A monthly column of names in the news Twenty-four years after graduating from the Bible Institute of Los An geles, twin missionary brothers, Don and Dick Hillis, returned to receive honorary doctor of divinity degrees at the school’s annual spring com mencement exercises. Preceding their current work with Orient Crusades,
Twin honors for D ick <&Don Don served as a missionary in India while brother Dick was active in China prior to the Communist rule. In Grand Rapids there was another twin-billing as the Zondervan Publish ing House announced two contests— the $5,000 Fifth International Chris tian Fiction Contest as well as a $500 Song Writing Contest to find new action songs and choruses for chil dren. Recognizing the aridness of the Christian literary and musical landscape, the publishers hope to un cover new talent as well as encourage already established writers and com posers to produce a lush crop of ma terial for. the Christian public. In Manila, 125 representatives of nearly every evangelical group in the city (including Child Evangelism Mis sion, Berean Mission, Far Eastern Gospel Crusade, International Christian Leprosy Mission, Orient Crusades, various Bap tist groups, etc.) met to plan a Chris tian school for missionary children. The need was as obvious as the old mathematical formula that two plus two equals four. With the Philippine school curriculum differing sharply from U.S. standards, the only other alternative for missionaries is to home-train their children or send them to high-priced boarding schools. But when the proposed school, to be called Faith Academy, opens its doors in June 1957, it will include a board ing school for missionaries in the provinces, provide a 12-year curricu lum based on U.S. school standards and offer Christian schooling to mem bers of the American community.
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