Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

crease OF 293 over 1860. The
rumber Of churches increased
by 228.
Contributions through theSe
churches and missions amount
eel to S3,62l, 908.56, up $685.
6i8.2S from the year before.
oixty-one per cent of the
churches, or 2.204, were self
supporting.
Sunday schools sponsored by
the overseas Baptist in 1861
enrolled 4l9,744 persons; youth
organizations, 1923; Women's
missionary Unions, l26,93l:
Brotherhoods, 1929; and Va
cation Bible schools, 1865.
This information is recorded
In the Southern Baptist Mis-
sion Boards 1861 report, a
compilation of figures and
facts from the countries and
territories where Southern
Baptist Convention :. TIC =.
Baptist Missionaries serve. Tho
annual report will be present.
! eel to the Southern Baptist
Convention when it meets i'm
San Francisco, Calf, in June.
AT the end of 1861 there were
l,548 Southern Baptist mission
arieS-657 men, 664 married
women, and 227 single women
serving with the churches
and missions and in various
other phases Of Baptist work
overseas. The Foreign Mission
Board appointed lO3 mission
aries during the year, for a
net gain Of So after retirements
and designations.
The new missionaries in
c!ude the first for Germany
to do English-speaking work.
and the French West Indies
bringing the number of geo
graphical entities served by
the Board to ~ a. years end
10 in Latin America, IL in the
Orient, four in the Near East,
eight in Africa, and six in
Europe. (Foreign missionaries
olso serve at the Baptist Spar
ism Publishing House in Ell
IPaso, Tex, and on loan in Ha-
wan, where responsibility for
6aptlst work has transferred
from the Board to the Hawai-:
baptlst Convention at the close
Iof 1860.
| Missionaries worked along
s'oe 1865 nationals who were
engaged in church-related vo-
:ahons, l,725 of them ordained
hinisters. LAST year saw the
Iordinatlon of the first national
pastors in the history of South
fern missions in Tanganyika
land PERU
l. Heiplng to train nationals
.oI leadership in their church
les and countries were l.O26
Baptist schools. with enroll
mentS totaling l62,462. These
included 80 theological semin-
aries, with l,l9l students: six
Women'S training schools. with
,7o; y colleges and teacher
tralning schools, with e.41O. o.
secondary schools, with 26. 2O4.
.oO elementary schools, with
aia,474; 1856 kindertens, with
s'61S; and six other schools
with l35. On the faculties were
3oo missionaries and 5,6s7 ma
|tionals. ~
Ten good will centers. staff
cd by 10 missionaries and 40
nationals, enrolled 1898 chill
cren and 1857 adults. And 16
oIphanases, stated by six
missionaries and "a nationals
| girls. ''i
Medical treatment was Civ
en- to 299,824 patients in 1851
oy IL Baptist hospitals over
seas and Sc clinics and dispens-
aries (three new dental clinic.
were opened.) Serving these
heolcal centers were Sc mis-
slonary doctors, SO nationa,
doctors, SIS missionary nurses
Z4o national nurses, % other
nationals '"
sixteen publishing cepters
produced 100000 copies of the
Bible, 4,505,93s copies of aas
periodicals, 5O6.665 copies of
ao4 books, and 1880 copies NJ
$50 tracts. There were 81
missionaries and 437 nationals
IN publication work.
ANY statistical survev 10
only partial report of work
accomplished in a year of mis-
|S,onary endeavor," said DR.
|Dr. Baker J. Cauthen exec,,
i've secretary of the FOREIGN
MISSION Board, in releasing the
1901 information. For every
person . baptized there are many
|p,ners in some stage of inouiry
ABOUT the gospel of Jesus.o
he added that there is M
way 10 measure the impact OF
christianity upon ethical and
moral standards Of the coun.
,ries where mission work is
oeing done. I'm most lands
1nrlstian groups have an in
luence far out of proportion
70 their numbers" he said.