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SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD 357
Donations to State Boards, Churches, Etc.
Books, Bibles, Graded Lessons, Periodicals
and Merchandise, Tracts at cost $ 42,993.44 $ 42,993.44
Promotional Departments of the Sunday School Board:
Baptist Training Union $ 79,407.78
Church Architecture 28,310.68
Education and Promotion 9,736.98
Church Library Service , 9,230.07
Church Music 6,365.06
Statistical 13,900.27
Visual Education Service 4,541.76
Sunday School Departments 139,494.69
Student Work 27,593.07
Education & Promotion Free Literature 27,242.83 $345,823.19
Total for Denominational Appropriations and Work of
Promotional Departments $834,971.65
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RETURN OF WORKERS FROM ARMED FORCES
We rejoice that the close of the war has made possible the return of practically
all of our men. Mr. Noble Van Ness, discharged with the rank of major
after forty months' duty in the Army, has resumed his position as production
manager and head of the Production Department. Mr. A. V. Washburn, Lt.
(j-g-), was discharged after twenty-eight months' service in the Navy. He has
come back to the Sunday School Department as secretary of teaching and training.
Mr. Herman L. King, after twenty-two months in the Navy, has returned
likewise to the Sunday School Department and is now secretary of standards
and records. We wish to record our appreciation for the faithfulness and
efficiency of these men in the past and for the reinforcement they will give
through their service and leadership as we face the expanding opportunities of
the future.
COMING OF NEW WORKERS
The Sunday School Board personnel has been markedly blessed and strengthened
within the past year through the coming of three splendid men to positions
of major responsibility. Mr. Porter Routh, a native of Texas, for several years
engaged in serving Oklahoma Baptists and for two and a half years editor of
the Baptist Messenger, came September 15 to become the secretary of the Department
of Survey, Statistics, and Information. Already he is demonstrating
superior gifts (special fitness) for the service rendered by this department. Rev.
Joe W. Burton, for ten years connected with the Home Mission Board, first as
publicity secretary and more recently as secretary of education, came the first
of this year to become secretary of the Department of Home Curriculum and
editor of the materials to be published in this field. Through the materials
prepared under his direction we desire to help save the homes of our land
and promote the highest type of Christian family life among Southern Baptists.
Mr. Earl Waldrup, a M.R.E. graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary and a candidate for the M.A. at Baylor University, came to us as
secretary of Visual Education Service. He has desired for some years to dedicate
his life to service of this nature. We anticipate a ministry of large proportions
as our churches utilize increasingly the varied means of visual education
to present the Christian message and work.
MINISTRY THROUGH BOOKS
Appreciating fully the power of the printed page the Sunday School Board
frankly acknowledges its stewardship and accepts its responsibility as a publisher
and as a distributor of books.
In this, as in all of our ministry, we accept without modification the Bible
as the inspired Word of God; to us the Bible is not on trial, for it has stood
every test through the centuries. We are unequivocally committed to the
doctrinal position of Southern Baptists, and are determined to do all that is
possible to interpret, support, and extend this position.