Baptist Th eo logica l Seminary library aa::Jriko n,sw itzerl:wd Missionary I The magazine of the Baptist Missionary Society AUGUST1979 Price 10p personal way and was baptized in October 1970. Leaving school at 16 he started work NEW in . the New South Wales Civil Service, Sydney, BOOK where he joined the Dulwich Hill Baptist WORKER Church. REVIEW Here he began to feel that he was being call ed into the ministry and, wanting nothing of it, he tried, like Jonah, to 'flee from the presence of the Lord'. Eighteen months and many thousands of mil es later he found himself saying, 'Lord, let not my will but thine be done' as, in September 1974, from RIU"'rlll lhYfl!'>r ~OUTG£ Fordhouses Baptist Church, Wolverhampton, tt.N·f'lm he was accepted for training at the Northern Baptist College, Manchester. ~~ · - - ·if Clinton graduated BA(Theol) from the "' ~ ~ + · ·'' Education ;•· university and says, 'it was a great joy for . ror me personally wh en, last year, united with Ministry my parents for the first time in five years, '~··- Fordhouses hosted my service of ordination to the ministry.,During my training I became aware of the urgent need for trained pastors in Banglad<:_sh, but at first felt that my EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY ministry would be in the UK and made no by Norman Moon equation between this need and myself. Yet Published by Bristol Baptist College £3 .00 the more I thought and prayed about the IN BA NGLADESH situation in Bangladesh, the more I came to This book has been published in celebration believe that this work was for me.' of the tercentenary of Bristol Baptist College. Born in October 1955 in South Staffordshire, In 1679 an elder of the Broadmead church, Cl in ton Bennett was brought up in the Last month Clinton left for Bangladesh, via Edward Terrill, resolved that he would leave Church of England. In his early teens he Australia, to serve there as a minister of the a sum of money at his death to be used in started to attend the Baptist Sunday school gospel and to use his knowledge of Islam in support of a minister whose main task would at Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia, the difficult task of winning Muslims for be to train men for the Baptist ministry. where he came to know the Lord in a Christ. From that humble beginning has grown the = present Bristol Baptist College, the oldest MISSIONARY MOVEMENTS Death surviving Free Church College. In Worthing, on 12 May, Miss Hilda Katherine Halls, aged 91 (India Mission 1920-1951 ). Arrivals In those early days dissenters were a Mrs S B Christine on 26 April from Jaciara, Brazil. persecuted people and denied a university ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS education. Edward Terrill determined to Rev N B Mc Vicar on 30 April from short term of overcome, in a measure, these frustrations to service in India. The Secretaries acknowledge with grateful thanks providing an educated ministry for the Baptist the following legacies and gifts sent anonymously Miss K lnce on 18 May from Pimu, Zaire. or without address. community. This book divides the 300 (21 April-16 May 1979) years into six periods and considers how Mr L Alexander on 18 May from Pimu, Zaire. the work of training men for the ministry, General Work: Anon (Dyfed): £50.00; Anori both at home and overseas, grew beyond the Miss B R Mc Lean on 20 May from Lapsibot, (FAE Aberdeen) : £10.00; Anon (Cymro): £10.00; bequest of one man to the involvement of Nepal. Anon: £1.00; Anon: SOp; Anon: £5 .00; Anon: £100.00;Anon: £7.00;Anon : £5 .00;Anon (EMW): the denomination as a whole. it shows how Miss J Brown on 20 May from Amp Pi pal, Nepal . £5.00; Anon (April) : £10.00. the abilities of notable men were used by God to expand and broaden the work right Medical Work: Anon: £5.00; Anon: £50.00. up to the present day, when the College Departures faces the challenge of a chapter of its history Rev G E Myhill on 3 May for Nova Londrina, Nurses' Project: Anon: £10.00. Brazil. which is 'set in a period of almost dramatic Legacies social change'. Mrs L Hinchin on 3 May for Sao Paulo, Brazil. £ p Mrs M M Alien 2,747.38 This is an interesting and readable account Dr E J Marsh on 8 May for Berhampur, India. Mrs V Baker 4,900.00 of the College's history, although in some Mrs M Champion 100.00 Rev and Mrs PM Goodall on 9 May for Colombo, Moses Davies 4,000.00 places dates seem to obtrude. it shows Sri Lanka. Frank lllingworth 41.06 what importance Baptists have always given Mrs R Summers 100.00 to training men for mission at home and Mrs S B Christine on 22 May for jaciara, Brazil. Mrs