November 16, 1961 Arkansas Baptist State Convention

Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine Arkansas Baptist History 11-16-1961 November 16, 1961 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "November 16, 1961" (1961). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine. 106. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews/106 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist History at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Arkansas Baptis~ n wsmagaz1ne Executive Board Room for growth ARKANSAS Baptists continue to ex pand in Kingdom work. At the 108th ~nnual session of the Arkansas State Co,n vention reports show that every depart ment of Baptist work is advancing. On the other hand, figures and statistics show that there is still room to grow if ·we are to reach our maximum potential. This is especially true in' t h e stewardship DR. DOUGLAS. realm. Church people are giving more money each year, dollarwise, but because their incomes keep increasing, the percentage of the earned dollar given through the church remains about the same. About 3% percent of.the earned Baptist dollar goes through the church. This holds true on the church and d,enominational levels. The churches are giving more money, dollarwise, through the Cooperative Program, but the per centage of the collection plate dollar remains about the same. Now the way to remedy this situation is to get the average church member to share more equitably his dollar with the church. How to do this? Brother and Mrs. Church Member, who do not give sys tematically, have · not planned to do it. The church must lead in offering a system of planning. Before the church can adequately offer a system it must have one that is in keeping with what Baptists believe the Bible teaches. The Forward Program of Church Finance info1·ms, instructs, and inspires regarding church finance. It includes every member and invites each to par ticipate. It takes finances to operate a church. Then why not be honest, bring every thing out in the open, and find out about the church finances: Why is the "ARKANSAS' Reputable Firm LARGEST Courtesy Memphis Press-Scimitar RELIGIOUS WEEKLY" ~::~:;~,AS church succeeding or failing in teaching 401 WEST CAPITOL stewardship? We dare say, (with fear Brewer is re-elected LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS and trembling we say it), "When the Official Publication of the Executive Soard head Arkansas Baptist State Convention average .church member gives only three and one-third. percent of his in ERWIN L. McDONALD, Litt.D, _____ __ _: ___ ___ _Editor IN A brief business session fol- , MRS. E. F. STOKES ____ ___ _ __________ Associate Editor come through the church, that church MRS. HARRY GIBERSON _____Secretary to Editor lowing adjournment of the State MRS. WELDON TAYLOR __ ___ __ ___ _________ _______________ Mail Clerk has helped produce that situation." There is always a reason behind every action. Published weekly except on July 4 and December 25. Convention, the Executive Board ~._, Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. The church is not totally· to blame, but Individual subscriptions, $2.25 per year. Church it has had a part in it. Budget, 14 cents per month or $1.68 per year per re-elected Rev. James F. Brewer, church family. Club plan (10 or more paid annually We will never grow on any level un in advance) $1.75 per ye~r. Subscriptions to foreign less the average church member grows. pastor of First Church, Helena, as address, $3.75 per year. Advertising rates on request. The cost of cuts cannot be borne by the paper ex· If he is a steward for God, we will cept those it has made for its individual use. have greater churches, greater associ its chairman. Articles carrying the author's by-line do not neces· sarily reflect the editorial policy of the paper. ations, greater contributions, and con The boQ.rd voted to ,hold its next Abbreviations used in crediting news items: sequently, we will make greater strides BP Baptist Press; CB church bulletin; DP Daily press, EP Evangelical Press. in our battle against tpe evils of meeting on Nov. 28 at 1 p. ,m. inr Satan. - ~alph Douglas, Associate November 16, 1961 Volume 60, Number 45 Secretary. Baptist Building, Little Rock. \ ARKANSAS BAPTIST Page T _w_o _~----------------~------~---~~--- $167,500 for Ouachita College C. Z. Holland new president Campaign and $10,000 for South ern College Advance Program ; Ar DR. C. Z. HOLLAND, for the · kansas' Baptist Home for Children past 16 years pastor of First ElDorado chosen as (to be raised in Thanksgiving Of