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230 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
For middle schools and colleges in China, we need ten educational administrators
and twelve teachers; seven theological teachers are wanted for our
seminaries in China; fifteen teachers for schools and colleges in Japan will be
needed soon.
A theological teacher and wife are needed for both Italy and Yugoslavia,
to train national leaders for Christian ministry. Six educators are wanted
for Palestine. The following are needed for Latin America: two teachers
for woman's training schools in Mexico and Brazil; ordained man and wife for
theological school in Colombia; eight primary teachers with musical ability for
Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela; ordained man and wife for training national
workers in Paraguay; three women teachers for elementary and secondary
schools in Brazil; an ordained man and wife for theological school in Brazil;
a teacher for woman's college in Brazil.
CALLING DOCTORS AND NURSES
Nineteen medical doctors, one dentist, and nineteen nurses are urgently
needed now, for hospitals and schools in Nigeria, China, Paraguay, Mexico,
Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Palestine, and the
Arabian Peninsula.
WRITERS AND PRINTERS
Men and women with creative writing ability are needed for every one of
our foreign mission fields. Two theologically-trained journalists with wives are
needed for editorial work in Nigeria; printer-journalist and wife for Nigeria;
two journalists and wives for publication work in China; journalist and wife
for editorial and publication work in Italy; journalist and wife for Mexican
publishing house. Trained, single women are also needed in all of these fields.
ARCHITECTS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE
Wanted: an architect and wife for work in Nigeria; a business man and
wife for book distribution in Nigeria; four women with business training and
with experience in church work, for Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. Several
women are needed for goodwill centers and for evangelistic work.
This is only a sample of the imperative needs of your Foreign Mission Board.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
Basic requirements for appointment to strategic foreign mission service in
twenty countries of the world are:
A personal Christian experience and growing Christian personality, finding
expression in daily purpose to serve.
Not less than twenty-four and not more than thirty-two years of age—
unless delayed by military service. Younger volunteers should notify the personnel
secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of their desire to be appointed
at a later date.
Sound mental, physical, and emotional habits.
Liberal arts education and specialization, evidenced, as a rule, by bachelor's
degree, a graduate degree, and a formal or informal internship'in the chosen
field.
The foregoing presupposes that each volunteer has experienced a specific
and unmistakable call from God to serve him in a foreign land.
The Foreign Mission Board is anxious to have the name and address of
every foreign mission volunteer. Each is invited to confer by correspondence
or by personal interview with the secretary of the Department of the Missionary
Personnel, Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention fRn*
5148), Richmond 20, Virginia.
THE COMMISSION
E. C. ROUTH, Editor-in-Chief
MARJORIE E. MOORE, Managing Editor
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