I thank the leadership of that division for their contribution. Significant lay leadership in North America has carried both the vision and the purse to make possible the ACTS programs which are currently going on. The target is 100,000 baptisms, and it is clear that number will be exceeded. I acknowledge that contribution and thank the mission-driven lay leadership for it. But it all points to something which has unlimited scope and potential.
Resources are probably the only human limitation.
I wish that as we go into a new quinquennium the General Conference would set up an Advisory Council of Evangelism and Witness, as a somewhat permanent fixture in our jungle of committees. We already have a Global Mission office with its assignment primarily in unentered areas. I just want to make sure that we coordinate our planning to maximum efficiency. Witness for our Lord is the one thing that must succeed. Where that does not happen, the very breathing of the Church falters, and its vision of the future becomes dimmed and uncertain.