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Rev. Stephen F. Olford, (right) pas tor of New York’s Calvary Baptist Church, recently met with Evangelist Billy Graham and Mr. Harold C. Gibbons
Dr. Paul S. Rees and Dr. Arthur F. Glasser have accepted invitations to serve on a five-member committee to administer the R. Kenneth Strachan Memorial Fund for World Evange lism. The Memorial Fund was an nounced in May for the purpose of honoring the memory of the Latin America Mission’s late general direc tor, aiding world evangelization by applying the principles for which Dr. Strachan was widely known. “ The acceptance by Dr. Rees and Dr. Glasser of our invitation to be mem bers of the committee is a source of great encouragement to us,” said Dr. Horace L. Fenton, general direc tor of LAM . “ The participation of these choice servants of the Lord on the committee will mean that the group will have a world-wide out look, and that Dr. Strachan’s concern for evangelism around the world. . . will be truly reflected in the Memo rial Fund which bears his name.” Mr. Cecil Potter, member of the Board of Directors of the Narramore Christian Foundation, welcomed sev eral hundred friends at the ground breaking ceremonies held on July 11 for the new international headquar ters of the Foundation. The property was donated to the foundation by Mr. Harry Calvin Weaver and is located
at Montego Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies. Mr. Gibbons (center) is the newly appointed manager of the Hotel Salisbury, 123 West Fifty- seventh Street, Manhattan, New York. The hotel is owned by Calvary Church and, with the church, shares occupancy of the sixteen-story struc ture. Mr. Gibbons was formerly resi dent manager at the fashionable Round Hill, Montego Bay. Dr. Donald N. Larson, principal of the Toronto Institute of Linguistics, has reported that over 70 young people attended the 16th session of the in stitute this summer. Almost all of them look forward to missionary service overseas. Rev. W . W . Tyler, Canadian secretary of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China In land Mission) is president of the executive committee. Billy Oceola, Indiana Chief of the Florida Seminole Indians, recently visited the 2000 Tribes Pavilion of Wycliffe Bible Translators at the World’s Fair, where he told the sightseers of his personal assistance to the work of David and Virginia West. The Wests, members of WBT, have given the Seminole language a written form, translated Scripture portions and have prepared Seminole primers and literacy aids. Chief Oceola expressed his appreciation to WBT for sending the Wests to his tribe. He states that he is a believer in Jesus Christ and a Baptist preach er as well as chief. R. G. LeTourneau and Dr. Ralph Byron will be among speakers at the 28th Annual Christian Business .Men’s Committee International Convention to be held October 20-24 at the Hil ton, San Francisco. Other speakers for the Convention include the Hon orable E. C. Manning, Premier, Alberta, Canada. Further information may be obtained by writing Box 208, Lom bard, Illinois.
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