May 20, 1971 - Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma

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Woman's Missionary nion Glorieta Conference Will Provide Training - ' •* -••• li ••• • •• • ^^ ^m •» • ft i. By Miss Abbie Louise Green, Executive Secretary The Woman's Mission ry Union conference at Glorieta will-be July 22-28. Conferences will'be held for la :h officer in WMU. Detailed information concerning thje, progr•am was published irifthe Anril 15 issue of the Baptist Messenger. We hope each church and association has begun to wage a Glorieta attendance campaign.and that you firs planning to have a car or cars from your church or association in each conference, ThS more people we can involve, in training and inspiration, the. more effective o jr work will be. a missionary, a sacred concert by min- There will /be a charter >d bits from Oklahoma for the convenience • going of*• isters of music * of Tennessee. The "Time of Commitment^ those who do not wish to drive. The approximate • . L cost . x .- per person ti i is . 114.50. This includes registration! ipsurahce, bus fare, lodging enroute, meals enr6ute and lodging while at Glorietajj (pepending on choice of lodging). Detaijjefl information has been, mailed to the WMU {directors of ;the churches and association If you r plan to go on the chartered bus ' ou must register [through the state >VMTU office. We have the reservations Glc rieta for : |* - those wno ride the bus. If you gcrby another m of ransportation write Glorieta Baptist Assembly, Glorieta N.M. 87535 for! reservations. The c lartered bus will eave the Union 'Bus Station, Oklahoma City, at 7 the ~* * /* ^ < >^ 4 *m •* * " * I morning of July 21. Mission points will be visited at Taos. N.M. enroute to Glo- rieta. , . Trips » r to mission .1 po nts in Santa Fe|will conference; The night of spent at 5 which will climax the meeting, will, include music, testimony, Scripture, prayer, and a time for decision making. ^ Offering Total Is $148,694 As of April 30 the amount received for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for Home Missions was $148,694.76. This is an increase over this date in 1970 which was $143^299.23. If you haye not given your offering for home missions, please give this matter, prayer and consideration so that our. state goal of $168,- 000.00 will be reached. Much work .in our homeland andêven in our: state depends upon this offering. Let us continue to pray that Oklahoma Baptists will meet this goal. made during the week of the Sunday School Board: ly "2JS will be Albuquerque, N.M on 1pe return WIN Materials Available trip. The bus-will arrive at t icl Station, Oklahoma City at appr Dximately Local church evangelism has been giv- 6:30 the evening of. July 29 en the possibility of new life through the Witness Involvement Now — WIN ma- . PJpn now to attend this important con- terials. -ference. ; Produced by the church training department of the Sunday School Board in Bartlett Will Leac Wli sic consultation with the Division of Evan- Gene Bartlett, "state music secretary gelism, Home Mission Board, the. ma- for; the Baptist" General Convention of terial was prepared under the editorial jOklahoma, will lead the mjsic during a coordination of John Ishee, editor, adult special commitment seme* daring the curriculum materials, church training f+ _ Â.L^ ^ ___ T» _ A—* Â. ' » • 7 .