized 309 in 1946 and 346 in 1965.

Ten years ago in Miami we had one Baptist church for every 14,000 people. Now, after organizing 28 new churches, we have one Baptist church Ear every 17,000 people, so great is our population growth. The average annual population increase in Dade County for the past ten years has been 50,000. Religious pluralism is strong in southeast Florida where Baptists are in a minority. Over 600,000 Jewish, Catholic, sects, and non-Christian religious people live in this area. Yet we have an aggressive program here endeavoring to reach, win and teach the people. John I!. Z,lrr~uirc,SBC 2

Tonight you are gathered here from all over the area of our Southern Baptist Convention, Erom great churches with many members, and from great churches with comparatively few members, but great, nontheless, because you present a great Christ and His redemptive program.

We welcome you. You are as welcome as the rainbow after the storm, as welcome as health after illness, as welcome as rain after drought. You are as welcome and cherished as the beauty and fragrance of a rose Erom a loved one. What more can I say? We are hanored to have you.

If we can be of assistance to you while you are here, command us. Remember us kindly and come back to see us soon. For Release after 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 30

LANDRUMPINSON LEAVELL I1 is pastor of the 6,600-member First divinity of Jesus Christ from the first century until now. We're Baptist Church of Wichita Falls, Tex. Before cornin to the Texas simply facing the same thing other Christians have faced. There's church, he was pastor of Baptist churches in ~u#port, Charles- nothing new about the new morality-in fact, it's the old, old im- ton, Crosby, and Pike County, Mississippi. Born Nov. 26, 1926 morality and the new theology is not new for it's the same deviation in Ripley, Tenn., Leavell attended Me!cer Univer~ity (Baptist), Macon, Ga., and New Orleans Baptlst Theologcal Sermnary, other heretics have espoused from the days of Jesus Christ on earth New Orleans, La., where he earned the doctor of theology degree. until this very hour! There is, however, a church within the church. Among those numbered on church rolls there are found the faithful. These can be designated in many ways but perhaps the terminology of the Old Testament is best. This group has been called "God's holy rem- ANNUAL CONVENTION SERMON nant." That remnant exists today and it's against this church that the gates of Hell shall not prevail! Jesus said it, I believe it and " The Church With a Future7' stand firmly upon it! That church-the Church With A Future-. By Landrum P. Leavell will bear several obvious characteristics. I believe it will be Capti- vated by Obsession, Cognizant of Obstacles, and finally Correlated Acts 20: 16-32 by Obeisance. Look first of all at this initial characteristic. We are living in the day of the image breaker, commonly called Captivated by Obsession the iconoclast. When we look about we see institutions and organi- There is more than one way to revolutionize society. If you want zations once considered sacrosanct or holy, have now been deposed, to be a part of a revolution to turn the United States upside down, trampled, criticized and maligned. Everything seems to have changed. you may pull down everything, destroy all of the old forms, replace Clergyman and laity alike do strange things in the name of Chris- them, become an iconoclast. That's one way to revolutionize a so- tianity. In our topsy-turvy world, for instance, we posit a Christian- ciety. Consider nothing sacred or holy and let the iconoclast drive ity that demands the "death of God." We endorse sexual promiscuity with a firm foot floorboarding the accelerator! Destroy everything! as illustrative of redemptive love and create conflict as an instru- Tear it all down! Start from scratch! That's one way to revolu- ment of reconciliation, all of which is foreign to everything that we tionize society. Yet I call upon you to remember there is another have ever believed and held true. In fact, our world has become so way. One may also revolutionize society by filling the old forms mixed up that a recent visitor to Wichita Falls indicated, according with men of a new spirit! We can become fed up with our democ- to newspaper reports, that LSD was useful in opening spiritual racy, the way of life that we know in America. We can replace vistas. It seems we've fallen prey to the accusation directed against democracy with a dictatorship-or totalitarian rule. That's one way. Peter in the Garden. We are "fighting the battles of light with the May it please God to prevent that from ever happening! weapons of darkness." The strident babel of voices being heard on The second way of changing our way of life or corrupt democ- every hand has created a confusion resulting in paralyzing inertia racy is to elect righteous men to positions of responsibility! Now for the work of the Kingdom of God. Because the growth curve of this same principle holds true in the work in the Kingdom of God. the Kingdom of God has levelled out with Christian people milling When decadence is discerned in the work of the church, one may about in confusion and uncertainty, 20th Century pallbearers have pursue one of two paths. You may destroy the church, remove it lined up in funeral array waiting to carry out the remains of the from the physical scene and start over . . . or you may replace the church. old forms with new men-men who have been transformed, not I read an article recently entitled "The Post Biblical Era." Many by a desire to elevate society, but who have been transformed by articles have already been written bearing various titles-all sug- an encounter with Jesus Christ, men who have become new crea- gesting ours is the post-Christian era. This is the spirit of our genera- tures in Jesus! When that's done, the church will be changed and tion, so we are confronted by a dilemma. In the midst of the voices the decadence will be removed. heard around us we can still hear the confident statement of the Look at the ways of Jesus. He is our pattern. Jesus Christ never Lord Jesus: "I will build My church . . . the gates of hades shall organized or led a protest march . . . not in all His earthly ministry. not prevail against it." I thtnk we do well to ask ourselves the Jesus Christ never carried a placard, He never picketed the Roman question-Is the church eternal? Will the church survive the 20th Forum, though slavery was a permanent, insidious institution in His Century? Candor forces us to confess that the institutionalized generation. Jesus did not use the methods of the modern iconoclast. church may well die and cease to exist. My congregation does not He spent no time in a denunciation of Caesar or the Roman way. have God under obligation to it! God is not obligated to bless us! His methods were wholly different from ours, yet the result of the The only promise that God made is that He will act faithfully when life and the ministry of Jesus Christ has been the abolitio2 of slav- we meet His conditions! Now if Jesus Christ is right, "I will build ery, the elevation of all human rights, and the salvation of all who My church and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it," then believe. He possessed a magnificent obsession! His obsession was the premature funeral oration being preached in many quarters of not with sociological things, his obsession was with soteriological our world is nothing more than the idle prattle of fools. On the things. He was not primarily interested in matters of sociology, He other hand, if "they" are right, Jesus Christ is an impostor, a liar, was interested in matters of salvation and redemption from sin! and a deceiver! Whom do you believe? When He put his emphasis on that point all these other things fell Paul reminded the Ephesian elders that the road would be rocky into their proper category. and rough. In fact, Paul said, conflict and trouble and opposition Recall the earthly ministry of our Lord. Coming forth from His would come! Paul said it would come from two sources-without wilderness temptation beginning the sublime task of reconciling the and within. From without, he said there would be humans like world unto Himself, He began by speaking with two men on a grievous wolves descending upon that little flock of Christians. They country road. What an inauspicious beginning! But those two men tould spare not the flock! From within (and this is a fact we need followed Him. Then He chose twelve, and out of those twelve to underscore) there would arise men numbered among the believ- Andrew found Peter, Peter found Nathaniel-and so it moved out. ers speaking perverse things and trying to lead away the flock after Our Lord didn't meet many people, but "as many as met Him were heresy. Paul's words could not have been more prophetic nor true made whole!" This was the obsession of His life. -for from that day until this the battle has continued-all the way J. W. Krutch, in a very interesting little essay titled, "Eternity or from the Gnostic heresy to the present reincarnation of Gnosticism the Franklin Stove," observed: "undoubtedly, then, the world has under the label "New Theology." New Theology is not new for it's grown steadily more comfortable and the spread of comfort has not simply the same thing from different men! It is the same philosophy been confined merely to physical things. Not only has the rigor of with different lips articulating it! There has been the denial of the the seasons been modified but the terror of the unknown world has been abolished as well, since he who gives up his hope of them! The only way nonbelievers and scoffers could explain it was heaven may at the same time relieve himself of his fears of hell . . . to say: "why, they're drunk!" I've never been drunk. I don't know we've settled into a sort of bourgeois security, and bourgeois security how it feels. I've never tasted beer, wine or whiskey and ,I thank has its own dull comforts, for if we have not much to gain, neither God and my parents for that fact. However, I know some chnrac- do we have much to lose." Jesus Christ was not obsessed by any teristics of drunkenness. The obvious characteristic is that the motor such spirit of mediocrity! I believe Krutch is devastaringly accurate center of life is completely dominated by that narcotic! One does not in his description of our day. act normally when he is under the influence of an alcoholic bever- That's not the sort of obsession which controlled the life of the age! A drunk person is not normal. That's precisely twe of the Lord Jesus Christ: He had no desire to live out His days on earth possession of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer. When we and finish with a record of no hits, no runs and no errors! How walk out of our churches on Sunday morning about ten minutes many of us are thus content? Jesus Christ risked His all to bring after twelve to continue business as usual the world laughs up its men to God, and Jesus Christ Who so risked and gave Himself said sleeve at us. The world says, "Oh yeah, look at them. There's nothing to all of us who follow Him, "as the Father hath sent Me, so send different about them." Dear friends, in all too many cases they're I you." Dear friend, have you ever inserted your name in place of right. When we go out under the impulse of the Spirit of God, there that pronoun "you?" That's what the Christian faith is all about, is a new control in the motor center of our lives . . . a new motive "So send I you." He is our example. We are to follow His pattern. and a new purpose. Only then does the world sit up and begin to Many of us have become obsessed with the matter of "image." take notice. We're concerned with what people think of us. We want to be liked, 1 believe our way of life probably is epitomized in the beatnik and yet most of us have fears that we won't be. Jesus Christ was philosophy. The beatnik philosophy can be summed up in two words, not concerned with His image! Our concern is a deviation from the and it has touched every one of us-whether we are clean shaven, pattern of Jesus Christ. If our Lord had been concerned with what well dressed or not. The beatnik philosophy is summed up in the people thought, He never would have chosen the Via Dolorosa, the words "ungrateful" and "undisciplined." Broadly speaking, it's the way of sorrows, nor the way of Calvary, for He died the most psychology of a spoiled child who ha? received so much so fre- despicable of all deaths-crucifixion on a Roman cross-the death quently that he has no gratitude. We've not disciplined ourselves. of a common thief! In so doing He died, one man for all men. He We don't even discipline ourselves when it comes to the externals of was not concerned for the opinions of human beings. He was con- the Kingdom of God. Why, 70% of my congregation still quibbles cerned with pleasing the Heavenly Father. With that as His obsessioil about 10% . . . when a few are thinking in terms of 100%. Un- He says to you and me, "so send I you." Jesus defined His own diqc;plined. Ungrateful. We've grown up physically, but emotionally ministry in this way: "The Son of Man has come to seek and save we ill possess the characteristics of the beatnik philosophy. that which is lost." The church with a future must be obsessed with I suppose that there are many other obstacles we could name but the same obsession, seeking and saving those who are lost. 'This is I'm very much aware of the growing cleavage between education our primary function! and evangelism. In our denomination there are those who subcon- The great Japanese Christian, Kagawa, spent the la~ttwelve years sc,ously or consciously believe that evangelism is a product of igno- of his life living in the most despicable, utterly horrid place in all rance, while others believe the well educated must be anti-evangelistic the world. They say the slum area around Kobe, Japan, is filled or anti-spiritual. There seems to be very little middle ground left for , with the most debauched, depraved, diseased people in all the world. any who are not extremists. Let me hasten to affirm that our Lord It was precisely to that spot Kagawa went to make his home living never intended evangelism to be a haven for mediocrity. He was among those people because his life was captivated by an obsession the greatest of all evangelists, and at the same time He possessed . . . the same obsession which motivated Jesus Christ. That great all knowledge. He was the greatest intellectual Who has ever lived in Christian had set himself to the accomplishment of one goal in life. the history of the world. Do you remember what it was? His goal was to lead one million of A well educated person is not relieved of his responsibility to be his fellow Japanese to a saving faith in Jesus. While he lived in that a witness. A person who has received a good education is not ex- area near Kobe, he contracted one disease after another which empt from his obligation to grow in the likeness of Christ! The man sapped his strength and ultimately brought about his untimely de- who possesses the ability to read and study the Bible yet refuses to mise. Yet Kagawa identified himself with his people and with Jesus read and study it is no better off than the man who does not pos- Christ! Now such an obsession in your life and mine will bring con- sess the ability to read it. What good is the ability to read and study demnation, criticism and misunderstanding. Someone will be quick if we do not put it to use? to say, "he has become fanatic on the subject of religion." If we are Reading the New Testament we come to the Book of Acts. There worried about our image, we'll back down. We will try to placate as we read we discover the glorious victory won by the forces of people even though we displease God. The church with a future- Jesus Christ in the Kingdom enterprise. Acts describes the thrilling that church that will live forever must be captivated by an obses- story of how the gospel leaped over every known barrier until the sion. There's another characteristic. Dear friends, we must be conclusion of Acts where Paul is pictured in his own hired house in the Ctiy of Rome, the capital of the world, preaching the gospel unhinderedly. What a glorious and thrilling story it is! Cognizant of Obstacles Then we read the Corinthian correspondence. We find that what I'm sure every person here can give some sort of critique on the all of the armed might of pagan Rome was unable to do in retard- church of the 20th Century. You could describe what you feel are ing and abolishing the work of the Kingdom, disagreement among the ills besetting the church. In my judgment the one great ill, the Christians was able to accomplish. The one thing that stymied King- sickness that will render the church impotent is neglect of the Holy dom progress was not external persecution from all Rome's legions, Spirit. I wish that I knew more of Him and His ministry, but there but the one thing that retarded the work of the Kingdom was bick- is one thing I know. I know when my actions are prompted by His ering and disagreement among the people of God! That, dear friends, presence and I know when my life is lived by selfish and ulterior remains as an obstacle with which the Church of the Future must motives! I read again and again that second chapter of Acts, for ever contend. Well, if these are our obstacles plus many more, what there we have the first instance of captivation or possession by the is our common denominator? What is the cohesive factor that. holds Holy Spirit. What was the result of the Spirit's possession of that together the people of the Lord in the work of the church? In my church? Why, when they went out from their prayer meeting people judgment, that common denominator is to be said, "they're drunk! They've been drinking new wine!" Those people didn't understand, yet one thing is true. Skeptics knew something was different about those folks. They knew that whatever was Correlated by Obeisance motivating them was not natural! They weren't continuing with I don't mean obeisance to the opinions of men. 1 don't mean "business as usual!" There was something completely changed about obeisance to modem theologians, as fine as they are. With all of the intellect of Barth, Bruner, and Tillich, plus the others, the fered him a job! Dear friends, obeisance to Jesus Christ involves a obeisance to which 1 am referring is obeisance to fesus Christ Who job. It's a job embodied in the Great Commission to the church to said, "ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." make disciples, baptize them, and teach and train them. But add quickly to that, He also said, "I am the Truth." Now the When I observe the morticians of the 20th Century standing truth Jesus was talking about is not always found in the opinions of greedily by, embalming fluid in hand ready to prepare the corpse of men. Consequently we must return to our one primary source of Christ's Eternal Church, 1 am reminded of a story by the Venerable information-the Bible. We must come again and again to that Bead. He was one of those authors who lived back in the time of othet' source of information, which is experience, and re-affirm our Cadman and those fellows. He described a weary plowman who commitment to Him. If there is a Kingdom there must be a King! one day looked up from his plowing and saw a great throng of If there is no king there is no kingdom. We are citizens of the people on the horizon rushing toward him. When the vanguard of Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ is the King. that mass of humanity reached him, they began to shout at this Do you remember the final exam Jesus gave Peter? He didn't plowman, "Haven't you heard? Haven't you heard?" He looked up question him about theology. He did that at a previous time. In the from his plowing and asked, "Heard what?" They said, "Come on, final exam He gave Peter, Jesus questioned him about emotion. come on, the world is coming to an end." The plowman watched Three times He asked, "Peter, do you love me?" That's the obeisance the people as they descended en masse, raising a tremendous cloud which Christ demands and to which I am referring. of dust. As they continued down the road, after a few moments I saw an interesting cartoon recently in the New Yorker maga- wearily he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whether that be so or zine. It pictured two rather seedy looking students walking across a not, I do not know, but in the meantime I have plowing to do." college campus. One of them disheveled, beard, hair awry, etc., Dear Friends, this old world is coming to an end. But in the mean- looked at the other one and said, "I have a desrperate need for com- time, Jesus Christ has given us a job to do. It is a job that is to mitment, and what happens?" Then he answered his own question, continue until that glorious hour when "the Kingdoms of this world "I'm offered a job!" Well, you could see the disgust written on his are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He face. He had a desperate need for commitment and someone of- shall reign forever and forever." SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Release after 9:30 Wednesday Morning Address of \I. Douglas Hudgins, chairman of SBC Executive Committee and pastor of First Baptist Church, Jackson, Miss.

40TH AIWlVERSARY OF THE EXECUTIVE COMPlITTEE

This session of the Southern Baptist Convention marks the 40th Anniversary of the ' Executive Conmittee as it is currently constituted. In 1927 there were 27 members of the Cornittee; in 1967 the number has grown to 57. In these 49 years the membership of our Convention has increased from 3,765,001 to 10,952,463, and the State Convention bodies have grown from 15 to 29.

The membership of the Executive Committee is composed of the president of the Convention, the senior secretary of the body, the president of Woman's Missionary Union, and one member from each state of the Convention having 25,00G members or more. When a state has 250,00C members, it is entitled to an additional representative, and one additional member for each increase in membership of 25C,OCG; but no state can have more than five. When a state is entitled to more than one rcprcsentativc, at least one shall be a lay per son.

The Executive Committee meets each year immediately following the. election by the Convention and perfects its crganizatian. Officers elected annually are a chairman, vice chairman, and a secretary. The chairman may nct serve more than two years. Committee assignments are made by thc officers of the Com~iittec in conference with the Executive Secretary.

The Committee holds two stzted meeirings each year: one in September, the other in February, It is also customary for the group to mect at the annual Convention site on the day preceding the opening session.

Although it Kay be remembered by few cf us here at this 1967 session, there was a committee known as the Executive Committee prior to 2327. In 1917 a Convention committee which had been ztudying Convention procedures for some time brought a recommendation which said in part, :'Ide recommend that a committee of seven, representing the different parts of the territory of the Convention, bc selected annually by the Convention. The dutiee of the committee shall be: (1) to have oversight of Lhe arrangemenis for the meeting in case an emergency arises making cuch change necessary (the nation was on the brink of World War I at the time); (2) to act for the Convention ad interim on such matters as may arise per- tainifig to the general business of the Convention and not otherwise provided for in its plan of work; (3) to act in an advisory way on all questions submitted to it arising between the noards of the Convention, but ONLY ON REQUEST of one or rnorc of the Boards concerned; and (4) to have NO OTHER DUTIES except as other things may bc specifically committed to it by the Convention itself at its annual meeting." The seven members elected following the adoptiox of the recommendation and the establishment of the first Executive Committee were: M. H. Wolf, Texas; Livingston Johnson, North Carolina; Gcorge E. Hays, Kentucky; J. C. Stalcup, Otclahome; Z. T, Cedy, South Carolina; E. C. Dargan, Georgia; and S. M. Brown, I*iissoui-i.

Two years latcr the Executive Committee was enlarged by the following bylaw change: "Membership of thc. Cornittee shall be cornp~sed of the president and secretary of the Con- vention, one membcr from each of the Boards of thc Convention, and one additional member from each state represented in the Convention. The president and secretary of the Conven- tion shall be cx officio chairman and secretary of the Cornittee.''

As the result of the work of a Convention Committee called the "Commitrce on Business Efficiency,'' which group made e preliminary report tc the Convcntlon in 1926, the Executive Committee of this Ccnvention, as currently serving, was reorganized and charged with unprecedented responsibility by the vote of the Convention in Louisville in 1927. Included in the Committee's duties were: the fixing of total objectives of the Convention; allocation of funds to various agencies and recommending Bmre to thc Convention; to review : proposed budgets of the boards and ggencies,and rec~~mendsame for approval by the Conven- tion; to make feasible suggestions as to the paying off the indebtedness of the egcncies of the Convcntion; and to continue the business of the Convention ad interim. a'"

1 In addition to the recommendations concerning the functions of the Executive Committee, the Comittce on Business Elr'ficiency suggested that the work of the Cooperative Progran Comission be taken over by the Executive Committee.

The enlarged committee, an authorized by the Convention's vote, held its organizational maeting in the Kentucky Hotel, Lcuisville, i?t 3:OC P. pi., Play 7, 1927. Dr. George lif. Truett, President of the Convention, was elected chairman; and flight C. Moore, Convention P secretary, was elected secretary. b k Mcrfibers cf that first Executive Comittce elected by the 1927 Convention were: i' + George F.!. Truett, Tcxas, ex ~Liicio;Night C. FIoore, Tennessee, ex officio; and:

TO SERVE ONE YEAR--C. B. Waller, D. D., Littlc Rock, Ark. ; S. J. Porter, D. D., Washington, D. C.; Eugene Levering, B ltinore, Md.; M. P. L. Love, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Rev. ., Walter N, Johnson, Mars Hill, N. C.; W. L. Ball, D. D., Spartanburg, S. 6.; Austin Crouch, D, D., Tennessee; John W. Long, Pctersburg, Vo.; SJ. E. Holconb, Tupelo, Miss.

I TO SERVE TWO YEARS--Zech Ford Bond, D. D., East St. Louis, bfo. ; C. M. Managan, Lake ' Charles, La.; Minetry Jones, St. Joseph, Mo.; Rev. J. C.rl McCoy, Albuquerque, M. M,; Pat M. NeCf, Waco, Texas; H. L. Winburn, D. D., Arkadelphia, Ark.; 3. B. Weatherspoon, D. D., "R -:- Louisvillc, Ky.; Mrs. F. W. Armstrong, Plattsburg, Mo.; J. Calvin Moss, ~ynchburg,Va.

TO SERVE THREE YEARS--J. E. Dillard, D. D., Birmingh~m, Ala. ; 14. A. ~obson,D. D., Jacksonville, Fla. ; Charles W. Dank1 , D. D., Atlanta, Ca. ; George E. Bays, ~ouisville,Ky, ; J. W. Bruner, D. D., Chickasha, Okla.; Mrs. Ben S. Thompson, Madison, Ga.; Rev. Carl R. I DeVane, Alexandria, La.; J. B. Jester, D. D.; Winston-Salem, N, C.; and R. M. Inlow, D. D.; Oklahoma City, Oklahonia. 1 In that first meeting, following the election of the president oE the Convention as chairman, the Corrmittec appointed Charles T.1. 'Daniel, Austin Crouch, and J. E, Dillard as a special committee to seek the underwriting cf a budget to be supplicd by the Sunday School Board and to suggest a plan of procedure for the Cormittee. Secretary Xoore was later added to the committee, and it was voted to have the first business session of the Committee in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, Junc 21, at 10:GG A. M.

i The files of the Cornittee reveal that on May 17, 1927, a letter from President Tructt and Secretary Moore went out to all b~ardsecretaries, seminary presidents, the president and corresponding secretary of the W. M. U., the secretary of thc Brotherhood, , the state sccrctarieo, acd the edircjrs of thc statc papers asking zhcir presence at tkc meeting.

The first business session cf the Executive Cornmittcc in Nashville 40 years ago was an historic occasion. Its work was new and its rcsponsibi2ities unprcccdcnted. At: the opening scssion it became cvidmt that an Executive Secretary would be a vital requirement. ) The ~nctnbcrs felt they could not clcct from the floor so thcy appointed a committee to I nominate a man. This committee was composed of J. B. 6.7cathcrspoon9 J. IJ. Bruncr, J. W. Long, Eugcne Levering, C. M. Managan, Minctry Jones, and J. R. Jester. On the second afternoon of the two-day sesgion thc comittec recommended that Austin Crouch, pastor of I the First Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, Tcnnessec, be clectcd. That evening, shortly before I adjournment, Dr. Crouch announced his acceptance and resigned as a member of the comittec. I Right C. EIoorc was elected trcasurcr to work with Dr. Crouch.

As we look back upon that meeting 40 years ago next month, we are increasingly attare that God's hand r~asin the choice. From that timc until hc retired in 1946 Austin f Crouch was the guiding genius of our Convention's fiscal, business, and financial policies. , He was a financial wizard and a tactful, forceful, and persuasive denominational leader. :' It was his imagination, vision and conviction that sparked the recornendations of thc Committee on Busincss Efficiency that brought the original recom~endntionsfor the establish- I ment of an Executive Committee. Working in closest cooperation with Dr. I. J. Van Nesc, Sccrctary of the Sunday f School Board, Dr. Crouch led in the establishment of modest offices in the Board's office ?.{building and in~mcdiatelybegan to mold the mission giving of the denomination into an If efficient: gathering and disbursenent of Cooperative Prograrn funds. With dccpest gratitude :iwe, on this 40th anniversary of the Executive Com,littec, again would express to our f Heavenly Father our grateful thanks for Austin Crouch, pioneering servant ...extraordinary! Of the orieinal members of the~comitteeof 1927 only three remain among us, rJe :thadb hoped that all three could be present for this occasion, Dr. Zech Ford Bond, now

(more) . .'T.. . Douglas ZIudgins

residing in New Augusta, S. C., writes that he is not able to make the journey, and Dr. 11. E. Holcomb, of Jackson, Eississippi, whose pastor I am honored to be, is re- covering from a cardiac condition and is unable to be here. TJe do have, however, ONE original committee member here: Mrs. Ben S. Thompson, now of Yazoo City, Mississippi. With your permission, we shall present her to you in a few moments.

j The passing of these four decades has brought: many changes. The committee has been blessed, with the exception of the present chairman, with able and devoted representatives of our Baptist Body. Hundreds of dedicated, selfless, and hard working men and women have served us on this important Conunittee. For each of them we are deeply grateful.

Dr. Crouch, giant: though he was, is not: the only name we honor in serving you as Executive Secretary of the Executive Committee. Tlhen Dr. Crouch retired in 1946, Dr. Duke IC. McCall was the one upon whom his mantle fell and he served significantly until he was elected president of the Southern Seminary in 1951. Elected to succeed him was the man who continues to be our capable and astute leader, Dr. Porter Routh. For more thzn 16 years Dr. Routh has given himself to the work of Southern Baptists, a;ld it is our hope that he will be given us for many years yet to come.

Time prevents a recounting of the changes occurring in the work of the Executive Committee. Currently, having been relieved of the promotional programs relative to thc practice of stewardship by the action of the Convention in its Louisville session in 1959 in the creation of the Stewardship Commission, rhe Executive Cormittee now is organized into four standing committees: Administrative, Program, Finance, and Public Relations. As Associates to Secretary Routh are Albert McClcllan, Program Analyst; John :lilliams, Financial Analyst, and 71. C. Fields, Director of Public Relations, and neccessary office personnel.

All matters coming before the body are first referred to the appropriate sub-committee and in these smaller groups full and complete discussion is had from all who wish to be heard. Recommendations then are carried to the full session of the , Committee, where additional discussion is solicited and action taken. All meetings of all committees are open to any who might wish to attend. There are no closed sessions.

Mow, Mr. President, I have a distinct honor and delightful privilege. Prescnt on thc platform this morning, under the watchful eyes and loving care of her son-in-laxq----himself a member of the Executive Committee---Owen Cooper, is the only member of the original Executive Committee of 1927 present today, MRS. BEN S. THOMPSON!

To you, dear and honored friend, on behalf om£these assembled messengers, I present you with this lovely orchid, a tangible token of our honor, esteem, gratitude, and love! b NEWS from BAPTIST PRESJ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Information

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONVENTION

Baptist beginnings in America date back to 1639 and the establishment of the First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, by the famed Roger Williams.

The first national body of Baptists in America was formed in 1814 as an outgrowth of missionary work overseas. William Carey, a Baptist: of England, had initiated the modern missionary movement in 1792. His service in India awakened churches in Europe and the United States to the broeded implications of the Great Commission of Jesus.

Inspired by Carey'e axample, Adoniram and Ann Judson and Luther Rice became the pioneer missionaries from America. Commissioned by the Congregationalists, these three became Baptists as a result of their Bible study. They worked in India and Burma. To secure support for the work of the Judsons, Rice returned to America to devote his the to preaching missions among the scattered Bapt ise churches.

As a direct result of these streams of influence, the first national body of Baptists was established at Philadelphia in May, 1814. The body was called ''The General Missionary Convention of Baptist: Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions." This soon was shortened to ''The Triennial Convention,'' after the fact that the body met once every three years. It served as the foreign mission board for all Bapt ists until the arganiza- tion of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Southern Baptist Convention was officially organized May 12, 1845, in Augusta, Ga. According to the historical tables there were 236 "delegatesi' registered from 165 churches, nine associations, and other Baptist groups and institutions. The states represented were Maryland, Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia.

There were three major reasons given for the separate organization of Baptists in the South: (1) the question of slave-holding, and whether a slave-holder could be appointed as a missionary by the convention (2) a difference of opinion about the matter of missions within the United States, and (3) a difference of opinion on whether one convention should sponsor all phases of work, or whether separate "missions societtks" should be created for each area.

After the division in 1845, it was agreed that the Northern organization should retain the corporate name, property and debts of the foreign missions program which had been carried on by the Triennial Convention organized in 1814. The missionaries were left free to choose which foreign mission board they cared to serve under.