HA Wragg 100.00 overseas. AEE 11 4 THE MAGAZINE OF COMMENT THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY 93/97 Gloucester Place, London W1 H 4AA Tel: 01-935 1482 Secretaries In this country practically no one stops to suffering from chronic malnutrition has risen Rev A S Clement query if there will be an adequate supply of to 455 million. Children - the most at risk Rev H F Drake, OBE food in the shops. A poor harvest in these to fall victim to hunger and malnutrition ­ islands may put up the prices in the shops a are the most vulnerable group among the little but it would not cut off the supply. chronically malnourished. Editor With our affluence and our ability to earn Rev A E Easter foreign currency the world is our market and 'It is well known that the average expecta11cy we can stock our deep freezers with food of life in many countries overseas is no more purchased far and wide. than 40 or 50 years of age. What is not so well known, however, is that these figures are Enquiries about service to: However, with the steeply rising costs of fuel what they are because of the high mortality Rev (Mrs} A W Thomas and fuel products even we may find the cost rate among children especially among the of food rising steeply and occasionally we under-fives. The major contributing factor, might experience some anxiety. But this indeed the direct cause in the majority of would in no way bring starvation to these these deaths, is mal nutrition. shores for pressure would be brought to bear 'A great deal can, and must, be done to Films, slide sets, posters, maps, literature on employers and government to raise wages break these patterns.' One of the ways is to are available depicting our work in order to maintain our standard of living. help mothers to feed themselves better during 'No man is an island' their pregnancies for it has been shown Should this happen, then perhaps there are conclusively that to do so gives an ability Departments concerned with very few who would appreciate that this to their child, when it is born, to resist the Young People's, Women's, and Medical would adversely affect the poor in other infectious diseases of its early years. support work are always available countries, that it would be detrimental to to offer help and advice those for whom hunger is an ever present This does not necessarily mean enabling the reality. To maintain our standard of living mothers to have more food in bulk, but to would increase the cost of our manufactured have a better balanced diet and to be prepared goods which are needed in most third world to use foods which perhaps are not traditional countries and so inflation would be even in their areas. We share in the work of the Church in: greater in those places than at present. Further it is not within the power of most A joint effort Angola people overseas to demand increased wages The task of the agricultural m1ss1onary, Bangladesh to meet rising costs. together with his medical colleague, is to Brazil persuade people to adopt better methods of Hong Kong The Christian Medical Commission of the hygiene, and better husbandry of the land. India World Council of Churches has said, 'If we Together they consider the nutritional Jamaica were to single out one concern that deserves deficiencies that are present in the local diets Nepal maximum stress - especially during this and how to introduce items which will Sri Lanka International Year of the Child- it would balance and supplement the normal fare. Tanzania be the matter of nutrition. Trinidad This is a long-term task, for a people cannot Zaire 'As the year began, authorities such as the be expected overnight to change habits Food and Agriculture Organization and the which the centuries have given them . World Food Council stated that the per-capita Patiently, lovingly, in the name of the production of food in many parts of the Master who said, 'You give them something world is dropping, and that the situation to eat' (Matthew 14: 16} our colleagues arc is likely to continue to be very serious, seeking, with the people of Zaire, India, with local food shortages for some years to Bangladesh and Brazil, to overcome Printed by come. tremendous difficulties and provide a Stanley L Hunt (Printers} Ltd nourishment which will satisfy the body and Rushden, Northamptonshire 'lt is estimated that the number of people a food which will feed the soul. 115 TASK Experimental set up to test solar panel ATTONDO by Jack Norwood Tondo, I am told, is a beautiful place; a wide, out of which has emerged a design for a stored in a 200-gallon tank.