of recruits expected in 1954, the CIM is planning for two candidate schools in Philadelphia next year, one begin ning in April and the other in Sep tember. These will be geared to the two sessions of the central language school in Singapore next year. According to A. J. Lea, Overseas Director, it will be necessary to have about 500 missionaries on the field by the end of 1954. This figure is a minimum, to take care of work to which the Mission is already commit ted. The Mission is expanding its work to meet the challenging of the unmet need of the Far East. Hi»la Missionary Project E ach year, through the executive committee of the Student Mission ary Union, B iola students are giv en a selection of worthy missionary projects from which one is chosen as the object of their missionary giving for the school year. After several weeks of prayerful investigation it was decided that they would stand back of our own Dr. Charles Roberts, former director of the Hunan Bible Institute (B iola in China) now the superintendent of B iola ’ s missionary outpost in Hong Kong, the nearest any missionary can get to Communist China. Dr. Roberts, who now manages the Fraternity Book Room in Hong Kong, pastors a church, and supervises the medical clinic, has expressed the ur gent need for a Christian youth cen ter to reach the thousands of Chinese young people who have swarmed into Hong Kong for employment: It is this project which the B iola student body has selected for this school year. It is hoped that at least $6,000 can be supplied to Dr. Roberts before school closes in June. World Missionary Tour ¥|eparting from the International II Airport in Los Angeles on Janu ary 17, Oran H. Smith, director of the B iola missions department, ex pects to meet Dr. Louis T. Talbot, chancellor, in Cairo, Egypt, to start their long journey through Africa. Mr. Smith will spend some time in Spain and Italy before going on to Cairo. All reports from Dr. Talbot indi cate that his journey into the South Pacific and the Far East has not been in vain. Through a personal friend in a government position he has been able to get into the heart of New Guinea to photograph primitive tribes. Dr. Talbot expects to return to Los Angeles some time in April.
MISSIONARY SYMPOSIUM What do missionary leaders look for most in new recruits for missionary service? and opportunities of the mission aries.
Every church member should re ceive at least one good missionary periodical and keep abreast with the missionary development ill his own denomination or fellowship o f . Christian churches. The Sudan Interior Mission has a very helpful little publication entitled, Projects, Programs and Plans for Missionary Groups. The Sudan Interior Mission headquar ters is located at 164West Seventy- Fourth Street, New York 23, N. Y. Why is it that white men, especially Americans, are not made welcome in some foreign countries as they were a few years ago? The primary reason for this is the exploitation of the people by white men, but in addition to this, there seems to be a growing mis understanding that all Americans are millionaires and that all the rest of the world is starving. We are being blamed for not doing more to relieve the hunger and poverty of other countries. There is a third reason why Americans are not as welcome as they were at one time. This is because of the rising tide of na tionalism. People of many lands are coming out of a deep sleep, as it were, to discover that they have rights of their own, and if given the proper opportunity can be as successful as the Americans or anyone else. American educational facilities are still welcome, but the nationals want to reserve the right to propagate^ their own religious convictions. With so many closed doors in mission ary work today, is the missionary op portunity becoming greatly limited? No, the missionary opportunity is greater today than it has ever been before in spite of the fact that some countries do not permit foreign missionaries to enter. We must take into account that even though foreign missionaries are not given the opportunity of enter ing some countries there are na tional believers who are carrying on the effective missionary work. This is true in Communist China today and time will no doubt re veal that there have been great strides of progress made by the national Chinese Christians dur ing this time that the foreign mis sionary has been prohibited.
Candidate secretaries are looking for well-trained young people who know what it means to take up their cross daily and follow the Lord, young people who are hum ble and are willing to submit to those who are in places of leader ship over them. It is essential that missionary recruits be men and women of faith and courage who know how to dig out from the Word of God those things which are needful for their own soul. Naturally every missionary candi date should be a soul winner and those who have a gift for teaching are especially desirable because the work of the missionary is be coming more and more a teaching ministry. What can you suggest as means for stimulating missionary interest in the local church? The pastor seems to hold the key to missionary interest in a church. If the pastor is interested many wonderful things can be done to encourage others in the missionary program, but if the pas tor is not interested there is little that can be done except as indi viduals take a personal interest. The missionary conference idea which has come into prominence in the last few years has probably done more to stir the hearts of church people to the missionary cause than any other single pro gram. Missionary speakers are in vited, missionary exhibits are dis played and missionary films are given wide usage. Boys and girls’ missionary story- clubs are helpful. A program of missionary study in the Sunday school has its place. The school of missionary missions, a series of six to ten weeks of missions stud ies, one night a week, is a good idea. Good and attractive mission ary literature should be available to the members of the local church. Names of missionaries should be mentioned in the pastoral praying as well as in the intercessory min istry at the regular mid-week prayer services. By writing to missionaries in different parts of the world, inter esting news letters can be received and individual church members can be kept informed of changing world conditions and of the needs
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