*••» • • «*» A» * * A « n n* f^ •** ** «*T f * + ' ' Southern Baptist Woman'5 Missionary Union annual meeting in Si Louis, Mo., '- I '. . " *~ > sive and practical -are characteristics of the material. • •"It is impossible to use this material without using the Bible in a physical, way. ft has been field tested by the Home Mission Board," Ishee related. Beginning in October, a book of procedures will be added to the WIN materials. This guide will recommend the use of present structure in the local church rather than imposing a new structure upon existing ones. Adapted for use in retreat settings j revivals, training sessions or special lay institutes of evangelism, the material will be flexible. ^ Every member of a local church can be enlisted to serve in evangelism through use of the WIN materials. Working -with the director of new church member orientation, the church training director can relate new church member orientation to WIN materials. He can also supplement witnessing materials used to train church members. Leading choir members, directors of graded choirs and instrumentalists to receive WIN training may be, the task of the choir director or minister of music. He may also provide witnessing opportunities for musicians as part of the musical activities sponsored by the local church. Mission action projects which make use of the * witnessing training gained through the WIN materials can be part of the outreach of the WMU and Brotherhood programs in the local church. Securing, storing and displaying WIN materials may be the job of the church library director. . . - Direction of outreach projects to involve all church members in witnessing to w^ the lost is the job of the Sunday school outreach director. • Coordination of the WIN project in the local church may be accomplished by the church council, which includes leaders in every organization of the local church. de- WIN materials may be ordered from partment. the Church Literature Department, Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, 127 • li I ' - _ . The materials center on the local May 31!"(See program on )age13.) Ninth Ave., North, Nashville, Tenn. church, •"" where church members are The annual meeting wfll be i time of trained to win unsaved people to Jesus commitment to missions. Christ. . Sessions will be in the C era House of Churches Increase Gifts A "WIN is to motivate, train and lead By Joe L Ingram Kiel Auditorium. the church member to be an evangelistic Assistant Executive Secretary Each session will feature a report on witness as he -is involved in today's The following churches have in- successful, innovative mission . work world," Ishee said. creased their percentage giving to through JWMU. Pastors, church and state "it is not a program but a -proj ct. ! »»»••' •"»• T».< !^ - 1 ' • • L ' i . _ the Cooperative Program. V . WMU*leaders,:and missionary personnel With this material a pastor can conduct Church Frorii To will t&l[how mission stuhyi mission ac- his own WIN institute for evangelism. Sapulpa, Ridgeway 10%' South Heights 5% 7% !ion, and mission support j h[ave made an Nothing, that I have worked on in Imy' Adair, First 7% 8% Matoaka ._ 2% impact on their church. 10% eight years as an editor has been a more Oketnah, First __,__ 20% 21% Each session will also'Ihdlude a -multi- significant contribution to the evangelis- Perkins, First ., 11% 12% Manger __*_ 10% 17% media presentation by K ennetti Chafin, tic thrust of the local church than the Durant, Calvary 17% 18% Ardmore, First : 18% director of the Division of E yangelism for WIN materials," Ishe£ added. Springer, First Southern ,.. 13% 14% the i Home Mission Board a message by .Bible-centered, clear, simple, inexpen- ,PAGE TE THE BAPTIST MESSENGER Foundation: _ G Responsible for Trust Funds By Thomas E. Carter, Executive Secretary The Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma as a trust agency exists for its service to the institutions and agencies of the Baptist General Convention of the State of Oklahoma and the Southern.Baptist Con^ vention. Our first responsibility then is to earn money for these institutions and agencies whose trust funds we hold, and to continue to increase the amount of endowment funds so that the earnings will be greater from year to year. One of our main responsibilities is to safeguard the funds, but at the same time eairn