Thus the SBC was formed at a time when its founders were already definitely committed to a foreign missionary program. It was in 1845 that the first secretary of a domestic, or home mission board was elected, but the man declined the offer.

I The first seminary was organized in 1859 in Greenville, S. C. It is the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, now located in Louisville, Ky .

Since those days of early beginnings, the convention has organized 19 agencies, institutions and organizations with boards of trustees elected by the convention, responsible to the convention. A complete listing of the agencies, along with the dates they were founded is found elsewhere in the press kit. PRESS KIT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PKI - Brier History Of The Convention (FYI) PKI - Press Facilities For The SBC (FYI) PKI - Outline of Press Kit Contents (FYI) PKI - Color Key PKI - Description Of Meetings (FY 1) PKI - Miscellaneous Information Of the Convention PKI - SBC Agencies and Their Reports PKI - Press Room Staff and Responsibilities PKI - News Photos PKI - Baptist Press Mailings (FYI) PKI - Biographical Sketch Of SBC President (FYI) PKI - Tape Recordings Akailable (FYI) PKI - Fleeting Sites, Dates For Future Conventions (FYI) PKI - Missionaries Attendin, Lue SBC (FYI) PKI - who's Who In Miami PKI - Special Events, Time & Place PKI - List of Backkround Stories BS - Reapportionment, World Peach; May Be SBCts Big~esl: Iss~~es BS - Baptist Re-apportionmenr (Bylaw 18) BS - SBC Name [Change BS - SBC Budget BS - Philadelphia in '721 BS - '70 Onward Plans, Ertiphases BS - SBC Goals, 1967-69 BS - Church Loans Recommendation BS - Crusade of the Americas BS - BapLisc Education Study Task (BEST) BS - Bill Wallace Movie Showing BS - SBC Speakers BS - ~astors'Conference BS - Pastorst Conference Dinner-Dialogue BS - Award ro Gary Player BS - WMU Convention Speakers BS - Religious Education Conference BS - Church Music Conference BS - Evangelists Conference BS - Conference For Furloughing Missionaries BS - Medical Missions Conference BS - Superintendent of Missions Meeting BS - ~inisters'Wives Conference FYI - Contents of Press Kit Report Summaries BRS - SBC Assets-Liabilities BRS - SBC Radio-TV Cornn~ission BRS - Education Commission BRS - Golden Gate Seminary BRS - Midwestern Seminary BRS - New Orleans Seminary BRS - Seminary Extension Department BRS - Sou theas tern Seminary BRS - Southern Seminary BRS - Soutlzwes tern Seminary BRS - Sunday School Board BRS - Home Mission Board BRS - Committee on Boards BRS - SBC Chaplains Commission BRS - Southern Baptist Hospitals BRS - Histor ica 1 Commission BRS - Committee on Denominational Calendar BRS - American Baptist Theological Seminary BRS - Committee on Bap~istState Papers BRS - Southern Baptist Foundation BRS - Christian Life Commission BRS - SBC Annuity Board BRS - American Bible Society BRS - woman's Missionary Union BRS - Foreign Mission Board BRS - Stewardship Commission BRS - Baptist World Alliance BRS - Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs BRS - Brotherhood Commission BRS - Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation FYI - Program Conference Southern Baptist Evangelists FYI - Pastors' Conference, Jess C. Moody--addendum FYI - HMB Report and Commissioning Sexvice FYI - SBC Program and Song Book PGPi - Proposed Agenda; Executive Committee PGM - Southern Baptist Church Music Conference PGM - Sauthern Baptist Reli&ious Education Association PGM - SBC Woman's Missionary Union PGM - SBC pastor's Conference PGH - Southern Baptist Convention PGM SBC Pragrarn of Entire Convention Gerald Martin Address (pastor's Conference) James L. Pleitz Address (Church Music Conference) Charles A. Trentham Address (Religious Education Association) Howard E. Bu~tJr. Address (Pastor's Conference) Ed Crow Address (Evangelist# Conference) James Woodward (Church Music Conference) Jim Flamniing Address (Church Music Conference) Clyde B. Skidmore Address - Welcome to SBC Welcome Address to SBC John H. Maguire Landrum P. Leavell--annual convention serrnon W. Docklas Hudgins, 40th Anniversaxy of the Executive Cornmi~tee H. Franklin Paschal1 Address (president's Address) Rabun Brantley Address (SBC) H. Leo Eddleman Address (SBC) W, A Criswell Address (SBC) Theodore F. Adams (SBC) Mrs. Robert Fling Address (from WM] to SBC) Frank Means Address (SBC) William E, Lewis, Jr , Address (SBC) Bill O'Brien (FMB night to SBC) Por Ler W . Rau th Address (SBC? Report of BJCPA) James L. Pleitz Address (SBC) J. D. Grey Address (SBC) Carl E. Bates Address (SBC) Addresses: Pastors' Conference and WW Convention Addresses : Evank4elists Conierenze . 4. NEWS from BAPTIST PRES~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C, FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

Special Note to the Press

PRESS FACILITIES FOR THE SBC

WELCOME to the 110th session of the Southexn Baptist Convention. We hope our "Southern" hospitality will prevail through all the sessions. You,will find typewriters, tele- phones, and other press accommodations to help you report the Convention as accurately and as fully as the high standards of your paper desires. We hope everything we do will give you a sense of our sincerity as we attempt to serve this largest annual gathering of any religious denomination in America.

PRESS HEADQUARTERS--The official Press Room for the convention is located in the Cypress Room on the Southwest corner of the Convention Hall complex. As you face the platform from the seating area, it is on the left down the corridor behind the platform. The Press Room will be clearly marked and will be staffed from 8:30 a.m. until after the sessions close at night.

PRESS DINNER--A Press Dinner will be held at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 30, in the Terrace Room of the Sea Isle Hotel. This is a fellowship dinner for those covering for daily newspapers, radio and TV stations and wire services. Reporters and editors of non- Baptist religious periodicals who are present to cover the Convention also are invited. There will be no press conference in connection with the dinner.

PHOTOGRAPHS--Stock photographs of Convention events may be obtained at $2 each through the Convention photographic service. Pictures available will be posted in the press roam. A limited number of stock photos of Convention speakers and other leaders are available upon request to staff of the press room. Special photographs can be arranged through Carl Jones, Convention photographex, at a nominal charge, If you desire Mr. ones' service, see the receptionist, Mr. Jones cannot provide service in the "double time'' demanded by daily newspaper or television deadlines. His service is for the weekly Baptist papers mainly.

RECEPTIONIST--A receptionist-secretary will be at the reception desk at all times to assist press personnel. She will not be equipped to answer detailed questions about Baptist life, doctrine, procedure. She will help you find someone to answer these detailed questions, however, or will take your name and have someone contact you at the earliest possible moment who is in a position to answer the question. The receptionist will be ,able to help you with matters concerning press room facilities.

PRESS STAFF--W. C. Fields is press representative and Jim Newton is press room manager. Leonard Hill will also be available from time to time. Each of these men is equipped to discuss with you detailed information about Southern Baptists. Womem press room assistaats are from the office af the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Roy Jennings, Walker Knight, John Bloskas, Dallas Lee, Dick McCartney, A1 Morgan, Barry Garrett, Lynn Davis, Gomer Lesch, (all Baptist Press staff writers) and the editors of Baptist state papers also working in the press room will be available as well to answer questions. A full list of press room staff workers is in the press kit in case you're wondering who's who.

WHO'S WERE?--Editors and their assistants from the Baptist newspapers and magazines across. the Convention will use the Press Room along with daily newspapermen, radio and TV re-, porters, and non-Baptist religious journalists.

INTERVIEWS and PRESS CONFERENCES--Watch your boxes and the bulletin board for announcements of press conferences. Private interviews can be conducted either in the press refresh-

ment axea, ox in the privacy of the V.I.P. Studio-Conference Room, located behind the ' speech sales counter and information and registration desk in the Northeast corner of the Convention Hall lobby. Access is around the patio to the Studio, This room is especially designed fox radis-television interviews, but is too small for press conferences, which will be held in the Cypress Room. Press Facflities For The SBC 2

RELEASE HOURS--Please observe release hours strictly. When release hours are broken, it becomes embarrassing to the transgressor and to the convention. Material is made available for release at the earliest possible moment. Most of the speeches are available in advance, and are clearly marked with release times.

REFRESHMENTS--Free coffee, free soft drinks, and free doughnuts are available in the Press Room courtesy of the convention. In addition, free sandwiches and available courtesy of the Baptist Sunday School Board, thanks to PR Director Gomer Lesch. If the supply is exhausted, notify the receptionist or press room manager immediately.

AGAIN, WELCOME--If we can help you in any way, please call on us.

--W. C. Fields and Jim Newton l~l~~

NEWS^I from BAPTIST PRESP SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENT ION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Outline of Press Kit Contents

By its weight and sheer volume, the 1967 Southern Baptist Convention Press Kit ia a handful of information, and we hope you will find it helpful. Don't let the mass of materia 1 overbhe lm you.

Inside the front flap of the Press Kit, you will find a handy-reference color key explaining what kinds of information are onthe various colors of paper. The colored paper is used with the hope it will help you find what you're hunting easier.

Here's a little tip. Everything on buff or canary (shades of yellow journalism) ia to be written and produced during the convention. The vast majority of the information on green and blue was written and produced prior to the convention as background information. Everything on blue paper is written in news style and is ready for publication, provided release times are observed. But the green sheets are "for your infannation," and are not written in news style.

During the convention, you'll receive a lot of the green sheets in your press boxes. Included on green will be the texts of resolutions and motions presented during the cpnven- tion, cut lines for photos, corrections on stories (we're not perfect), and memo's to the press, including announcements of press conferences, etc.

Twice daily, our copy chief, Roy Jennings is writing roundup stories for the morning and afternoon daily papers. These are always on buff paper. Also on buff will be the final wrapup stories on the Pastors' Conference, WMU, Music and Religious Education Conferences, and also the final Friday-night wrapup story on the entire SBC.

The stories on canary paper are the spot news stories that develop daily, and are reported by the press staff as they develop. The reporter's name and the time the story was finished, should appear at the bottom of each story.

Printed on white paper are the texts of speeches or quotes from speeches, and proposed pr6grarneouei &s .Wr" :kbp meetings .

If the pages of your press kit haven't been jumbled up before you read this, you may be able to find things a lot easier by looking at the color of the paper. The press kit iB divided into sections for easier fact-hunting.

The first section explains the facilities, what the SBC is, discription of the meetings, history, list of program participants, who's who in the pressroom, a list of the meetings of the week, and other general information on the convention.

The second section includes background stories on the convention---who the speakers are, a general wrapup story on business and issues to come up, background pieces on specific business items and issues, etc.

The third section, and on blue paper like the second section, includes news summaries on each of the reports to be delivered by SBC agencies, boards, institutions, and committees, and related organizations. There's a table of contents for this section at the beginning of the section.

Rest come theprogram outlines for the meetings. They're on white paper. Last are the speeches . We hope the Press Kit meets with your approval. This year for the first time, the stories are on printed stock with the theme and a heading.

All chis is to answer your questions before you ask them. If you're overwhelmed by fr all, yell for help and someone will try to come to your rescue. we're here to help you, and that's what we want to do.

--We C. Fields and Jim Newton ,tU'J'um'?@ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION - & I CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH &*1 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM) r - -. W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE w" JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Informat ion

DESCRIPTION OF mET1NGS

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION -- The SBC has its meeting once each year, usually in late May or early June. Site for the convention is moved to different parts of the country each year. In recent years it has met: in Detroit, Atlantic City, and Kansas City. The sites are selected five years in advance. Meeting places for future conventions ate New Orleans, Houston, Denver and St. Louis. Attendance at the convention usually runs about: 15,000 each year. The actual number of registered "messengerst' ranged during the 1960's from a low of 9,396 in 1962 at San Francisco, to a high of 16,053 in 1965 at Dallas.

Reports, addresses, and the future activities of the Convention axe the center of interest at the Convention aession. There are more than 20 boards, commissions, and institutions of the Convention which will present their annual reports. Add to these the reports of about half a dozen special committees and reports of auxiliaries and other interests in which Southern Baptists have a part. One of these important corn- mittees is the resolutions commit tee.

The two principal addresses of the Convention are the president's address and the Convention sermon. H. Franklin Paschall, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn., is president of the Convention. In his address, the president of the Convention usually reviews the purposes and objectives of the Convention and relates them to its present and future. His address compares in its way much to the "State of the Union'' message delivered to Congress by the President of the United States.

The Convent ion sermon is an inspirational, Bib le-centered address, delivered in the fashion you would hear from the pulpit of a Southern Baptist church on Sunday. The Convention selects its "Convention preachera' one year ahead of time. Landrum P. Leave11 111, pastor of First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas, will preach the annual Convention sermon.

Plans for the future always occupy a great deal of attention during the Convention session. Special committees function on a year-to-year basis, as compared to the permanent nature of the boards, commissions, and institutions. At the Convention session, messengers may also instruct the boards, commissions, and institutions to undertake some particular phase of work.

Election of officers is one annual item of business of general interest. A president, by custom, usually serves two years, and the secretaries stay in office for an indefinite period although re-elected each year. One of the two vice-presidents in years past has sometimes been a Baptist of the city or state in which the Convention meets, although this year several state Baptist papers have editorialized urging this tradition to be dropped.

The Convention follows a democratic procedure during the session. The program, or "order of business," for the annual sessions is drafted months ahead of time but is always subject to adoption at the first session of the annual Convention, The democratic procedure allows matters to be brought to the Convention from the floor, which means nearly always there is something brought up unexpectedly or with little prior notice. Reports and recommendations of the Convention's agencies and committees, however are printed in advance in the "Book of Reports" available to a11 registered messengers, and in the daily Oonvention Bulletin. - more - DESCRIPTION OF MF,ETINGS

THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION -- The Woman's Missionary Union is an auxiliary to the South- ern Baptist Convention to which Baptist women belong. As its name indicates, its purpose is to stimulate and promote interest in and support of the Convention's home and foreign missionary programs. The WMU--as it is commonly known--sponsors several offering periods each year in which millions of dollars are contributed for missionary activities. The WMU annual Convention immediately precedes that of the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting Monday morning, May 29 through Tuesday afternoon, May 30.

Mrs. Robert C. Fling, of Cleburne, Texas is president of the WMU. It has its off ice in Birmingham, Ala., with a full-time staff and publications for all ages of women and girls. Miss Alma Hunt is executive secretary.

SOUTWRN BAPTIST PASTORS' CONFERENCE -- While the WMU has its preliminary meeting, Southern Baptist ministers are holding their own conference. This is a time for pointers on sermon subjects, sermon preparation, interpretation of Bible passages and the many duties which the pastor of a church has. It is also a time for fellowship. Many of the ministers attended colleges and seminaries together, or met at some previous year's conference. The churches they serve may be hundreds or thousands of miles apart but this meeting gives them a chance to renew friendships. C. A. Roberts, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Tallahassee, Fla., and recently elected head of the evangelism department for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex., is president of the Pastors' Conference.

OTHER AUXILIARY AND PRELIMINARY MEETINGS -- Other church workers have established meetings of their own which precede that of the Convention. These include the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, for ministers of music, and the Religious Education Associa- tion, which is for ministers of education. They discuss the aspects of their own special duties and meet for fellowship. Ministers' wives will also have a meeting, as will ministers engaged in full-time, non-pastoral evangelistic work (as compared to pastors of churches.)

LUNCHEONS, BREAKFASTS AND DINNERS -- There are dozens of luncheons, breakfasts, and dinners scheduled by special groups. These may be held by alumni of various seminaries and colleges, who find the Convention a convenient time and place to get together. These may also include special professional groups within Southern Baptist denominational circles. (See separate press information sheet for time and places .) I I, - *- I from BAPTIST PRESP NEWSB&Uf'~~$~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

CONVENTIONPRESS ROOM (THEHALL, CYPRESS MIAMI BEACHROOM) 167efl W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE

ba@~h ~idstfl' JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION OF THE CONVENTION

SCOPE OF THE CONVENTION--The Southern Baptist Convention is both an annual meeting, and a fellowship of 10,952,463 members (1966 figures) in 33,949 churches which cooperate in the denomination. As an annual meeting, the Miami Beach convention is the 110th in the convention's history. As a denomination, the SBC is the largest Protestant- evangelical group in the nation. Its members are in all 50 states, although the largest concentration is in the South. In order to understand the Southern Baptist Convention, it is necessary to have a clear picture of the fact that the SBC is both a fellowship (denomination) and an autonomous annual meeting of elected "messengers" whose actions ' are not binding, but only advisory, on the 33,949 churches in the fellowship.

SBC TERMINOLOGY--Baptists, because of their historic belief in the free religious choice of each person and in the autonomy of each Baptist church, use terms that may differ from those used by other denominations. Here are some examples:

1. It is never "The Baptist Church," unless referring to individual congregation of worshippers. Then it is "the Baptist church."

2. The exact and proper title of the convention is the "Southern Baptist Convention."

3. Churches "co-operate with," or are "affiliated with," the Southern Baptist Con- vention. They are not bound by any of its decisions, nor can the Sautheun Baptist ! Convention exercise control or authority over any church.

4. Churches send "messengers1'--not "delegates"-- to the Southern Baptist Convention. The churches have not delegated authority to their messengers ; though a certain church's messengers may vote for a particular Convention policy, the church is not bound to observe it.

5. No one can "speak for1' the Southern Baptist Convention, not even its president. ' He speaks only for himself.

6. There are 29 "state Baptist conventions" or "general associations ," each indep- endent of, but co-operating in the work of the Southern Baptist Convention. These state organizations have agencies of their own and operate colleges, hospitals, and children's homes. The Southern Baptist Convention has no jurisdiction over agencies and policies of a state Baptist convention.

The autonomy of each Baptist church is a major factor in the Southern Baptist Convention not being a part of the National or World Council of Churches. The Convention will not commit its co-operating churches in this matter. There is no hostility toward the Councils of Churches, only a belief on the part of Southern Baptists that Baptists can best serve the Christian cause through independence.

Two other terms crop up at sessions of the Southern Baptist Convention which may not be familiar. The title "executive secretary1' means that individual is the top staff executive for a particular agency,

The other term is "Cooperative Program!' This describes the financial channel through which Southern Baptist churches support missions and benevolent work of their state Baptist conventions and the Southern Baptist Convention.

WHO ATTENDS THE ANNUAL CONVENTION?--Voting on Convention business is done by messengexs from the churches. Each church is entitled to at least one messenger. Depending on the church's membership and/or contributions to work of the Southern Baptist Convention, it may have additional messengers up to a maximum of 10.

Attendance, however, is not limited to messengers. Many people attend who do not have messenger status. They cannot vote on business presented to the Convention. Messengers usually comprise about two-thirds of the attendance. Many of the non-messengers are Baptists who live in or near the city where the annual Convention is in session. Miscellaneous Information on the SBC 2

"Fraternal messengers" come to thc Convention nearly every year to bxing greetings from other Baptist conventions in the world. There is nearly always a fraternal messenger on hand from the American Baptist Convention. Fraternal messengers do not vote on Convention business.

WORKING TOOLS OF MESSENGERS--Meesengers to the Southern Baptist Convention find a number of items of printed material necessary. The Book of Reports contains the annual reports of committees and agencies of the Convention, and includes any recommendations these may make that require a vote. Ar~otherworking tool is the Convention Bulletin, a newo- paper published daily during the Convention. The Convention Bulletin contains announcements of business, times, and places ~f special meetings, and othex items of vital interest. Following the annual session, the contents of the Book of Reports and the preceedings of the Convention are compiled into the Southern Baptist Annual. The Annual also contains 3 directory of pastors and denominational workers by statee. The Southern Baptist Harldbook contains the latest statiseics on Southern Baptist Convention work, together with certain directories and other valuable data. Copid of the Ibnd- book, Annual, Book of Reports, and daily Bulletins are available in the press room to members of the press.

PURPOSE OF THE SBC--The Southern Baptist Convention was organized in 1845 "to provide a general organization for Baptists in the United States and its territories for the promotion of Christian missions at home and abroad, and any other objects such as Christian education, benevolent enterprises, and social services which it may deem proper and advisable far the furtherance of the kingdom of God." In recent years the convention has reduced to a simple statement the purpose at the heart of all its life and work; "To lead nen to God through Jesus Chxist."

BAPTIST BELIEFS: Southern Baptists do not have a creed, but look instead to the ~ibleas their guide to faith and practice. Baptists accept the Scriptures as the source of doctrine Statements of faith qre occasionally adopted by Baptists groups, but they are not binding on members and are not intended to be used to hamper freedom of thought or the investiga- tion of truth. There is a wide divexsity within the unity of Baptist beliefs. As listed by the Baptist Ideals Committee of 1964, the following are some of the convictions shared widely among Baptists, although it is not a statement of Baptist beliefe, for there can be no such statement:

1. The ultimate source of authority is Jesus Christ the Lord, and every area of life is to be subject to his lordship. 2. The Bible as the inspired revelation of ~od'swill and way, made full and complete in the life and teachings of Christ, is our authoritative rule of faith and practice. 3. Every individual is created in the image of God and therefore merits respect and consideration as a persan of infinite dignity and worth. 4. Each person io competent under God to make his own moral and religious decisions and is responsible to God in all matters of moral and religious duty. 5. Every person is free under God in all matters of conscience and has the right to embrace or reject: religion and to witness to his religious beliefs, always with proper regard for the rights of other persons. 6. Salvation from sin is the free gift of God through Jesus Christ, conditioned only upon trust in and commitment eo Christ the Lord. 7. Each Christian, having direct access to God through Christ, is his own priest and iq also under obligation to become a priest for Christ in behalf of other persons. 8. The church, in its inclusive sense, is the fellowship of persons redeemed by Christ and made one in the family of God. The church, in its local sense, is a fellowship of baptized believers, vol.untasily banded together for worship, nurture, and service. 9. Baptism and the ~ord'sSupper, the two ordinances of the church, are symbolic of redemption, but their observance involves spiritual realities in personal Christian experience. 10. A church is an autonomous body, subject only ta Christ, its head. Its democratic government, properly reflects the equality and responsibility of believers under the lordship of Christ . 11. Church and state are both ordained of God and are answerable to him. They should remain separate, but they are under the obligation of mutual recognition and rein- forcement as each seeks to fulfil its divine function. 12. The church is to be responsible in the world; its mission is to the world; but its character and ministry are not to be of the world. 13. Missions seeks the extension of God's redemptive purpose in all the world through evangelism, education, and Christian service and calls for the utmost dedication on the part of Christians to this task. 14. Christian education grows out of the relation of faith and reason and calls for academic excellence and freedom that are both real and responsible. Miscellaneous Information On The S8C 3

HOW THE SBC DOES ITS WORK--Each of the 33,949 Baptist churches is autonomous end determines its own programs and work. In order to do together what they cannot do separately, the churches have created 1,118 district associations, 29 state Baptist conventions or associations and the SBC. Each church is a member of one association, the state convention, and the SBC. The convention, to carry out its work, has created 19 different agencies and institutions, and has assigned its Executive Committee the task of coordinating the work of the convention. It acts as the convention "ad interim". Each of the agencies and institutions submit annual reports to the SBC. The Executive Committee makes recommendations, including the overall "Coopewetive Program" budget: goal, to the convention for its consideration. The convention is the final authority for the work of its agencies and institutions, but elects trustees and board members to make the administrative and policy decisions on each organization's operation. This is how the SBC does its work.

SBC Agencies and Th it Reports 2

INSTITUTIONS

GOLDEN QATE BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Mill Valley , Calif ., reported 239 students for the fall, 1966-67 session. Harold K. Graves is president. (1951)

MIDWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Kansas City, Mo., reported 192 student8 an- rolled at the beginning of the 1966-67 school year. Millard J. Berquist in president. (1957)

NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, New Orleans, La., enrolled 697 students at the 1966-67 opening eemester. H. Leo Eddleman is president. (1917)

SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Wake Forest, N. C., had an enrollment of 484 students at the beginning of the current year. Olin T, Binkley is president. (1951)

SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Fort Worth, Tex,, reported 1,560 regular students enrolled in the Eall of 1966. Robert E. Naylor is president. (1908)

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Louisville, Ky., enrolled 988 students in the Eall. Duke K. McCall is president (1859)

(The six seminaries jointly operate the SEMINARY EXTENSION DEPARTMENT (1950) which provides continuing education for laymen and ministers through correspondence courses and extension centers. It is not an official agency, but is a department of all six seminaries. Ralph A, Herring is director, with off ices in Nashville.)

THTi SOUTHERN BAPTIST FOUNDATION ( 1947), Nas hvil le , provides services to individua la as well as to SBC agencies in fund management, estate planning, and consultation on eetab- ~lshnent:of trusts and endowments to benefit Baptist causes. J. W. Storer is executive secretary . SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSPITALS are at New Orleans ( 1926) and Jacksonville, Fla ., (1955) . Hardy M. Harrell is acting executive secretary.

COMMISSIONS

AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY COMMISSION (1924) works with the National Bapt ist eonvention U .S .A*, Inc ., in operating the American Baptist Seminary and Bible College in Nashville. Charles E. Boddie is seminary president. Rabun L. Brantley is acting executive secretary-treasurer.

THE BROTHERWOOD COMMISSION (19071, Memphis, Tenn., develops and promotes missionary education programs and materials for men and boys, George W. Schroeder is executive secretary-treasurer.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION, (1913), Nashville, Tenn., provides leadership in the area of Christian social concerns. Foy Valentine is executive secretary-treasurer.

THE EDUCATION COMMISSION (19 161, Nashville, Tenn., provides coordination and leadership in higher education. The Baptist state conventions operate 39 senior colleges and universities, 15 junior colleges, seven academies and five Bible Schools. The Southern Baptist Convention as a national body operates the seminaries. Rabun L. Brantley is executive secretary- treasurer.

THE HISTORLAZ COMMISSION (1951), Nashville, Tenn., serves the denomination in pr - curing, recording, perserving and utilizing information of historical interest. Davie C. Woolley is executive secretary-treasurer.

THE RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMISSION (1946), Fort Worth, Tex., serves Southern Baptirtg by preaching, audience -building, technica 1 ass istance, and counae ling in radio and te Le- vision. Paul M. Stevens is executive secretary.

STEWARDSHIP COMMISSION (1960) leads in the development of stewardship programs and materials in Cooperative Program promotion, and in the encouragement of endowment and capital giving. Merrill D. Moore is executive director- treasurer.

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THE BAPTIST JOINT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS (19361, Washington, D. C., provides study, research, information and correlation services in church-state matters. It is supported by eight Baptist bodies in the United States and Canada, including the SBC which el cts 15 of its committee members. C. Emanuel Carlson is executive director.

THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION (1873) is an auxiliary to the SBC. It provides programs' and materials, and promotion of missions among women and girls. It is self-supporting and do's not receive Cooperative Program funds, nor are board members elected by the SBC. Misq Alma Hunt is executive secretary. Offices are in Birmingham, Ala.

THE BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE (19053 is a fellowship of 24 million Baptists in 80 conventions and unions around the world, including the SBC as one member body. There are . 27,183,622 Baptists in 122 countries. The SBC cooperates with both the Alliance and its North American Baptist Fellowship Committee, with five other member bodies, and elects 13 members to the North American Baptist Fellowship Committee. Although the SBC does not elect board members or representatives to the BWA, it contributed $85,000 last year to the Alliance through the SBC Operating Budget. Josef Nordenhaug is general secretary. Offices are in Washington, D. C.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: Southern Baptists are major supporters of the American Bible Society, through individual church contributions. Last year (1966), Southern Baptist churches gave $233,896 to support the Bible Society's programs, and led all other religious denominations in the nation in its support of the ABS. The convention hears a report each year from the Bible Society, but does not elect any representatives or budget any funds to the organization.

SPECIAL AND STANDING COMMITTEES

Three standing committees of the SBC and four special committees will bring reports to the Miami Beach convention.

The standing committees are: (1) the Denominational Calendar Committee, which outlines dates for future Baptist meetings, programs, and emphases to assist Baptist groups in long-range planning; (2) the Committee on Order of Business, which recommends the speakers and program agenda for the convention; and (3) the Committee on Publ'ic Affairs, which is the Southern Baptist portion of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (mentioned earlier) supported by eight Baptist groups.

Special committees to report in 1967 are: (I) the Committee on Baptist State Papers, composed of a chairman and the editors of the 29 Baptist state papers, who report on cir- culation and in£ luence of these publications; (2) the Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation which io studying relationships' between -Canadian and Southern Baptists ; the North American Baptist Fellowship.Cctr.mittee, which is studying relationships between Southern Baptists and Baptists in North America (including Canada); and the Committee on Boards, which will nominate trustees for SBC boards, agencies, and institutions, a HEWS from BAPTIST PRESS SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

Press Room Infonaatlon

PRESS ROW STAFF AND RESPONSIBXLITIES

W. C. Fields is public relations secretary for rhe Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville. He is also the Convention's press representative. As such, he is reapons ible for providing press accommodations for newspapermen covering the annual Conventions. The press row is a part of this task. He is general overseer of all the activity. He will have a desk on the platform.

Jim Newton is assistant director of the Baptist Press, news service of the SBC, operated by the Executive Committee, Nashville. Working under the direction of Dr. Fields, he is manager of the press room. He will be available st all times. He was for six years press repres: ntative of the Baptist General Convention of Texas before assuming the Baptist Presr p sit ion 1% years ago.

