Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1960-1964 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 1-31-1963 January 31, 1963 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, "January 31, 1963" (1963). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1960-1964. 165. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews/165 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1960-1964 by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. E~ecutive Board and make reports· on the gifts." Yes, but what per' ~enlt ·of 1he membemhip hears the ~announc•emen.ts or S'eeS the Visits to mission fields rewarding reports? When will. Baptists face up t'O th:e fact that the average congregation has A LETTER recently came from of difference in my total mission not touched .the surface when it comes the Rev. A. M. Stewart, Dundee, concept. It ·wotfld be a good mis­ to giving? When will we realize that iiiiiPitiol'liLjjawson Hatfield, sec­ sion investment for any local conducting church .seTvices. and paying retary of our Sun­ church to make it possible for the bills is not all th:ere is to Kingdom day S c h o o I De­ their pastor to have an experience &ervice? P a: r t m e n t, in like this. There is a strong po.ssi­ ·Ouv tas·k is greaJt, our potentilal is great, yet we havoe concerned ours·elves which he sta.ted, bility it' would aid in enlarging w.ith "subscri'blng the church budget." "You will be de­ the world !Concern of that church. Glying is God's wtay of growing his lighted to learn -S. A. Whitlow, Executive Sec­ children.. If :that statemenlt be true, that the Council retary then God is hiaving a diffioolt time of the Baptist Un­ with us. We just refuse to grow up. In the U. S. we g~ave 4.8 per cent of our ion of Scotland ac- income for recreation and 1.2 per cent DR. s. A. WHITLow cepted the recom- Tragedy Indeed !, to churchies. We paid 13 per cent of mendation of the Sunday School SOMETIMES we wonder if ·people income in truces, 1.9 per cenlt for to· Committee that the all-age educa­ are .reading our Stewardship anticles in bacco, 10.6 per cent for transportation, the ArkallJS•as Bapti.st. The-n bang! We y·et many churches are conte111t • when tion should be adopted and that write SQmething that the budget is subscribed. Southern Baptist materials be used people do not believe We make this statement becaUSie the . All this goes back to the visit and we. 'readily find Fo~rd Prog11am of. Church FiMnce you made to Scotland and I feel I out that Jthe articles will help the church members increase want to say 'Thank you' for all you are read. • their giving approxima.trely 35 per cent, Recimtiy we wrote yet only about 13 per cent of the did then, and fQr the interest yo11 about the per capita have shown sin1ce." No doubt this churches .across the Southern Baptist giving of Southern Convention hrave used it in any one will be a new day in Baptist work Bapti-sts and stated year. in Scotland. You know the churc;h­ .that .the latest re­ es there conduct Sunday School port showed that the With an unev·angelized world on our· •average Southern hands, this is a tragedy. When the only for the children. Now a move­ Baptist gave $55.68 average Southern Baptist has· an in­ ment to make the Sunday School DR. DOUGLAS through <the church come of nearly $2,000 per year and teaching ministry available for all for an entwe year. then gives less than 3 per cent of it to the churches, there is a woeful lack This• is· so ridiculous that many do not ages is being launcheq. somewhere. 'believe th:e figures and have said so, When the Executive Board sent but the :tiact remains that we are near If you want full inforp1ation on hew Lawson Hatfield to Scotland (pay­ the bottom in giving. This also shows to help chahge the giving pattern in ing a part of his expense) this was that many of U.s think and talk in your church, write to my office.