The southern news., 1946-05-25
ANNUAL MINISTER'S
INSTITUTE At SHAW
II. JUNE 1914

RALEIGH-The annual Minis
tiers Institute will be held at
SHAW University for one week
from June l0-l4. During the
same week a Leadership Training
Conference in cooperation with
the Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Convention Of North
Carolina viii be held. The sum-
ner training program for minis
tiers and women missionary work
erS will provide courses Of study,
discussions and special lectures
dealing with problems of special
concern to pastors and women
leaders.
The school is sponsored by the
Department of Religious promo
ton Of Shaw University with the
cooperation of the General Bap-
fist State Convention, including
|the Departments of Religious Ed
'ucation and Training. the Wom-
|ans Home and Foreign Mission
convention Of N. c., and the
Home Mission Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention.
DR.. Robert T. Daniel, president
IPf the University, is director;
Dean William R. Strassner of the
School of Religion, General Su-
Dervisor. Other officers include,
he Rev. Thomas Kilgore, Insti-
ute secretary; Mrs. Martha j.
Brown, director fthe Missionary
conference; Dr.. j. T. Hairston,
Institute chairman. and DR.. P.
IA. Bishop, president OF the Gen
Fra Baptisf State 'Conkention, CO.
chairman. Mrs. Ellen S. Aston,
Missionary conference chairman;
EMrs. Viola Mcmillan, president,
|Woman's convention; Mrs. An
Inle fillmore, convention secretary;
|Mrs. J. E. McGrier, supervisor Of
the junior department, and Miss
Eva Merritt. president of the juni-
|or department.
Special lectures for the session
will include, DR., Harry V. Rich
|ardSon, chaplain of Tuskegee In
|stltute, executive secretary, the
Phelps Stokes fund and the Home
mission Council of North Ameri-
|ca, The Rural Church" DR.. A..
IA. Watts, pastor of Greater Beth
|esoa Baptist Church, Chicago and
lecturer in Religion at Bishop
College. the Book of jeremiah:
Or. j. T. Hill, pastor of Second
Baptist Church, Richmond, and
professor in Theology, Virginia
Union University, Pastoral Theo-
logy. Miss Mildred A. Thornhill.
director of the Shaw University
choir, Church Music" The Rev.
). +. Dean, executive secretary of
the State Association of Credit
Unions and Cooperatives, Co
operatives and Rural Life" The
Introductory sermon will be de-
hvered by the Rev. H. H. Hart of
Winton, NJ C. The conference
sermon will be preached by the
Rev. ]. w. Hairston, pastor of
MT. Zion Baptist Church, Ashe-
vile, N. C.
Classes and study units in the
Wonlen's Missionary Training
Conference will include, a class
IN senior department taught by
Mrs. Marcella Ford, instructor in
1ellglous education at Shaw
University; class in junior de-
partment, taught by Mrs. Robert
P. Daniel, wife of the University
president; a study unit on using
the outline in a missionary pro-
gram, Mrs. Martha ]. Brown,
field secretary of the Women's
Home and Foreign Missionary
convention of N. c.; unit or
methods of organization in the
junior department, Mrs. j. E. Me
Grier, supervisor of the Junior
Department; a project on recra-
alton for church and home, Mrs.
Martha J. Brown The theme ad-
dress of the Women's conference
will be delivered Monday night by
Mrs. G.. w. Watkins of Oxford,
N. c.
The all-conference reception
will be held Thursday night, June
l2. at which time President and
Mrs. Daniel will be at home to
members of the institute,