ROY Jeaninprs is curriculum coordinator for the Convention's Brotherhood Cooanission in Memphis. A former night city editor for the Memphis Cor~raercial-Appeal, Jannings is chief copy editor for the press room at the Convention. The Brotherhood CommLsion haa loaned him to the Convention press roan. He will write morning and afternoon leads each day summing up the many conferences and the Convention,

W iker L. Knight is editor, Home Miasione, monthly magazine of the SBC Honre Miersion Board, Atlanta. He is also regional editor for the Baptist Press in Atlanta. He will provide staff coverage of the Religious Education Association meeting and will handle gen t.al assignments on the press staff.

Dallas M. Lee of Atlanta is associate editor of Home Missione magazine and news editor for the SBC Home Mission Board, working with Walker Knight. He is a former copy editor for the Waca (Tex,) News-Tribune and bureau chief in Philadelphia, Pa., for Purchasing Weak, a publication of McGraw-Hill Publishers. He will cover the SBC Pastors' Conference and will be a general assignments reporter on business actions taken by the SBC.

R. T. (Dick) McCartney of Dallas is public relations director for the Baptist General Convention of Texas and is regional editor for the Dallas Regional Office of Baptist Press. He will cover the Evangelists Conference and handle special asstgnments during the SBC. (Ps: Now it is Dr. McCartney . Last week he waer awarded an honorary doctor's degree from his alma mater, John Brown University in Arkansas .) He is a fom radio-television newsman and former public relations director for Oklahoma Baptists.

A1 Morgan a£ Dallas is press representative in the public relations office of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. A former staff member of the Dallas Morning News, Morgan were city editor of the Whittier Daily News, Whittier, Calf£., before assuming his post with Texas Baptists in March. He will cwer the SBC woman's Missionary Union Convention and handle specia 1 assignments . W. Barry Garrett is public information director for the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affaire in Washington, is also Washington Regional Editor of Baptist Pzess. Dr. Garrett will cover the sessions of the SBC Executive Committee in its pre-convention session and handle general assignments. He is s former Baptist state,paper editor.

Lynn M. Davis editorial section supervisor for the public relations off ice of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, is Baptist Sunday School Board bureau chief for Baptist Press. He is a former editor of the Ohio Baptist Messenger. He will cover the Church Music Conference and will handle special assignments during the SBC.

Gomer R. Lesch is director of public relations for the Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville. He will be a photography coordinator, working with Floyd Craig and Photographer Carl Jones. He is a former radio-television newsman and broadcaster. - mare - PRESS ROOM STAFF.., 2

Floyd Craiq is the newky-elected director of public relations for the Christian Life Commission of the SBC. He will work with Gomer Lesch and Photographer Carl Jones providing photo coverage of the Convention. Craig is former communications director for the Baptist Genera 1 Convent ion of Oklahoma ,

Carl Jones is a professional photographer from Louisville, Ky ., and long-time official photographer for the convention. He and his crew will provide overnight photographic sewice for authorized press people, working out of a darkroom in Convention Hall.

Don Rutled~eis photographer for the SBC Home Mission Board, Atlanta. A former Black Star professional news photographer, he will be roving photographer shooting available-light candid photos for state Baptist paper editors, in addition to his duties as Home Mission Board photographer.

Jerw Pate is technical director in the public relations office for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He will operate the closed-circuit television system which brings the platform activity to the pressroom.

John D, Bloskas, Dallas, is publications and cwmmunications director for the SBC Annuity Board. He will cover the Superintendents of Missions Conference, the Annuitants Luncheon, and other special assignments. He is a former reporter for the Houston Chronicle.

Mrs. Agnes Ford of Nashville is assistant to the director of public relations for the Baptist Sunday School Board. She will cover the Ministers' Wives Conference and will write stories for hometown papers.

Mrs. Lee (Catherine B .) Allen, of Birmingham, is pub Lit relations representative of the SBC Woman's Missionary Union. She will be writing features and special assignments following the women's convention.

Clarence Duncan and John Cobb Smith are staff members of the SBC Radio and Television Commission in Fort Worth. Duncan, administrative assistant, will coordinate production of television news film clips for use by television stations throughout the country. Smith will coordinate production of tape-recorded news summaries for radio stations which will be called in for taped news reports.

Claud 0' Shields is eastern representative of the SBC Radio-Television Commission, with his offices in Wilmington, N.C. A former radio-television broadcaster and station manager, he will make advance contacts with local radio-television stations and will assist with Local radio- tv coverage.

Mrs. Jim (Sandra) Summers is secretary to W. C. Fields, convention press representative. She will handle receptionist duties in the press room.

Miss Brenda Coulson of Nashville is editorial assistant on the Baptist Program, Nash- ville, and TWX operator for the SBC Executive Committee public relations office. She will help as receptionist and do general stenographic work.

Mrs. Marshall (Vivian) Buttrev of Nashville is secretary to Jim Newton, assistant director of Baptist Press. She will get out the daily Baptist Press mailings to 330 outlets.

Miss Sue Geron of Nashville is editorial assistant in the public relations office of the Baptist Sunday School Board, and a former editorial assistant for the Texas Baptist public relations office. She will assist in Baptist Press mailings.

Miss Patsy Anderson of Nashville is receptionist at the Baptist Sunday School Board, working in the public relations office. She will assist in production of daily news re leases.

Mrs. Jim (Pat) Newton of Nashville is a homemaker and wife of the press room manager. She will assist in production of daily news releases. She is a former editorial assistant for the Baptist Record in Jackson, Miss.

Mrs, Bill (Louise) Fox af Nashville is a secretary at the Tennessee Baptist Convention, and is the wife of Bill Fox, Broadman Readers' Plan Supervisor for the Baptist Sunday School ~oard'sBook Store Division. She will assist in typing and mimeographing stencils of daily releases.

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Miss Sandra Midget is secretary to the pastor of the First Baptist Church, Nashville, SBC President H. Franklin Paschall. She will assist in production of daily news releases.

Mrs. Robert (Nan) Dorrill of Nashville is a housewife and music teacher. She is married to Bob Dorrill of the research and statistics department of the SBC Sunday School Board. She will be the attendant at the press tables in front of the platform.

OTHER SBC STAFF PEOPLE YOU MAY MEET AROUND THE PUSS ROOM:

Porter Routh, Nashville, is executive secretary treasurer of the SBC Executive Committee and the chief administrator of the denomination. Background: research director, Baptist Sunday School Board; editor, The Oklahoma Baptist Messenger; journalism instructor and print shop manager, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is a layman.

Albert McClellan is program planning secretary for the SBC Executive Committee. He edits the Convention Bulletin daily during the convention.

John H, Williams is financial planning secretary for the SBC Executive Committee, Nashville. He handles physical facilities arrangemente for the a~nualconvention.

Leonard Hill is managing editor of the Baptist Program, monthly leadership magazine of the denominat ion, pub lished by the SBC Executive Committee pub lie relations office. He will manage speech sales and handle other convention arrangement duties.

Mrs. Bryan (Ada Ruth) Kelly is bookkeeper for the Executive Committee, and assists Leonard Hill in speech sales. She will also assist in the convention office.

Miss Loretta McCreary of Nashville is secretary to Dr. McClellan. She will assist Dr. McCle llan with the Convent ion Bulletin.

Mrs. John (Lorene) Woodall, Nashville, is secretary to John Williams. She worlcs with W. Fred Kendall, registration secretary, in enrolling messengers.

Mrs. Ruth Moore of Nashville is secretary to Porter Routh, SBC Executive Committae executive secretary and convention treasurer. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

NEWS PHOTOS

To be made available to all Press Personnel

Photos to be shot Monday, May 29th

1. Bible episode dramatized, First Century Christians, Woman's Niissionary Union Convention, Auditorium, 10: 3 0 AM.

2. Inside shot, mobile radio-TV shack in action, parked behind Convention Hall, 11: 00 AM.

3 . Preacher on the beach in bathing suit stretched out on towell, shielding his eyes from the sun with a SBC Book of Reports, with surf and other in swim suits in backgraund, 2: 30 PM .

4, Close-up (2 ft.) of some preacher with an interesting face in surf up to his chin, eyes closed, eyebrows slightly arched, with a faint, enigmatic smile, a million miles from the worries of a pastorate, 2:45 PNi.

5. Home missionaries arriving at Wliami International Airport on Eastern flight 955, out on the ramp with some aircraft in the background, 3: 37 PM.

6. "Miss Southern Baptist Hospital" at the Hospital display (Booth No. 2), Lobby exhibit area, shot over the shoulders of visitors with her facing camera, exhibit in background and everyone in friendly conversation, 4: 00 PNA,

7, New Officers, Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, platform, Convention Hall, 6:30 PM.

8, Radio, television and movie star Anita Bryant answering question, smiling, Press Room, 6:45 PM,

9, Metropolitan Opera star Irene Jordan and her sister, Dr. Martha Jordan Gilliland, missionary physician working in Nigeria, talking as they stand in front of life- size photos at the W MU exhibit (Booth No. 19) , Lobby exhibit area, 7: 00 PM .

10. Panorama of the Pastors' Conference, from back of platfrom , Convention Hall, 7: 25 PM,

11. Golfer Gary Player, Anita Bryant, James Jeffrey, Howard Butt, Jr. , Buckner Fanning, C. A. Roberts--Monday evening program personalities--in a circle of conversation at back of platform, Convention Hall, Pastors Conference, 8:15 PM.

12, Close-in head shot of Gary Player, Anita Bryant and James Jeffrey, talking at back of platform, Convention Hall, Pastors' Conference, 8: 20 PM ,

13. First Negro missionary appointed by Foreign Mission Board in 84 years, being presented to WhlU Convention, Auditorium, by Jesse Fletcher, with full length close-up from the side of the platform, 8:30 PNi.

Photos to be shot Tuesday, hay 30th

14. Medical Missions breakfast, Columbus Hotel, with Dr. Franklin Fowler speaking and part of the crowd included, 7: 00 AM, ~ebsPhotos 2 *+' 15. New editors, C. Eugene Whitlow (N .hi.) and W . Ross Edwards (Mo.) , being presented to the Southern Baptist Press Association (breakfast) by President James F . Cole (La .) , Terrace Room, Sea Isle Hotel, 7: 30 Ah.

16. Ex-presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention (luncheon) with H. Franklin Paschall , Madrid Room South, Seville Hotel, 12: 30 PM . 17. New officers, Religious Education Conference, Shelborne Hotel, 3:15 PM .

18, Panelists at Pastors' Conference Dinner- Dialogue, Carillon Hotel, sbowing part of the crowd, 4: 30 PM . 19. Press Room staff, lounge area, Press Room, 6: 30 PM . 20. New officers, Church Music Conference, Press Room, 6:40 PM .

21. Panorama of Convention opening session, from the back of the platform, 7:35 PM.

22. Angled view from back of platform toward the crowd as Landrum Leave11 delivers the convention sermon, 7: 50 PIVi.

23, Crowd shot from the best vantage point at the back or side of the Convention Hall looking toward the platform, 8:00 PNi .

24-30. Don Rutledge finishes up (9: 30 PM) shooting candid shots of convention atmosphere and activities, Prints will be displayed in the Press Room Thursday. Copies may be purchased for $2 each and picked up immediately at the Receptionist's Desk, Press Room, Thursday and Friday.

Photos to be shot Wednesday, May 31st

31. Youth Bell Choir, River Oaks Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, providing pre- session music, platform, convention Hall, 8:45 AM.

32. Mrs. Ben Thompson, Yazoo City, Miss. , one of three surviving members of the original (19 27) SBC Executive Committee, receiving orchid from W . Douglas Hudgins, Jackson, Miss. , current chairman of the Executive Committee; with Owen Cooper, Yazoo City, Miss. , layman and son-in-law of Mrs. Thompson and currently a member of the Executive Committee, 9: 35 AM.

33. Messenger at a floor microphone debating the recommendation on Bylaw 18, with crowd and platform in background, 9:40 AM.

34. Press Room shot of reporters and editors marking at typewriters, from corner of the Cypress Room looking toward the entrance, 11:OO AM.

35. Resolutions Committee at work, Palm Room, 11:15 AM.

36. Robert L. Snead, F,irst Baptist Church, Nashville, convention music director, leading the men's ensemble from his church just before their pastor, H, Franklin Paschall delivers his presidential address , '11; 30 AM.

37. Ministers' Wives Conference president, Mrs. John Maguiwe of Jacksonville, Fla. , with the 1967 president and the 19 68 president-elect on the boat--the bus leaves Convention Hall for the boat docks and Tony Sweet's Restaurant, 12:lO PM,

38. President H . Franklin Paschall in action at Press Conference with Porter Routh, Rabun Brantley, C. Emrnanuel Carlson, and Foy Valentine, Press Room, 3:15 PM .

39. Four missionaries from four countries wearing native costumes, with coffee cups, in lively conversation, Foreign Mission Board Reception, Roney Plaza Hotel, 4:00 PM. -more- 4 ;i$Jews Photos

40. Home missionaries standing on the platform for the first commissioning service ever held at a Southern Baptist Convention, 8:15 PM,

41. The 400,000th messenger to register for the Southern Baptist Convention since its founding in 1845 (IF registration reaches 14,647 at this convention), at Registration Desk in Lobby, with Registration Secretaty W. Fred Kendall, 8:30 PM.

Photos to be shot Thursday, June 1st

4 2, New Southern Baptist Convention officers , front of Convention Hall, palm trees in the background, 10: 00 AM.

43. J . W . Storer making his last report as executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foundation, platform, 10:SS AM.

44. U. S . Senator Mark Hatfield (lore .) speaking to the convention, side view from the platform, 11:15 AM.

45. New officers, SBC Executive Committee, Pine Room, 12:30 PM,

46. Chaplain and three missionaries at the Home Mission Board Reception, Alhambra Room, Seville Hotel, 3: 00 PM . 47. New appointees for overseas missionary service, platform, 6: 30 PM . 48. New presidents of the six seminary alumni associations, Press Room, 6:45 PM.

NOTES FOR EDITORS AND REPORTERS

Prints prepared by the Press Room photography staff are 8 x 10 glossies. Cost: $2.00 each. Orders placed by 9:00 PM will be delivered to your"Press,. Room box by 9:00 AM the following morning: '(Exceptions are photos number 24- 30, which will require special handling as indicated .) Fill out photo order form at the receptionist desk and leave the order with her. Be sure to fill out order in full, listing code numbers of photos desired, giving your name, address, and publication. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Information

The Baptist Press, news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, will be mailed daily to state Baptist papers and religion edirors of most daily papers.

The mailings will be delayed as late as possible each evening so that most of the day's news will go out that same day. The mailings should be ready about

8:00 or 9:00 p.m. daily.

These Baptist Press mailings are designed especially for state Baptist papers, and the storier on buff and canary paper are designed especially for daily newspapers and broadcast media. lliib

NEWSR!IIUWI from BAPTIST PRES~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

FOR YOUR INFORMATION Biographical Sketch

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SBC PRESIDENT

H. Franklin Paschall Pastor, First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn.

Name: H. Franklin Paschall

Born: Hazel, Cslloway County, Kentucky, May 12, 1922

Childhood Residences: Calloway County, Kentucky, three years Henry County, Tennessee

Education : Diplom, Pury~arHigh SC~COL,1940 Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, A.B. degree, 1944 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D. - 1949; Th.D. - 1951 Honorary D .D., Union University, 1956

Religious Fatper ience : Converted, 1936; Baptised into Oak Grove Baptist Church, Henry County, Tennessee Ordained, Oak Gxove Baptist Church, April, 1941

Denominational Experience: 1953-55 President, Kentucky Baptis t State Board 1953-55 Chairman, Executive Committee, Kentucky Baptists 1956-62 Member Baptist Sunday School Board 1957-58 President, Nashville Baptist Pas tors ' Conference 1956-62 Trustee, Belmont College, Nashville 1956-62 Trustee, Baptist Hospital, Nashville 1963-64 Chairman, Committee on Boards, Southern ~a~ tist Convention 1964- Member, Executive Committee, Southern Baptist Convention 1964- Member, Tennessee Baptist Convention Executive Board 1964- Trustee, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee 1966- President, Southern Baptist Convention, Detroit, June 1, 1966

Pastoral Experiences: Part-time Pastor Locust Grove Baptist Calloway County, Ky. Part-time Pastor North Fork Baptist Henry County, Tenn. Part-time Paator Oak Grove Baptist Henry County, Tenn. Part-time Pasrow Maplewood Baptist Paris, Tennesree 1941-1951 Pastor Hazel Baptist Hazel, Kentucky 1951-1955 Pastor First Baptist Bowling Green, Ky. 1956- Pas tor First Baptist Naahville, Tennessee

Marriage: Olga Bailey, Hazel, June 4, 1944

Children: Palma Lynn, October 4, 1945; Sandra Kay, February 27, 1948 t. $1, NEWSR!!IU!UI from BAPTIST PRESP SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE

'OUJ~ mlnirttl JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Tape Recordings Available

Tape recordings of messages and addresses presented during the Southern Baptist Con- vention, SBC Pastors' Conference, WMU Convention, and SBC Music Conference will be available through two different ways during and following the conventions here, May 29-June 2.

Four tape-recorded package plans and a long-playing record album will be available through the SBC Radio and Television Commission in Fort Worth following the convention.

For those who bring their own tape recorders to the convention, a special tape recording room is being set up in Convention Hall, where the recorders can be plugged into feeder-lines. The room is located at the far Northeast corner of Convention Ball, to the extreme right of the lobby as you face the platform.

Tapes available from the SBC Radio-Television Commission (6350 West Freeway, or Box 12157, Fort Worth, Texas, 76116). are as follows:

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS (three, 1800-ft. tapes--nine hours of recording, $11.00);

PASTORS' CONFERENCE (three, 1800-ft. tapes--nine hours of recording $11.00);

ANNUAL MEETING OF WOMANg's MISSIONARY UNION (two, 1200 Et . tapes--four hours of recording--$6,00; three, 1200-Et tapes--six hours of recording $8.00);

MUSIC CONFERENCE (two 1200-f t . tapes --two hours of recording $6.00- -recorded 7$, all other tapes recorded 3 314 inches per second.)

A long-p laying album wi11 feature solos, chora 1 numbers, and congregational singing. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION IN SONG--ALBUM TWO (33 1/3) is available in mono ($3) or stereo ($4). SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Information

MEETING SITES, DATES FOR FUTURE CONVENTIONS

1968 -- June 11-14, New Orleans, La. (last met there, 1937) 1969 -- May 20-23, Houston, Tex. (laet met there, 1958)

1970 -- June 2-5, Denver, Colo. (first time to go there)

1971 -- June 1-4, St. Louis, Mo. (last met there 1961)

The SBC will vote in Miami Beach, Wednesday morning, May 31, on a recommendation from the SBC Executive Committee to hold the 1972 convention in Philadelphia, Pa. Dates will be proposed by the Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, May 30. - * I I,

I from BAPTIST PRES3 NEWS^~UUILU#@ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CCONVENTlON HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Information Missionaries attending the SBC

Following is a list of Southern Baptist foreign missionaries tentatively planning to attend the Southern Baptist Convention. Also listed is the field of service for each, and their current furloughing address.

Rev, and Mrs. Bobby E. Adams, Chile: 1801-B Luther Drive, Fort Worth, Tex., 76115

Rev. and Mrs. William P. Andrews, Chile: 4902 Friendly Rd., Greensboro, N.C,, 27410

Mr. & Mrs. Robert N, Bellinger, Liberia: c/o Mrs. David Hooppaw, Rt. 3, Carbondale, TLl., 62901

Rev. and Mrs. R. Paul Bellington, Equatorial Brazil: 2001 Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee, Fla., 32301

Rev. and Mrs. William D. Bender, Nigeria: 482 Sandalwood Drive, Lexington, Ky ., 40505

Rev. and Mrs. Bradley D, Brown, Liberia: 1216 Atlanta Rd., Marietta, Ga.

Dr. Nobel D. Brawn, Nigeria: Rt . 2, Box 2484, Oroville, California, 95965

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W, Burnett, Argentina: 701 S.W, 70th St., Oklahoma City, Okla., 73139

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel R. J. Cannata, Jr., Rhodesia: P.0, Box 235, Hollandale, Miss,

Rev. and Mrs. C. Gerald Carlin, Ghana: 819 Broadway, Webb City, Mo.

Rev. and Mrs. G. Webster Carroll, Uganda: 833 Windsor, Lakeland, Fla., 33803

Rev. and ~rs:William P. Carter, Jr., Chile: 308 W. Holsron Ave., Johnson City, Tenn. 37601

Rev. John R, Cheyne, Rhodesia: 1810 8. Broadus, Fort Worth, Tex., 76115 Rev. and Mrs. Eric H. Clark, Kenya: 401 Seminole Trail, Georgetown, Ky . , 40324 Miss Annie Sue Clift, Japan: P .O . Box 22582, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex., 76122

Miss Anita Coleman, Japan: 414 N. Claybrook, Apt. 1, Memphis, Tenn.

Rev. and Mrs'; Wilfred H. Congdon, Nigeria: 317 Crescent C., Louisville, Ky., 40206

Miss Marie Conner, Taiwan: Box 96, Milan, Ga., 31060

Rev. and Mrs. R. Pxank Coy, Chile: 2008 Broadus, Fort Worth,Tex., 76115

Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Crabb, Jr,, Italy: L965 Norris Place, Louisville, 5; Ky,

Rev. Vernon L. Dietrich, Thailand: 305 W. 20th Ave., Houston, Tex., 77008

Rev. and Mrs. Buck Donaldson, Jr., Nigeria: 1503 N .W. 16th Terrace, Gainesville,Fla. 32601

Rev. and Mrs. T. Eugene Dubberly, Uruguay: P.O. Box 6083, Daytona Beach, Fla.

Rev. and Mrs. H. Dean Duke, Chile: 2517 N. 4th St., St. Joseph, Mo., 64505

Rev. and Mrs. Albert H. Dyson, Jr., Nigeria: 7200 Shadyvilla, Apt. 27, Houston, Tex. 77055 2,Missionaries Attending the Southern Baptist Convention

Miss Dorothy Emmons, Kenya: Sunset Acres, Apt. 3, Bogalusa, La.

Dr. Audrey Fontnote, Japan: 427 Ventress, La.

Dr. and Mrs. M. Giles Fort, Jr ., Rhodes ia: 3 146 Green Terrace, Shteveport , La,, 71108

Rev. Billy R. Frazier, South Brazil: 1304 Northtidge Drive, Austin, Tex., 78723

Miss Vera Gardner, Thailand; 111 N. Maxwell, McPherson, Kan., "67460

Rev. and Mrs. Joseph A. Gatlin, Sr., Tanzania: 309 Oakland St., Decatur, Ga., 30030

Rev. and Mrs. Billy 0. Gilmore, South Brazil: 1200 Price St., Henderson, Tex,, 75652

Miss Helen Gilmore, Kenya: c/o Miss Frances Brown, 8214 Gulley Rd., Taylor, Mich.

Rev. and Mrs. Ernest W. Glass, Malaysia: 404 W. Whftaker Mill Rd., Raleigh, N.C.

Rev. Harry A. Goble, Guam: 521 Miller St,, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Goodwin, Jr., Korea: 707-D Hibbard Drive, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Rev. and Mrs. Urban L, Green, Nigeria: 4314 N. Johnston, Tulsa, Okla., 74106

Rev, and Mrs. John P. Griggs, Rhodesia: P.Q. Box 446, Jefferson City, Tenn.

Rev. & Mrs. Fred E. Halbrooks, Jr., Equatorial Brazil: 906 Ninth St., S .E. DBcatur, Ala.

Mr. Robert J. Hall, Nigeria: 2083 N. Broadway, Springfield, Mo. 65803

Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Hallock, Jr., South Brazil: 819 S. Pickard, Norman, Okla., 73069

Rev. and Mrs. Hubert L. Hardy, Jr., Chile: 4080-3 Lipsey, New Orleans, La., 70126

Miss Ethel Harmon, Nigeria: Cumberland Falls Rte., Corbin, Ky .

Rev. Ralph W. Harrell, Kenya, Rte. 3, Bax 106, Edenton, N.C.

Miss Josephine Harris, Hawaii: 118 College Blvd., Pineville, La.

Rev. and Mrs. C. Kenneth Hayes, Japan: c/o 3. T. Snider, 6911 Spatky Way, Louisville, Ky., 40218

Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Henderson, Ghana: 1906 W. Cone Blvd., Greensboro, N.C.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen D. Herrington, Malaysia: 4626 Frazier Ave., Fort Worth, Tex., 76115

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hill, Baptist Spanish Publishing House, El Paso: P.O. Box 4255, El Paso, Tex., 799 14

Rev. and Mrs. Billy W. Holloway, Uganda: Rt. 20, Mackin Lane, Knoxville, Tenn.

Miss Gladys Hopewell, Taiwan: 127 Hi11 St., Talladega, Ala.

Rev. and Mrs. Frederick M. Horton, Japan: 3504 12th St., N.E., Washington 17, D.C.

Rev. Reij i Hoshizaki, Japan: Southern Baptist Theo logica 1 Seminary, 2825 Lexington Rd ., Louisville, Ky ., 40206

Rev. and Mrs. David B. Howle, Korea; c/o Lewis Howle, Sr., 101. Main St, Oxford, La.

Miss Carol Leigh Humphries, Nigeria: Route 2, Woodsdale, N.C. 27595

Miss Lillie Mae Hundley, Lebanon: Box 272, Claude, Tex., 79019

Rev. and Mrs. Bob W. Hunt, Taiwan: Et. 3, Albertville, Ala., 35950

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Jester, Nigeria: Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky.

Dr. and Mrs. William L. Jester, Nigeria: 2825 Lexiagton Rd:, Louisville., Ky., 40206

Rev. and Mrs. Billy P, Keith, Japan: 4624 Frazier, Fort Worth, 15, Tex.

Rev. and Mrs. James F. Kirkendall, Lebanon: c/o Dale Kirkendall, Birch Tree, Mo. - more - 3. Missionaries Attending the Southern Baptist Convention

Miss Mary Frank Kirkpatrick, Nigeria: Noxapater, Miss.

Rev. and Mrs. Harvey J. Kneisel, Jr., Guyana: 2226 Anderson, Irving, Tex.

Rev. and Mrs. Lewis M. Krause, Germany: 208 W. Morrison, Fayette, Mo.

Miss Dorothea Lane, Japan: 825 Johnson St., Sturgis, Ky.

Rev, and Mrs. Chandler Lanier, Israel: 1270 Oldf ield Rd., Decacur, Ga.

Miss Dorothy Latham, Equatorial Brazil: Forkville, Miss.

Rev, William E. Lewis, Jr., Ethiopia: c/o Hoke Allen, 2600 S.W. 22nd Terrace, Miarni, Fla.

Rev. and Mrs. Russell L. Locke, Nigeria: Alton, Mo.

Rev. and Mrs. Wilson L. Lof land, Pakistan: c/o O.D. Lof land, 102 Glenn Ave., Rockwall, Tex., 75087

Rev. and Mrs. J. Daniel Luper, Equatorial Brazil: 4616 Frazier, Fort Worth, Tex., 76122

Dr. and Mrs. Howard D, McCamey, Nigeria: 6934 Redstart Lane, Dallas, Tex., 75214

Mrs. John Mein, North Brazil: 2000 W, Broadus St., Fort Worth, Tex., 76115

Rev. and Mrs. Dewey E . Mercer, Japan: Southern Baptist Theologica 1 Seminary, 2825 Lexington Rd., Louisville, Ky.

Miss Floryne Miller, Japan: 7 Melubro Ct., N. Roan St., Johnson City, Tenn., 37601

Dr. and Mrs. John Allen Moore, Europe: Box 414, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Rd., Louisville, Ky., 40206

Miss Mary Neal Morgan, Japan: 319 N, East St., Harrodsburg, Ky .

Rev. and Mrs. Paul C. Mosteller, Thailand: Rt. 2, Gallatin, Tenn.

Rev. and Mrs. S. PaytonMyers, Nigeria: 2719 5th Ave., Laurel, Miss. 39440 William R. O'Brien, Indonesia: 1615 Mistletoe Blvd., Fort Worth, Tex. Rev. Edward I,. Oliver, Japan: 5 11 1 Suwanee Ave ., Tampa, Fla . 33603

Mr. andMrs. T. Eugene Oody, Liberia: 1140 F. St., Apt. D, Arcata, calif.

Miss Evelyn Owen, Japan: 711 Starlight Dr., N.E., ALIanta, Ga., 30305

Mr. and Mrs. W. Hugo Parkman, Philippines: 1808 49th St., Langdalc, Ala.

Rev. and Mrs. W. Boyd Pearce, Kenya: Rt. 1, Box R6c, Beaumont, Tex.

Rev. and Mrs. Harrison H. Pike, South Brazil: 4308 Loop Drive, Texarkana, Tex.

Rev. and Mrs. Ernest C. Pippin, Argentina: 404 E. D St., Elizabethton, Tenn,

Dr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Pool, Nigeria: c/o University of Corpus Christi, ,Corpus Christi , Tex .

