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instructing Indians at Dania. Rev. D. 0. Jernigan has opened a new work near
Okeechobee that has great promise. Agnes Parker and Bettie Mae Tiger are
in Lawton, Oklahoma, preparing tremselves as trained nurses.
In North Carolina, we are facing the wrecking of the present plant, and
the erection of a new church and parsonage there. Alfred Walkingstick is in
Bacone studying for the ministry, and Miss Dinah Smoker is there preparing
herself for missionary work. She is a very fine Christian character.
In Alabama, we have purchased a forty acre assembly ground and built a
beautiful summer tabernacle with the help of the W. M. U. We had a summer
assembly and Bible Institute there in August. A new interest in cooperation
among the churches has been developed through this assembly. We have
been given $6,000 to build an adequate church plant for the Reeds Chapel
Church.
In Mississippi, Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Simpson are general missionary workers
among the Choctaws. They have a new missionary home at Philadelphia,
Mississippi, which is at the center of Choctaw Indian interests in that State. In
our Bible Institute held in October there were four volunteers for missionary
work from among their young people. The white churches provided groceries
which fed the people who attended the Institute.
In Oklahoma, Rev. A. W. Hancock is planning for a church and parsonage
at Jones Academy near Hartshorne where a well prepared pastor may have an
adequate church plant for the training of the student body in that school. This
will be a great contribution to the development of the Choctaw people.
Rev. Mose Wesley has organized a church at Hugo and tends in the direction
of another church at Broken Bow. These churches are in a section of
the Choctaw nation where there are many Indians who have been neglected by
our Baptist people.
Rev. Thomas Wade is doing a fine work near Atoka where he is re-opening
churches that have been closed for years.' The Atoka Church pays half his
salary.
Rev. Lewis Hancock resigned as our missionary at Anadarko that he may
enter the Seminary and hopes later to re-enter the Indian missionary work
when he completes his, seminary training.
Mrs. Home Grimmett is doing an excellent work among the Indian women
of Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, we have added Rev. and Mrs. Bennie Wind as
missionaries to the Shawnees and Creeks. Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Collier have
gone to the Pawnees, and have been doing a high grade of work on that great
difficult field. Rev. and Mrs. V. J. Zunigha were transferred to the Little Ax
Shawnees and the Pottawatomles.
In New Mexico we face a battle with pagan and Catholic forces in which
persecution has a strong hand. When Rose Mirabal, a Taos Indian, came to our
All-Indian Summer Camp, the police of her pueblo threatened to arrest her and
put her in jail for attending that Baptist meeting. A Jemez Indian woman
was told not to come back to the Jemez pueblo if she was baptized. I was told
one woman was whipped when she joined the Baptist Church. But our work
in New Mexico is making marked progress. Miss Pauline Cammack and Miss
Doris Christenson are doing wonderful work at Santa Fe and the seven pueblos
between there and Taos. The Wilsons are leading in a fine way at the Indian
Center in Albuquerque. The school work at Albuquerque under the direction
of Rev. C. W. Stumph is taking on renewed interest and changes there in the
rules of the school are to our advantage. Rev. Robert Sieg is doing a magnificent
work among the Lagunas, and probably the greatest movement toward
evangelism in the State among the Indians is at Laguna.
Rev. and Mrs. Lewis Grant are doing good work at Gallup, but the serious
illness of Mrs. Grant was a heavy handicap. We are hoping to open new fields
in New Mexico this year. It is difficult to secure workers, and Bernalillo which
we planned to open sometime ago is still not opened because we have not been
able to secure the workers. We need a missionary at the Alamo Navajo Field,
and a general missionary for the Navajos of New Mexico and Arizona.
• In Arizona, Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Frazier are carrying on under crushing
loads. We must have three more missionary families there as soon as they
are available. We need a missionary at Sacaton to relieve Brother
Frazier for general missionary work. We need a missionary pastor at
Sells among the Papagos where Mrs. Helen Lloyd Hardman is now at work.