the largest possible income commensurate with good business practice, because these institutions always have a need for any additional incom'e we are able to earn for them. We are, therefore, looking for ôpportunities to make good investments. This also applies to our responsibility in the funds we have available for church loans as to the amount of interest we "charge, for the first responsibility is ^to the institution or agency whose funds we hold.. In the first full year of operation, 1947, with less than $70,000, one-half,of which .was in farm land, the earnings were $1,231.50; By 1950 the earnings had increased and in 1953 were $19,730.85, jumping to $75,250.91 in 1955. The earnings had doubled again by 1965, with $303,850.62 and then doubled again by 1970, 'for a total earnings of $603,502.01. . The year 1970 showed the foundation reached over $11 million in assets and for the first time earned over one half million dollars. This also made possible the largest distribution of funcls the foundation had ever, experienced, as these earnings were distributed' to the institutions and agencies of our convention and those institutions we represent in the Southern Baptist Convention. If it is possible to continue this series of accomplishments, the earnings should reach well over a million dollars by 1975., Certainly, :the foundation's directors aife to be commended for their steward^ ship in the responsibility of investments and careful handling of the funds through the years they have worked to bring these major results to pass. "Approximately 22 per cent of the trust funds is invested in the investment pool; about 8 per cent in bonds; approximately 40 per cent in church building loans and the balance in real estate, farm properties and minerals. This last group is not real estate or minerals that have been .purchased by the .foundation, but have come to the foundation by gifts or in testamentary trusts. MAY 20, 1971 .. ,Mi^ : £iffc^^^ • ; " . . j i. •'':-'-•'••AI_ '»»•-•• V/:: : W&i-t^ : - ! i^' liPi ' :; ^ :il ^^-v^v^ are 'pictured-'here. vnth :Hugh;':WDIobyi^(ceiTO^^ left to"ridit'.they are : 'Brent'Fen:en^MaîJeime^ ' " ' " *^ • • ' • ' • • • ; . •" . " •• • " ; 1 1 1 - : - " s i : « :! "•!:!••;:;• ^'''^..f .T. 1 ; 1 :!: 1 '!'^^ •si.j.v.i ^»'h..V'H!^^ Smith. Ponca City and Taylor Field, Enid. - * - • [— v- - -•*-,-. ••-. .!•..';• •...•'....•'. .^;:. ii,,'/ ;.-,•• .•'•••/ '•'••.•'• . . ' t....'-••'-. -'-r!---:..- : '-'v' ; : i-i/^-j^^fe-^^HpSL? • Religious • Education: "*& ^^K^jî^^. By Bill Haggard, Director of Training f»;-;ri,' Mtv! a 'lAWi'-h^n"!'! ;«!•'-• n h^ t .»!LHiiifl-''ifciifLnuiHo^,.'(t€iii'i«iiw
Summer Camps falls Creek Assembly First Weelc ' ' July 12-1 Preacher, Warren iltgren Second Week July' 19J2J 3 reacher, Landrurr *. • Third Week KJuly.26-3J Preacher, Winfrec Fourth Week August 2-7 Breacher, Carl Bates V Camp Hudg |r For Royal Amba * ' ' r - ji First Camp, June * Second Camp, Ju Third Camp, June Fourth Camp, June Fifth Camp, Jul . ^ Sixth Camp, Nunny-Cha- ha . June 7-12 Girls in Ac|( (Grades "4-|6) eavell \Aoore ms >sadors 7-12 14-19 21-26 B-July 5-10 2-17 May 31-June > • • * ,ir Girls in Action and ^cteen (Grades'4-1J2) - June 14-1 Girls .in Action ani Acteens _ (Grades 4-12) PAGE TWELVE June 21-26 Acteehs ^Grades 7- 2) June 28-July 3 Girls in4 Acfon (Grades 4-6, rfuID July 5-10 Girls in (Grades 4^ 6) July 12-1 Girls in A c (Grades 4-6, on fJny July 19-2| Girls in Action (Grades 4- THE FUTURE OF SOUTHERN BAPTISTS --• (Continued from page three) ventibn; it co-operates with the convention. The Baptist convention in America grew out of the need, you know, to have a missionary society to support the Jud-: sons in Burma. And out of that "grew the Soifthern Baptist Convention. I Question: As we look forward to June and St. Louis, what would you really like to see accomplished by the convention? Answer: The