Rev. and Mrs. Samuel A. Qualls, South Brazil: 5347 Swartz Rd., Kansas City, Kan., 66106

Rev. Harry L. Raley, Taiwan: 2334 Coronet Place, Jackson, Miss. 39204

Rev, and Mrs. 2. Don Reece, Nigeria: 608 Franklin Ave., Boaz, Ala., 35957

Dr. and Mrs. John L. Riffey, South Brazil: P.O. Box 2468, Hendersonville, N.C., 28739

Rev. and Mrs. Gordon E . Robinson, Nigeria: 1936 Awbrey Rd., Bend, Ore.

Dr. andMrs. John A. Roper, Jr., Jordan: 223 E. ParkAve., Greenville, S.C., 29601

Rev. and Mrs. J. Wilson Ross, Baptist: Spanish Publishing House, El Paso: P.O. Box 4255, El Paso, Tex., 79914

Miss Marian Sanders, Mexico: Box 506, Bamburg, S.C. - more - 4. Missionaries Attending the Southern Baptist Convention

Miss Rennie Sanderson, Japan: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Seminary Hill Station, Fort Worth, Tex.

Miss Evelyn Schwartz, Indonesia: 414 S. High St., Winchester, Tenn.

Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Schweer, Indonesia: 1223 W. 35th Terrace, Independence, Mo., 64050

Rev. and Mrs. Arville E. Senter, Tanzania: 1415 N. Ave. F, Freeport, Tex., 77541

Rev. and Mrs. Howard L. Shoemake, Dominican Republic: 3260 Bigham Blvd., Fort Worth,. Tex,, 76116

Dr. and Mrs. Hobson L, Sinclair, Hong Kong: 422 15th St., Bowling Green, Ky.

Rev. and Mrs. James W. Smith, Israel: 2413 Enfield Rd., Austin, Tex., 78703

Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Smith, Nigeria: 7506 Greengate Drive, Richmond, Va., 23229

Rev. and Mrs. Paul S. C. Smith, Jordan: 1410 W. 13th St., Austin, Tex.

Rev. and Mrs. Wade H. Smith, North Brazil: 703 S. 85th St., Birmingham, Ala,, 35206

Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Southerland, Jr., Japan: Box 522, Pope Field Rd., Rt. 1, Easley, S. C.

Rev. and Mrs. William W. Stennett, Guatemala: 600 Sherbrook Drive, Springbrook, Silver Springs, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Stella, Jr., Korea: 1017 N.E. 3rd Ave., Gainesville, Fla., 32601 Miss Evelyn Stone, Ghana: Luthersville, Ga ., 30251

Rev. and Mrs. Robert H. Stuckey, Indonesia: 307 W. Jefferson, Marion, Ill.

Miss Fay Taylor, Indonesia: 245 S.W. 63rd Ave., Miami, Fla., 3314.4

Rev, and Mrs. J. Howard Teel, Pakistan: 1115 Ford Ave., Tarrant, Ala., 35217

Miss Lorene Tilford, Taiwan: 108 Greenleaf St., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rev. and Mrs. S. Thomas Tipton, Uganda: 7231 Exeter St., Paramount, Calif.

Rev. and Mrs. Edward B. Trott, North Brazil: Rt. 2, Dalewood Lake, Lauderdale, Miss.

Rev. Erling C. Valerius, Equatorial Brazil: 268 2nd St., Clermount, Fla., 32711

Miss Edith Vaughn, North Brazil: Big Island, Va., 24526

Dr. and Mrs. George R. Wilson, Jr., Hong Koag: 510 W. 4th St., Webb City, Mo.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Wilson, Taiwan: Rt . 1, Box 11, Hanover, Ind.

Miss Mary Witt, North Brazil: Box 22683, Fort Worth, Tex., 76122

Miss Ruth Womack, Nigeria: 117 Park Ave., McMinnville, Tenn. 37110

Rev. and Mrs. Norman W. Wood, Zambia; 4717 Stanley Ave., Seminary Hill, Fort Worth, Tex.

Miss Mary Ellen Yancey, Nigeria: Camp Hill, Ala.

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Yarbrough, Nigeria: c/o J. L. Yarbrough, 234 Flora Ave. Rome, Ga.

Rev. andMrs. JackN. Young, South Brazil: 11104 Hannett Ave., N.E. Albuquerque, N. M., 87112 Rev. and Mrs. George S . Lozuk, Venezuela: 1903 Seminary Drive, Fort Worth, Tex., 76115 tULFI1Ulyg SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER ,Who's Who in Miami

1967 Southern Baptist Convention Directory of participants in the following:

Woman's Miss ionary Union Convent ion, Pas tor ' s Conference, Religious Education Conference and Church Music Conference, all held Monday and Tuesday, May 29 - May 30 and the Southern Baptist Convention, Tuesday - Friday, May 30-June 2

B irmin~ham: DICKSON, Miss Elaine, assistant director of promot ion, woman' s Missionary Union, SEC wif 1 speak Tuesday,, May 30 .at 2: 15 p.m. during the Religious Education Conference,

HUNT, Mias Alma, executive secretary-treasurer, SBC Woman's Missionary Union will address the annual meeting Tuesday morning, May 30; and will bring report of the WMU to the Southern .Baptist Convention, Thursday June I, at 7:45 p.m.

LANDES, James, pastor First Baptist Church, will give a testimony about the outreach of inner city ministries, Tuesday May 30, at 9:45 a.m. at the Religious Education C nference.

Montaomeq: RICHARDSON, David Be, mission to the deaE for the Alabama Baptiet Convention will speak during the Religious Education Conference, Monday May 29, at 3:00 p.m.

Aetalaa GILLILAND, Martha Jordan, M.D., missionary to Nigeria will speak to the WMU annual meeting M nday evening, May 29 .

--Axkade lphia: WRIGHT, Charlea W,, director of the Ouachira Baptist University Choir. Ite will direct them in special music during the Southern Baptist Convention, Wedneaday, May 31, at lO:5Sa.m.

Hot Springs: WEBB, Lehman, pastor, First Baptist Church will lead the benediction during the Southern Baptist Convent ion, Wednesday, May 31, 12: 10 p .m. ARIZONA

Caaa Grande: BRUCE, Byron, pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, will lead in prayer Friday, June 2, at 7:10 p.m. in the final session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Damrer : -MCPHF,RSON, Bob, pas tor, Riverside Baptist Church, will lead the benedf ction Friday, June 2, at 3:30 p.m. during the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Bakersfield: SK~MORE,Clyde, pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, Bakersfield will give the response to the welcome at the opening session of the Southern Baptist Conventi n, TuesdaysMay 30, at 7:20 p.m.

Fresno: KAY, Richard, director of church service division, California Baptist Convention, will lead a discussion period at 3:40 p.m. Monday May 29 during the Religious Education Conf:

PATTILLO, R. L. Jr., director of the Sunday School department for the Southern Baptist enera1 Convention of California will read the scripture and Lead in prayer at 2:OO p.m., Tuesday May 30, during the Religious Education Conference. - more - W!s--Uho in Miami &each.., 2

Lmita: ROBERTS, Ted, minister of music and education, Narbonne Baptist Church, will lead the benediction- at 12: 25, Thursday June 1, at the close of the morning seesion of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Mill Valley: ELDER, J. Lyn, professor of pastoral care, Golden Gate Seminary, will lead a period of meditation at: the beginning of each session of the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Monday, May 29, and Tuesday, May 30.

GRAVES, Harold K., president, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, will present the report of the seminary Wednesday afternoon, May 31, during the Southern Baptist Convent ion.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

CABLSON, C. Ernanuel, executive director, Baptist: Joint Committee on Public Affairs, will present the report of this committee to the Southern Baptist Convention on Friday morning, June 2, at 11:15.

DENNY, Robert, associate secretary, Baptist World Alliance, will present the report of the Alliance to the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday, June 2, at 11:05 a.m.

PROCTOR, Samuel, Institute for Services to Education, will speak to the ast tors' Conference, Tuesday, May 30, at 11:05 a.m.

PRUDEN, Edward Hughes, pastor, First Baptist Church, Washington, D .C., will lead in prayer at the beginning of the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday, May 31. FLORIDA Avon Park: STRICKLER, Otis, minister of music .and education, First Baptist Church will read the ecripture and lead in prayer Monday, May 29, at 2: 05 during the Religious Education Conf , Jncksonville: MAGUIRE, John, executivk secretary-treasurer for the Florida 'Baptist State Convention will g;;S.e the ~r*,lccmcadt1::css to the

COOPER, C. Earl, pastor, Riverside Baptist Church, will lead in prayer at the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tuesday evening, May 30, at 7:10 p.m.

STROUP, Mrs. W. G., wife of the secretary of music for the Florida Baptist Conv. will play the piano meditation on Monday afternoon, May 29, and Tuesday morning, May 30, at the annua 1 meet lng of the Woman ' s Miss ionary Union. -Miami: BENITEZ, president, Cuban woman' s Missionary Union, Miami, will speak Monday af tex- noon, May 29, during the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting.

BRYANT, Anita, actress and singer, will speak to.the Pastors' Conference, Monday May 29 at 8:25 p.m..: dealing with the minister and the world of entertainment. She will bring the special music at the closing session of the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday even ing , June 2.

LEWIS, William E., SBC foreign missionary to Ethiopia, living in Miami during his furlough in the United States will speak on the subject he Ministry We Receive From the Lard Jesus," during the SBC Foreign Mission Board report, Thursday night, June 1.

WALKER, Mrs. Charles, organist, will play the organ meditation at the oma an's Missionary Union annual meeting, Monday, May 29 at 9:30; Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday afternoon, May 30, at 1:45 p.m.

OSBRINJL, Kenneth, minister of music, Central Bapt fst Church, will direct the Handbell Choir in pre-session music before the beginning of the afternoon session of the SBC, Friday, June 2, at 1:45 p.m.

Orlando: PIPKIN, Dr. Joseph, dentist, will speak on ?he Gift of GoingJ' Monday afternoon, May 29, during the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, IREY,Mr. & Mra, E. S., directors of combined junior choirs, First Baptist Choir and present them to Music Conference at 4:OO,-.Monday, May 29, - more - Who's Who in Miami. .. . 3

FLORIDA - Con' t Pensaco la: PLEITZ, James, pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak to the SBC Church Music Con- ference on staff relations, Elonday; May 29, at 2: 15; aid on Friday afternoon, June 2, at 3:00 will speak during the Southern Baptist Convention.

Pompano Beach: FENNEL, Al, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will bring the special music during the Southern Baptist Convent ion, ~hursda~morning, June 1, at 11: 45 a.m.

Tallahassee: BELLINGTON, Paul, SBC missionary to Brazil and living in Tallahassee during furlough, will speak to-the pastors' conference, Tuesday afternoon, May 30 at 1: 55.

HAYES, Marion, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will lead a period of reactions following a panel discussion, Monday June 29, at 7:45 during the Religious Education , Conference.

HORNE, Mallory, state senator, will address the pastors' Conference on the subject of the minister and world gwernrnent, Tuesday, May 30, at 10:35 a.m.

West Palm Beach: MOODY, Jess, pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak to the pastors' conference, Monday, May 29 at 4:05 on the subject of the minister and the world of the home.

Atlanta: CUMMINS, George W., director of division of chaplaincy, Home Mission Board, will bring the report of the chaplain's Commission to the SBC, Thursday, June 1, at 10:OO a.m.

FAIN, Miss Jackie, student at Florida State University, will sing at the afternoon session of the pastors' Conference, Monday May 29 at 3: 25, and then will speak to the session about the minister and the world of the student.

HAYES, James, minister of music, West End Baptist Church, will direct the church's orchestra in a period of pre-session music, Tuesday, May 30, at 6:45 prior to the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention, and also at the Tuesday afternoon session of the Church Music Conference.'

KENDALL, Clyde, evangelist, will speak to the Conference of Baptist Evangelists, Thursday, June 1, at 2:30.

McCOMMON, Paul, secretary of Music for the Georgia Baptist Convention will lead The Sons of Jubal (Georgia's Ministers of Music) in a concert Monday, '. . 2:05 at the Church Music Conference, and again during the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday, May 31, at 8:00 p.m.

LEWIS, Roy F., loan officer, church loans division, Home Mission Board, will speak to the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Monday, May 29, during the morning session.

RUTLEDGE, Arthur B., executive secretary-treasurer, Home Mission Board, will present the report of the Home Mission Board and lead in the commissioning service during the Southern Baptist convention's Wednesday night session, May 31, at 8: LO, followed by a period of special appeal. On Friday, June 2, at 2:45, he will present the report of the Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation.

WALSH, A1 and Ivy, evangelistic singers, will bring the special music at the ConEer- ence of Southern Baptist Evangelists, Thursday, June 1, at 4:10 p.m.

Auaus ta: SLOAN, Wendell, minister of education, First Baptist Church will speak about staff survey reports during a panel discussion, Religious Education Conference, Monday May 2gs at 7: 15 p.m.

~ublin: WAHN, Stanley H., pastor, First Baptist Church, will lead the benediction at: the close of the afternoon session of the Southern Baptist Cowention, Wednesday May 31, at 4: 20 p.m. - more - Who's Who in Miami....

HAWAII

Hono lulu : CKOY, Sam, director of cooperative church development, Hawaii Baptist: Convention, will read the scripture during the Southern Baptist Convention, Thursday, June 1, at at 7:10 p.m.

ILLINOIS

Chicago: JACKSON, Joseph H., president of the National Baptist Convent ion, Inc ., will give the response to the recognition of fraternal messengers during the Southern Baptist Conven- tion, Friday, June 2, at 10:25 a.m.

NEEL, Freddie,US- 2 missionary with Home Mission Board, will speak to the woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Tuesday morning, May 30, on the subject of=-2.missions on the American scene.

Mount Vernon: TROTTER, Frank, pastor Logan Street Baptist Church will lead the benediction at the close of the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday June 2, 12:OSa.m.

INDIANA

Evansv i 1le : BROWN, Otto J., pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, will read the scripture during the Sauthern Baptist Convention, Thursday, June 1, at 9:10 a.m.

Wichita: RODGERS, Jack, pastor, North Hillside Baptist Church, will lead in prayer during the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday, May 31, at 2: 10 p.m.

KENTUCKY

Louisville: DEHONEY, Wayne, pastor, Walnut Street Baptist Church, and North American Coordinator, Crusade a£ Americas, will speak to the Pastors' Conference about the Crusade of the Americas, at: 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 30, and at: 3:30 p.m. to the Religious Education Conference and to the SBC on Thursday night, June 1, at 8:lO during the Foreign Mission report.

GRAVES, Allen, professor of religious education, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, will lead in scripture reading and prayer during the Religious Education Conference, Monday, May 29, at 7: 10 p.m.

MCCALL, Duke K*, president, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will present the report of the seminary to the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday, May 31, 3:05 p.m.

NUTT, Grady, director of alumni affairs, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will serve as master of ceremonies at the banquet for ministers of music, Monday May 29, at 6:30 at the Everglades Hotel.

Paducah: WOOD, John, pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak to the Pastors' Conference, Monday, May 29, at 9:55 a.m., and to the Southern Baptist Convention on Friday, June 2, at 9: 10 a.m.

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New Orleans: BAKER, Ray, director of the singers,"The Seminarians, " who will present the special music at the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday afternoon, May 31.

EDDLM, H. Leo, president, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, will preeent the report of the seminary to the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday May 31, 3:05 p.m.

GREY, J. D., pastor, First Baptist Church, will address the SBC, Friday June 2, at 11:40 a.m. - more - Who's Who in Miami.... LOUISIANA - Can't

New Orleans : HARRELL, Hardy M., acting executive secretary-treasurer, Southern Baptist Hospitals, will bring the report of the SBC hospitals to the Convention Thursday, June 1, at 10:lOa.m.

SOUTHER, Mrs. William H. (Mildred), assistant professor of childhood religious education at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary will speak during the Religious Educa- tion Conference, Monday May 29 at 3:00 p.m. an the church ministering to needs of preschool education. MAFLYLAND Frederick: WOODWARD, Robert, pastor, First Baptist: Church will lead benediction st SBC, Friday June 2, at 8:30 p.m. Salisburv : MCKINNEY, Lewis C., pastor Allen Mem0ria.l' Baptist Church will read scripture Tuesday May 30, at 7: 10 p.m. at Southern ~a~tistcdnvention.

Detroit,::. HUBBS, Fred D. first vice (executive secretary Michigan Bapt. Conv.) will assist in presiding over convention sessions, May 30 - June 2. 1st vice president, SBC.

Columl*ia: AULTMAN, Howard, pastor First Baptist Church and second vice-president of the Conven- tion will issist in hesiding over convexX@oh.+$%sions, May 29-June 2.

2,kJdwu: KING, Kermit, train in^ Union secretary, Mississippi Baptist Convention will speak to the ~eli~ioust ducat ion Eonference, Monday, May 29, at 3:00 p.m. on the chuxch ministering to the needs of senior adults.

YARBROUGH, Alton, minister of education, First Baptist Church, will speak to the Re- ligious Education Conference, Monday, May 29 at 3:00 p.m. on the church ministering to needs of children in special education.

Yazoo City: THOMPSON, Mrs. Ben, president of the Georgia WMU Convention 1932-37, and one.of the first women elected to serve an Executive Board of the SBC, will speak to the Woman's Missionary annual meeting, Monday, May 29, at the morning session.

MISSOURI

Jop lin: BRYSON, Dan, pastor, First Baptist Church, will present the report of the Committee on Denominational Calendar, Thursday, June 1, at lO:30 a.m. during the SBC. Kansas City: APPELMAN, Hymn, evangelist will speak to the Conference of Southern Baptist Evan- gelists, Thursday, June 1, at &:IS.

BERQUIST, Millard J., president, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will present the report of the seminary to the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday May 29, 3:05 p.m.

JEFFREY, James, executive director, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, will speak to the Pastors' Conference, Monday, May 29 at 9:30 a.m. about the minister and the world of athletics.

SOUTHER, Harold, educational director for the Kansas City Baptist Association, will lead the music during the Religious Education Conference Monday and Tuesday, May 29-30.

JUDD, Richard, pastor, Penn-Junction Baptist Church, will lead in prayer Thursday, June 1, at 7:10 p.m. during the Southern Baptist Convention.

RICE, 0. R., pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, will read the scripture, Wednesday, May 31, at 7:10 p.m. during the Southern Baptist Convention.

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NORTH CAROLINA

Charlotte: BATES, Carl, pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak to the Southern Baptist Conven- tion, Friday, ~une2, at 8:00

Henderson: YOUNG, Philip, rninieter of music, First Baptist Church, writer of the new anthem, "Fanfare With Alle luias'! The anthem, which has been conmissioned, ,by the Execut ivs Com- mittee of the Music Conference will have its world premier at the Church Music Conference Tuesday, May 30, at 10~30a.m.

Mount Gilead: HOBBS, Sara Ann, directar of ~irls'Auxiliary for North Carolina Baptists will speak during the morning session of the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Monday, May 29.

Wake Forest: BINUEY, Olin T., president, Southeas tern Baptist Theologica 1 Seminary will present the report of the seminary to the SBC, Wednesday, May 31 at 3:05 p.m.

WAYLAND, John, professor, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, will direct questions to a panel, Monday, May 29 at 8:45 p.m. during the Religious Education Conference. Mount Gilead: PUCUTT, William H., pastor, First Baptist Church, will lead benediction Tuesday night, May 30, SBC. NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque: POLSTON, Charles F., Training Union and Church Music secretary, Baptist Convention of New Mexico, will lead in prayer, Wednesday, May 31, at 7:lO p.m. during the SBC.

New York City: JORDAN, Irene, soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Company, will present special music at all sessions of the WMU meeting, Monday and Tuesday, May 29-30.

NICHOLS, Clint and Jarvis Rose, will present special music at the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday, June 2, at 2:50 p.m.

VAUS, Jim, executive director of Youth, Inc., will speak during the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday, June 2 at 7:25 p.m.

OKLAHOMA -Altus: GARRISON, C. E., pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak to the Pastors' Conference Monday, May 29, at 2:20.

Del City: BISAGNO, John, pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, will address the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists, Thursday, June 1, at 3:00 p.m.

Oklahoma City: HOBBS, Herschel, H., pastor, First Baptist Church, will present to the Southern Baptist Convention the report of the Committee on Baptist State Papers, Thursday,

SHELTON, John B., pastor, Kelham Baptist Church, will read the scripture during the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday, May 31, at 9:lO a.m.

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Shawnee : WOODWARD, James, head of the music department at Oklahoma Baptist University will lead "The Tune clippersi' in a concert for the-church Music conference, Monday May 29, at 8:30 p.m., and on Tuesday May 30 at 11:OO a.m. Tuesday evening May 30, at 7:45, he will direct ministers of music of the SBC in special music for the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention. Woodward has served this past year as president of the Church Music Conference, and will bring the president's address to the group Tuesday May 31, at 9:45 a.m. -Tulsa: DAVIS, Jim, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will present a concert Monday, May 29 at 2:4O p.m. during the Church Music Conference.

OREGON

Salem: -HATFIELD, Mark, United States Senator, will address the Southern Baptist Convention, Thursday ~une1, at 11: 15 a.m.

-PANAMA Panama City: GRUVER, Daniel, M.D., will speak to the Woman's Missionary Union meeting, Monday afternoon, May 29. PENNSYLVANIA

Elizabethtown: ESTREP, Kenneth A., pastor, Ernrnanuel Baptist Church will lead in prayer at 9:10 a.m., Thursday June 1, during the Southern Baptist Convention.

TENNESSEE -Athens : SMITH, R. Richard, pastor, First Baptist Church will lead in prayer during the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday June 2, at 7:10 p.m.

Chattanooga: NORTON, Ralph, pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, will lead the benediction during the Southern ~a~tistcbnvent ion, ~hursda~.June 1, at 9: 35 p.m.

Knoxvi 1le : SCI-IWEITZER, George, professor, University of Tennessee, will speak to the pastors ' Conference about Christianity and world issues,Tuesday, May 31 at 9:30 a.m.

TRENTHAM, Charles, pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak to the Religious Education Conference Monday, May 29, at 2:30 p.m.

Memphis : EUTING, George,program development director, Brotherhood Commission, will speak to the Religious Education Conference on the programa of the churches, Tuesday June 30, at 2: 15.

LEE, R. G. Dr., pastor emeritus, Bellevue Baptist Church, will address the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists Thursday, June 1, at 2:OO p.m.

SCHROEDER, George W., executive secretary-treasurer, Brotherhood Commission, will bring the report of the Commission to the SBC, Friday June 2, at 2130 p.m.

SPENCER, Jerry, will bring the special music Thursday, June 1, at 3: 25 during the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists.

WOMACK, Don, president, Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists, will speak to the Conference Thursday, June 1, at 3:30 p.m. - more - who's Who in Miami..... 8 TENNESSEE - Con't

Nashville: ALLEN, Clifton J., recording secretary (editorial secretary, SBC Sunday School Board) will be recording the actions of the ~aGhernBaptist convention May 30 - June 2.

BRANTLEY, Rabun, executive secretary-treasurer of the SBC Education Cornmission will bring the report of the Education Comrnisdion to the SBC, Wednesday, May 31, at 2:45 p.m., and on Thursday June 1, at 10:35 a.m. will bring the report of the gmerican Baptist Theologica 1 Seminary.

FIELDS, W. C., public relations secretary for tl-@ SBC Executive Committee, is press representative of the convention and chairman of the SBC American Bible Society Committee. He will bring the report of that committee Thursday, June 1, at 7:35 p.m.

FOSHEE, Howard, secretary of the Church Administration Department, Baptist Sunday School Board, will speak to the Religious Education Conference Tuesday, May 30, 2:15 p.m.

HARRIS, Philip B., Training Union Secretary, Sunday School Board, will speak to the Pastors' Conference Tuesday, May 30, at 1:10 p.m., and to the Religious Education Confer- ence Tuesday May 30, at 2:15 p.m.

HOWSE;, W. L., director, education division, Baptist Sunday School Board, will speak to the Religious Education Conference at 2:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 30.

HERRING, Ralph A., director, Seminary Extension, SBC, will bring the report of the Seminary Extension to the Southern Baptist convention, Wednesday May 31, at: 3:05 p.m.

JACOBS, Herman E., pastor, Crievewood Baptist Church, will read the scripture during the Southrrn Baptist Convention, Friday, June 2, at 9:10 a.m.

KENDALL, W. Fred, executive secretary, Tennessee Baptist Convention, and registration secretary for the SBC, will deliver reports of registration throughout the convention, beginning with the first report Tuesday night, May 30, at 7:25 p.m.

LYALL, Max, assistant professor of music, Belmont College, will serve as pianist for the Convent ion.

LYON, Sharron, organist-music assistant, First Baptist Church, will serve as organist for the Convention.

MOOm, Merrill, D., executive secretary-treasurer, Stewardship Commission of the SBC, will present the report of the Commission to the Convention Friday June 2, at 10:lO a.m.

PASCHALL, H. Franklin, pastor of the First Baptist Church, afid president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will preside over convention sessions and will present the president's address Wednesday, May 31 at 11:35 a.m.

RIGDON, Raymond, director of editorial services for the Training Union Dept. of the SBC Sunday School Board, will speak to the Religious Education Conference Tuesday, May 30, at 10:30 a.m.

ROUTH, Porter W., executive secretary-treasurer, SBC Executive Committee, will bring the report of the Executive Committee to the SBC, 9:45 a.m., Wednesday, May 31, and on Friday, June 2 at 1i:15 a.m., he will speak to the report of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs.

SIMS, W. Hines, church music secretary, Sunday School Board, will direct the song services for the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, May 29-30.

SNEAD, Robert L., minister of music, First Baptist Church, will serve as music director for the Southern Baptist Convention, May 30 - June 2, as well as provide some special mus ice

STORER, J. W., executive secretary-treasurer, Southern Baptist Foundation of the SBC, will bring the report of the Foundation to the convention Thursday, June 1, at 10:55 a.m.

SULLIVAN, James L., executive secretary-treasurer, Baptist Sunday School Board, will deliver the report of the Sunday School Board, Wednesday, May 31, at: 7:15 p.m., during the Southern Baptist Convention.

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VALENTINE, Foy, executive secretary-treasurer, SBC Christian Life Commission, will take part in a panel at the dinner-dialogue meeting during the Pastors' Conference, Tuesday, May 30, at 4:30, and on Thursday, June 1, at ll:05 a.m. will preaent the report of the Christian Life Commission to the Southern Baptist Convention.

WEDS, Leonard, director of office of personnel, Baptist Sunday School Board, will speak to the Religious Education Conference, Monday, May 29, at 8:15 p:m., concer~ingpersonnel problems .

WOOLEY, Davis C., executive secretary, Historical Commission, SBC, will present the report of the Commission to the Southern Baptist Convention, Thursday June 1, at 10:20 a.m.

Rip ley: STALNECKER, Ed and Bette, evange lisric singers , will present a concert of sacred music during the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists, Thursday June 1, at 1:00 p.m. Those taking part in the concert are: A1 and Ivy Walsh, Jerry Spencer, Bette Stalnecker, Sonny Rios, R. L. Sigrest, Bill Michael, Jimmy Hodges, Leon Westerhouse, David and Carol Tyson, Martha Branham.

-TEXAS Abilene: GRIGGS, James, minister of education, First Baptist Church, will speak on meeting personnel problems during the Religious Education Conference, Monday May 29 at 8:15 p.m,

FLAMING, James,pastor First Baptist Church will address the Church Music Conference on Tuesday, May 30, at 3:10 p.m.

Brownsvil le: CROW, Ed., pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak about evangelism during the Pastors' Conference, Tuesday May 30, at 9:lO a.m.

C leburne : FLING, Mrs. Robert, president, Woman's Missionary Union, will preside over the WMU annual meeting, May 29-30, and on Tuesday May 30 will bring the closing address at the afternoon session.

Corpus Christi: BUTT, Howard, grocery chain executive, will speak during the Pastors' Conference, Monday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.

MCLENDON, Dan, minister of education, First Baptist Church, will take part in a panel discussion during the Religious Education Confereace Monday May 29, at 7:15 p.m. and again on Tuesday, May 31, at 10:30 a.m.

Da 1las : ALLEN, Jimmy R., executive secretary, Christian Life Corn , Baptist General Convention of Texas, will address the WMU annual meeting Tuesday morning, May 30.

BRANHAM, Martha, will present special music at the Conference of Southern Baptist Evan- gelists, Thursday June 1, at 2: 25 p.m. Mrs. Branham is an evangelistic singer.

BRAY, Benny, postal supervisor, will speak about the minister and the world of working men, Monday, May 29 at 2:55 p.m. during the Pastors' Conference.

CRISWELL, W. A., pastor, First Baptist Church, will address the Pastors' Conference on Tuesday May 30 at 2:35 p.m., and the Southern Baptist Convention Wednesday night May 31, following the Home Miss ion Report.

REED, R. Alton, executive secretary, SEC Annuity Board, will present the report of the Annuity Board to the Southern Baptist Convention, Thursday, June 1, at 7:15 p.m. fl paso: JONES, Neil, Juvenile Rehabilitation, will speak to the Woman's Missionary Union in annual meeting, Tuesday morning, May 30.

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Fort Worth: BENDRICKS, William, professor, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will speak to the Pastors' Conference on the minister and the world of religious authority, Tuesday May 30, at 10:15 a.m.

