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418 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Volunteer Summer Work of Students—The Department of Student Work
maintains its effort to enlist students throughout the South for volunteer work
in their home churches, their district associations, and their state. In response
to this appeal students have responded in the most gratifying way. Many
students went afield during the summer of 1945 under the direction of their
state Baptist leadership and rendered an invaluable service. The Vacation
Bible School continues to utilize thousands. Youth Revivals are held throughout
the South. Mission classes are conducted. Study courses are taught. Institutes
are held. Distinctly missionary work in the mountain sections, among
the Negroes, Indians, and foreign people, is done by college students. Plans
are under way upon an enlarged scale for such work during the summer of
1946. This is being promoted in co-operation with the State Mission Boards
and the Home Mission Board which, last year, employed approximately two
hundred college students.
Secretaries' Conference in Nashville—In January there came from o
the South to Nashville for a three day conference ninety-odd student religious
secretaries. This was the largest number ever to attend this meeting. The results
of this vitally important meeting were more than satisfactory. The student
secretaries expressed their gratitude to the Sunday School Board for making
possible this occasion of such helpfulness in the promotion of their work.
Work in the Professional Schools—With the coming of Miss Barbour as a
special worker in this field, the work in the business colleges, nurses' training
schools, and other professional schools has gone forward with renewed and
gratifying results. Some special literature has been produced and more is in
the making. Special meetings are being planned for this constituency of the
student life of the South. An increasing number of the professional students
are attending general meetings, conventions, and retreats planned by the Department
of Student Work and all privileges are being extended to them.
The publication for the schools of nursing—The Prescription—has increased
in circulation. Pamphlets entitled "The Nurse Herself" and "My Cap" have
been prepared for use in the nursing schools.
Denominational Loyalty—The Department of Student Work seeks to ke
the interest and activities of the entire denomination before the students. A
number of B.S.U. activities have been included in the Denominational Calendar.
Ihis co-operation is greatly appreciated and is proving profitable to both the
denomination and the students. ,
The department has made sustained effort to keep in touch with th
men through specially prepared literature and mailing lists of former B.S.U.
workers. This has been promoted in co-operation with the B.S.U. of the local
campuses.
+* A A * h e suggestion of Dr Holcomb a representative of the departm
attended the nation-wide conference on recreation and amusements held at
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The Master's Minority Movement continues to be a force among the
students. Recurrently literature is prepared and circulated and a book stressing
this emphasis is anticipated.
Maximum Christianity is the idea stressed throughout all phases
work. It proves helpful and aids m inspiring students in attaining their great­
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est spiritual power.
The "My Covenant Series" of books used in connection with the Mas
Minority Movement and the stressing of Maximum Christianity, continues to
be popular. Some twenty thousand copies have been sold.
The Perennial Program—Splendid results are comins? from the weeks
special emphasis now included in the Calendar of Events of the B S U There
has been accelerated interest in these weeks of special work during the past
follows- 6 P Program promoted in these special wefks are as
Join the Church Day in October
Student State Student Vocational Student Evangelistic Night Emphasis at Conventions Christmas Week in in February
December October January and November