number one thing I would like to see happen in St. Louis is for us to conduct ourselves in such a way that our image could be improved appreciably. I am hoping that we can conduct our affairs in such a way that we shall not have the kind of attitudes shown toward i • one . another as were . shown in Denver. Question: Would you care "to say anything about what might be thought of as the .so-called "issues that may come before the convention when it meets? . Answer: I know of no issues that are in the offing or even in the embryo stage. Question: Recently, a distinguished writer said that Southern Baptists are moving away from the common people. . Is this true in your estimation? Answer: This would be true only in 'some areas. Southern Baptists have become pretty dignified in some areas and they really have lost the common touch. But it would not ,be universally or nationally so. There are many places where our churches are made up strictly of "common" people. Question: What is your reaction to new- folk-rock music coming into churches? ; . Answer:-My persorfal feeling about is a negative one. We : the the the this do not needthe loud, .bombastic, amplified, electrified rock folk music in our-churches. This is actually one of—the most interesting phenomena of the time in which we live. This Actually started about the time the free speech movement developed, and degenerated into the filthy speech movement, then became disoriented in the hippie colonies and finally resulted in the fragmentation which resulted in the an-] archistic organizations. At the same time the music was trying to ~say: whaf was -being said in the free speech movement. But it failed. The Beatles dissolved as a group and ran off all over the world looking for a message. The movement lost any message and now then has lost its reason for existence. It has turned-, as a lost resort—as a last gasp—to jthe churches where really the difference .is not known, and people do not understand what is involved here. It shows up in the churches and we feel that we must be in step with the modern generation. As a matter of fact, this movement is dying and there is a great hunger for direction among the young people of our time.. Where the New Testament message has been proclaimed they have found this to be the answer for which they were looking all along. There is a tremendous revival among the younger generation in America. All over this land young people are turning to the preaching of the gospel. ~ Question: What would you say is the greatest need of our denominationthinking of these 11 million people spread across the nation—at the present time? Answer: I think we need to find a-way to lay hold of. the potential resources of 11 million Southern Baptists, both spiritually and financially. And if we could harness the potential power represented by these people and turn it loose in the world, we would be one of the most formidable forces in .the history of; the human race. Question: What possibilities do you see —in that connection—for the future of Southern Baptists, say-for the next' 30 years, the remaining years of this century? Particularly in missions and evangelism? How far could we go if we did harness this potential? - . Answer: Oh, there would be no way for me to express this in any realistic sort of fashion at all.,, It just staggers the imagination—all the way from sending 2,500 missionaries to the foreign field we could be ^sending 7,500 missionaries, or 10,000—if we could harness-the resources of the present membership of Southern Baptist churches. The money we are. spending now through our Home Mission Board would be a mere pittance compared to what would be snent in the homeland. And the seminaries. I would be against any suggestion that would lead to the cutting back of these seminaries we have. We have not expanded too greatlv here. If revival corries./and