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HOME MISSION BOARD 3lS
12. Approximate number hearing Home Missionaries 525,527
13. Number of states to which Home Missionaries have gone 18
14. Number of programs by states:
Alabama 20*
Arizona 2
Arkansas 3
Florida 5*
Georgia 7*
Illinois
•Incomplete reports
14*
Indiana 1
Kentucky 19*
Maryland 1
Mississippi 6*
Missouri 15*
New Mexico 1*
North Carolina .... 12*
Oklahoma 16
South Carolina .... 4
Tennessee 5*
Texas 23*
Virginia 4*
15. Home missionaries provided for Camps in 16 states.
16. Number of conversions reported in Schools of Missions 316
17. Number of consecrations reported 1,549
(549 for definite mission service)
18. Number of simultaneous programs already conducted and
planned for 1946 115
II. Personal:
(Activities of Superintendent)
1. Churches visited .180
2. Public schools, etc 9
3. Camps and Assemblies 3
4. Seminary, Training
Schools and Colleges 3
5. Associational and District
meetings 3
6. Conferences regarding
our program 23
7. Conferences at State
headquarters .'. 11
8. Revivals ; 3
9. State Meetings 10 20
10. Schools of Missions
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
simultaneous programs 23
Classes 14
Other meetings 10
Sermons and addresses 332
Professions of faith 66
Dedications to special
service 34
Additions otherwise 26
States served in 15
Radio addresses 13
Number of people
spoken to 33,461
Subscriptions secured 748
REPORT OF MISSION STUDY EDITOR 1945
UNA ROBERTS LAWRENCE
On October 4, 1908, First Baptist Church, New Orleans, finally dedicated
its own building after half a century of struggle for a worthy permanent
home. Dr. C. V. Edwards, the pastor, chose as the theme of the program the
following words of Dr. I. T. Tichenor, the Secretary of the Home Mission
Board, whose continuing support had made this victory possible.
"For the sake of our country, for the sake of our children who gather
like plants around our tables, for the sake of humanity, for the glory of the
Master, and for the redemption of the world, let us strive to make this great
nation a people whose God is the Lord."
These words might well be writtten above the record of the year 1945, for
never before has a year been so crowded with history-making events, that
make the necessity of our being a Christian nation greater than ever before.
It marks the end of the world we have known, the dawn of an age of unknown
possibilities and the rise of the United States into world influence beyond our
comprehension, with the task of home missions now of most urgent world
wide significance. Through these days your mission study editor was engaged
in digging up the past and preparing for the future.
1. The Past. When the Centennial History was first projected, some six
years ago, your editor, upon whom the task was laid, said it would take at
least three years to do the job;—two years to gather the material, one year to
assimilate it and write the history. At that time we believed we had a complete
file of all minutes of the work as a basis. When final authorization for the
work came in November, 1943, we discovered that the minutes from 1845 to
1875 had been lost. This greatly increased the work that had to be done.
Annual reports in the early years are meager and record very few details;
the correspondence of the secretaries and missionaries has been lost