Columbia Bible College - Finial Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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take part in the very heart of the missionary enterprise. The program of intercession for missions is carried on in our school by a number of prayer groups, each one centering their attention on the needs of a particular field. Anne Kotiadis, FMF secretary, distributes the reports from various mission boards and individual workers to the prayer group leaders, who in turn, tell of the work that is being carried on in that field and mention the items for which intercessory prayer is needed. Here is prayer at work. The powers of Heaven FMF is a nationwide fellowship. The program to foster an awakening of students to the call of evangeliz- ing the regions beyond is being carried out on many campuses all over the country. Whether students are recruited by the Master to go or to stay, they should all be recruited to pray faithfully. The future of the Chris- tian work which is now being carried out does not depend primarily upon streamlining methods or re- organization. It depends upon whether the Spirit of God can persuade believers to take up the all-important AN EXTENSIVE MEDICAL TRAINING, twelve years of missionary work in the Philippines, teaching missions in several Christian colleges, and directing missionary training camps qualified Dr. Paul G. Culley for his position of Director of the Graduate School of Missions and professor of missions and hygiene. Dr. Culley was led to the Lord at an early age by his mother. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and the Winona Summer School of Theology, Dr. Culley received his B.A. and later his M.A. from Cornell University. In 1925 he received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Following a year ' s medical practice in this country, Dr. Culley went to Palestine for one year as a staff member of an archaeological expedition. In spite of all of this traveling and education. Dr. Culley still had not been able to find the one whom he believed to be God ' s choice for his life partner. It wasn ' t until 1934, after six years of missionary endeavor in the Philippines, that Dr. Culley married, in Manila, the lady who was later to become the instructor of hygiene and practical nursing at Columbia Bible College. Dr. Culley had a very fruitful ministry in the Philippines from 1928- 1940. Doing medical mission work, teaching at the Manila Evangelistic Institute, editing a monthly Bible magazine, directing a radio broadcast, and exploring new fields in the Philippines and New Guinea comprised the activities of this energetic servant of the Lord. Since his return to this country in 1940, Dr. Culley ' s time has been filled with teaching, preaching and directing missionary training as well as carrying on a medical practice. Veteran pioneer are at our disposal. The moment we bow in prayer for these laborers in the far-flung countries of the world, in that same instant this power to do the impossible becomes active in these people. Intercession for Alumni (260 now serving in the foreign countries) is aided by the publication and dis- tribution of a booklet listing their names and the fields on which they are laboring. A gift of money is also sent to these Alumni. The money is collected from banks placed in dormitory rooms. Louise Mitchell, Treasurer, announced that a goal of $1,000 was set for this purpose this vear. work of prayer— the very heart of the missionary enter- prise. FMF prayer group leaders for this year were: China, Annamae Opper and Edward Harrell; Japan, Harry Smith and Jonathan Lucas; India, Kent Hoekzema and Rueben Sulc; Moslem, Elwin Palmer and Eva Sewall; Africa, Larry Brown and Dick Griffiths; Isles of the Sea, Ernie Chun and Jack Frizen; Europe, Frank Noell and Jimmy Russ; South America, Carroll Warlick and Perry Priest; Central America, Ed Walker and Caleb Cutherell; Jewish, Jean Hampson and Virginia Penn; Home, Sylvia Jones and June Jenkins. 11

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STORY OF THE YEAR The Burden of Missions Rests Upon YOU T N SPITE OF THE FACT that the Great Commission of Jesus Christ was given nineteen and one-half cen- turies ago, the world is not yet completely evangelized. Missionary movements in past centuries, started by small groups of individuals, lacked the universal sup- port of the Church of Christ. Thus these movements were limited in their attempt to bring the Good News to the uttermost parts of the world. Missions should be the responsibility of every mem- ber of the Body of Christ. It is not a program to be carried on solely by professionals or missionary societies. It is a program that demands the enrollment of every believer. Without this universal conscription of support the missionary ef fort cannot succeed in its goal. So, the Foreign Missions Fellowship sponsors a program to reach the college students of America with this mes- sage of individual responsibility in carrying out the Great Commission. FMF ' s Role In World Missions Columbia Bible College ' s FMF chapter conducts a missionary program of a two-fold nature! First, it seeks to enlist volunteers to go out as missionaries with the Gospel message. (Two-thirds of CBC ' s student body are FMF members and missionary volunteers.) Under the leadership of Edward Iwan, President, special programs with guest speakers, usually missionaries on furlough, are presented on subjects pertaining to the call of God to a life of missionary service. Informative talks on missionary life in general, as well as opportunities for service and specific needs of the various fields are also included. These are helpful in orienting students who are purposing to go or who are considering the possibility of going as missionary volunteers. Jimmy Cail, Vice President of our chapter, directs the deputations to various churches in this area of the south. These deputations which our chapter sponsors present the same challenge of missionary service to young people of high school and college age. In these functions FMF is a student recruiting agency. The second phase of FMF ' s program at C.B.C. is that of prayer. Most of the activity of FMF is centered in this most-important of all missionary efforts. It is a prerequisite to any and all work in the Kingdom of God and a work for which there is no substitute. When the Great Commission was given by the Lord Jesus to evangelize the world, He equipped His disciples in a two-fold manner. Dr. O. Hallesby of the Independent Theological Seminary in Oslo, Norway, when speaking of this equipment says, Objectively He equipped them WYCLIFFE ' S BLACKMAN ADVISES F.M.F. ' S IWA N Prayer— the heart of missions with the Messianic gift itself, The Holy Spirit, through whom the powers of the supramundane world were put at their disposal. . . . Subjectively He had equipped them with prayer, the means by which all of these objective, supramundane powers are imparted to the individual believer. . . . Since by prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to our helplessness, and make the impossible possible, the work of praying is a prerequisite to all other work in the Kingdom of God. It is in con- nection with prayer that every individual member of the Body of Christ is responsible for the world mis- sionary effort regardless of qualifications, training, or position in life. Since intercessory prayer is the most important work in missionary effort, every believer can 10

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