there" are reasons to believe that it is coming, in fact, it is already here fsome people are not going to get in on,it because" they won't adjust to the Spirit's leading), there are young people by the thousands surrendering their lives to church-related vocations and we have the seminaries to train them when other denominations are closing the • doors of their schools. I wouldn't be a part to that at all, because I think God ( has given us an opportunity and our greatest days are ahead. I feel something great about Southern Baptists. If we can respond to the mcvement "of God's; Spirit in this hour, our greatest days really are ahead; there is- no doubt in mv mind about this. If .we do not respond, we may go the way of other denominations before us. G THE BAPTIST MESSENGER Woman's Missionary Union Opera House, Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo. V May 31 MONDAY MORNING Concert—Volunteer State Chorale, ministers of music X>f Tennessee, Louis O. Ball (Jr., conductor; chairman, music department, Carson-Newman = College, Jefferson City, Tenn. "Evangelism: All People"—Kenneth L. Chafin, Home Mission Board "Dimensions of Success"—Mrs. Bruce Andrews, WMU director, Metropolitan Chicago Association, Wheaton, 111. —Mrs. Huber Drumwright, past WMU director, Broadway Church, Fort Worth, Texas —Don B. Harbuck, pastor, First Church, Eldorado, Ark. • :' ' - —Mrs. T. Shad Medlin, Baptist Women president, First Church, Eldoracto, Ark. —Claudia Jones, Girls in Action-Mission Friends director, Texas WMU —Ruth Provence, executive secretary, South Carolina WMU i .'-.-• . - —Harper Shannon, pastor, First Church, Dothan, Ala. "WMU Committed to Study"—Alma Hunt, executive secretary, WMU "In Partnership in East Africa"—Webster Carroll, missionary, Uganda "Personally Committed"—Mrs. Robert Fling, president, New York WMU —Megumi Matsumura, Japan, student" at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., organist . MONDAY AFTERNOON Concert—^Volunteer State Music Chorale, ministers of music of Tennessee "Evangelism: Total Ministry"—Kenneth L. Chafin : ^"Dimensions of Success"—Mrs. Robert Buice, WMU leader, Second Church, Little Rock, Ark. . , - —Dale Cowling, pastor, Second Church, Little Rock, Ark. * —Jasper McPhail, member, Second Church, Little Rock, Ark. —Russell Dilday, pastor, Second Ponce de Leon Church, Atlanta, Ga. —Mrs. David Hicks, WMU elader, First Church, Oxford, Miss. - —Kathryn Bullard, Baptist Women director, North Carolina WMU/ —James Pleitz, pastor. First Church,. Pensacola, Fla. "WMU Committed to Action"—Alma Hunt "In Partnership in America"—Wendell Belew, Home Mission Board "Personally Committed"—Mrs. Robert Fling .- - MONDAY EVENING Concert—Volunteer State Chorale, ministers of music of Tennessee "Evangelism: America"—Kenneth L. Chafin •"" • "Dimensions of Success"—Kathryn Carpenter, executive secretary, Louisiana WMU, Alexandria, .La . . —Baker J. Cauthen, executive secretary, Foreign Mission Board % —Mrs. Oliver E. Gilliland Jr., missionary to Indonesia ~ —Landriim Leavell, pastor, First Church, Wichita Falls, Texas —Porter Routh, executive secretary-treasurer/ SBC Executive Committee —Arthur B. Rutledge, executive secretary-treasurer, Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga. . . : —R. F. Smith Jr., pastor. First Church, Durham, N.C.' "WMU Committed to Support*'—Alma Hunt "In Partnership in Vietnam"—Robert C. Davis Jr., missionary to Vietnam , Music—Claude H. Rhea Jr., dean, School of Music, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala. —Gene Bartlett, music secretary, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma "Committed'"to the. Churches"—W. L. Hbwse, director, education division, Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn. "Personally Committed"-=-Mrs. Robert Fling "A Higher Commitment"—Mrs. R. L. Mathis, president, WMU, Waco, Texas 9:00 9:16 9:35 9:40 