­ gl;!nevalities and never take 'the time Ralph Douglas, Associate Executive perlmps some of the best mission to get down to specifics. As long as Secretary, 401 West Capitol, Little money we have used. It does · not \enough money is contributed by a few Rock, Arka'nsas. take a vivid . imagination to vis­ people .to keep the church going, some ualize the possibilities of these think' th'at the church hras a good giving few weeks of labor on the part of record. Herein may lie much of our _present difficulty in getting Baptists our capable Sund~tY School man. ARKAXSAS' interested in sout~winning and enlist- LARGEST The Convention approved ing the unenJi~i)ed, · RELIGJOCS (without expense to the Conven­ J·esus said, "Where your treasure is tion) the conducting of a tour to there will your heart be also." He was ri'EEKLr s11ying, "A choice confronts ·e,ach .of us; 401 WEST CAPITOL the World Youth Conference .'in we must 1ay up treasures on earth ·or LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS Beirut, Lebanon by Drs. Erwin L. jn heaven." · Because, in a measure, Official Publication of the M1cDonald and Tom J. Logue this those treasur·es will rule us·. In other Arkansas Baptist State Convention summer. It is my · judgment that words, one who has put his treasures ERWIN L, McDONALD, Litt.O. .......................... Editor into the l'ife of the church will be ,in- MRS. E. F. StOKES ..................... :...... Associate Editor it would be a wise mission invest~ J. I. COSSEY. .. ................... Field Representative . tereS!ted in the church. MRS. HARRY GIBERSON .. ,.............. Secretary to Editor ment on the part of our Conven~ MRS. WELDON . TAYLOR .............................. Mail Clerk tion to send two members of our We need not fool ourselves any long­ er; one· does not support' with his- money Published weekly except on July 4 and December 25. Baptist staff to some of our mis-. thiat which he doeS' not know about. Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Ario,!lnsas. Individual subscription, $2.25 per year. Church sion fields each year. When .I was The average Baptist does- not know Budget, 14 cents per month or $1.68 per year per pastor of. the· First Church, Hope, wh~re the money goes when he puts it church family •. Cl~b plan (10 or more paid annually into th:e aVIerage church, therefore he in advance) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to foreign this good church made it .possible address, $3.75 p~r year, Advertising rates on request. doos not give much -of it. Oonsequenltly, Articles carrying the author's by-line do not neces· for me to visit our mission ;work in you can1110t get that kind of a church sarily reflect the editorial policy of the paper. South America. The increased giv­ member ihte:roegted ·fn reaching• th~ un­ Abbreviations used in crediting news items: ing to missions was reflected in reached· OP. winning the lost t<> Christ. BP BaP.tist Press; CB church bulletin; DP Daily press: EP Evangelical Press. the life of this good church: I am You :say, "Every church member Janua!·y 81, f963 Vdl. 62, Numbe1• 5 quite certain it made a great deal ought .to know We announce our budget Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST ans for prayer week F ACH year during January, roary and March Woman's Average pastor. found in survey "ssionary Unions in , Southern . tist churches promote the study · . By the BAPTIST PRESS Home Mission Graded Series I k.s in preparation for the Week MALE. Age: 40. Married; two children. Attended Baptist col­ Prayer for Home Missions. Im­ lege one or more years. Any seminary training obtained came from - .ved teaching aids to supplf:1- one of six Southern Baptist Convention seminaries. Has been ent the study of this ser~es by preaching 12 years, a pastor for .11 years. Se.r:ved five churches in tUthern Baptist churches has that span, will serve present church three years. Became a Chris- n announced by L. 0. Griffith tian at age 15. · s- Atlanta, director of the Mission oard's division of education and Who is it? According to a survey by a Southwestern Semi­ omotion. nary graduate, this description fits the average Southern Baptist pastor. Theme of the study- is "The reb's Ministry to Persons of Leonard E. Hill of N~shville, production editor, the Baptist ecial Need" and is sponsored by P1·ogram, sent 1,191 pastors hi's questionnaire. His doctoral thesis Woman's Missionary Union, dealt · with the methods used by Baptist ch'urches to call their uxiliary to Southern ·Baptist Con­ pa,stors. tion. Don't be mi~led by the description in the first paragraph, Hill · e are introduci~g two new warns. Any •church looking for a pajltor with those exact qualifi­ niques this year," Griffith cations may be looking for a long time. ..T hey are the Mission Study 1 tp)ement and the Filmette." The description doesn't tell you, either, that probably one of five Southern' Baptist pastors spends 30 hours per week doing t" explained the Board has pre- secular work or going to school.