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children’s meetings with the avowed purpose of disturbing and hampering the work. She told the missionary that her f a t h e r was a very un godly man and that she had decided that she wanted to be a friend of his and to go to hell with him. She went on to say, however, that after listening to the missionary teaching the children, she was strongly moved to give her life to the Lord. She came to the missionary after one of the services and said she would like to be saved if she could be sure that she would be able to hold out. After being assured that God would not only save her, but keep her, she stood quietly for several minutes and then yielded her life completely to the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. As she arose from her knees she ran to her twin sister, and said, “Joyce, I have just been saved and it is really wonderful!” T HIS girl became a very enthusiastic missionary for Christ in that com munity, and just a few days ago, wrote to the international headquarters and told how much she was enjoying her work and how grateful she was to be a member of the family of God. Hun dreds of similar testimonies could be given by the thirty missionaries now in the field. T HE work of the missionaries is un der the direction of Miss Helen Geis- ler of Valley City, North Dakota. Miss Geisler owned and operated a Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Store for sixteen years before giving up her business and de voting her entire time to this work. S URELY this o r gani za t i on is de serving of the support of all of God’s people. Do not fail to put the Christian Business and Professional Women of America on your prayer list. It will be interesting to friends of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles to know that five of its graduates are engaged in this worth-while service: Matilda Alexander and Rosalee Cole man, ’42; Dorothy Starr and Eldora Yensen, ’43; Rose Parnakian, ’44, and Ruth Eagle, ’45. In addition, Mrs. Helen Duff Baugh and Mrs. Evangeline Duff McNeill, mentioned in this article, were stu dents at Biola, and, before graduating, went out into evangelistic work as musicians. Miriam Bracken was at one time secretary to the dean of Biola.
The nity for fellowship and testimony in these eighteen Councils. They meet regularly for a dinner hour program. Prominent evangelical speakers are brought in to present the Gospel at these meetings. Intensive work is done to bring unsaved friends into these meetings to hear the message of the Gospel. Thirty missionaries are now supported in rural America by members of the Councils and other Christian friends. C HRISTIAN young women, sent out by this organization as its messen gers, are carefully and prayerfully re cruited under the personal supervision o f the national chairman. The chair man personally visits America’s train ing centers, well known for their thor oughness in training young people for consecrated Christian ministry. Only graduates from such institutions who can provide the best of recommenda tions are selected for the work of mes sengers. These messengers are not only selected for their reputation as consecrated Christians, but also for their outstanding, God-given abilities in organization and promotion, for talent in music and song leading, and particularly for their tact in meeting and dealing with children and young people. S CORES of testimonies have come from both pastors in rural com munities and from persons reached for the Lord by these workers. Such a witness comes from “Jeanette” of Clear Lake, Washington, telling about a girl who was saved during their stay in that community. T HIS missionary tells of a young girl of thirteen who came to business and professional women, and through them, to sponsor and di rect the evangelizing of rural Ameri ca, to direct missionaries to rural dis tricts, small towns and villages, and to assist in the work through dona tions and gifts.” L OCAL groups of Christian business and professional women known as “ Councils” are now established in Port land, Seattle, Spokane, Denver, St. Paul, Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Dayton, Oakland, Omaha, Des Moines, Vancouver, Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chattanooga, and In dianapolis. T WENTY-FIVE hundred business and professional women find opportu
Mrs. Helen Duff Baugh
A God-blessed, nation-wide move ment, sponsored by Christian business and professional wom en, is sweeping over America. movement is the result of the blending into one work, the two visions which came to three prominent Christian workers on the Pacific Coast. E ARLY in 1943, Mrs. Helen Duff Baugh of Portland, Oregon, Miss Miriam Bracken of Blair, Nebraska, and Mrs. Evangeline Duff McNeill of Portland, Oregon, had two common visions of two great needs in America. T HESE three Christian leaders saw the need for Christian testimony and fellowship among the business and professional women of the cities and hamlets throughout the United States. They also saw the tremendous need of making Christ known to. the boys and girls, men and women of rural America. The latter vision came to them In their personal experiences in these rural communities, and in the multitude of reports coming from these districts, which indicated that churches were closing in many rural areas, and in others, pastors with three or four churches to a charge were seriously handicapped in their testimony and work. O N DECEMBER 20, 1944, Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Department of State at Salem, Oregon, bringing into existence the CHRIS TIAN BUSINESS AND PROFES SIONAL WOMEN OF AMERICA. This nonprofit organization is incorpo rated for “the purpose oi «sponsoring, superintending, and d i r e c t i n g the formation of local groups o f Christian
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