~ = ea een ‘ 8 8 i banentee enemy regen Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head, And joy, like a pearl, Attend the need of all mankind. Of such I dreamed... OUR WORLD!”’ TEACHING, DOIT. GIVING, GOING, LIVING, FUNDS FOR FIELD SECRETARIES CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Wilhelmina Cole, Blvd., Apt. 1113, Euclid, Ohio 44123 CO-CHAIRMAN: 2410 Lakeshore Mrs. R. C. Robinson, 2956 Lafayette Street, Denver, Colorado 80205 WILL Funds for Field Secretaries is a Committee interested in providing services on the field, so that churches around the nation may be acquainted with the program of our denomination. Our Convention needs to know the needs on the field; and the field needs to know how it can serve the church’s needs. Money raised by this Committee shall be used on- ly for Foreign Missions. Money raised by this Committee will, therefore, go to defray the expenses of Field Secretaries. 59 HEALTH FUNDS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS IN HOME MISSIONS CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Virginia Turner, Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11212 CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Joyce Justice, neapolis, Wichita, Kansas 67214 359 2006 Rensem North are times when certain special projects Home Mission Committee. for some HEALTH need needy workers who Promotion of workshops on Geratology. Provision for Causeways—both Urban and Rural. 6. Florals and deceased officers. special remembrances to families IS WEALTH AN ODE TO HEALTH — Sterne that has thee has little more to wish for.’’ 4. Promotion of workshops on Volunteerism. 5. How- ‘““C) blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; ’tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He 2. Special recognition of some of our Senior Citizens. 3. 432 There is an old Arabian proverb which says: ‘‘He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.’’ Dr. Johnson says that ‘‘Health is so necessary to all the duties as well as the pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering is equal the folly.”’ have served long in the convention, but are now incapacitated. North 2214 E. 83rd St., 88th very special needs we have insupplement the funds for the of our CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Henrietta N. Hopkins, 54 W. St., No. 401, Stamford, Connecticut 06902 CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Gertrude Flemming, land Ave., Pontiac, Michigan 48053 These might include: 1. Gifts UNIT Min- funds that may not be provided for by our Home Mission Committee, so for these stituted a committee to NURSES CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Rebecca Cook, Cleveland, Ohio 44103 CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Mable Harris, 17823 Avenue Northeast, Bothell, Washington 98011 There AND of It is the business of this Committee to— 1. Focalize its efforts in a nationwide diseases, in our churches and communities. 2. To enlighten and health for all the people. enlist the public fight against in regards to To rally parents, churches and communities to support teaching services as constructive health programs and 3. agencies for healing and for preventing diseases. Money raised by this Committee will be used for Special Home Mission Needs not otherwise provided for. Jesus Christ was greatly concerned about the restoration of the individual to good health and He did much about it. Our Churches and Missionary Societies should follow the example of our Leader. 61 HOME MISSIONARIES OF MERCY “Charity is the child of Compassion. the child of Christ.’’ The Christian emergencies without church must be embarrassment to prepared or ts Compassion confusion. meet The conditions under which many people live and the psychological effect of crowds and excitement on some are likely to provoke physical reactions that require expert, first-aid service. Courses in first aid or practical nursing have opened doors to many women who have a natural gift for nursing but cannot take nurse’s training as a profession. These women are in our churches and are rendering invaluable service in homes, in communities and, as a part of their Christian ministry to the church. Every local church is invited to membership in the National Unit. This committee encourages services that will promote physical and mental care. It should make use of programs offered through health centers, films, medical services and community involvement. AND FAMILY LIFE Mrs. CO-CHAIRMAN: Flower Stock Road, 21045 Marguerite H. Jackson, 8891 No. 202, Columbia, Maryland The character of a Nation’s life depends, upon extent, the character Continued social “The problem Street, Harvey CHAIRMAN: Mrs. C. C. Coleman, 355 Box 187, Grenada, Mississippi 38901 progress of its home and family life in possible without a wholesome generator of Moral Progress. moral the to a great family life. the chief sense as is not of the family is by far the weightiest problem before the American People at the present time.’’ We, therefore, face the challenge to have a Home and Family Life Committee in our Mission societies, Districts and State programs that we may help many of our houses to become homes. Says Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ‘‘A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind and soul, as well as for the body.”’ From our Hand Book of Yester-Year, we quote— Heaven; from came ‘‘The Home Hamilton: James manmany the and modeled after The Father’s House, sions, and meant the one to be a training place for the other.’ THE HOME IS ONE OF THE GIFTS OF THE LORD JESUS — A SPECIAL CREATION OF CHRIS- TIANITY. With these facts before us, realize we the sacred and tremendous responsibility of those who take it upon themselves to establish homes. Charles H. Spurgeon said: ‘‘When HOME cording The money raised by this Committee shall go for the purchase, preparation and circulation of Health Education Materials, and the National Baptist Youth Camp and Senior Retreat. to God’s might word, angels This statement be asked is ruled ac- to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.’’ leads us up to the SPIRITUAL, MORAL AND SOCIAL PINNACLE TO WHICH EVERY HOME SHOULD BE LIFTED. The Bible is the Guide, and should be read daily in the home. Too many of our HOMES have hit an all time ‘‘low,”’ 63 mos spiritually, morally and socially! In too many of our homes there are NO ties that BIND. There is no love strong enough to seal the bonds of affection, devotion and love. This committee is designed to promote programs that will help in building a strong family life throughout convention territory, offering Christian Family Relations. courses in Homemaking and HOME B. Melton, A. Mrs. CHAIRMAN: MISSIONS Ave., Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401 1726 Thirty-Second CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Dayton, Ohio 45403 Lucile Pauley, 255 Henry Street, CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Dallas, Texas 75216 Ila Mae DID YOU 2210 Dugald, Johnson, KNOW? Our Committee works in conjunction with the Home Missions Board of the Parent Body. The Charles Dr. late P. Harris in DID his YOU KNOW? and THE WHAT, WHY AND HOW OF THE HOME MISSION BOARD informs us: THAT—The ultimate goal of the Home Mission OF CHRISTIANIZATION TOTAL Board is THE AMERICA? THAT—Miegrant workers, teenage parents, drop-outs from high school and colleges, people displaced by Urban Renewal Programs, members of broken homes, unwed mothers, the psychologically, sociologically and economically maladjusted Missions? THAT— You work? are all the concern of Home can and must help in this most important To these, the Women wish to add the support of Christian institutions and the promotion of Christian Educa- Money raised by this Committee shall go for the purchase, preparation, and circulation of material for the education of our entire constituency on prob- lems affecting Home and Family Life and for support of the National Youth Camp and _ Senior Retreat. 64 tion at all levels. 1. Our Woman’s 2. means Convention must that we must first class brightest at go into the business of Home Missions job. The light that home sends its rays farthest abroad. That do a shines winning souls and cleaning up the debris which sin has brought into our homes, into our communities, and scattered over the earth. 65 3. In the field of Home Missions, the Woman’s Convention must discover and assume responsibility for the education of young people for Christian service. A pro- gressive Organization must assume responsibility for training its own leaders. Millions of people ‘‘are still untouched by the ministry of the church. On any Sunday morning at least one hun- dred million people in the United States do not attend church service.’’ ‘‘Over half the children of the country are outside the influence of Christian education.’’ It will require an army of well-prepared preachers, trained Christian teachers, putting in full time, to draw the people to the Church and to expose them to the saving influence and power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Individual Churches cannot do it. The Church of God must unite and go into the field like a mighty army. Its enlistment and training must be as efficiently managed as enlistment and training for War. This committee encourages participation in the programs of the Home Mission Board and engages in meeting needs at home. