The work goes on. The rest of this history could be written on any word processor with a good search and replace feature. You would only have to change the years and keep adding missionaries and fields. There are problems, and policy has to be debated. The missionary force is aging.
Deputation takes too long.
All those sent forth do not stay. However, the Baptist Bible Fellowship International today is the largest independent Baptist foreign mission agency, with 880 adult missionaries serving on 111 fields, in the world, whose support is contributed by over 4,000 churches. Bob Baird is the fourth and current mission director. The Mission Committee is larger and the daily business takes up a lot more room than Miss Sage's desk, but if Mr. Donnelson were to try on that new suit today, it would fit all right, especially in the arms.