Church, Jonesboro, was elected next convention city ering), $100,000, making a grand president of the Arkansas Baptist THE next annual meeting of total of $2,036,250. State Convention, from a field of the Arkansas State Convention five candidates. Others nominated will be held Nov. 6-8 in the Baptist history program · were: Dr. Walter W. Warmath, · Municipal Auditorium, El Do The following goals and objec ' pastor of First Church, El Dorado; rado, with First Church of Rev. H. L. Lipford, pastor of First tives for the Arkansas Historical that city, Dr. W. W. Warmath, Commission for 1962, presented by Church, Cabot; Rev. E. E. Griever, pastor, as host. pastor ·of First Church, Hamburg; Dr. George T. Blackmon, were Minor Cole, pastor of First given Convention approval: and Dr. W. Harold Hicks, pastor Church, Dumas, has been des ' of Pulaski Heights, Little Rock. D is c us s with the Executive ignated to preach the annual Board the· possibility of marking In the first balloting, no candi sermon, with Ben Haney, pas date received a majority, and Dr. the Baptist historic spots ·of the tor of First Church, Ozark, as .state with a view to preparing a Holland and Dr. Hicks, the two alternate. who had received the largest votes, touring map ; Inyestigate the possibility of were voted on in a run-off. not give adequate time fcir clerks Elected by acclamation to .serve scheduling one program a month from local churches to complete over television for a period of 15 for the ensuing year were: Dr. their church letters in time for full Robert L. Smith, pastor of First minutes; featuring · some 'phase of reports at the associations. Baptist· history. Church, Pine Bluff, first vice pres E. E: Griever, pastor of First . ident; Rev. Eugene Webb, pastor Church, Hamburg, opposed the of Childress Chapel, Monette, sec proposal on the grounds that it Mission ;ours approved ond vice president; and Dr. S.' A. tended to "centralization of pow Proposed mission tours were ap Whitlo,w, executive secretary of er" over the local church. proved by the Convention for Dr. the Executive Board of the Arkan- · Proponents pointed 9ut that the C. W. Caldwell, secretary of mis sas Baptist State Convention, was Convention exercises no power sions and evangelism, and Dr. r·e-elected secretary-treasurer. over local churches or associations Ralph Douglas, associate executive Orphanage name change and that the proposed change of secretary, for 1962; and for Dr. meeting times for the associations Tom Logue, secretary of the Bap As recommended by the Execu was just a suggestion to make the tist Student Union department, tive Board, the name of Bottoms cooperation of the various state de and Dr. Erwin L. McDonald, edi B a p t i s t Orphanage, Monticello, partments of the Baptist work tor of the Arkansas Baptist News was changed to Arkansas Baptist more effective in working with as magazine, for 1963. Home for Children. s.ociations. Caldwell and Douglas will con · Discussion ahead of the vote re A standing vote was taken and duct a tour of Baptist mission vealed that this request had origi the proposal carried by a vo~e of points in South America, and nated with the board of the home 229 to 161. Logue and McDonald, a trip· to itself and that the new name was The Convention approved a pro BeiJ:'ut, Lebanon, for the Baptist preferred both by the board and posal that the month of May be World Youth Congress and tours by its administrato.r for th~ home. d e s i g n a t e d "Denominational of the Holy Land and Europe. The A campaign to raise $1,286,000 Month," and that teams from the tours will be made at no cost to the for the Ouachita College endow departments of the Baptist state State' Convention. ment, as outlined in previous issues work go out during this month to of the Arkansas Baptist, was ap present the work of the State Con proved without opposition. vention, in associations to which Baptisms show increase they are invited. Baptisms in churches of the Association meetings Convention are up 975 this year There was opposition to a pro 196.2 budget adopted over last year, the total now stand posal of the Executive Board that ing at 12,976 and with other re th'e Convention recommend to as- The budget for 1962, as pre ports to be received, Jesse- Reed, viously published -in this paper, L sociations ·that their annual meet secretary of Evangelism for the ings be held during the week fol was adopted without opposition. state, reported. This compares lowing the second Sunday in Octo The total for State causes is with an average of 13,026 bap ber each year.

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