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND GUESTS CHAIRMAN: Rev. Mrs. Trudie L. Foote, Ave., S., Chicago, Illinois 60619 7755 CO-CHAIRMAN: 307 Dolphin Mrs. Helen V. Benton, Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21217 Christians are WORLD CITIZENS. Indiana A Christian or- ganization has World Responsibility, and World Interest. We are just as responsible for the far away peoples of the earth, as we are for the people next door to us. God, through Science, has annihilated distance and time. If the gospel is not presented to the WHOLE WORLD by this generation, it will be because we are not Christian enough to doit. Here is the challenge. GOD OF ALL NATIONS No man can wrap his cloak about him and say that he will stand alone, that his life shall not influence nor be influenced by other lives. This is a day when not only is the individual affected by the lives of those about him, but as a nation we influence other nations and are influenced by them. As American Christians mingle with those of other nations the world may see our nation as Christian. Participation in International Conferences affords us another avenue to world understanding. It is important to encourage youth and adults to adventure in a mission of world understanding. Every year 60,000 or 70,000 students and visitors from other parts of the world come to our country for study. Money raised by this Committee shall be used to promote the National Baptist Youth Camp and Senior Retreat; the Walter H. Brooks Foundation at Howard University, Washington, D.C., and Christian Education. 66 Others come as members of their embassies or delegates to the United Nations. Many welcome an invitation to our churches and especially to our homes. Only in our homes will non-Christians observe Christian family life. This Committee may be called on for helps and suggestions for inviting international students and guests and for their entertainment. 67 LITERATURE the Money raised by this Committee shall be used for American Baptist Theological Seminary. DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Myra L. Taylor, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30314 118 W. Lake Ave., CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Beatrice B. Jackson, Terrace, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08034 17 Ranaldo READ—KNOW—GROW The literature of an institution or an organization embodies its culture, its characteristics, its course, its climate, its credulence, its compass, its circumference, and its Christianity. Literally, we live in our literature. It is the substance of the things we hope for. It is the evidence of the things unseen. It brings the beauty of LIFE to the ashes of our despair. It brings the height of hope to our valleys of despondency. It brings the light of eternal brilliance into the gloom of our ignorance and stupidity. It speaks of the unspeakable. It tells of the untellable. It thinks of the unthinkable. It mentions the unmentionables. It touches the untouchable. It speaks of the unspeakable as it reveals to man the things of God, which are wonderful, glorious and sublime. Nothing takes the place of good books. It is the business of a Christian organization, such as ours, to give full time to this enriching, mental, spiritual and social ministry and service. Read more. Know more. Do more. Be more. Live more. No church leader is fit to speak to the people, that they go forward unless she has light or life from Christian Literature. Every leader needs a library—if it has in it only a few standard and current books. All organizations that must make friends, supporters, build a program or promote a cause must have literature to sell their ideals, secure cooperation and promote sound growth. See our List of Available Literature. 73 iz WOMEN OF ALL ERAS— CRIME ALAVE scbccuaswseneeewkaune $2.00 per copy A Pageant involving every woman — Biblical Study, understanding Commitment By Mrs. Sue Cowan Williams THE NEW NATIONAL PLAN BOOK.............. RURAL, HOME AND FAMILY LIFE.............. By Mrs. Mattie Daniels SOCIAL PROTOCAL: FOCUS ON CHRISTIANS .....................0.. By Mrs. Marguerite P. Williams if i ie et ti HI i at it “REMEMBER” is {1 H rit ,i4 at F i CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Helen W. Falls, 2037 St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105 LOVE East 17th LIVES IN LOYALTY Loyalty marks the highest form or quality of fidelity. It fulfulls, it completes, carries out, and finishes. Every woman in our Convention owes her loyalty to the Convention espouses. All of its projects are worthy, and are, therefore, entitled to the support of An informed church is an interested church; An interested church is an active church; An active church is a serving church; A serving church is a Christian church. t CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Lurlean Trotter, 7201 Claremont Ave., N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 every cause A reading church is an informed church; cit LOYALTY FUND Selected every National Baptist Woman. Loyalty cannot be talked out. It must be acted out. The Committee on Loyalty, therefore, solicits the individual loyalty as well as the collective loyalty of the women of our Constituency in the promotion of her program of World Missions. Please contribute generously boxes. Organize your District Loyalty Box. This concern abroad. and a Loyalty committee in through Committee your in your State. Supply every raises funds for projects Christian outreach, I WOULD loyalty whether Society, woman at with a of special home or BE TRUE ‘‘T would be true, for there are those who trust me; Money raised by this Committee shall be used for promotion, production, publication, and for support of the National Retreat. 76 Baptist Youth Camp and Senior I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all—the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh and love and lift.”’ ie: 1 Sy ve i “ seer + hier RAGE ps eared ix RN aN el Ai = MINISTERS’ WIVES ee 8 Money from this fund shall be used for General Operation of The Woman’s Convention. the CHAIRMAN: Mrs. I. S. Powell, Jr., 521 N. Alcaniz St., Pensacola, Florida 32501 Et Speman ome CO-CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Nellie G. Morgan, Avenue, Meridian, Mississippi 39301 312 64th LEST SHE FORGETS er The Minister’s Wife has a marvelous opportunity to live a life brim full of sacrificial service, of rich friendships, and companionships with people of all races, creeds and status. ocean ace a a MO — ne EE ne lly Se EN ey VURNT Seas UneTea aw fetes a eH | onegun wes SPN ty F i matt ec, Sogne ocnat She will be expected, above all others, to live out the oa sermon the minister preaches. She will do well to remember always that she is to keep her head when all about her are losing theirs and blaming it on her minister husband. She will be expected to maintain her poise and dignity even under the most trying circumstances. She must open her mouth with wisdom; and her tongue must be the law of kindness. She must look well to the ways Of her household and eat not the bread of idleness. Then her children will rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also and he shall praise her. Let her find her place in her Church and in society and fill it with all the grace, real intelligence, dignity and Christian character, which she can muster. This day and age is making its demands upon her as well as affording her the greatest and richest opportunities in a lifetime. The Ministers’ Wives Committee is working to the end that every Minister’s Wife will be able to play well her role in the educational, social, civic and religious life of the community and the world about her. The minister’s wife is of vital importance to the minister and church for she is his constant companion and confidant. Her dedication to the total program of the church and its leadership enhances the work in a unique 79 Seneess eae ai «hilt OE i > ma. Sas AG LC A DEDICATION TO MINISTERS’ WIVES (sung to the tune of Londonderry Air) Women of God, today, today is calling For consecrated service full and free; Pleadings for love upon our ears are falling, nn ne eA Re x ¥, Tks Snes Money raised by this Committee shall be used for The Youth Camp and Senior Retreat. ' ae And they ring out clearly to you and me. Oh what a privilege to labor with one Who’s charged with leading all the sons of men, i | i May we then rise, prepare for special task begun i ih i HH That only such a challenge can to us extend. Let’s join our hearts and hands in dedication To all the services in our power to give, Trusting in Him who made and rules all nations That we may lift and lead and love and live; And that we strive to work always together, Showing the strength there is in unity, aa Our hearts rejoicing over victories won eas Then shall we answer how we made the journey Misunderstood, off burdened and depressed, With faith in God, with hope and love unending By Mary O. Ross 80 81 ee +=? O Lord, to Thee for rest. SE ee Re Mee Wat We come at last—at last, , A Ff And when our day of services shall be ended, Thank God for grace and honors thus extended To so unworthy servants smiled upon; = WW AS CET ae : a For we must hold and never, never sever The friendships that one common task forms perfectly. s_C d Spal ight ah _ nen soe = ss peer aA ee Let’s continue to sing this song dedicated to Ministers’ Wives— I. Sebi Alger Be DARE Se , 2a Ta es Rh N a 3% aS BE Se eee: aeemenene q way. This committee has the opportunity to express Christian service on many levels.