people of South America with a Christian message. The organization now has dis tribution in 130 countries and works with missionaries from more than 215 organizations. MR. JERRY SMITH of Everett, Wash., has been appointed Vice President for Financial Affairs at Los Angeles Baptist College. Mr. Smith will work in the area of finance and development. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship staff members, in addition to students from 57 colleges, spent Easter week sharing Christ with thousands of vacationing col legians on the Fort Lauderdale beaches. The individual presentations to colle gians featured ten-minute talks by IV staff men in addition to musical groups which performed at a coffee house lo cated nearby. DR. HOWARD HENDRICKS, under the sponsorship of Scripture Press Founda tion, has returned from a series of Chris tian education conferences in India. Dr. Hendricks commented upon his return, “Nothing has marked me as much as my recent trip to India. This was a most strategic opportunity and one of the most profitable foreign trips I have ever taken. In my judgment India is the most under-rated mission field in the world. God is opening an ever-widening door." DR. EVERETT S. GRAFFAM, Executive Vice President of World Relief Commis sion, met recently with other leaders in Viet Nam concerning their future work in that country. The ground work was laid for new projects, expanded facilities, and increased American and Vietnamese personnel. Other leaders included DR. NATHAN BAILEY, President of both WRC and the Christian and Missionary Alli ance, and DR. PAUL P. FRYHLING, Vice President of both WRC and The Evan gelical Covenant Church of America. In cluded in U.S. and Vietnamese govern ment officials at the meeting was U.S, Ambassador ELLSWORTH BUNKER. Dr. Graffam presented the Ambassador with a copy of “The Bamboo Cross,” writ ten by HOMER DOWDY, which docu ments the formation and growth of The Evangelical Church of Vietnam.
DR. W ALTER L. WILSON, beloved Bi ble teacher f r o m Kansas C i t y , Mo., went to be with the Lord May 24 after a month-long series of illnesses. He would have been 88 on the day of his funeral. His w i d o w , MRS.
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RUTH WILSON, suggested, “He will be having a wonderful celebration in heav en!” Before his death, Dr. Wilson pre pared several messages for release dur ing September broadcasts of “The Biola Hour." Narramore Christian Foundation, Rose mead, Calif., will establish the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology, and offer the Ph.D. degree in Counseling Psycholo gy. The first class will be admitted in September of 1970. DR. HAROLD LINDSELL, editor of Christianity Today, and REV. MARCUS L. LOANE, Archbishop of Sydney, Aus tralia, will be the Bible hour speakers at the U.S. Congress on Evangelism in Minneapolis, September 8-13. The Con gress is an outgrowth of the World Con gress on Evangelism in Berlin, Germany, conducted in 1966. Moody Monthly magazine, published by Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, has appointed W. DONALD REEDER director of the publication ministry. Former pub lication manager, WILLIAM BOYLE, will now devote full time to the duties of circulation manager. REV. MARTIN W. COX, Whittier, Calif., has been named program chairman of the 28th annual convention of the Na tional Association of Evangelicals to be held in Kansas City, Mo., April 7-9, 1970. He is a member of the Wesleyan Meth odist Church. REV. ARTHUR JOHNSTON, missionary of The Evangelical Alliance Mission, has been named president-elect of the St. Paul Bible College in St. Paul, Minne sota. Mr. Johnston has served as field chairman of TEAM in France, and has taught Old Testament history at the No- gent Bible School. BILLY ZEOLI, President of Gospel Films, Inc., has announced the organi zation's contact with thirty-three televi sion stations in South America for a thirteen-week series of film showings. Beginning in September, the film cov erage will be in most of the major popu lation centers of the Spanish-speaking continent. The project is being financed by Gospel Films in an effort to reach the
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