HINZE, Elton, education director, Tarrant Baptist Association, will give a testimony about the week day program of the church, during the Religious Education Conference on Tuesday May 31, at 9:45 a.m.

NAYLOR, Robert E., president Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will bring the report of the seminary to the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday May 31, at 3: 05 p.m.

O'BRIEN, .William R., SBC foreign missionary living in Fort Worth while on furlough from Indonesia, will address the Southern Baptist Convention, Thursday June 1, at 8: 10 p.m., and will also bring special music at that time.

ROBERTS, C. A., head of the department of evangelism, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and president of the Pastors' Conference, will bring an address Monday, May 29 at 9:45 a.m, and will preside during the sessions.

SANDERSON, Miss Rennie, SBC foreign missionary, serving as music missionary to Japan, and living in Fort Worth while an furlough and serving as visiting instructor at South western Seminary will address the Church Music Conference, Tuesday, May 30, at 9:10 a.m.

SHELTON, Joe Ann, director of program music, SBC Radio and Television Commission, will bring an address during the Church Music Conference, Monday May 29, at 3:lO p.m.

SHOEMAKE, Mrs. Howard L., SBC fareign missionary to the Dominican Republic, living in Fort Worth while on furlough, will speak to the WMU annual meeting, Monday May 29 at the afternoon session.

STEVENS, Paul M., executive secretary-treasurer-director, SBC Radio and Television Com- mission, will bring the report: of the Commission to the Convention, Wednesday May 31, at 11:05 a.m.

SWANK, W. Fred, pastor Sagamore Hill Daptist Church, will address the ast tors' Conference Monday, May 29, 10: 15 a .m.

TIDWELL, Charles, professor, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will speak to the Re Ligious Education Conference, Monday May 29, at: 8: 15 p .m.

Houston: ARMSTRONG, Gerald, River Oaks Baptist Church, will direct the Hand Bell Choir in a concert Tuesday May 31 at 9:30 a.m. during the Church Music Conference, and in pre-session music during the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday May 31, at 8:45 a.m.

ELKINS, Cliff, minister of education, Second Baptist Church, will take part in a panel discussion during the Religious Education Conference, Monday, May 29, at 7:15 a.m.

FOWLER, W. LeRay, pastor, West University Baptist Church, will lead in prayer during the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday June 2, at 2:lO p.m.

RHEA, Claude, head of the fine arts department, Houston Baptist College, will lead the congregational hymn and present special music during the Southern Baptist ConventSon, Thursday June 1, at 8:00 p.m.

WILLIAMS, Roy Lee, educational director, Union Baptist Association, will read the scripture and lead in prayer during the Religious Education Conference, Tuesday June 30, at 9:05 a.m.

Kewille: BEHANNA, Gert, author and lecturer, will speak to the Pastors' Conference, Monday May 29, at 11:OO a.m.

Leaby : MILLER, Keith, director of the Laity Lodge, and author of "The Taste of New Wine," will take part in the dinner-dialogue during the Pastors' Conference, Tuesday May 30 at 4:30 p.m. - more - Who's Who in Miami.. .. 11 TEXAS - Con' r

Port Arthur: SHOEMAKE, Mrs. Howard L., native of Port Arthur, living in Fort Worth whtle on furlough from the Dominican Republic as SBC foreign missionary, speaks to the WMU annual meeting, Monday May 29 at the a£ternoon session. (Also listed under Fort Worth).

San Antonio: FANNING, Buckner, pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, will address the Pastor's Conference Monday, May 29 at 7: 10 p.m.

-Waco: PORTER, Euell, director of Baylor University Choir, will direct them in special music during the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday, June 2 at 10:OO a.m.

Wichita Falls: LEAVELL, Landrum P. 1x1, pastor, First Baptist Church, will preach the Convention sermon at the opening session of the convention, Tuesday May 30 at 7:50 p.m.

VIRGINIA

Altavista: WHITE, Jerald R. Jr., pastor, Central Baptist Church, will lead the benediction at the Southern Baptist Convention, Wednesday May 31, at 9:30 p.m.

Char lot tesvi 1le : ELLIS, H. Cowen, pastor, First Baptiat Church, will present the report of the Committee on Order of Business during the Southern Baptist Convention, Tuesday May 30, at 7:30 p.m.

MXERS, Richard E., pastor, University Baptist Church, will read the scripture during the Southern Baptist Convention, Friday June 2, at 2:05 p.m.

Lvnchburq:

SIMMS, Albert,- pastor,- Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church is the alternare preacher for the Convention sermon that will be preached during the SBC, Tuesday, May 30, at- 7: 50 p .m.

Meadowview: MAIDEN, Mrs. Jamie C., SBC foreign missionary associate to Nigeria, will speak to the WMU annual meeting Tuesday afternoon, May 30.

Richmond: ADAMS, Theodore F., pastor, First Baptist Church, will address the Southern Baptist Con- vention, Thursday June 1, at 11:45 a.m.

CAUTHEN, Baker James, executive secxe tary , SBC Foreign Mission Board, will preside Over the Foreign Mission program and report, Thursday June 1, at 8:10 p.m. during the SBC.

DORR, Bart, minister of education, First Baptist Church, will bring a testimony of work of inner-city ministries during the Religious Education Conference, Tuesday May 30, 9:45 a.m.

FLETCHER, Jesse C., personnel secretary, Foreign Mission Board of the SBC, will present various missionary personnel during the WMU annual meeting at the Monday evening session, May 29.

MEANS, Frank K., SBC Foreign Mission Board Area Secretary for Latin America, speak during the Southern Baptist Convention about the "Crusade of the Americas'' Thursday June 1, at 8:lQ p.m.

Staunton: PAULETTE, R. Carrington, pastor, First Baptist Church, will read the scripture during the Southern Baptist Convent ion, Wednesday May 31, at 2: 10 p.m. ,,,I,

NEWS- I from BAPTIST PRESP tu~iluN@ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVE NTlON CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

For Your Information

List of Background Stories

The next section in the press kit includes background stories on business items to come up during the SBC, issues of major importance to the convention, and stories on the programs of related meetings.

The list of background stories in this section, in the order they appear in the press kit, is as follows:

--Business, issues to come before the SBC

--Baptist re-apportionment, changes propased in Bylaw 18

--SBC name change being studied

--I968 proposed SBC budget

--Philadelphia proposed as 1972 convention site

--SBC themes suggested for the 1970ts, and '70 Onward'

--SBC goals suggested for 1967-68, 1968-69

--Church loans recomndat ion

--The Crusade of the Americas

--BEST, Baptist Education Study Task

--Bill Wallace of China movie

--Speakers named for SBC

--Speakers named for Pastors' Conference

--Gary Player to get award during Pastorst Conference

--Speakers named for WMU Convention

--Speakers named for Religious Education Association Conference

--Speakers named for Church Music Conference

--Speakers named for Evangelists Conference

--Conference for Furloughing Missionaries planned

--Medical Missions Conference slated

--Aasociational Superintendents of Missions to meet

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Reappnr ticnrnent , War ld Peacc May Be SIX'S Biggest Issues

MIAMI ~~~a--Whenthe Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) meets here May 30-June 2, major business to come before the nation's largest Protestant body will include a Baptist version of reapportionment and consideration of a $26.7 million world missions budget.

Although convention officials are predicting no major controversial issues this year, the issue of world peace and the war in Vietnam is expected to come up at one point during the convention when the SBC Chrtstian Life Commission brings its written report on world peace.

The report on world peace and the proposal to change the convention's by-laws to provide I I a more democratic representat ion" of members on SBC-e lected commissions and institutional boards are among the major issues and business to come before the four-day convention.

Predictions on the business and iasues to come before the 15,000 Baptists expected here for the canvention came from H. Franklin Paschall, president of the convention and Wshville, Tenn., pastor, and from Porter W. Routh of Nashville, executive secretary of the SBC Executive Committee and major staff advisor of the convention.

Both predicted little controversy and a prevailing harmonious spirit at the four-day convention in Miami Beach's Convention Hall.

'1There are no really controversial issues expected to come up during the convention,'' said Paschall, pastor, First Baptist Church, Na$hvillk, and head of the 11-million member SBC,

He pointed out, however, that whenever 15,000 Baptists get together for a convention, any issue could be raised from the floor of the democratic body.

The carefully-worded statement on world peace £ram the convention's Christian Life Commission does not require convention adoption, although the convention probably will vote to "receive" the report, pointed out Routh . "Receiving" the report does not necessarily mean the messengers (delegates) approve of the report's contents, Routh said.

In the statement, the Christian Life Commission calls on Southern Baptists and fellow Christians to pray for world peace, and "encourages the responsible leadership of our government to continue to pursue patiently every course that might lead to a peaceful settlement of international problems in general and of the Vietnam conflict in particular ."

I1It is not the Christian Life omm mission's intent to make specific proposals abaut government policies, military strategy, or diplomatic approaches to negotiation with our present adversaries," the report says,

After asking penetrating questions about the present conflict in Vietnam without: taking a position far or against the U.S.'Vietnam policy, the ~ommission~sreport calls "upon all churches not to be blinded by distorted appeals to false ptriotism so that they lose sight of the peraonal tragedy, the great sorrow, and the fantastic cost attached to the present conflict (in Vietnam). A spirit of solemn penitence i8 in order," the report says.

Foy Valentine, executive secretary of the Christian Life Commission, said he would present the printed report of the convention and ask that it be received by the convention just prior to an address on world peace by U. S. Senator Mark Hatfield, (R., Ore .) , a Baptist

Sen. Hatfield, former governor of Oregon, will deliver a major address to the convention,

The proposed reapportionment of Baptist commissions and institutional trustees will come as an amendment to the Convention's Bylaw 18.

The bylaw change, which proponents say is designed to provide a more democratic system of representation on SBC commissions and institutional boards, would a£fect 10 Baptist state convent ions with more than 25,000 members but less than 100,000 members. Under the proposed change, the 10 state conventions would have automatic representation on the Executive Committee and four major boards of the SBC, but representation on the commissions and institutional boards would be rotated among the 10 states, with each commission and institutional board having five directors-at-large nominated from among the 10 states.

Proponents of the proposal argue that the LO states, with a combined total Baptist membership of about 500,000, have the same number of representatives per state as 11 other state conventions, each with mare than 500,000 members and a combined membership of 8% million.

Opponents of the proposal argue that the smaller states need the involvement of the participation in all SBC agencies, and that an already-established system of representation should not be taken away from them.

The bylaw change on representation, like the $26.7 million proposed Cooperative Program woild missions budget for 1968, will come as recommendations from the Southern Baptist Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee will also recommend that the convention hold its 1972 meeting in Philadelphia; that several editorial corrections be made in the SBC Constitution; that the terms of elected board members for SBC agencies and institutions be four years instead of three or five years as in some cases; and that a plan for sharing the risk on church loans be worked out between the SBC Home Mission Board and lending agents to provide more funds for church loans.

In a session just prior to the convention in Miami Beach, the Executive Committee will consider convention goals for the ,years 1968-69 and 1969-70, and plans for the convention' s emphases during the first part of the 1970's.

The plans for 1970 and years following, called '70 Onward, were developed after a four- year grass-roots study involving a broad cross-section of Baptist laymen and pastors; and were approved by the SBC Inter-Agency Council. If approved by the Executive committee^ the future plans will be presented to the full convention for consideration.

The Executive Committee is in the process of studying a proposal to change the name of the Southern Baptist Convention, but no final recommendations are expected to come to the Miami Beach convention. A progress report on the study, however, will be brought.

Most of the four-day convention will be devoted to hearing reports on the work of 19 SBC agencies and institutions, and to addresses and sermons.

Major speakers on the program incLude Sen. Hatfield, President Paschall, Singer and Actress Anita Bryant, Pastor W. A. Criswell of the 13,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas; former wire-tapper Jim Vaus of Youth, Inc., in New York City; Seminary President H. Lea Eddleman of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans; and Baptist Pastors Landrum P. Leave11 of Wichita Fallas, Tex.; Carl Bates of Charlotte, N. C.; Theodore F. Adams of Richmond, Va.; James L. Pleitz of Pensacola, Fla.; and J. D. Grey of New Orleans. ,o .lo ~~~s-frorn BAPTIST PRESS tuiflLUN8 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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BACKGROUND STORY

Baptist Re-apportionment (Bylaw 18)

MIAMI BEACH--A Baptist version of re-apportionment will be considered by the Southern Baptist Convention here (Wednesday morning).

The SBC Executive Committee will recommend to the convention that its bylaws be changed. to limit the representation of smaller state Baptist conventions on SBC commissions and institutional boards.

The recommendation, proponedts say, is designed to provide a more democratic system of representation on the commissions and institutional boards of the convention.

Currently the smaller conventions have automatic representation on the commissions an4 institutional boards of the SBC, as provided under Bylaw 18. The proposed change would continue the smaller conventione ' automa tic representation an the four major boards of the convention and its Executive Committee, but not on the commissions and institutional boards.

Instead, each commission and institutional board would have five trustees or director$- at-large elected from the states with 25,000 to 100,000 members.

The SBC committee on boards, which nominates the director8 and trustees to the convention, would seek to rotate the representation fxom these states on the various agencies.

The proposed bylaws change was the most debated recommendation to come before the twor day meeting of the SBC Executive Committee when it met in Nashville last February.

The proposal was first presented to the Executive Committee a year ago, but was tabled last year after even more lengthy debate.

Proponents of the recommendation say that the current policy gives the 10 states, witb a combined total membership of about 500,000, the same number of representatives per state as 11 state conventions, each with more than 500,000 members and a combined membexship of more than 84 million.

The proposal would not change the smaller states ' representation on the four major boards and the Executive Committee, and all of the states would eventually have representapion on each commission and institutional board over a period of years, proponents say.

Several Executive Committee members from the smaller states said during the February meeting the people in their states awe strongly opposed to the proposal, and argued that they felt representation was needed in order to involve the Baptists from these states in the denomination's total pragxam.

Editorials in the state Baptist papers of smaller, newer state conventions such as Indiana, Colorado and New Mexico have taken editorial stands against the bylaw change, while state Baptist papers in larger states such as North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee have favored editorially the proposal. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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SBC Name Change

MIAMI BEACH--The possibility of changing the name 05 the Southern Baptiet Convention, dropping the "Southern" tag it has carried for 122 years, probably will not be an issue when the Southern Baptist Convention meets here May 30-June 2.

The Executive Committee of the convention currently is in the midst of a study of the name change proposal, and the Executive Committee will not be ready to make any recornmenda- rions to the convention on the controversial matter, according to the executive secretary of the Executive Committee, Porter W . Routh.

The long-range study was prompted in 1965 when Charles Chaney of Palatine, Ill., made a motion at the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas proposing a change in the convention's name. The matter was referred by the convention to the Executive Committee for study.

Last year at the Southern Baptist Convention in Detroit, the Executive Committee reported it was studying the matter, and had asked the research and statistics department of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Eoard to conduct a public-opinion poll on the name- change proposal among a cross section of Baptists.

The public-opinion poll asked two basic questions: Do you favor a change in the name of the convention? If so, list thxee names, in order of preference you like.

Results of the poll have not been publically announced.

At the SBC Executive Committee meeting in February of 1967, the public relations committee of the Executive Committee submitted a check list of 25 questions to be used in evaluating the public relations factox of each proposed new name.

The check list asked such questions as: Is it: distinctinctive? Would it be confused with other Baptist organizations? 1s it short? Would the initials be appropriate? Is its meaning clear? Is it geographically accurate? Would it be appealing to a majority of the church members in the denomination? Would it be acceptable to other Baptist bodies? Would it be received favorably by non-Baptist bodies? Is it legally available? and many other questions.

The entire study is now in the hands of the administrative subcommittee of the SBC Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee does not have a time-table for completing the study, and it is not known when a recommendation, if any, will be made to the convention. It will bring a brief progress report to the canvention in Miami Beach, but no recommendation.

Unlike 1966 when numerous editorials appeared in the 29 state Baptist papers on the subject of the name change, 1967 has been a year of little comment on the name change proposal in editorials in the Baptist state papers.

The Histotieal Commission of the SBC in its meeting in April adopted a very brief recommendation from a subcommittee endorsing the idea of a national name for the convention. No specific name was mentioned.

The arguments, pro and con, on changing the name are many.

Those in favor of a change, in brief, have argued that the present name is not des- cripture, it is misleading, it has provincial connotations that are out of date, it is a misnomer, it has offensive connotations in some sections of the country, it is not consistent to national Baptist strategy, and it has racial segregationist overtones.

Those who want to keep the present name argue, in brief, that changing the name will not change the nature of the convention, that the name describes the denomination's theological position rather than geogrr2hic location, that the name can be helpful in some sections of the country, and that legal and technical difficulties would be raised by changing the convention's name. SBC Name Change, Background Story 2

The number of ~ossiblenames suggested during the past two years is almost equal to the number of arguments for ahd against a name change.

Chaney, who made the motion suggesting the name change, likes the '%nited States Beptist Convention1' name, and the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board publication "Home Missions" magazine editorially endorsed it.

Another editor quipped that such a name could also allow references to "Us Baptists," and allow some die-herds to preserve the letters SBC by tacking on a '21" in front.

Other names proposed have included United Baptists, United Baptist Convention, United Baptists of America , Cooperative Baptists of the United States, Baptist Convention of the United States of America (U .S .A ,) , Continental Bap ti6 t Convention, Baptist Union of America, and Union of Cooperating Baptists.

The list of possible names, like the arguments for changing or not changing the name, goes on and on. It appears that the subject will be discussed for a long time. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY

SBC Budget

MIAMT BEACH -- The Southern Baptist Convention will consider here (Wednesday morning) a record $26.7 million Cooperative Program world missions budget for 1968.

The proposed 1968 budget would be an increase of $24 million over the 1967 budget of $24.2 million, if the budget recommended by the SBC Executive Committee is approved.

As part of the open-end budget proposal, all contributions which might exceed the $26.7 million goal would be divided two-thirds to foreign missions and one-third to home missions.

Biggest allocations of the proposed budget would go to support foreign missions, home miss ions, and six Southern Baptist seminaries.

The SBC Foreign Mission Board would receive $13,918,000 under the budget: proposal, an increase of $1,237,000 over the 1967 allocation.

The SBC Home Mission Board would receive $4.6 million, an increase of $575,800 over the 1967 a 1location.

Six theological seminaries owned and operated by the convention would receive a total of $4,403,000, an increase of $570,000 over their 1967 budget allotment.

An allocation of $1,085,000 would go to the SBC Radio and Television Commission, an increase of $108,000 over their 1967 budget allotment.

Of the $26.7 million total goal, $2,216,000 would go for capital needs causes, and $25,484,000 would go to the operating budgets of Baptist causes included in the budget.

A total of 20 Southern Baptist agencies, institutions and organizations wiI.1 receive budget allocations through the Cooperative Program unified budget plan.

A basic difference in approach in setting the $26.7 miliion goal was used this year by the SBC Executive Committee, explained Porter W. Rouch, executive secretary of the SBC Executive Committee, The different approach is the basic reason for the large amount of the $2% million increase in the goal, he added.

In years past, the budget goal was intentionally set lower than the anticipated contributions for the year so that all funds in excess of the budget would go two-thirds to foreign miss ions and one- third to home miss ions, Routh explained .

This year, the budget recommended by the Executive Committee is very close to the actual amount expected to be contributed during 1968, based on projected figures compiled by the Executive Committee, Routh said.

The amount in excess of the budget will still go to foreign and home missions, but the amounts budgeted to all SBC agencies and organizations, especially the two mission boards, is closer to the actual amount they will receive than in years past, Routh said.

Budget increases ranging from $11,600 to $24,700 are being requested by the Southern Baptist Foundation, the SBC Education Commission, the SBC Historical Commission, and the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs,

The SBC Annuity Board suggested a $25,000 decrease in their allocation, cutting the amount to $225,000. - more - Background Story - SBC Budget ... 2

Four allocations would remain the same as their 1967 budget allotment: the convention operating budget, the Southern Baptist Hospitals, the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, and the SBC Stewardship Commission.

The proposed 1968 SBC budget, along with the amount of increase or decrease campared to the 1967 budget, fallows:

1968 Proposed Cooperative Program Budget

AGENCY -1967 1968 Proposa 1 Convention Operating Foreign Miss ion Board Home Mission Board Annuity Board All Seminaries SBC Foundation SBC Hospital American Seminary Brotherhood Commission Christian Life Commission Education Comrnisa ion His torica 1 Commission Stewardship Commission Radio-T .V . Commission Public Affairs Committee

TOTAL CAPITAL NEEDS 9 2,249,500 2,216,000

TOTAL BUDGET GOAL j 24,000,000 $ 26,700 ,OOO*

*All in excess of $26,700,000 to be distributed two-thirds to the Foreign Mission Board, and one-third to the Home Mission Board. ._- NEWS from BAPTIST PRES!! SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY

Philadelphia in ' 723

MIAMI BEACH -- The Southern Baptist Convention will consider a recommendation here (Wednesday morning) that the 1972 convention be held in Philadelphia, Pa.

The recommendation will come from the convention's Executive Committee, which voted Feb. 22 to recommend the Philadelphia site.

The Executive Committee, in its pre-convention session scheduled Tuesday, May 31, is to consider the proposed dates for the 1972 convention and recommend the dates to the convention the following day.

If the Philadelphia meeting site is approved, the 1972 convention will mark the first time in Southern Baptist history the convention will have been held in Philadelphia.

The new Philadelphia Civic Center, to be completed this year, will seat 13,500 and Philadelphia hotels reportedly can provide 7,247 rooms, the Executive Committee report said.

Attendance at the annua 1 convention (reg is tered "messengers") ranges from about 10,000 to 16,000,

Dates and places for the convention are selected five years in advance. Other future conventions will be held in New Orleans, 1968; in Houston, 1969; in Denver, 1970, and in St. Louis, 1971. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY ' 70 Onward Plans, Emphases

- " MUMI BEACH, Fla . --The Southern Baptist Convention, if its Executive Committee approves, will consider here (Wednesday morning) a proposed theme for all denominational planning for the years 1970-73.

The recommended theme will be: "Living the spirit of Christ ." (word "spirit9'in italics)

If it is approved by both the Southexn Baptist Convention (Wednesday) and by the SBC . Executive Committee (Tuesday morning), the proposed theme "will be used as a warchw~rd~~to focus attention on the values suggested by a four-year grass-roots study of the needs for Baptiat plans for the 1970's.

The recommendation will also suggest specific themes for denominational planning for each of the first four years of the 1970's. They are:

---1970: "Living the ~pirit(italics) of Christ in Belief and Relevance."

---7 "Living the spirit (italics) of Christ in Openness and Freedom."

---I972 : "Living the spirit (italics) of Christ in Expectancy and Creativity.''

---1573: "Living the spirit (italics) of Christ in Faith and Conquest."

The first annual theme on "Belief and Relevance1' will emphasize the basic truths of the gospel and show their relevance to present-day life issues. The second theme on "P?enness and Freedomq' would reaffirm basic Christian freedom and "call for face-to-face discussfon of Christian doctrine among ourselves and with others."

The 1911-72 theme on "Expectancy and Creativity" would "seek to establish creative and expecrant relatioachips with non-Christians fox effective Christian witness and ministry," and the last th+a:e on "Faith and Conquest" would call for a "major effort to enroll new members 2.2 chc~chprograv organizations for study and performing the work of Chziet. ..I1

The thsmes are nn outgrowth of four years of concentrated denominational planning, involving more thar, 10,000 Baptists representing n ctoas-section of the daaomination.

Cal.l.ed the '70 Onward studies, thc planning began in 1963 when the SBC Executive Committee requeszad a special advisory committee to develop a plan for planning the SBC emphasis to follow the present "Church Fulfilling Its Mission" emphasis, 1964-69.

The Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Atlantic City in 1964 approved a detailed plan for the '70 Onward studies, asking the SBC Inter-Agency Council and the Executive Committee to develop the plans after a thorough period of information gathering.

The information gathering phase was designed to determine the proper areas of work of the church, the relationship of these areas to Baptist denominational structures, the unlimited paasibilities for each area, what Baptist are doing and could do to reach these possibilities, wh~tbasic areas Baptists should attempt for the period of years following 1969 in order to achieve the best results, and what goals should be sot to do this.

Forty-one study groups met and worked on the questions. The chairmen of these 41 groups summarized their findings and drafted (1) a message to the churches and to the denomination, (2) a statement of the objective of a church, and (3) a statement outlining what they considered to be the five basic areas of church work.

Although convention approval is not required, a printed report on the '70 Onward studies is to be presented to both the Executive Committee and the convention. The pamphlet outlines the background, includes the statement of the objective of a church, and the five basic areas of church work. Said the printed report, distributed in advance to the Executive Committee membere: "The objective of a church, composed of baptized believers who share a personal commitment to Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, is to be a redemptive body in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, growing toward Chris tian maturity through worship, witness, education, and minis try, proclaiming the gospel to the whole world, and applying Christian 1 principles tomanandsociety that~od'spurposesmaybeachieved." The five basic areas of church work were listed as: worship, witness, educate, minister, I and apply. The report also indicated the Biblical basis for the 1970-73 themes, as developed by the '70 Onward Emphasis Advisory Planning Committee in cooperation with the Coordinating Committee of the Inter-Agency Council and the staff of the SBC Executive Committee.

The Biblical basis for the themes is found in 2 Peter 1:l-8, Phil. 1:27; and Phil. 2:l-16, where the Apostle Paul uses the phxase "the spirit of ~hrist".

Seven recommendations printed in the pamphlet will be brought to the convention and its Executive Committee for approval.

One states the purpose of the170 Onward plans: "To discover and accept during the '70's better personal understandings of the gospel and apply these insights creatively in shaping every area of life in our revolutionary world."

Another recommendation outlines a three-point scope of the emphaais: (1) openness of the individual to ~od'sleading into new responses to modern man, (2) mobility of organization structures in responding to the realities of emerging social patterns, and (3) flexibility of methods to meet the challenges of a revolutionary world.

Third recommendation outlines the dates of the emphasis: Oct. 1, 1969 through Sept. 30, 1979, with two phases, 1969d73, and 1973-79.

Recommended central theme of the entire decade would express the idea of ''shaping the seventies through living creatively the spirit of Christ."

The fifth recommendation outlines the annual themes, 1969 through 1973, with a paragraph explaining each theme.

Wa procedural recommendations will be included. One would authorize the SBC Executive Committee and the Inter-Agency Council to establish procedures to involve all SBC agencies in planning for the emphases, and another would set procedures for the Inter-Agency Council and Executive Committee to bring annual reports to the SBC on emphasis plans.

The SBC Executive Committee must approve the seven recommendations before they can go to the Southern Baptist Convention.

Progress Report

on the

'70 ONWARD EMPHASIS*

Work of Study Groups

The '70 Onward planning began in 1963 when the Executive Committee reguested a special advisory committee to develop a plan for planning the Southern Baptist Convention emphasis to follow the present emphasis, "The Church Fulfilling Its Mission" (1964-69). Upon the basis of the work of this committee, the Executive Committee recommended the following to the Convention meeting at Atlantic City in May, 1964:

"To assure that the development of denornination- al programs and goals shall reflect the experience of as many of our local churches as possible, more grassroots involvement in planning is needed. In this way plans can be developed that will assure a forward march with increased numbers of churches and their members giving wholehearted support based on a sound understanding, We, therefore, recommend that during the next five years the churches and their members be involved in broadening the denominational planning base as follows:

"1. That the Executive Committee working with the Inter-Agency Council and the agencies of the Convention lead in Phases I, 11, and 111 in the development of a basic Convention emphasis plan for the year following 1969. "Phase I. Information gathering-Through the use of church-related study groups, gather information from church members and leaders and from de- *TO THE READER-This is the wp of the report thatathe '70 ward Committee will !u{nait to fhe Ex- ecuttve Cornm~ttee and the Convention. We s~ncerely hope you will read every word and be prepared to vote when it is presented to the Convention. nominational leaders, 1964-67. Some questions to be answered are as follows: (1) What are the proper areas of work of the church? How arc these areas of work related to churches, associations, state conventions, and SBC agencies? (2) What are the unlimited possibilities for each area of work? (3) How much advance into the unlimited possibilities of an area can be considered normal for a given period: one year? five years? ten years? (4) H&W doe'swhat the churches (and organizations) are doing compare with what they could be reaching the unlimited possibilities in each area? (5) For the period following 1969, what basic areas should churches work in to achieve their most effective results? What goals should be set for accomplishment in each area of work: in terms of churches? associations? state and Southern Baptist Convention agencies? "Phase II. Plan development-Using the gathered and validated information, develop a basic Post- 69 denominational emphasis plan. The plan would succeed the present 'The Church Fulfilling Its Mission.' "Phase 111. Plan intplementation-Make recorn- mendations to the Convention as to agencies or combination of agencies to be requested to implement the plan. "2. That insofar as possible expense and personnel of this study be furnished by the agencies as part of their regular programs of work, and where this is not possible, that provision be made for expense out of Convention operating funds. "3. That the Executive Committee report to the Convention year by year on the progress of the studies and the development of a proposed plan." In keeping with Phase I of this plan, the Com- mittee reports that the following work has been accomplished:

1. CHURCH OBJECTIVE "The objective of a church, composed of baptized believers who share a personal commitment to Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, is to be a re.- demptive body in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, growing toward Christian maturity through worship, witness, education, and ministry, proclaiming the gospel to the whole world, and applying Christian principles to man and society that God's purposes may be achieved."

