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290 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Throughout 1945, the Sunday school attendance increased from fifteen to
sixty-three. The average attendance is now sixty. Twenty-five have accepted
Christ. Several who were baptized in August, 1945, are now teachers and
leaders. A strong B.Y.P.U. has been organized. Sunbeams, G.A.'s and Brownies
meet every week. Worship services, morning and evening, are well attended.
A mid-week prayer meeting and Bible study is followed each week by a social
time.
Several friends on the mainland have sent contributions to the work. The
budget of $1,800 for 1946 is being met by the group.
We are using all available space. Manoa Valley, which we serve, has over
15,000 residents; Pray with us that an adequate building may be secured for
what will soon be the University Avenue Church.
WAIPAHU MISSION
MAURICE ANDERSON
In October, with the help of the Bible School students, young converts
from the University Avenue'Mission, Chaplain John McGraw, and some soldiers
from Schofield, a Sunday school was opened in this sugar-mill town of 10,000
population.
The town is open to the gospel, but a place to meet or for a worker to
live is hard to find. We secured a school auditorium where meetings are held.
The average attendance has been thirty-eight. I. L. McDougle, a Bible
student, is making a fine leader. We expect to develop one of our strongest
churches there.
MOLOKAI
EDWIN DOZIER
Molokai, the latest island to be entered by Southern Baptists, boasts the
first Hawaii Baptist Convention missionaries—Rev. and Mrs. R. K. Gonder.
This couple (Canadian Baptists) gave up their charge on Kauai and started
their work on the Friendly Island about the first of May. They have plans
for moving surplus army buildings to a highly desirable leasehold lot. Religious
education classes in the high school and three grade schools are yielding results.
Sunday school and the morning and evening worship services are conducted on
the Lord's Day, while on Friday nights there is a well-attended Bible study
class for young people. The husband of our pioneer Christian was the only
one baptized in 1945. Good will and interest in the work are developing so
that we are confident of a greater yield during the coming year.
BAPTIST BIBLE SCHOOL
MAURICE ANDERSON
Opening its fifth session in September, 1945, with Missionary Tucker Call
way as speaker, the Bible School enrolled approximately 130 part-time and
five full-time students.
The administrative staff is as follows: president and dean, Dr. Maurice
Anderson; Miss Miriam Thomas, dean of women, registrar, and treasurer;
Rev. Edwin Dozier, dean of men and librarian. In addition to the above, Rev.
Malcolm Stuart, Rev. Victor Koon, Mr. Homer McDonald, Mrs. C. K. Dozier,
Miss Cornelia Leavell, and Miss Virginia Mathis teach.
Of the full-time students two are young ladies of Japanese ancestry from
Hawaii, and the three men are from Maui, Ohio, and Florida. The part-time
students consist of approximately sixty adults of Japanese ancestry who are
studying Spoken English under Mrs. C. K. Dozier. The others are Japanese,
Chinese, Negro, and Caucasian either in or out of the armed services. Practically
all engage in church or Bible School directed activities in Sunday school,
personal work, and street evangelism.
We look toward the future with high hopes since the Board has approved
the enlargement and development of the school into a junior college and Bible
training school as soon as possible.
BAPTIST BOOK STORE
The book store, sponsored by the Hawaii Baptist Convention, has had
phenomenal growth under the able management of Chester R. Young. Starting
with the sale of Bibles it has grown in sales and service to the churches, and