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News Briefs: August 11, 1997

SIM and HCJB World Radio haveagreed to a work-sharing agreement to prevent overlapping of resources.HCJB, on the air in 60 countries, will be primarily responsiblefor both organizations’ radio programs, while SIM—which has1,500 missionaries in more than three dozen countries—will focus on expandingchurch-planting efforts. Personnel will be shared, and certain ministrieswill transfer from one mission agency to the other.

—The Barbados Council of Evangelical Churches has been revived after threeyears of dormancy and renamed the Barbados Evangelical Association.Gerry A. Seale is president.

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