2. BASIC AREAS OF CHURCH WORK The basic areas of church work were formulated from the findings of forty-one study groups in twentyeight state conventions. These groups were composed of both pastors and laymen. They aver- aged fifteen members and met for 10% hours each. Their reports were reviewed, and a consensus was developed in a general meeting of the forty-one chairmen of the study groups. The consensus was submitted to the members of the study groups and to numerous others for evalu- ation and review.

Definition: A personal encounter with God in which the Christian experiences a deepening of his faith and a strengthening of his service. Scope: This is the encountering of God in spirit and in truth. This may be done in public or in private.

' Definition: The proclaiming of God's work of grace in Christ for all men. Scope: This is the communication of the message of Christ which has as its central purpose bringing all men to confess Jesus as Lord and accept him as Saviour.

Definition: The guiding of persons in their progressive development toward Christian maturity. Scope: This includes teaching, training, and personal involvement designed to help a church and individuals grow toward a mature Christian faith and life. MINISTER Definition: The meeting of crucial human needs in the spirit of Christ. Scope: This recognizes a church must have concern for the whole man, physical as well as the spiritual. This includes the service a church and its members perform for the estranged, the desti- tute, the deprived, and the suffering within its own membership, in its community, and in the world,

Definition: The practical application of Chris- tian principles in all the issues of everyday life. Scope: This involves the application of Chris- tian principles in family life, human relations, daily work, citizenship, and both private and public morality.

3. THE PAST PERFORMANCE OF THE CHURCH IN THESE BASK AREAS The past performance of churches has been dis- covered through surveys conducted by the Re- search and Statistics Department of the Baptist Sunday School Board. Information gained through these studies is reflected in the proposed plan. It will be used by those responsible for the promotion of this plan.

4. THE UNLIMITED POSSlBlllTlES OF THE CHURCHES IN THE BASIC AREAS The study was an effort to dream the future, to predict the possibilities of tomorrow. It was accomplished in three steps: (1) Preparation of special papers in many areas of concern; (2) a four-day consultation of twelve seminary profes- sors; (3) a consolidation of this material into a report for the '70 Onward Committee. This material has been carefully considered in formulating the proposed plan.

5. RELATING THE BASIC AREAS TO THE PROGRAMS OF CHURCHES, ASSOCIATIONS, STATE CONVENTIONS, AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AGENCIES A deliberate and careful effort was made to identify the programs of churches, associations, state convention and SBC agencies. These were carefully considered in relation to the basic areas. As the proposed plan unfolds, these will be frequently studied to make certain that the plan does not duplicate normal processes and organization, and that it will meet the practical needs of the churches.

Biblical Baais for '70 Onward Emphasia

The '70 Onward Emphasis Advisory Planning Committee has developed the following plans in cooperation with the Coordinating Committee , (IAC) and the staff of the Executive Committee.

The biblical basis of the emphasis is found in the following passages: S "From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ-to those who through the righteaus- ness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have been given a faith as precious as ours: May gram and peace be yours in full measure, through your knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need to live a godly life through our knowledge of the one who called us to share his own glory and goodness. In this way he has given us precious and very great promises, in order that by receiving what he has promised you may escape from the destructive passion that exists in the world, and come to share the divine nature. For this very reason, do your best to add goodness to your faith; and to your goodness add knowledge; to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance, to your endurance add godliness; to yom godliness add brotherly love; and to your brotherly bve add love. These are the qualities you nead, and if you have them in abund-, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1 : 1-8 TEV). "Now, the important thing is that your manner of life be as the gospel of Christ requires . . . that you stand firm with one common purpose, and fight together, with only one wish, for the faith of the gospel" (Phil. 1:27 TEV). "Does your life in Christ make you strong? Does his love comfort you? Do you have fellowship with the Spirit? Do you feel compassion and love for one another? I urge you, then; make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind. Don't do anything from selfish ambition, or from a cheap desire to boast; but be humble toward each other, never thinking you are better than others. And look out for each other's interests, not for your own interests. The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had: He always had the very nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to become equal with God. Instead, of his own free will he gave it all up, and took the nature of a servant. We was born like man, he appeared in human likeness; he was humble and walked the path of obedience to death-his death on the cross. For this reason God raised him to the highest place above, and gave him the name that is greater than any other name, so that all beings in heaven, and on earth, and in the world below will fall on their knees, in honor of the name of Jesus, and all will openly proclaim that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father. So then, my friends, as you always obeyed me when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey me now, while I am away from you. Keep on working, with fear and trembling, to complete your salvation, for God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing, that you may be innocent and pure, God's perfect children who live in a world of crooked and mean people. YOU must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky, as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ; for it will show that all n my effort and work have not been wasted" (Phil. 2:l-16 TEV).

These passages suggest that the spirit car mind of Jesw Christ is a valid New Testament idea. Thay plead for: the tdal dedication of the Christian clear communication of the gospel both in word and deed togetherness of the family of God in the churches one mind in the church striving together for @e faith of the gospel love borne out of unbroken fellowship tender mercies in regard for one another humility of mind and spirit both in the pm- ence of God and of man a proper understanding of self in relation to others ministry to the needs of others openness of heart and life to all people every- where complete obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as God's only begotten Son the universality of the gospel as applicable to all men the shining of Christians as the light of the world in the midst of hostile and difftcult surroundings cross-bearing without murmur and complaint faithful preaching of the Word of life These are worthy Christian goals, still relevant to our time and place in history. They are all caugbt up in Paul's phrases "the spirit of Jesus Christ" and "let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5 KJV). ('The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had."- Phil. 2:s TEV), Therefore, during the decade of the '70's let US as church members, churches, awiations, state conventions, and Southern Baptist Convention agencies live creatively the spirit of Christ and give special emphasis in our plans and activities to all Christian values such as those suggested above. While we propose to use the phrase live creatively the spirit of Christ as a me& of focus- ing attention on these values, it is not our purpose to make this a permanent slogan of the emphasis. However, since it will be used as a watchword in the early years of the emphasis, we respectfully request that no Southern Baptist Convention agency, state convention, or association use it until 1969. Recommendutiona for '70 Onward Emphasis

We, therefore, recommend the followiug plan: 1. PURPOSE-To discover and accept during the '70's better personal understandings of the gospel. and apply these insights creatively in shaping every area of life in our revolutionary world. 2. SCOPE--Three aspects will characterize the scope of the '70 Onward Emphasis: (1) Openness of the individual to God's leading into new responses to modern man. (2) Mobility of organization structures in responding to the realities of emerging social patterns. (3) Flexibility of methods to meet the challenges of a revolutionary world. 3. EMPHASISSPAN-The '70 Onward Emphasis will begin October 1, 1969, and continue through September 30, 1979, This period will be divided into two phases: one of four years and one of six years. 4. CENTRALTHEME-The central theme for the entire decade will express the idea of shaping the seventies through living creatively the spirit of Ghrist.

5. PHASESAND ANNUALTHEWS-The dominant ideas for each of the two phases with annual themes are as follows: ( 1 ) PHASEI, 1969-73 Theme: Living the spirit of Christ Annual Themes: 1969-70: Living the spirit of Christ in Belief and Relevance FACINO THE CHALLENGES OF THB '70s: 1969-70 will emphasize the basic truths of the gospel. It will show their relevance to present-day life issues. The emphasis will be designed to lead the individual to live the spirit of Christ in vital faith. It will give major attdtion to interpreting basic truths of the gospel to others.

1970-71 : Living the spirit of Christ in Openness and Freedom UNDERSTANDING THE SPIRIT OF THE '705: The emphasis in 1970-71 will reaffirm basic Christian freedom. It will call for face-to-face discussion of Christian doctrine among ourselves and with others. The emphasis will call for an examination of our basic organizational structure and our methods of stressing the right of choice and innovation. The year will be directed toward leading the individual to live the spirit of Christ in all interpersonal relationships. Planning will provide opportunities for communication with other groups concerning our basic Christian convictions.

1971-72: Living the spirit of Christ in Ex- pectancy and Creativity DEVELOPING A RESPONSE TO THE '70s: The emphasis in 1971-72 will seek to establish creative and expectant relationships with non-Christians for effective Christian witness and ministry. Opportunity will be given to define goals for extending the ministries of the churches and the denomination. Individuals will be encouraged to live the spirit of Christ in creative ministry. Plans will be made for intensive evangelism in 1972-73.

1972-73: Living the spirit of Christ in Faith and Conquest RESPONDING TO THE OPPORTUNITIES OF THE '70s: In 1972-73 the emphasis will be upon intensive personal and church witness. It will call for a major effort to enrol new members in church program organizations for study and performing the work of Christ through his churches. The emphasis should lead each individual ?yo have the F I spirit of Christ in dynamic witness. It should motivate each church to attempt for Christ what is difficult and daring, "We have complete victory though him who loved us" (Rorn. 8: 37 TEV), (2) PHASEI1 1974-79 Work on Phase 11 emphasis, 1974-79, is continuing. A progress report will be made to the Southern Baptist Convention in 1968.

. 6. PROCEDURE FOR COORDINATING AND PROMOflNG THE EMPHASIS The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention shall request the Inter- Agency Council to establish internal procedures and organization to involve all appropriate denominational agencies in planning, coordinating, and promoting the emphases according to program assignments, goals, strategies, and action plans. Planning and promotion should be done early enough to ( 1 ) inform Southern Bap- tists fully about all plans, (2) prepare and make adequate resources available, and (3) train church leaders for their responsibilities in propaed activities.

7, PROCEDURE FOR REGULAR REPORTS TO THE SOUTHERN BAPPlST CONVENTION Progress on planning and promoting the '70 Onward Emphasis shall be reported to the Southern Baptist Convention annually in the following manner: ( 1) The Inter-Agency Council, following its established procedures, shall communicate information regarding the Emphasis annually to the SBC Execu- tive Committee. (2) The SBC Executive Committee shall review and evaluate information regarding the Emphasis and make recommendations to the Southern Baptist Convention. ,I EXECUTlVE COMMIT7EE Southern D@st Cawemtion Nonprofit Organization 460 James Roberfron Parkway U. S. Postage Ncnhville, Tennessee 37219 PAID Nashville, Tennessee Permit No. 136 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY

SBC Goals, 1967-69

MIAMI BEACH -- The Southern Baptist Convention and the convention's Executive Committee will consider detailed proposals outlining denominational goals for the years 1967-68 and 1968-69 here.

For the first time in Southern Baptist: history, the goals will include "qualitative" goals as well as "quantitative" goals.

The two-year goals were proposed by the Inter-Agency Council of the Southern Baptist Convention. If approved by the SBC Executive Committee, they will go to the SBC as recom- mendat ions of the Executive Committee.

The two-year goals, along with a list of strategies to reach the goals, deal with f iva areas: (1) increase in individual and group maturity among Southern Baptists; (2) increase in church membership, (3) increase in church usefulness to the community and world; (4) increase in gifts for the work of the churches; and (5) increase in efficiency in church admin is t ra t ion.

All but the first area suggest numerical goals. The church membership goals, for example, call for 11,350,000 members by 1968, and 11.7 million members by 1969.

Strategies for reaching the membership goals included achieving a Sunday School enrollment of 8 million, starting 1,000 new churches or missions, and use of an on-going plan of evangelism by 15,800 churches.

The goal on church usefulness to the community and world suggest strategies of getting 15,000 churches to develop and use mission action plans, including ministering to alcoholics, delinquents, imprisoned, migrants, language groups, drug addicts, unwed mothers, poor, sick, internationals, etc.

Financial goals include a goal of $720 million in total gifts through Baptist churches by 1968, of which 10% per cent goes to world missions through the Cooperative Program; and a 1969 goal of $750 million total gifts of which 11 per cent goes to the Cooperative Program.

The number one goal area, however, is not numerical but deals with improving the quality of church members. It calls for assisting Baptist churches to develop members characterized by four different understandings, eight different attitudes, and six different skills.

All deal with developing more mature church members with a deeper and more practical faith.

Some of the qualitative goals include: awareness of (1) the biblical message and its demands today, (2) of the church's historical mission and purpose, (3) of New Testament principles of Christian character and conduct, and (4) of the meaning of Christian service in the modern world.

Other qualitative goals include a desire to communicate the gospel in vital, fresh ways as well as through traditional means; an enthusiasm for Christian values like courage, concern, acceptance of others, integrity, forgiveness and love; fidelity to the living Christ and his redemptive mission; desire to attain spiritual growth; and ability to share Christ with believers of other-persuasions as well as our own; an ability to remove or transcend barriers that separate us from other persons or groups; and an ability to express the mercy of God in unselfish service to others. Is!I8 NEWS- I from BAPTIST PRES~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY

Church Loans Recommendation

MIAMI BEACH--The Southern Baptist Convention will consider here (Wednesday morning) a proposal that could free the Southern Baptist Home Mission ~oard'schurch loans division to expand its help to struggling new Baptist churches.

The current convention-approved rules restrict the church loans operation to borrowing only from banks on an unlimited liability basis, and also xcstrict the amount of funds thap can be borrowed from commercial sources.

A new three-point proposal, which will be presented by the Southern Baptist Executive Committee, would permit the church loans division to:

(1) Borrow from other commercial loan institutions, such as insurance companies, as well as banks.

(2) Borrow money on the same basis that it loans to the churches. (The board's bank loans have been limited to lo-year payouts while the board has been making 15 year loans to the churches, creating an awkward repayment problem.)

(3) Borrow up to 100 percent of the net corpus of its site and church extension loan accounts, currently totaling over $18 million.

Of about $22.2 million in church loans reported at the end of 1966, only about $4.2 million was borrowed by the board from commercial sources. That amount could increase up to $18 million under this proposal.

One of the most restrictive factors currently is the unlimited liability borrowing by the board, said the Home Mission Board church loans division director.

"The board could not expose other divisionhi and agencies to liabilities incurred by the chuxch loans division," Division Director Robert: H. Kilgore said.

The new authority, however, would instruct the church loans division to limit its liability to the collateral securing the loans. The collateral, Kilgore said, will be church loan notes and a 10 percent. funded reserve to protect against the possibility of the chuxch notes not producing enough income to meet the board's loan payments.

"The Executive Committee has been wise in recommending these changes," Kilgore said. "If approved, implementation of the changes will be left to the Home Mission ~oard's directors, which will proceed as rapidly as is practical."

All new funds received from the board's borrowing are loaned to churches for building construction. About 1,050 churches in 48 states were being assisted at the end of 1964 by loans totaling $22.2 million, * * i* NEWS from BAPTIST PRES? SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER I I BACKGROUND STORY

Crusade of the Americas

(Note to Editors and Reporters: There is no expected action to come before the Southern Baptist Convention concerning the Crusade of the Americas, but it is certain to be a major issue and an oft-diecussed subject in messages. Here is a background story on what the crusade is, Southern Baptist plans for it, and some of the controversies which have developed over it.)

The Crusade of the Americas, which may involve as many as 25 million Baptists in 26 different countries of Northycentral and South America during 1969, may well be the largest united evangelistic effort Baptists have ever undertaken.

No one knows for sure how many Baptists on the Western Hemisphere will be involved in the vast crusade, but it seems certain the crusade will be conducted Baptist style---big.

What is the Crusade of the Americas? Just how big will it be? How did it get started? How will it be conducted? What problems and challenges has it prompted?

The Crusade of the Americas, as its name suggests, is an evangelistic crusade that will involve Baptists of the entire American hemisphere, beginning with a year of preparation in 1967, a year of work and witness in 1968, climaxing with a year of proclamation in 1969, and concluding with a year of follow-through efforts in 1970,

Already, Baptists in 26 countries on the American hemisphere have indicated a desire to participate in the crusade, and by 1969 crusade officials hope at least 25 million Baptists will be involved.

The idea for the crusade started when Brazilian Baptists conducted a two-year national evangelistic campaign ending in 1965. During the campaign, there were 100,000 professions of faith. At the Brazilian Baptist Convention on Jan. 30, 1965, Rubens Lopez of the First Baptist Church of Sao Paulo, Brazil, delivered a message at a giant rally of 150,000 Baptists, issuing a challenge for Baptists to conduct a Crusade of the Americas.

Lopez presented the challenge to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in.Dsllas in June of 1965. A few weeks later he made the same challenge at the Baptist World Congress in Miami Beach.

Southern Baptists seemed to be challenged by the idea, but with some reservations. At the Dallas convention a resolution was adopted encouraging the SBC Foreign Mission and Home Mission Boards to "study crusade possibilities with the Baptist leadership in the countries involved. "

In September of 1965, the SBC Executive Committee voted to approve participation in the crusade, assigned the task of planning for the crusade in Norrh America to the Home Mission Board division of evangelism, and authorized appointment of a six-member SBC committee to serve on the Central Coordinating Committee of the Crusade and to ccxrelate SBC plans.

W. Wayne Dehoney, then president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was appointed chairman of the SBC Crusade of the Americas Committee. Dehoney made plans for the Southern Baptist Convention in Detroit to launch the SBC'S participation in the crusade in June of.1966

In March of 1966 the North American Baptist Fellowship composed of six Baptist bodies in North America voted unanimously to endorse the crusade and encourage a11 member bodies in North America to participate.

The SBC held its meeting in Detroit and "launched" its plans to participate in the crusade in an inspiring closing night service before a few thousand who stayed.

So far the crusade had encountered smooth sailing, but in June and July the waters of controversy began to stir, - more - Crusade of Americas 2

When several top American Baptist Convention leaders learned that the Southern Baptist Convention had "launched" the Crusade of Americas, they were peeved because the SBC, they felt, was taking charge and trying to run the show without consulting other Baptist groups.

In July when the Crusade Central Coordinating Committee held its first, and perhaps most significant, meeting, American Baptists were chagrined because they did not receive an invitation to attend the meeting in Cali, Columbia, until 21 days before the meeting.

During the Cali meeting, Sitsuo Morikawa, evangelism secretary for the American Baptist Convention, injected a highly controversial note into the discussions. He favored the "new evangelism" approach being advocated by avant-garde theologians, evangelism aimed at changing and redeeming the structures of society rather than the individual, one by one. He reportedly said in the Cali meeting; "The doctrine of personal redemption is a perversion of the gospel." At one point, the rnecting turned into a debate between Morikawa and more conservative Baptists.

Despite the controversy, the Cali meeting included adoption of some significant business actions. The Central Coordinating Committee was officially organized with one representative from each participating Eaptist convention with less than 300,000 members and six representatives for the SBC and three for the Brazilian convention.

From this larger Central Coordinating Committee, a 12-member Directory Council (executive committee) was elected, with Lopez as president. Southern Baptist laymen Owen Cooper of Yam00 City, Miss., was elected second vice president and named to head a committe to involve lay participation in the crusade.

Seven "staff" members of the crusade were named: General Coordinator Henry Earl Peacock, Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil; and six regional coordinators, four of them Southern Baptists or SBC missionaries. Wayne Dehoney was named North American regional coordinator.

A tentative budget of $94,000 was adopted, the slogan or theme for the crusade was ap- praved to be "Christ, the Only Hope," the official music of the crusade was approved, and a "Cali Declaration" that sets forth the purposes of the crusade was adopted.

In October of 1966, the crusade's calendar committee, a sub-committee of the Central Coordinating Committee, met in Miami Beach and drafted a tentative calendar which was approved by the December, 1966, meeting of the Directory Council in Mexico City.

In November of 1966, more controversy with American and Southern Baptists developed. The ABC General Council voted against official participation in the Crusade of the Americas on a nation-wide basis, deciding instead to emphasize its Christian Faith and 'Work Plan of Sunday Church School curriculum during the 1969-71 period.

The recommendation came from the ABC General ~ouncil'sdivision of program planning, although its evangelism department had favored participation. But the chief spokesman of the division of program planning in the November meeting was Jitsua Morikawa, the evangelism secre tary.

Morikawa, according to a Baptist Press story, gave three main reasons fox the decision: (1) The crusade is basically a Latin American effort in which American BeptistGdid not plan, (2) It is overshadowed by the SBC, and (3) It represents a type of evangelism prevalent among Pentecostal groups and in the South with which American Baptists should not be associated

Southern Baptists, learning of the action, were dismayed. The SBC Home Mission Board adopted a resolution urging the ABC to reconsider. But apparently the American Baptist Con- vention officials were never officially and formally notified of the board's action.

Dehoney, as North American Coordinator, sent a three-page, strongly-worded letter to Edwin Tuller, general secretary of the ABC, lamenting the action, "To say that American Bap- tists knew nothing of the crusade until a few weeks before Cali is nothing less than a bold- faced lie," Dehoney wrote. He chargeci that ~oriltawa'sreasons basically "were just as dis- tor ted and dishonest ,I'

Dehoney sent copies of his letter to the Baptist state papers, many of which published the letter. Tuller wrote a lengthy reply and said later he requested a list of persons receiving ~ehoney'sletter, but said he did not ever receive the list.

In February of 1967 the ABC General Council met again, and in effect re-affirmed its earlier decision not to participate in the crusade.

The President: of the American Baptist Convention, Carl W, Tiller, however, expressed keen disappointment over the action of the General Council. Tiller, member of a church dually-alligned with the ABC and SBC, urged ABC Baptist state conventions to participate in - more - u f Crusade of the Americas

the crusade even though there will be no official national ABC participation. Tiller also said he was accepting appointment to the Crusade 05 Americas laymen's committee headed by Cooper.

Not long after the ABC General Council action in February, still another controversy stirred the crusade waters.

In an interview with the Dallas Times Herald, carried later by Religious News Service, North American Coordinator Dehoney said he thought it would be "marvelous for Roman ~atholics" to take part in the crusade of the Americas. The news report quoted Dehoney as "inviting" Roman Catholics to pazticipate.

A Catholic editor of Our Sunday Visitor responded editorially saying Catholics could not participate in a Ba~tistcrusade, but they could cond~~cttheir own crusades at the same time as the Baptist Effort. The editor urged Baptists not to attempt to proselyte Catholics in the crusade.

The two statements caused niuch editorial comment in Baptist state papers, and numerous letters to the editors. Dehoney, in an attempt to clarify the "invitation" sent out a seven- page memo to the Boptist editors explaining that the original story was not clear and was incom?lete, His full quotation, he said, was: "I think it would be wonderful if Roman Catholics would enter into 8n evangelistic crusade preaching the New Testament doctrine of grace and following a pattern of Net1 Testament evangelism." Following ~ehoney'sexplana- tion, the waters calmed.

Commented DeLoney casually to a reporter recently, "1t1s a real shame that so much controversy has developed over the one thing that all Christians, and especially all Baptists, should be united in---evangelism,"

Despitc the controversy, he plans continue to grow toward making the crusade the biggest evangelistic attempt Baptists have ever undertaken.

The SBC Executive Committee in February of 1967 passed a recommendation urging all Southern Baptist Convention agencies and all Baptist state conventions, associations and churches to "partlcip.~teto the fullest possible extent .I1

The SBC Executive Committee did what the ABC General Council refused to do. It urged the agencies of the SEC to mtrge nnd intertwine the emphasis of the Crusade of the Americas with the already-approved denomina tion-wide emphasis on the theme, "A Church Fulfilling 1t's Mission nrough Evangelism and World Missions" planned for 1968-69.

Each agency of tke SBC responded by mapping extensive long-range plans for the crusade of the Americas, and Southern aaptist participation in the crusade.

The SBC Home Mission Board division of evangelism is charged with the major responsibility of outlining the plans on a national scope. Headed by C. E. Aurrey, the division has worked with other SBC agencies in coordinating the crusade plans and developed suggestions for Southern Bnptint churches.

Heart of the division's plans is a detailed calendar of activities proposed for a local Baptist church's participation in the crusade. The detailed calendar is being published in the evangelism's division's 1968-69 "Evangelism Plan Book" which is now being produced.

The pians actuaily begin with 1967 and lead up to the crusade itself in 1969, The procedures suggested by the division include:

A vote by each church to ~articipatein the Crusade of tk Americas; set dates for the church revival(s) as part of thc crusade, enlist: evangelj.sts, pray, secure a church "prayer partner" with a church in another country or pioilcer area, participate in all of the denominational meetings emphasizing the crusade, and in short, use the SBC 1968-69 Evangelism Plan Boolc which outlines the details of the calendar of activities.

The Home Mission Board has also initiated what it calls "Project 500" to establish 500 new church-type missions in strategically-located ,sites in areas where SBC work has been started since 1940.

The SBC woman's Missionary Union will marshall prayer support for the crusade, offering to match interested Southern Baptlst women with women in other countries or other North American bodies es "prayer partners." Prayer retreats for women xtill also be promoted, as will the record $5% mill?-on 1963 goal and $6$ million goal for the Annie Armstrong offering, much of it going to the crusade and Project 500. Lessen materials in the WMU will also emphasize the crusade, especially in November and December 1968 and March of 1969.

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The SBC Brotherhood Commission has planned to urge prayez support among men and boys for che crusade, to enlist men to participate in starting the 500 new churches of "Project 500," to arrange for men and boys to have prayer partners with churches and Christians in other countries, to enlist men to participate in crusades in pioneer SBC areas, to promote use of laymen and boys in witnessing efforts, and to promote attendance of laymen' at a hemispheric-wide laymen's convocation in Rio de Janerio in 1968.

The curriculum of the Woman's Missionary Union, the Brotherhood, the Sunday School, the Training Union and church music programs will undergird the Crusade of Americas during 1968-69.

During this period, the church program organizatians in local Baptist churches will be studying from quarterlies prepared by the SBC agencies emphasizing the crusad~in the lesson course outlines.

Training Union, for example, plans a unit on personal witnessing during the last three months of 1968,

Sunday School curriculum, likewise will emphssize the crusade. In addition, the home Bible study guides and daily devotion guides produced by the SBC Sunday School Board will also emphasize scriptures and prayer thougnts that undergird the crusade.

Never before in the denomination's history will the curriculum of the Southern Baptist Convention undergird a project like the curriculum will support: the Cxusade of the Americas, said W. L. Howse, director of the education division of the Sunday School Board.

The Church Program Guidebook, produced by the SBC Sunday School Board's church administration department as a guide to local Baptist churches for planning their year's programs, will also emphasize the Crusade of the Americas.

One entire section in the Guidebook is devoted to the crusade, with seven pages of suggestions. The guidebook offers seven broad suggested actions a church can take as part of the crusade, and within these seven areas are 42 ideas for participating in the crusade, with accompanying suggested resource information and suggested assignment to church leadership

While the other SBC agencies were making their plans for crusade promotion, the SBC Christian Life Commission, in session in Nashville, heard an appeal from its director of communications, Ross Coggins who urged Southern Baptists to enter the crusade "embracing a total evangelism which refuses to allow irrelevant barriers like race, class and nation- ality to close the doors of the church."

Coggins said that as its part in the Crusade of the Americas, the Christian Life Com- mission should advocate support of civil rights legislation, open housing, and anti-poverty efforts, not simply as a means to evangelistic success, but because it is right.

Meanwhile, the other SBC agencies were intensively planning what they would do as part of the crusade. Almost every key event in the denomination in 1968-69 will undergird in some way the crusade.

Included in the plans are such items as :

---A meeting of the Central Coordinating Committee of the Crusade of Americas in Louisvill Ky., July 24-29, 1967 when the calendar of SBC activities will be outlined in detail,

---Associational Evangelism Clinics in the fall of 1967 which will emphasize the crusade.

---A special day of prayer for the crusade on Jan. 14, 1968, which also will be a "Soul Winning Commitment Day" in SBC churches.

---Thirty-three state evangelism conferences throughout the SBC which will emphasize the crusade, most of them in January of 1968.

---Sunday School witnessing campaigns in the spring of 1968, emphasizing the crusade.

---A hemispheric wide convocation for laymen to be held July 15-19, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo, Brazil, with Baptist laymen from all countries in the hemisphere participating.

---A meeting of the Central Coordinating Committee of the crusade in Sao Paulo, July 12-13.

---A total of 1,000 associational Crusade of Amexicas Rallies held in the SBC in Septembel of 1968, merging the Sunday School. Action Night programs with the crusade rellies. Special programs will be promoted in 35 major metropolitan centers as major meetings. Total attendance goal for the 1,000 rallies is 100,000. -more- Crusade of the Americas 5

---A nation-wide emphasis on discovering Sunday School prospects as part of the crusade in the fall of 1968.

---Another Day of Prayer for the crusade and Soul Winning Commitment day on Jan. 12, 1969.

---Thirty-three annual stare evangelism conferences again emphasizing the crusade.

---Local church revivals as part of the crusade, with two weeks of preaching on the recommended dates of March 16-30; April 6-20; April 27-May 11.

---Area crusades during the summer months to follow the spring revivals.

---New Member Orientation programs and Sunday School emphases in the summer to conserve the results of the crusade.

On the basis of the plans being projected on a national scale by the SBC, it appears that the Crusade of the Americas will be more than just another series of related revival meetings in local churches, although this is the key to the crusade.

