The Ohio Independent Baptist, September 1964

Cover Picture Baptist Mid-Missions sem1nar comple·ted with 43 candidat·es Cedarville College wa ho t to the annual Bapti t Mid-Mission candidate eminar held July 19-Aug. 1. The purpo e of the seminar wa ro orien– tate the potenti,al mi sionarie with the principle practices, and pro– gram of Mid-Missions. Out of 17 eminars 10 of the e have been held on the campus of Cedarville Coll ege. The mi ionarie atitending the emi– nar have been ,approved for their re- pective field s by the general council . After the completion of the ceminar they will do deputation work among the churches until their support i suf– ficient so they can be sent to the field . The 43 candidates will be going in,to 13 different fields of mi ss ionary work . The lectures were provided by the administrative staff o.f Baptis,t Mid– Missions and senior mi s ionari ec; giv– ing fi eld surveys . Clas es wer e held intermittently from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Some of the ubjects for di cu ion wer e : Principles and Policies ; Article of F aith and Baptist Distinctive : Field Council Admini stration ; Deputa,tion Work ; Soul Winning~ Baptist and Churoh Organization ; Ecclesiastical Separation ; Mission Financial Policie Language Study· Cultural Anthropo– logy; Missionary H e,alth ; Public Re– lat ions~ Personal Budgets; Mi ssionary Ethi cs; Missionary Photogra,phy; Printing, Publishing, and Radio on the Mi ssion Field ; and Promotional quipment. Mi <;s ionary manual and other liter ature were provided for these lectures. Veteran mi sionarie have <;a id that thi s acceler a ted pro– gram in two weeks' time i equi valent to five years of ori entati on on the field . The manu als pr inted by Bap– tis t Mid-Mission are u~ed in sever al schools and seminaries and are on file in the libr ari es of 43 school~ as I eference ma terial . he li st of . taff 111embcr · pa rti ci– J>a ting as in struc tor in th is seminar \\'ere : Rev. Deni cl 1 .... Osbt1rn , and i– date ecre lar)i and Direc tor of t l1e \ e111ir1ar ; Mr. Ar thur ... et1er , rcas– urer and ~oreign M issions ecrctar)'; J ev. 1ordon D. Mellish, anadian J epre etati,,e; Rev. l{obert [..,. R}erse, ntl1 rn Depu tatior1 ecretary ; ev. 1'1 i I t n D. Ar 11oId, o l l t J1 cr 11 Dcp tJ ta- t i rn ; Re,,. Jc n H . Rot1cl1, 1.D., M elli- (Continued on page 12) H OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIS Austria beckons r \ Ethe l Lutke, Betty She lton and Roland She lton look to Aus tr ia for se rv ice under Baptist Mid-Miss ion s. Eyes on India Ca ndid a tes and missiona r ies for India. (Left to Rig ht) are Sandra Ba nasik, Na ncy Lewis, Sharon Gard ne r, Dalton Crosby, Marg ue r ite Crosby, J ames Dods , Audrey Dod s and Dr . Gene Burrows . Brazil bound I hese couples look forward to Brazil. Front row (left to Right) are Ed,,a Evan:,, Phyllis V./ilcox, Diane Fray, and Ilene Santo), Back row (Left 10 Right) are Erwin £:vans, Gordon \~ilco , Marvin Fray and Reginald Santos. SEP I EMBER , 1964 PAGE 3