The Day of the Missionary Baptist Herald Choristers under the direction of Miss Cleo Enockson will be Volume 59 July/August 1981 Number 7/8 Is Not Past; It's a presenting concerts in our churches. It is estimated that it will take more than $1,200 per concert to Monthly Publication Interim editor: Barbara J. Binder New Kind of Day underwrite expenses. We are of the Contributing editors: Dorothy Ganoung confident that God will supply these North American Baptist (The Growing Edge) by Ralph Cooke needs. Conference Sara Lou Pasiciel The Rev. Ralph Cooke is chairman is most encouraging. And, the The members of our Mission 1 So. 210 Summit Ave., (Woman's World) of the Board of Missions. He shares reports of our national brethren Board greatly appreciate the fine Box 159, Oakbrook Terrace, his reflections following the Board now in places of leadership are leadership of our missions staff, the IL. 60181 COVER: Cameroon Choristers, photo by Patricia Meinerts meeting in April 1981. cause for rejoicing. It is my own Rev. Fred Folkerts and associates, personal conviction that God is the Rev. Harold Lang and Mr. he number of full-time North allowing us fewer numbers of Ronald Salzman. The dedication of TAmerican Baptist missionaries missionaries on our mission fields our secretarial workers in the off ice has decreased from 83 in 1969 to 57 for the express purpose of granting at Oakbrook Ter~ace is cause for in 1981. The number of short-term our national brethren the deepest gratitude. The unity and missionaries has increased from 16 opportunity to assume an increasing harmony with which these all labor to 17 during that same time period. measure of responsibility. in associaton with the other However, the inflationary spiral There continues to be a dramatic departments is a joy to behold. change in the role Excellent information concerning of the North North American Baptist missions American Baptist can be found in Baptist Herald, missionary. To 'N.A.B. News, " Missions Digest serve in a resource and "Update." 'N.A.B. News" and or consultant "Update" placed in the Sunday position, to labor bulletins are read by more people as an equipper or '1 hope that N.A.B.s continue than if they are placed on a table, Kurt Redschlag talks about to be . God's groundwork Clear, open communication is Denny Miller tells of the enabler, to be a and people asked to take one. I the need to recover the in Japa n," says, Doug Woyke a necessity between a pastor's preparation and excitement of teacher or trainer encourage people to read the healing ministry of creative in wife and the congregation 19 Cameroonians preparing of national leaders inserted material by publicly calling solitude in says Gladys Peterson in to tour North America in ... this is the Unfinished attention to the contents of it. Listen to the Business 7 Understanding Your The Cameroon increasing role of Does y our church have a local Silence 4 Minister's Wife , Choristers our ambassadors church mission board or committee? Part II 9 Are Coming! 13/ 15 to foreign lands. I would greatly encourage We must pray constitutional provision for one to earnestly for oversee the missionary program in them in these your church. The Mission Board or FEATURES 29 WHAT'S HAPPENING a - strategic and vital Committee works with the Women's Fred Folkerts. general missio ns secretary, and Ralph Cooke. Missions Board c hair­ areas of involve­ Missionary Fellowship to make 2 THE DAY OF THE MISSIONARY IS NOT PAST 29 1982 N.A.B. TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE man discuss budget c uts. ment. The day of missions a total church program. A by Ralph Cooke both at home and overseas has missionary is not past, but it is a growing missionary interest in a 30 HAAS IS DIRECTOR OF LOANS FOR C.E.I.F. new kind of day, and we must eroded the power of our dollars, so local church does not just happen. It COLUMNS that it takes more money to adjust to it. takes prayer, planning, and 31 KELLER APPOINTED DATA PROCESSING The Laymen-in-Action projects maintain the reduced missionary specifically delegated leadership to 18 WOMAN'S WORLD MANAGER staff now than it did the larger are underway in Cameroon. Mr. oversee this vital area of church life number previously. Not only that, and Mrs. Darrell Schuh and family and ministry. 20 THE GROWING EDGE 32 CAMEROON CHORISTERS' ITINERARY but ill health, accidents, and from Elk Grove, CA, are In a statement of long-range goals retirements, as well as other factors, supervising the construction of the for our North American Baptist 22 METRO POLIT AN IS MOVING OPINION have continually changed the roster Nkwen Dispensary of Bamenda Conference, it is the vision of our by Ted Keck of our missionary fo rce on the field. from January through July. Dr. and present leadership to "continue to 30 VIEWPOINT Despite these changes, the mission Mrs. Eugene Stockdale from promote and develop home and 23 A NEW CHURCH IN MOUNTAIN VALLEY IN by Harold Lang work continues with God's blessing. Westminster, CA, are serving at overseas missions as a MAJOR ALBERTA It is painful to know of personnel Mbingo Baptist Hospital during June emphasis of the Conference." THE by Allen Wilcke and fi nancial needs and not be able and July to replace Dr. Jerry Fluth DAY OF MISSIONS FOR NORTH to respond as we would like. Yet the temporarily. Mr. and Mrs. Ed AMERICAN BAPTISTS IS NOT 31 PUTTING IT TOGETHER reports of our faithful missionaries Quiring from Minneapolis, MN, BAPTIST HERALD: Send editorial and business correspondenco to Barbara J. Binder. AT SUNSET BUT IS STILL AT by Ernie Zimbelman 1 So. 210 Summit Ave. Oakbrook Terrace. IL 60181 . Advertising rate: $8.00 per inch also are serving at Mbingo Hospital HIGH NOON. WE MUST BE single column (2Vt inches wide) black and white. Send address changes to Baptist for six weeks during June and July, Herald Subscriptions Department, l So. 210 Summit Ave.. Oakbrook Terrace, IL The Rev. Ralph Cooke is pastor of COMMITTED TO THE YET NEWS 60181. Six Wl"Cks notice required for change of address. 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(Printed in the U.S.A. I USPS 042560 understanding of ourselves, our of our inner being. So we keep constructed out of our dealings with fell ow man, and God himself, ourselves constantly in motion, others. Listen to the Silence indeed, if we are to gain a true always busy meeting the demands of And if we are to come to terms perspective of life, we have to learn our social roles, hoping to thus with our inner self, we must find the In a day when many sounds and involvements keep us defocused and scattered, we need to recover the to go into the silence and listen. escape from our deeper self and the courage to periodically dwell in the questions it poses. land of silence. Here we can healing ministry of creative solitude. by Kurt Redschlag Why Is Silence Threatening? The fact is, we can be more or commune with ourselves in honesty. Why, then are we so afraid of less content with our external Here, like David, we can have a silence? Why do we find it so identity, with our social self, which heart-to-heart talk as he did with his ilence is the most beautiful sound Only as we learn to periodically (Mt. 14:23a). Mark notes that, after threatening? Why will we listen to is produced by our interaction with soul. And in such moments of in the world; yet few of us take withdraw from our busy, a busy evening of ministering to all almost anything-long, pointless time to listen to it. So addicted are fragmented worlds that fill us with kinds of needs, "In the morning, a talk shows, boring conversations, we to sound that silence has become frustrations and anxieties, and enter great while before day, he (Jesus) round-the-clock news, and music, an almost unknown commodity in into such moments of silence, can arose and went out to a lonely music, music-to avoid having to our lives. We seem to be living, as we ever hope to experience place, and there he prayed" (Mk. journey into the fearful land of someone has suggested, "under the wholeness of body, mind and spirit. 1:35). Before he faced the great silence? I think if some solar ray dominion of din." We wake up in It is vital that we discover the crises of his life, Jesus knelt in f were to suddenly cause all radios, the mornings to the music of our blessedness of what Dr.