Said Crusade General Coordinator Henxy Earl Peacock of Sao Paulo, Brazil: "The Crusade of the Americas is a simultaneous evangelistic crusade emphasizing the local Baptist church. Although there are four languages (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese), there is one slogan--"Christ, the Only Hope;" though there are 26 different countries involved, there is only one flag--the Christian flag; though many organizations represented, only one has the pre-eminence, which is the local church. "

Whether Southern Baptists and Baptists throughout the hemisphere will rally behind the challenge of the Crusade of the Americas is an unanswered question.

But as North American Crusade Coordinatox Wayne Dehoney said in a speech to the Southern Baptist Convention in Miami Beach (June 1, 1967), "You must make the Crusade of the Americas something more than just anothex revival in your church if we are going to shake this hemisphere for Jesus Christ."

--By Jim New ton SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY Baptist Education Study Task (BEST)

(Note to Editors and Reporters: Since BEST may be mentioned at several points during the Southern Baptist Convention in Miami

Beach, here is an explanation of what it is and what it is de- , ' signed to do .)

Southern Baptists are past the half-way point in the most intensive, comprehensive depth study of the issues and problems facing Christian higher education ever conducted in the denomination's his tory.

The two-year program, called the Baptist Education Study Task (BEST), is a systematic appraisal of the future role of Southern Baptists in Christian higher education, and will be completed in September of 1967.

During the first half of BEST, more than 7,000 Baptists throughout the nation were involved in the study .

They (1) attended 24 regional seminars in 16 states during the first three manths of 1966; (2) attended the First National Conference of BEST held in Nashville June 13-16 in 1966; (3) were among several hundred Baptist pastors' Conferences and church study groups which participated in the study; and (4) participated in 24 additional regional seminars held in the spring.

About 300 persons are expected to attend the Second National Conference which will climax the two-year study on June 12-17, 1967 in Nashville.

During the first series of regional seminars and the First National Conference, attempts were made to determine the major issues and problems facing Baptist higher education programs, determine the causes of the problem, and list requirements which the solutions to these problems must meet.

The second round of regional seminars and the Seaond National Conference will attempt to determine the solutions to the problems and issues facing Baptist schools.

An 18-member Findings Committee headed by Herschel H. Hobbs of Oklahoma City and Doak S. Campbell of Tallasllassee, Fla,, as coordinator, will prepare a lengthy report outlining the solutions determined during the Second National Conference in June. Their report will be ready about Sept. 15, 1967.

Findings of the BEST study will not be binding on any of the 72 schools affiliated with Southern Baptists. Most of the educational institutions are operated by state Baptist conventions and have no official connection with the nation-wide Southern Baptist Convention.

The findings committee will, however, publish its report and the boards of trustees of the Baptist educational institutions and state conventions which operate them will be free to use the findings as they see fit.

The BEST investigations will cover nine basic areas, according to Rabun I,. Brantley of Nashville, executive secretary of the SBC Education Commission and general chairman of the entire BEST program.

The nine areas are: (1) the Biblical basis for Christian higher education, (2) the history of Southern Baptist higher education, (3) preface to a philosophy of Southern Baptist higher education, (4) academic scope of Christian higher education, (5) religious scope of Christian higher education, (6) the Christian college teacher (7) financing Christian higher education, (8) college-denominational relationships, (9) academic freedom and responsibility. An additional section on accreditation was added to the 24 regional semina~andto the program of the Second National Conference, but it was not one of the nine basic areas at the beginning of the study, Brantley said.

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Although one facet of the study on financing Christian higher education will include the question of federal aid to Baptist college, the BEST investigations will take this aspect into proper perspective with the total picture of problems facing Baptist schools and is not expected to solve all the problems of church-state separation policy involved, according to Brantley.

Why undertake the study? Says a pamphlet produced by the SBC Education Commission which is coordinating BEST: "~ushroomingenrollments, higher 'COS~S, increased standards without corresponding increase in financial support have brought Southern Baptist higher education to a point of crisis."

"Baptists have never taken a systematic look at these problems," the statement continued. "Because of their urgency and because of the accelerated changes in the whole American educational scene, it was thought that a fully-comprehensive study would be de- sirable at this time. I'

Three basis pruposes of BEST were listed:

1. To identify and study the issues, problems and opportunities facing Southern Baptist higher education.

2. To explore these issues and problems in the context of current American higher education and of the needs and objectives of the denomination.

3. To consolidate findings and suggest a reasonable basis on which Southern Baptist higher education can advance.

Burden of interpreting the results of the study lies with the 18-member findings committee, headed by Hobbs as chairman and Campbell as coordinator. Hobbs is pastor of the First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, and Campbell is president emeritus of Florida State University, Tallahassee.

In addition to the findings committee, a 24-member steering committee is furnishing technical advice to the general chairman, Rabun L. Brantley, as he directs the study. Albert McClellan, Nashville, program planning secretary fox the,,80C Executive Committee is chairman of the BEST steering committee

Before the BEST project is completed in 1967, an estimated 10,000 persons will have par tic ipa ted in the study . ,A "%F ~~~~Am#rmfromBAPTIST PRESS SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY

Bill Wallace Movie Showing

MIAMI BEACH--The movie production, "Bill Wallace of China," will be shown;fera special pre-release engagement here during the Southern Baptist Convention.

Wallace, a native of Tennessee, served in China under auspices of the Southern Baptist Foreign Missian Board until his death at the hands of the Chinese Communist8 in 1951.

Producer Gregory Walcott has accelerated the post-production phase of the Wallace film so that it may be ready for showing in Miami the last of May.

The Beach Theatre has booked the Wallace film fox three days, May 30 through June 1.

The theater is located on Lincoln Road Mall ar Washington Avenue, just a block from Convention Hall.

The performances will be at 10 a.m., 12 noon, and 11 p.m. Walcott said, 'We have limited the performances and scheduled them at times when messengers may see the motion picture during lunch breaks and after the convention's night session. It

The audience will see only the Wallace feature, which lasts for 90 minutes.

"Bill Wallace of China" was filmed entirely on location in the ancient villages around Hong Kong with an international cast. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY SBC Speakers

MIAMI BEACH -- Eight major speakers, including a United States Senator, will address . the Southern Baptist Convention when it meets at Convention Hall here May 30-June 2.

Most prominent speak on the program will be Sen. Mark Hatfield, former governor of Oregon and himself a Baptist, who will deliver an address on peace following the report of the SBC Christ ian Life Commission, Thursday morning, June 1.

The Convention will open Tuesday night, May 30, with the annual sermon by Landrum P. Leavell, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Closing session of the convention, scheduled Friday night, June 2, will feature a youth-night emphasis, with addresses by Jim Vaus, who works with juvenile delinquents in New York as head of Youth, Inc., and by Carl Bates, pastor of the First Baptist Church, &arlott,e, 'N.E.

Recording star and actress Anita Bryant will both sing and give her personal testimony of what being a Christian means to her during the SBC's closing Friday night Youth Rally. Miss Bryant, a Southern Baptist lives in Miami and has recorded three ''gold records" that have sold more than 1 million copies. She is a former Miss Oklahoma and second runner-up in the 1960 Miss America contest.

It is the first time in 11 years that the convention has closed with a youth-night service, said H. Cowen Ellis, chairman of the convention's Committee on Order of Business which planned the convention program. Ellis is pastor of the Flrst Baptist Church, Charlotteaville, Va.

Another first on the convention will be a Wednesday night commissioning service for new Southern Baptiat Home Mission Board appointees. Never before have newly-appointed SBC home missionaries been "cammiss ioned" during a convent ion session.

The Wednesday night home missions emphasis session will also feature an address by W. A. Criswell, pastor of the 13,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, largest church in the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Thursday night Foreign Mission Board report will feature introductions of new SBG foreign missionaries, and will emphasize the 1969 Crusade of the Americas, an evangelistic campaign involving Baptists of North, Central and South America.

B. Franklin Paschall, president of the convention and pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Nashville, will deliver the annual presidential address on Wednesday morning, May 31.

During a Wednesday afternoon emphasis on theological education, the president of New Orleans Baptist The0 logica 1 Seminary, H . Leo Edd lernan will address the convent ion following the reports of six SBC-affiliated seminaries.

Three other Southern Baptist pastors are scheduled to speak on the program. They are Theodore F. Adams, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va.; 3.D. Grey, pastor of the First Baptist Church, New Orleans, La.; and James Pleitz, pastor, First Baptist Church, Pensaco la, F la.

The committee which planned the program sought to carry out the theme, "Mandate to ~iniste~"with sub-themes for each session, said Ellis, the committee chairman.

Themes for the various sessions include: 'Mandate to Minister through Preaching," %andate to Minister through the Churches, " ''Mandate to Minister through Education, " 4: ...to America," It.. .to Persons," 'I.. .to the World," " . ..through Christian Fellowship, " ". ..through the Laity," and ". ..to Youth."

Robert L. Snead, minister of music for the First Baptist Church of Nashville, will be music director for the convention. OI~, &, 'I& ~~~~mfrornBAPTIST PRESS SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY Pastors ' Conference

MIAMI BEACH--Twenty-one major speakers, including a recording star, a golf champion, a state Senator, a former alcoholic and millionaire, educators, and several pastors, will deliver major addresses during the 1967 Southern Baptist pastors' Conference here May 29- 30.

For the first time, the ast tors' Conference will conclude with a dinner-dialogue on the subject, "The Church--Its Present Status and Future Prospect," said C. A. Roberts, president of the SBC Pastors' Conference, and head of the evangelism department for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth.

Scheduled at the Carillon Hotel, the dinner-dialogue will feature a panel compoaed of SBC Christian Life Commission Secretary Foy Valentine of Nashville, University of Tennessee Chemistry Professor George Schweitzer of Knoxville, and Keith Miller, director of Laity Lodge in Leakey, Tex., and author of best-seller "The Taste of New Wine."

Fallowing brief statements by each panel member, Baptist pastors attending the dinner- dialogue will raise questions and give their own observations, said Roberts. Advance reservations, and a registration fee of $10, are required for the pastors' dinner-dialogue.

All other sessions of the Pastors' Conference will be held at the Miami Beach Conven- tion Hall.

Theme for the Pastors' Conference will be "Mandate to Minister," the same theme used by the Southern Baptist convention following the tors ' meeting.

Roberts said that the program will center around the different worlds to which the pastor must minister, including the worlds of the church, the working man, the student, religion, the entertainment woxld, the world of athletics, the world of government, the woxld of human relations, the world of foreign mission8 and others.

Representing the world of entertainment will be Anita Bryant, actress and recording star, who will both sing and tell the pastors what being a Christian means to her,

Golfer Gary Player, one of the few persons ever to win the four major world golf tournaments, will receive an award jointly from the Pastors' Conference and from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Player will be honored for "his contribution to wholesome athletics in the past decade ,It said Roberts.

Immediately following presentation of the award to Player, the executive secretary of the Fellowship a£ Christian Athletes, James Jeffrey of Kansas City, Mo., will address the pastors.

Florida State Senator Mallory Horne of Tallahassee will address the pastors on "..,The World of Gavernment," and Samuel Proctor, preaident of the Institute for Services to Education in Washington, will speak on human relations. Proctor, a Negro, is a former Peace Corps executive and former War on Poverty assistant in the Office of Economic Opportunity .

The pas tors ' Coaf erence will open Monday morning, May 29, with the annual presidential address by Roberts, and with addresses by Mrs. Gert Behanna, author and lecturer from Kerville, Tex.; John Wood, pastor, First Baptist Church, Paducah, Ky., and W. Fred Swank, pastor, Sagamore Hill Baptist Church, Fort Worth.

Other opening day speakers are C. E. Garrison, pastor, First Baptist Church, Altue, Okla. Benny Bray, postal supervisor in Dallas, Tex.; Miss Jackie Fain, student at Florida State University, Tallahassee; Jess Moody, pastor, First Baptist Church, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Buckner Fanning, pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, San Antonio, Tex.; Howard Butt, grocery chain executive, Corpus Christi, Tex.; Miss Bryant and Jeffrey. Pas tors ' Conference Background Story

Speakers on the closing day include Ed Crow, pastor, First Baptist Church, Brownsvilla, Tex,; William Hendzicks, professor, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth; Philip Harris, Training Union secretaxy for the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville; W. Wayne Dehoney, pastox, Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville; Paul Bellington, SBC missionary to Brazil; Schweitzer, Hozne, and Proctor.

Closing address to the full pastors' Conference will be delivexed by W. A. Criswell, pastor of the 13,000-member First Baptist Church, Dallas, Tex., the largest chxuch in the Southern Baptist Convention.

BACKGROUND STORY ,. . Pastors' Conference Dinner-Dialogue

MIAMI BEACH--A dinner-dialogue fox Baptist pastors from throughout the nation will be the closing feature of the 1967 Southern Baptist ast tors' Conference here May 29-30.

The president of the SBC Pastors' Conference, C. A. Roberts, set up the dialogue session in response to a motion rejected by the Southern Baptist Convention last year in Detroit asking for the convention to schedule discussions on current theological, social and moral issues.

"I was pxeaen t at the committee on order of business meeting when they regretfully could not find time to honor Buch a request," said Roberts, former pastor of First Baptist: Church, Tallahassee, and now head of the evangelism department at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex .

"As a result I have planned this as a 'first' in Southern Baptist Convention procedure," said Roberts in describing the pastor dinner-dialogue.

At the dialogue session, scheduled Tuesday May 30, 4:30 p.m., at the Carillon Hotel in Miami Beach, a panel of three Baptist leaders will open the dialogue with statements on he Church--1 ts Present Status and Future Prospect .I'

Following the panel presentation, the floor will be thrown open for discussion by the Baptist pastors attending.

Panel members will be Foy Valentine, executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, Nashville; George Schweitzer, professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Keith Millex, director of Laity Lodge in Leakey, Texas and author of best- I seller "The Taste of New Wine ." Roberts will be moderator. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

W. C. FIELDS, PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JIM NEWTON, PRESS ROOM MANAGER

BACKGROUND STORY Award to Gary Player

MIAMI BEACH -- The Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference meeting here (Monday night, 9:00 p.m., May 29) will present its first "Christian Athelete of the Year" award to Golfer Gary Player.

The citation on a trophy to be presented to Player cited him "For his outstanding contribution to wholesome athletics and his influence upon young people of the world in the past decade. "

The award will be presented jointky by Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference President C. A. Roberts of Fort Worth and by James Jeffrey, executive director of the Fellowship of Christian Atheletes, Kansas City. Both deliver major addresses to the 6,000 Baptists expected to attend the meeting, held just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention.

Roberts, head of the evangelism department at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and former pastor of First Baptist Church, Tallahassee, Fla., said Player could have won the award not only this year, but any year during the past decade.

11Gary Player," Roberts said, "at the age of 31 stands at the top of world golfers. He is one of onky three men in history who have won the grand slam of golf ---the- P.GLA. Tournament, the U. S. Open, Masters and British Open.

"Futherrnore, Gary Player is a committed Christian," Roberts said. "By his own words he lives far two things: 'To serve God and help South Africa."' Player is a native of Johannesburg, South Africa.

"Young people all over the world know the man dressed in black who strides down world fairways, taming golf courses, only to give away great: shares of his winnings to help young boys less fortunate than himself," Roberts said.

The Baptist Pastors' president said two major factors were considered in selecting the award winner: (1) "The recipient needed to be one who had reached the apex, not only of his own sport, but of world recognition in the field of athletics. (2) It was necessary that he be a person who embodied the qualities one looks for in a follower of Jesus Christ ."

iI It is with great pride that we join hands with a great champion and a grand Christian gentleman in presenting the Christian Athelete of the Year award to Gary Player," Roberts said. .I, NEWS^^#^I from BAPTIST PRES~ ~uL~ILLIIY~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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BACXGROUND STORY IJEfll Convention Speakers

MIAMI BEACH- -The annual Southern Baptist om an's Missionary Union (WMU) Convention scheduled here May 29-30 will feature addresses by several Southern Baptist missionaries and five sessions comparing the ministry of first century Christians and twentieth century Christians.

Theme for the annual women's convention, scheduled just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention here May 30-June 2, wi11 be "In His Name ,''

+- Each session will open with addresses by J. Lyn Elder, professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, Calif.

Metropolitan Opera Soloist Irene Jordan of New York will sing at each session of the convention.

A Baptist missionary to the Dominican Republic, Mrs. Howard K. Shoemake, and the Cuban Baptist Woman's Missionary Union president of Miami, Fla., Mrs. Josefina Benitez, will tell of Baptist work in these strife-torn countries.

Both will speak during one of five sessions which feature a section on the role of twentieth century Christians in a complex world. A dramatic tableau or episode preceding each will depict first century Christians.

Closing major address for the women's convention will be delivered by Jimmy R. Allen of Dallas, executive secretary of the Christian Life Commission for the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

Other major addresses will be brought by Roy F. Lewis, loan officer for the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, Atlanta; Dr. Daniel Gruver, medical doctor in Panama City, Panama; Dr. Martha Jordan Gilliland, medical missionary to Higeria; Miss Alma Hunt, of Birmingham, Ala., executive secretary of the Woman's Missionary Union; and Mxs. Helen Fling, of Cleburne, Tex., president of the WMU.

Other speakers include Miss Sara Ann Hobbs, Girls' Auxiliary director for North Carolina Baptists, Raleigh; Mrs. Ben Thompson, former Georgia Baptist WMU president now living in Yazoo City, Miss.; Dr. Joseph Pipkin, dentist in Orlando, Fla.; Miss Freddie Nee1 of Chicago and Neil Jones of El Paso, both Southern Baptist Home Mission Board US-2 missionaries; and Mrs. Jamie C. Maiden, SBC missionary associate in Nigeria,

The WMU Convention will begin Monday morning, May 29, at 9:30 and continue through Tuesday afternoon, Ma 30, concluding just prior to the opening Tuesday night session of the Southern Baptist $onvention, May 30-June 2.

Sessions Ear the lJMU Convention will be held at the Miami Beach Auditorium adjacent to the Convention Hall where the SBC and the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference will meet. I 11,

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BACKGROUND STORY Religious Education Conference

MIAMI BEACH--The Southern Baptist Religious Education Association meeting here at the 'Shelborne Hotel May 29-30 will feature panel discussions and addresses carrying out the theme, "The Ministering Church."

The two-day conference, to be held just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention here, will close with an address by Wayne Dehoney, Louisville, Ky., pastor, on "Educational Aspects of the Crusade of the Americas." Dehoney is North American regional coordinator for the proposed 1969 evangelistic crusade in North, Central and South America.

The same session, carrying out the theme "A Church Ministering in the Future", will feature presentations on projected Southern Baptist church programs in the future.

One complete session will be devoted to "A Church Ministering to the Inner City," featuring testimonies from Baptist pastors and educational workers on inner city ministries.

Another session will emphasize improving church staff work and solving personnel problems with panel discussions featured on the program.

The two-day conference will open with an address on "The Theology of Ministry," by Charles Trentham, pastor of First Baptist Church, Knoxville, Tenn.

Much of the program will be devoted to panel discussions, group discussions and questions and answer periods.

The annual meeting of the SBC Religious Education Association is one of four major nation-wide Southern Baptist meetings held just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention, which meets here May 30-June 2.

Other pre-convention meetings include the SBC ~ornan'sMissionary Union Convention, the Southern Baptist pastors' Conference, and the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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BACKGROUND STORY Church Music Conference

MIAMI--Ten concerts, five major addresses, and a banquet will highlight the 1967 meeting of the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference at the Central Baptist Church here, May 29-30.

More than 350 ministers of music for Baptist churches throughout the nation are expected to attend the conference, held just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention in nearby Miami Beach, May 30-June 2.

The two-day conference will begin Monday aftexnoon, May 29 and continue through Tuesday afternoon, May 30, with sessions at the Central Baptist Church in Miami.

For the first time, the conference will feature a banquet as the only night session. The banquet, slated at the Everglades Hotel, will include a concert by The Tune Clippers of Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, with Grady Nutt, alumni director fox Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, as master of ceremonies.

Major addxesses will be brought by James Pleitz, pastor, First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Fla.; Joe Ann Shelton, program music director for the SBC Radio and Television Commission, Fort Worth; Miss Rennie Sanderson, music missionary to Japan teaching on furlough at South- western Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth; and James Flaming, pastor of First Baptist Church, Abilene, Tex.

The annual president's address will be delivered by James Woodward, chairman of the music department for Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, who is serving his second term as president of the conference.

The world premier of a new anthem commissioned by the conference's Executive Committue especially for the meeting will be held during the Tuesday morning session. The anthem, entitled "Fanfare With Alleluias,'' was written by Philip Young, minister of music for the First Baptist Church, Henderson, N.C.

It is the first time that an anthem has been commissioned especially for the SBC Church Music Conference and dedicated to the organization. Conference President Woodward said that the group hopes to commission such an anthem annually beginning this year.

Other concerts will be presented by the Georgia Baptist ministers of music--"The Sons of Jubal;" directed by Jim Davis, minister of music for First Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla.; the Combined Junior Choirs of First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla.; the Hand Bell Choir of River Oaks Baptist Church, Houston; the First Baptist Church Choir, Tampa, Fla.; the Tune Clippers of Oklahoma Baptist University; the church orchestra of West End Baptist Church, Atlanta; and the Chinese Youth Choir, Flagler Street Baptist Church, Miami. 1. >IO

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BACKGROUND STCRY Evangelists Con£~.x~!-:ct:

MIAMI BEACH--Five messages and a concert of evangelistic music will highlight: the program of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists meeting here at the Miami Bcarh Auditorium on the afternoon of June 1.

Opening apeaker for the Evangelists' Conference will be Dr. R. G. Lee, pastor ,emeritus (retired) of the Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn., speaking on "The Bible--Fiction or Fact .

Following the Thursday afternoon conference, the evangelists will meet for a dinner and business seasion at the Holiday Inn here to consider a code of ethics for Baptist evangelis to.

During the afternoon session at Miami Beach Auditorium, the program will be devoted mostly to inspirational preaching and singing.

About 3,500 are expected to attend the a£ternoon conference, said Don Womacl:, r,r.n' of the Evangelists' Conference.

Three of the five speakers for the meeting are "vocational evangelists." Thsy *:: Womack, an evangelist from Memphis; Hyman Appelman, evangelist: from Kansas City, Mo,; ::*.t Clyde Kendall, evangelist from Atlanta.

John Bisagno, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Del City, a su".-;rrb :E Oklahoma City, Okla., will also speak on the subject of "Childhood Conversion."

Special music will be presented by Evangelistic Singers Bette Stalnecker of Ripley, Tenn.; Jerry Spencer of Memphis; A1 and Ivy Walsh of Atlanta; and Martha Branham of 2.;LSsc,

The conference will begin at 1:00 p.m. with an hour-long concert of sacred music directed by Ed Stalnecker of Ripley, Tenn. Music will be featured by Mrs. Branham, Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, MKS. Stalnecker; Spencer; Sonny Rios of Garland, Tex.; R. L. Sigrest of Ytzzno City, Miss.; Bill Michael of Joplin, Mo.; Jimmy Hodges of Lakeland, Fla. ; Leon Weatcr1:a-IF? of Birmingham, Ala.; and David and Carol Tyson of Forrest City, Ark. a a ,I# NEWS- I from BAPTIST PRES~ t~~~a~~~oSOUTHERN BAPf \Sf CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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BACKGROUND STUDY

Conference For Furloughinn Missionaries

MIAMI BEACH -- About 200 Southern Baptist foreign missionaries are expected to attend the annual Southern Baptist Conference for Furloughing Missionaries May 25-28 at the Golden, Gate Motel and Hotel here.

The conference, held just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention, is sponsored by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has more than 2,000 foreign missionaries serving in 65 countries.

Major addresses will be delivered by Baker James Cauthen, executive secretary of the SgC Foreign Mission Board; Duke K . McCal1, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky . ; and Foreign Mission Board Staff Members Jesse Fletcher, Eugene Hill, Cornell Goerner, J . D . Hughey, Frank K. Means, and Joseph Underwood.

Most of the four-day conference will be spent in orientation sessions and in meetings of the missionaries by areas. The Foreign Mission Board divides its work into four areas: Latin America, the Orient, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Cauthen will speak three times during the conference. McCall is to deliver an address on "Baptists and Other Christians."

Other features include a period of sharing by the missionaries, reports on special campaigns, a time for questions from the missionaries, a panel on spiritual resources for missionaries, and a Sunday night worship service featuring testimonies from the missionaries . I I,

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BACKGROUND STORY

Medica L Missions Conference

MIAMI " . -- About 200 Baptist doctors, dentists and other medical personnel are expected to attend a breakfast briefing on foreign medical missions May 30 here during the Southern Baptist Convention

Purpose of the meeting is to expose Baptist medical people to the world-wide opportunities to serve humanity, said Dr. Franklin T. Fowler medical consultant for the SBC Foreign Missions Board

Theme of the 7 a.m. breakfast in Miami's Columbus Hotel will be "A Call to The Baptist Medical Profession to a Greater Witness."

The meeting will be sponsored by the SBC Brotherhood Commission in cooperation with the SBC Foreign Mission Board. Tickets cost $2.50 each.

Program features include medical doctors and dentists now serving in foreign missions who will talk about their work.

The Foreign Mission Board offers doctors and dentists opportunities to serve for a year in one of the medical mission institutions overseas, Dr. Fowler said. Family travel expenses, housing, and maintenance are provided by the Foreign Miss ion Board,

Physicians also may serve for a period of three to six weeks during their vacation at their own expense, Dr. Fowler said.

In charge of reservations for the breakfast is Ernest C. Nott Jr., of Baptist Hospital, Miami. la11. ~~wswfrornBAPTIST PRES~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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BACUROUND STUDY

Superintendent: of Missions Mtg,

MIAtlI -- The Southern Baptist Conference for Associational Superintendents of Missions meeting %ereMay 30 will hear addresses on changes affecting the church i3 :he cities, and the changing role of the superintendent of missions.

About 125 superintendents of missions for Baptist associations are expected to nttei~dthe fourth annual meeting here, at the First Baptist Church of Miami, 9:30 a.m. to 3x13 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30.

The cae-day program will open with an address by W. M. Osborne, superintendent of I liss ions for the Metropolitan Peoria Baptist Association, Peoria, Ill., on "The Changing Role 3E the Su;.?rj.atertdcnt of Missions .I1

Clcsing a2dreos will be delivered by Willis Bennett, professor at Southern Baptist r-Ln~~l=~icaL I Seninary, Louisville, Ky ., who recently completed a study for the SBC 1Iorr.e Mi~aicnhard concccning the effect on Baptist church of sociolocial changes in 20 nztro?alitan areas.

Tke superintendemLs of missions will also hear an address on how to more effectively use radio and televisioz, by Ted Lott of the Southern Baptist ~onvention'a Radio-Televicion Ce:xai: .' +!on, ray t Worth.

D. E. Stzah~c,superintendent of missions of the Kay Baptist Association in Ponca City, Oicla,, is president 02 the SBG Associational Superintendents of Missions. a .I, NEWS^^#^I from BAPTIST PRES!!? tufi~llN~ SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH '67 PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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BACKGROUND STUDY

Ministers' Wives Conference

MUMI BEACH - Using a differing approach from all former meetings, the annual Conference of Ministers' Wives of the, Southern Baptist: Convention meeting here May 31 will feature a boat trip and a luncheon.

The program will feature a boat trip on the Biscayne Belle, a large air-conditioned boat, and a luncheon at Tony sweet's Restaurant, said Mrs. John Maguire, president: of the conference. Mrs. Maguire is wife of the executive secretary of the Florida Baptist Convention, Jacksonville.

Bus transportation will also be provided from the Miami Beach Convention Hall where the Soutthern Baptist Convention will meet ro the boat docks, Mrs. Maguire said.

Buses will leave the Convention Hall at 12:10 on Wednesday, May 31, for the boat decks. After the luncheon, the buses will return the group to the auditorium.

In addition to the boat trip and luncheon on May 31, the Executive Board of the ~inisters' Wives Conference will meet for a dutch luncheon at Riverside Baptist Church here, Tuesday, May 30. Bus transportation will also be provided for the Executive Board luncheon.

Total cost for the boat trip, luncheon and program will be $4.50, said Mrs. Maguire. Tickets will be sold at the Convention Hall until Tuesday night, May 30. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION CONVENTION HALL, MIAMI BEACH PRESS ROOM (THE CYPRESS ROOM)

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For Your Infarmation I Contents of Press Kit Report Suamariee

A news summary has been prepared on each of the reports to be delivered to the South rn Baptist Convent ion by its boards, caumissions, agencies, and institutions and related organizations, and is in the following section of your press kit.

Like other stories done in advance of the convention, the report summaries are on blue paper.

The report summaries each have the same style heading: the name of the organization making the report, an indication that it is a report, and the the during the ccr~ventioa~- the report is to be delivered. \

The summarfes are written in past tenae, so please observe releaae times strictly. The release time is underlined flush right on the page,

As explained earlier, the convention adopts the reports only if the report contains recommendations. Separate background stories have been written on the busitless it ms to come up in recommendation form from the SBC Executive Committee. Only one other report includes recommendations, the report of the Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation. All other reports will probably be "received" which does not necessarily wan the convention approves of the contents of the report.