10:10 j 10:20 11:00 11:20 11:30 2:00 2:10 2:30 2:40 3:20 3:50 4:00 4:25 7:00 7:10 7:30 7:40 8:10 8:20 9:00 9:30 Pastors' Conference Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo. May 31 f. MONDAY MORNING Music, directed by D. Neil Darnell, minister of music, First Church, Wichita Falls, Texas -r Bible Study—Eddie Lieberman, evangelist, Greenville, S.C. . q Special music—Sidney L. Buckley, associate professor of music, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. ' " - "God's Prophet and His Motive"—Howard H. Aultman, pastor, First Church, Columbus, Miss. Announcements and music—Sidney L. Buckley, Furman University,- Greenville, S.C. ' • "God's Prophet and His Methods"—James Coggin, pastor, Travis Avenue Church, Fort Worth, Texas - Personal testimony—Leandro Castro, evangelist, Wichita Falls, Texas Music—D. Neil Darnell and Sidney L. Buckley "God's Prophet and His Message"—J. D. Grey, pastor, First Church, New Orleans, La - . V " ' . MONDAY AFTERNOON Music, directed by D. NeO Darnell Bible Study—Eddie Lieberman Music—Billy S. Hilbun, president, Crescendo ûsic Co., Dallas, Texas "God's Preacher and His Manners"—W. Fred Swank, pastor, Sagamore. Hill Church, Fort Worth, Texas "God's Preacher and His Morality"— Grady C. Cothen, president, New Orleans Seminary, New Orleans, La. Election of Officers - . _ , , "God's ^Preacher and His Money"—John F. Gibson, pastor, \yesleyah Drive Church, Macon, Ga. "God's -Preacher and His Mate"—H. Franklin Paschall, First Church, Nashville, Term. - j MONDAY/EVENING j Music, directed by D. Neil Darnell • Bible study—Eddie Lieberman . ' Music—Miss Joe Ann Shelton, concert soloist, Fort Worth, Texas "God's Preacher and the Metropolis"—Jon F. Meek Jr., director, missions division, Baptist Convention of New York," Syracuse, N.Y. Music, directed by D. Neil Darnell and Joe Ann Shelton "God's Preacher and Missions"—James Hester, associate director, Division of Evangelism, Baptist General Convention of Texas Personal testimony—Walter Ayers, evangelist, Arlington, Texas "God's Preacher and His Mandate"—W. A. Criswell, pastor, First 'Church, Dallas, Texas - MAY 20, 1971 Chase-Park Plaza Hotel SUNDAY* AFTERNOON :ens^;a&otiateYprbfe&bf£pfi£^ '3:00.;/;-Vrae/Cont^^^ Dobbirisêmeritusfpfpfessp^ ministration, Southern Seminary :^pbbas;^î;^f^jiSî 7:00 Worship Through Singing 7:10 'The Upward Look":-! 7:30 "Happeni '^••••'•'•••.-V'gram! 8:00 DialbgueVwith Pleitz'ii ,8:25 Address—-Peter McLeod^pastbr^FirstFGHurchi -• • • ••:':•':. ; -,: ^-^:^^^ ~ -9:00; Worship Through;Singing: 9:10';. "The;-ypward Look" : :; 9:25 ••' • Addriess'^îll^^'iii;: !^> v;^ .lOÔ-'^'HappenihgiNow^-J^l^fMinist^^^ / roe^ church ;!trainihgidârtêhtJSuinday|Schpplj 11:10 Address-ir\Y; OHowse,;Sunday|School?Board! 12:30 .. ; XuncHebri : : tribute to jiW '" M/ ''"1;iA!FrEIWddN: 2:30 Worship in Song • 2:3 ? "The .. Upward .. _iLpok^gfJ 5 Earl MeaS 4dent,"'• Southern} Baptists Convention; "4:00 • •: Dialogue:with Bates! (^^ MONDAY^ 7:00 Worship ihTSbng : 7:10-:;i"The. Upward Lobk"^ ;t;?.j A Dynamic; Wf^pjflf S^PIM^^ ||5Sg^l^ •7:50. - -^Business s^pn^ft^ 8:10 A word from" the riew presideritr^ToegBumelte^lpresident^let^mffi • ••-. • : : - •••"•ister of'educatibn^ ; FirstChurch;';a:' : iCornmissionedivc^ntata: : :^^ - • • -" ' ' ' " '''Wpo^lCphduct^fMdl'FirstlGI^^ ;vJerry|;îebbi' "' " "' "" """ 4:00 pepartmental conferences; ;]: ^ ^f '^Localichurch division,: John , presiding -'• : •• :. : ••'••-- ; .- îiH^-iV^ji:^ 6:15 Ânnual banc-uet atvHplidayilnh; 8:15 •:: Evening session at First Church 8:30 Worship experienced-Chapel Chpu 1 ; sa; Bill Littleton; jconductpr; 9:00 Wbrid Premier: ^''Immanuer" ' Performed ;by Combined f Southern-! SemmarylOrchestfaM 9:00 A" congre^tiorial^worship -.' '.••-• • : ;'.'.::*mair Choir, 9:25 Conference;; 10:00 "Bells, Bells land 10:40 ^ program ' " MORNING
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