Below, listed in order of the report time, is the list of news ourmaarfes on the reportp. The reports are arranged in this order in the press kit,

SBC Assets and Liabilities (part of report of Executive Committee) Radio a& Television Cornmiss ion Education Cornmiss ion Golden Gate Seminary Midwestern Seminary New Orleans Seminary Seminary Extension Department Southeastern Seminary Southern Seminary Southwestern Seminary Sunday School Board Home Mission Board Committee on Boards Chap la ins Comrnis s ion Southern Baptist Hospitals His tori.ca 1 Commission Committee on Denominat iona 1 Calendar American Baptist Theological Seminary Committee on Baptist State Papers Southern Baptist Foundation Christian Life Commission Annuity Board Amer lcan Bible Society Woman's Missionary Union Foreign Miss ion Board Stewardship Cammiss ion Baptist World Alliance (this summary will be placed in your press box at Miami Beech) Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs Brotherhood Commiss ion Committee on Canadian Baptist Cooperation

The report of the Resolutions Committee will be mimeographed and put in you& press boxes by Friday morning, possibly earlier. REOIONAL OFFICES ATLANTA Walker L. Knight, Editor, 161 Sprfng Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgfa 30303, Telephone (404) 523-2193 DALLAU R. T. McCartny, Editor, 103 Baptist Building, Dallu, Texas 75201, Telephone (214) RI 1-1996 WASHIN~T~NW. Bany Gmrstt, Editor, 200 Maylond Avc,, NE., Washington, D.C. 20002, Telephone (203) 544-4226

MIfJvII BEACH (BP)--Southern Bcptists were challenged here to quit bickering among them- selves and get about their job of making and training Christian disciples.

The plea by Landrum P. Leavell, a Wichita Falls, Tex., minister, highlighted ceremonies opening a four-day run of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Seating space in the 14,000 capacity Convention Hall was at3 :>remiurn as Leavell, pastor of First Baptist Church, sought to propel Southern Baptists with his descript2on of the church with a feature.

Leavell shared the podium during the two-hour ceremony with John Maguire of Jacksonvill~ executive secretary of Florida Baptists who welcomed convention goess to Miami Beachi and Clyde Skidmore, Bakersfield, Calif,, pastor, who responded to the-welcome.

Persons making up the church of the future must: be captivated by obsession, cognizant of obstacles and correlated by obeisance, Leavell said.

Southern Baptists can express this obsession through Christian love, Leavell explained. Results include the elevation of all human rights and the salvation of all who,believe.

The Texas preacher said neglect of the Holy Spirit and the endorsement of.the beatnik philosopl~yas a way of life could be responsible for some of the problems of Southern Baptist churches.

The two words characterizing the beatnik philosophy are "ungrateful'' and "&disciplined' he said.

"We've grown up physically, but emotionally we still possess the characteristics of the beatnik philosophy .I'

Another obstacle hindering the progress of the church is the cleavage between education and evangelism, Leavell said. J

Leavell added that the greatest of a11 evangelists--Jesus Christ--was also the greatest intellectual who ever lived in the history of the world.

On the danger of conflict, Leavell declared disagreement among Christians accomplished more in retarding Christian progress during the early period of Christianity than the armed might of pagan Rome.

Unfortunately, this problem exists today as an obstacle with which the church of the future must contend, Leavell said.

Leavell advised Southern Baptists to go back to the Bible and to personal Christian experience and reaffirm their commitment to Christ.

The convention sermon was aimed at setting the tone for Southern Baptist messengers to begin dealing with business matters.

Messengers were later expected to consider a record world missions budget of almost 27 million dollars, a re-apportionment proposal, and several work goals.

Also on the agenda were the reports of 19 agencies to give an account of their work during the past 12 months. May 30, 1967 Baptist Press

Opera Star Irene Jordan Says She's Singing Missionary

By hl Morgan

MILMI BEACH (BP)--~nternational opera star Irene Jordan unexpectedly captured the spotlight here when she gave her personal Christian testimony before singing to an estimated 1,500 Southern Baptist women.

Speaking in Miami Beach Auditorium, television headquarters of famed TV performer Jackie Gleason, the attractive soprano told of her invitation four years ago by LeRoy Till to participate in a Japanese Crusade. Prior to that time, she had not joined in such Christian ventures. .- Till, she said, asked that she perfrom in a classical music concert. Till is rninfster of music for Southern Baptist's largest First Baptist Church in Dallas, Tqx.

Since that time, Miss Jordan has participated in numerous such crusades for Southern Baptists.

Southern Baptist foreign missionaries were featured in the 79th annual Women's Missionary Union Convention which concluded its two-day meeting just before the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention.

On the same program, a Southern Baptist theologian labeled modern ~hristianit~as being in a state of spiritual war.

"We are--no matter what the placid surface of life influences us to think--iq a state of spiritual war. The normal condition of the Christian is combat."

On the same program with Miss Jordan was her sister, medical Dr. Martha.Jordan Gilliland, who with her late husband was appointed in 1942 as missionary to Nigeria. The latter member of the Jordan family has been studying at Flayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., since the death of her husband in 1964. She returns to her Nigerian post later this year.

Irene and Martha are two children in a family of 10 children, Their mother was attending the evening session.

Allsinging foreign missionaryl'in her own right, Miss Jordan has performed around the world in the past four years, singing her testimony to countless thousands who would other wise never hear the gospel. She has appeared in major Southern Baptist-led crusades in various parts of the world,

Apparently emotional at times during her speech, she told of her desire to now witness through song of her love for Jesus. This she does, she said, although neither her huskand nor business manager are Christians.

Miss Jordan had high praise for foreign missionaries, citing their efforts and devotion to what they believed.

Elder, speaking on "To Preach Deliverance to the Capti~es,"said Jesus himself on at least one occasion used a military analogy as he represented the church assaulting the stronghold of hell whose gates could not stand against the attack.

Elder, a pastoral psychology professor at Golden Gate Baptist Thwlogical Seminary, Mill Valley, Calif., said today's Christian "continuously wrestles with. those same forces of darkness and evil which Christ contended and of which Paul spoke.

"Any failure on our part: (Christians) to recognize this is to weaken our service to the point of uselessness .I1

The appointment of new missionaries was announced by Jesse C.. Fletcher, secretary for missionary personnel, Southern Baptist Foreign IIiission Board, who also decrted a need for more foreign missionaries.

Fletcher said that in the past seven year period more foreign missioqaries than ever before have been appointed. Yet, he said, more are needed.

The escalation is the result, he said, of widening fronts on which to serve, May 30, 1967 * Baptist Press Chvrch Srrf f Discord CalladdPk?l $@ Detriment41 to Christianity

MLAMI BEACH (BPI--A Florida pastor told Southern Baptist Chur ch musicians here that nothing is more detrimental to the cause of Christ than discord in the church between his disciples.

James L, Pleitz, pastor of the First Baptist: Church, Pensacola, told nearly 200 musicians gathered at the Central Baptist Church here that not 311 church.staffs work together in harmony.

He cautioned the church musicians to work with other staff members in order to create harmony rather than discord.

"Ms~ord;~said Pleitz, "is caused by lack of communication, over specialization, laziness and the desire to be number one .I'

Over specialization causes a lot of sour notes to be sounded when "a worker seas to feel he is so specialized that he can't possibly do something other than the job he has been trained to do," said the Florida pastor.

Church musicians, like other staff members of churches, need to be versatile. "lt makes for harmony when staff members are willing to try to meet the need regardless of bow well they are qualified to do the job," said Pleitz.

He charged that the religious worker has a temptation toward laziness and the church is often slow moving.

!'The reason a lot of our churches have bogged down is because of laziness," continued Pleitz. !'But, hard work will keep down a lot of discord."

In his remarks to the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, the Florida pastor said that most of the time discord on church staffs is caused by "the desire to be number one ."

Real greatness never hurt anyone but the desire for a false type of greatness has caused untold confusion and strife in our churches, charged Pleitz.

Church Musicians Told To Avoid Conrmercialism

By Lynn M. Davis

MIAMI BEACH (BPI--Sacred music must be protected from the vulgar strains of commercialism. contended James Woodward in his presidential address to the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference :.,.i.(,Tl:cs(32;- :.,ljrtling.

Woodward, chairman of the church music department for Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, urged the church musicians to be aware of present day musicial language.

He indicated that the established forms of sacred music are under attack, or at least: are being intruded upon by tunes and texts off the radio, television, the motion picture and Broadway theaters.

"We must resist the subtle influences of the popular, the commercial, the worldly,11 said the Baptist professor.

History shows that religious music in different ages had its roots in paga~isrn. "The musical system of the early church was largely derived from the secular forms of.music practiced in the private and social life of that day," continued Woodward.

Nearly 200 Southern Baptist Church musicians at the Central Baptist Church here were told by their outgoing president that "There is nothing inherently sacred or aecular in music per se.I1

Suitable worship music varies from century to century, culture to culturedand even from church to church. The question of appropriateness in church music depends very much upon associations and customs,Wood~~ardstated.

He continued, "Whether we like new music or not, we have to live with if, and we have to use it. To live only on our artistic inheritance is a static affair.'' Baptist Press May 30, 1967 * * t "'l.le must recognize and admit that no music of the past can adequately express the needs and'aspirations of the 20th century soul. We must have a musical language for oh own time," Woodward told the audience.

Musicians must be alert to the finest our age and artists can produce whether secuiar or religious, However, the religious musician must be wary of the trite, the cheap and -the crasg stated b7oodward.

The conference for Southern Baptist church musicians ends today. -

Boy Sunbeams Work May Go To Brotherhood Group

MIL311 BE&,CH (BP) --The Zxecutive Coard of the Southern Baptist F!oman ' s Missiona'ry Union (WMU) offered here to turn over the responsibility for providing missionary education

guidance for boys 6-8 to the Brotherhood Commission. ,

Primary-aged boys have been taught missions through Sunbeam Band, directed by 1JMU since its founding in 1888.

The change depends on an agreement by the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission at its annual meeting at Ridgecrest (N.C.) Baptist Assembly in late June to begin providing guidance materials.

The switch in responsibility is to facilitate production of materials for children 6-11 if a proposed grouping-grading system for all Southern Baptist church organizations takes effect in 1970.

WMU approved part of the proposed plan at its dxecutive i;oard meeting id January. A reconanendation for grouping of persons 18 and above (to be called ~dults),got WMU approval in the Miami Beach session.

In other business, the board approved the outline of a new WMU records and reporting system. The simplified plan provides for all FJMU statistical reports to be made through the church letter to the association. Limited individual records will be kept.

The board also adopted curriculum framework statements for 1969-70, from which mission study lessons will be designed.

WEXI Speaker Says American Culture Is kt Crossroads

By A1 Morgan

MIAMI BEACH (BPI--A Southern Baptist denominational worker and theologian. decried the maladies of the thousands of individuals who are at the crossroads of life and wid there is no remedy without the Christ of the Cross.

Jimmy R. Allen of Dallas, head of the Christian Life Commission for Texas Baptists since 1960, urged messengers attending the Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Convention here to stand at the crossroads, "to do something ...whatever the odds of success.. because it: is right .I1

Allen, frequently outspoken on current social issues, painted a picture of "The Cross and the Crossroadst1 at the Miami Beach Auditorium.

The picture was one of squalid tenements, crowded shacks and truck loads of migrants locked in a cycle of want like their fathers before them and their childry after them.

"Never seeing a way out, these vacant faces have long since quit looking. Victims, as well as culprits, they live from one moment to another, taking what the immediate has to offer ,I1 said Allen.

"The Christless crossroads ignore this need in search of short cuts to'social justice," he added.

He described the crossroads as crowded cities, filled with anonymous Eaces, homosexuals and hippies, conventioneers and call girls, shysters and gamblers, hatefilled faces both black and white, hucksters and con men, harried executives and borehwives." a Baptist Press May 30, 1967 0

"This is Crossroads, USA," he said.

Be pointed out the aching emptiness of laughter without joy also as the sound of the irossroads of human need. And, he added that "secularized men in a fun-oriented culture, shying away from harsh realities of suffering or questions about eternity, living from pleasure to pleasure until jaded by the natural they adventure with the unnatural on LSD trips .I1

"Everybody knows about the crossroads. It is out there for all to see. But without Christ there is no remedy,'I he added.

Allen also said optimistic social engineers plan their answers without reference to the eternal dimensions of the spirit, and "they miss the deepest dimeasion of the need." He cited a recent White House Conference on the tragic plight of the ghetto family where "expert" answers concerned only economic measures.

"The sum total of the matter is that the cross at the crossroads demands involvement. Sensitive to need, Christians are to pay whatever price necessary to meet it in Jesus name," said Allen. -

Government Said Changing Church's Social Roles

By Walker Knight

MIAMI BEACH (BP)--Government-initiated programs of preschool education such as Headstart are changing the church's role in this field but it will not eliminate it, a professor of childhood religious education told Southern Baptist educators here.

Mrs. Mildred Souther of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary predicted that by 1970 all five-year-olds will be in public or private kindergartens,

C !'There will always be a place for the church kindergarten and nursery school because of the plus (spiritual emphasis) which always has been its basis, she sajd.

Citingl'the federal govornrnent's intervention" in preschool education as one of three dominant problems emerging in this field, she said that if the states do not take care of the education of the very young, the federal government will.

If this comes to pass, salaries and training will be standardized, Mrs. Souther said.

Asked if she saw this trend as negative, she said she did not, but that there was a companion role for government and church to play, each supplementing the other. 4 "The government is meeting an overwhelming need of disadvantaged children, The greatest weakness of this program was and is not havinz enough qualified teachers, to carry out a program that is designed to accomplish so much so fast."

The other problem areas she cited were the changing world of the child--working mothers, mobility of population, and a fast-moving world--and the extremes of preschool theories.

Mrs. Souther addressed the annual Southern Baptist Religious Education, ~onibrcndc,an auxiliary group: meeting here in advance of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The church educators, exploring areas in which churches minister to people, heard a Knoxville Baptist pastor, Charles A. Trentham, say that "when the church ceasqs to meet real human needs in Christ's name, she ceases to be the church."

He said the church is producing a "new breed" of leadership that is both hard-headed and warmhearted and is bringing fire back to the church.

The new breed is hard-headed on intellectual problems and warmhdarted and demonstrative in their love of Jesus and of humanity.

Calling for a new kind of saint: who will turn around and face the dorld, Trentharn lashed out at a ministry "which harnesses our talent and wealth to massage our institutional .cg,, to' ;>r-r.:otc a kind bf -h:rc;pacanda vhicli convinces us that the in~tituticnal church is sacrosanct, whether or not she ever performs the ministry Christ has given into her hands. It r Other speakers pointed to values of church ministries. May 33, 19G7 * Baptist Press Alton Yarbrough, a Jackson, Miss., minister of education, told how members of his church became concerned for the mentally retarded in the community and started special class,ec that now serve an average of 32.

Yarbrough said he had since learned that three of every 100 of the nation's population is mentally retarded, a problem that has little bearing on the geographic location; economic status, social, cultural, educational, or religious background.

tl missionary to the deaf, David Richardson of Montgomery, Ala , told of,how a special sign language is used to interpret services, classes, and other meetings. He described the importance of television programs to teach the sign language and interpret events for the deaf.

Kermit King of Jackson, Miss., disclosed the result of a survey of churches to senior adults, now numbering 18 million past 65. He found wide interest but said it would be.an exaggeration to say a trend is developing.

A composite of programs indicated meetings weekly for both members and non-members of the church with an emphasis on intellectual, cultural, and spiritual stimulation, lie said.

Churches provide such activities as study, hobby groups, typing, languages, ceramics, Bible study, investments, travel, and photography. Often conducted are "town hall" programs and service projects.

Executive Committee Refers Five Proposals to Sub-group

MIAMI BEACH (BP)--T~~Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention in a -pre- convention session here referred five proposals back to committee for further study and- approved an equal number for recomrnerldation to messengers.

IIcld for more study and discussion was a proposal from the Convention's Committee on Boards which would keep et least 12 members of the Committee on Boards in office for a two-year term.

E. Herman Westmoreland, pastor of the South Main Baptist Church of Houston, opposed the proposal. He said that it cut down representation on the Committee on Boards and concentrated power in the hands of a few.

\.Jestmoreland said that he always hesitated to approve a recommendation from a,board or committee seeking to perpetuate itself.

Archie Ellis, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Columbia, S. C., and chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Executive Committee, replied the only purpose of the recommendation was to d~velopcontinuity and more efficiency in the Committee on Boards.

Other reconmendat ions referred back to the Administrative Committee included :," (1) an attempt to establish a throe-year limit for persons serving on the Public Affairs Committee of the Convention; (2) a three-year limit to membership on the Denominational ~alendir Committee; (3) an addition to the Convention procedures to create a seven-member credentials committee; and (4) a policy on the binding nature of Convention-approved program statements for agencies.

Approved by the Executive Committee as an addition to the Business and in an dial Plan for recommendation to the messengers was a 1965 action establishlng film, publication and merchandising policy. The purpose of this plan is to set: up a policy and procedure for resolving disagreements among agencies over publishing, filming and distribution of materials.

In another action the Executive Committee recommended a new procedure for naming proxies to serve on the Executive Committee of the Baptist World Alliance. If the Convention approves this recommendation, the SBC members present at the meetings of the BlJh Executive Committee can name the proxies for those who are absent. Baptist Press

Scientist Blasts Baptists For Ignorpg Kcy Issues By Dallas Lee hey L! MIAMI BEACH (BPI--A Baptist scientisd Tuesday stamped a "herd mentality" label on modern Christianity, blasting Baptists and others for ignoring such desperate world crises as the population explosion.

George Schweitzer, a research physicist at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, said that in 1967 the world could feed,clothe and house every individual "if we had the moral guts."

By 1972 the possibility may not even exist if current population trends continue, he warned.

l1l.1e have had the mechanical means of birth control for years and years, but we Christians have not had the concern to speak out for employing them," he said.

"We have a responsibility to plan for our planet's future, to look ahead nat'just for our children but for the children of the world.1t

Every problem that mankind has faced in history has been magnified "and broyght into crisis" by the powers of modern science, he said, but Christians are still trying to speak from a basis of "zero data."

Christians, and Baptists in particular, he said, too often have attacked new hopes and new approaches to world problems, "stamping them out in the name of Jesus Christ."

"No man can be relevant to the modern world in the name of Jesus Christ unless he has the information to address himself to the problems with intellectual thought," S~hweitzer said, "Unless we understand the issues, we cannot speak to them."

"We must be tough-minded and tender-hearted where we have been soft-hearted and t ender-minded, It he said.

The necessary centralization of government produced by these criscs is destroying individualism and integrity and creating a moral dilemma, he said. Ile cited brainwashing and manipulation by advertisers, government agencies and religious organizations as one of the major threats.

"If we claim we care for our fellow human beings, then we must be an influence in these arenas."

Schweitzer said Christians in an affluent nation that protects the individual rights of individuals have a responsibility to actively seek those rights for others in the world.

rt There is a threat that racial prejudice is not improving at all, but just getting ready to switch sides, that white man--who is a minority--is about to be hated and oppressed'!

Schweitzer said he could be optimistic in the face of these crises only because of his belief in God.

"God, in the economy of the planet, has ways out of these problems. As Christians, we are awaiting fundamental breakthroughs, people who can produce answers to these problems."

He said Christians today must seek to relate to and foster men in the world who will be able to produce the answers and not reject them for their explorations in "newness."

"We must demonstrate by our actions the responsibility to investigate and assess and make decisions," he said. "We have loved things, worshipped structures and organizations, and we have manipulated people. That day is over; they are not going to take it."

Schweitzer drew applause when he emphasized that Christians need to think for them- selves, to break out of the Itherd mentality .I1 ' Baptist Press "We allow some little men to stand up and tell us that we can have no followship with 3 pwson who doesn't interpret the nihth verse of the 17th chapter of Revelation just ,the way we do," he said. "God help us!"

Schweitzer stressed repeatedly the need for action to communicate with the masses of people in the world today, and hammered away at the lack of it.

"I wonder sometimes if we as Southern Baptists have to publish our statements of belief because no one can tell what we believe from the way we act."

Other speakers at the same session were Ed Crow, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Brownfield, Tex.; William Rendricks, professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex.; Samuel Proctor, president of the Institute for Services to Education in $lashington, D. C.; and Florida State Senator Mallory Horne of Tallahassee.

Sen. Horne bluntly told the Baptist preachers that politicians had long since decided ministers were inept in politics and paid little attention to their opinions.

But he admonished them not to hide behind cliches such as "politics is dirty" or let church-state views preclude their rights as citizens, but to be involved in and informed on government.

"The bartenders reach about 95 percent of the voters in the nation, Catholic priests about 90 percent, and Protestant preachers about 25 percent," he said. "You have physically set yourself apart from government to the extent that you hardly have an influence."

"I invite you to look strongly at pcople in government,"he said. "That's the area in which compromise is made, the area in which idea is produced into action., If you dontt give it attention, all the other forces that confront us will dictate the future."

Future of Church Rests In Cities, Speakers Say

MIAMI BEACH (Bp)--~he church's adjustment to a developing urban society and its survival in the inner-city hold the solution to the future of Christianity's impact-on Am ri"cn, Baptist religious educators were told here.

Tradition-breaking methods, myth-shattering concepts, and creative, flexible, knowledgeable disciples will spell the difference in a society that by 1970 will have 210 million people, 80 percent of them in the city, several convention speakers said here.

The association was appropriately meeting in one of the most urbanized resort areas of the nation, in a hotel playing host to Miss USA, and in a Starlight room that hqd to be vacated every night by 9 for a floor show. There is only one Baptist church in Miami

Beach, and it is a small one. d

"A solution to our inner-city problems will not be found until the suburban-and other churches realize that the inner-city and the downtown area is their problem, too,"+said James H. Landes of Birmingham.

A Fort Worth speaker added that all of society was responsible for creating the inner- city and thus must share in a ministry there.

"Avoid being an institution and become an instrument if you want to be effective in the +.~ner-city,"said J. Oscar Lumpkin of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort IJorth. "The church as an instrument can accomplish the end toward which it was intended, and remember, it's not 'our' church but the Lord's.

"If the church is an instrument it cannot choose where it will be used, only if it will be used."

Long-standing myths about urban people were shattered by Robert Smith, a Houston pastor. He said people in the inner city want to be treated just like other people.

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.'Why are we suddenly different just because we moved to an apartment?" he said.

"It's the high-rise apartment managers we must combat. They think the tenant wants absolute privacy .It

"The 'heathen' East goes to church more than the Bible-belt South--44 per cent against 49 per cent.

"The educated go more than the uneducated and high income more than low income."

Landes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Birmingham, outlined that church's, dramatic attempt to relate itself to a ministry to the downtown community.

He cited work with the aged and deaf, with students, with downtown business groups, internationals, and the underprivileged. He told of prayer groups, recreationa'l activities, juvenile rehabilitation, social work, Bible classes in high rise apartments, and a news- interview type of television program.

Lumpkin said his Fort Worth church's concern for its community developed when nearby youngsters appeared at the church's recreation building and wanted to roller skate.

"They were invited in, even though our rules said 'for members and their guests ,' The next week there were 25 youngsters, and then more than 100. This started a unique ministry to our community that we had overlooked," Lumpkin added.

The mushrooming church ctiffee house ministry (more than 1,000 now estimated) came under appraisal as one approach for the inner city.

Bart Dorr of First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., told of that church's sponsorship of The Carriage House, a four-year venture open twice a week.

"We try to provide a setting where young people can engage in the lost art of communication .I'

He said their coffee house, which may not be best for every church, seeks "to help those who come to realize that the church is a part of life, is relevant to a11 of life and is responsible to neet the needs of all of life."

SBC President Urges Concern For Man's Needs

By Roy Jennings 1 MIAMI BEACH (BPI--President H. Franklin Paschall called on Southern Baptists here to demonstrate concern for all of man's problems including his personal and social ones,

The mandate to minister to such persons as the poor, the dope addict, and the alcoholic highlighted the first morning session of the four-day annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.

President Paschall, pastor of First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tenn., told messengers they must practice an evangelism concerned with the whole man, including his body and soul.

"We must: demonstrate concern for all of the problems of modern man whether they be personal or social. And there are so many problems: wax, poverty, racial tension, population explosion, breakdown of homes, alcoholism, dope addiction, gambling, immorality and crime, only to mention a few."

Paschall acknowledged Southern Baptists can't solve all of the personal, sodial, political and economic problems of the day but reminded they can show their concern by becoming involved personally in every area of life. r

The Southern Baptixt leader also dealt with the ways he felt God uses governments and churches. He expressed it this way: -more- May 30, 1967 10 Baptist Press + !'Some people think God is doing more through government than through churches. Admittedly, God is working through the powers that be, but He is doing something through churches which He will not accomplish through governdent. "Government is concerned with symptoms; churcl~es are concerned with disease. Governments seeks to change man by changing his environment; chlurches seek to change my-n by changing his heart, Government administers; cllurches minister."

While emphasizing that government and churches are ordained of God and sllould be mutually helpful, Paschall questioned the wisdom of churches becoming j.dentificd as churches with a particular political party or program.

In identifying the role of chuxches, the Tennessee preacher said he felt a need today is for a ministry of worship that's vital 2nd productive. He also stressed the need for a personal ministry to persons that showed wam,th, friendlinees, a~~dcompassion.

"In an age of population explosion and cornpucero, bigger sad bigger organizations in church and state, it is easy to forget the dig~itry and worth of human beings and personal needs. l1

Paschall came to the defense of churches repzatedly in !:is txzndste for mossengcrs to minister,

"Institutional churches awe under bitter ~ttacktoday. Somc my they are no more than ghettos of Christianity and islands of real estate. It is true that c>urchqs have spots and wrinkles and that many times they stumble and stutter.

"There is a continuing need for repentance and renewal, Let u3 break out beyond ourselves--beyond our frozen orthodoxy, organizational routines, religious rigmarole, prejudice and pride--and minister to the world,ff

Final Religious Education Wrapup L-

.Ins$itutional Church Criticized By Speakers

MIAMI BEACH--The institutionalized, method-bound ' zc?. -Te',~ :1:: (-rb:.'-c g??.dr?lc rJt5e fire turned up at the Southern Baptist Religious Educatios As~cciat~onhere.

Speakers emphasized meeting the needs of the 1ghoj.e mar, : ";:::)uCl r:ckistry.

The often asked question of whether the church shou1.d be meeting sqcial needa was not debated; speakers simply told why and how It: st9ull be done,

In fact, Charles Trentham, a Knoxville pastor said, "Vhen "2 church ceases to meet: real human needs in Christ's name, she ceases to be the church."

The association, an auxiliary group meeting in ndvcnce of the Southern Baptist Canvention, explored areas in depth where churches can milister to the needs of people.

And with the nation moving to the city where 80 percent of the expected 210 million papulatian will live in 1970, the sessions focused on the inner-city and urban problems.

Speakers indicated that the church's adjustment to a developing urbm society and its survival in the inner-city hold the solution to thz future of CElri.~,tianity's impact on America.

The association was appropriately meeting in one of the most urbanized resort areas of the nation, in a hotel playing host to Miss USA, and in a Starlight room that: had to be vacated every night by 9 far a floor show. There is only one Baptist church in the city of Miami Beach.

"If people are hearing us stress a selfish, institutionalj.zed, self:-seeking, concern, then we are not properly communicating, A, V. Ilasiibili-YXoi the Saptist Sunday School B ard said in discussing the church gr~wthplan.

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Hcaas also echoing what other speakers had emphasized: that the needs of people called Tor tradition-breaking methods, myth-shattering concepts, and creative, flexible, knowledgeable disciples.

Trentham said the church is producing a "new breed" of leadership that is both hard-headed on Intellectual problems and warmhearted in demonstrating Christian love and it is bringing fire back to the church,

Calling for a new kind of saint who will turn around and face the world, Trentham lashed out at a ministry "which harnesses our talent and wealth to massage our institutional ego, to promote a kind of propaganda which convinces us that the institutional church is sacrosanct, whether or not she ever performs the ministry Christ has given into her hands. Long-standing myths about urban people were shattered by Robert Smith, a Houston pastor, He said people in the inner city want to be treated just like other people.

"Why are we suddenly different just because we moved to an apartment?" he asked.

"It's the high-rise apartment managers we must combat. They think the tenant wants absolute privacy.!'

James H. Landes, pastor of First Baptist Church in Birmingham, outlined that church's dramatic attempt to relate itself to a downtown community and reverse a trend of membership loss.

He cited work with the aged and deaf, with students, with downtown business groups, internationals, and the under-privileged, He told of prayer groups, recreational activities, juvenile rehabilitation, social work, Bible classes in high-rise apartments, and a news-interview type of television program.

"The answer to the inner-city problem will be found through men who are crkative, knowledgeable, and flexible; through laymen who are real disciples, and through developing a larger interest in the total needs of people," he said,

The association,heard speakers tell of new forms of ministry through coffee houses, senior citizens groups, classes for mentally retarded, day care programs, and fresh trys at: long standing ministries such as kindergartens, deaf missions, and weekday programs,

Despite their criticism of institutionalism, some of the speakers dealt with such institutional questions as comparing salaries of religious education directors and pmtors, discussing how to deal with invited church guests, and entertaining other religious educators.

Al G. Parks, education director of First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Ala. was elected president.

Vice presidents named were Harold Souther of Kansas City, Charles Tidwell of Fort Worth, and Charles Howell of Birmingham,

Miss Gracie Knowlton of Fort Worth was re-elected secretary-treasurer.