World Congress Sponsoring Committee

A Sponsoring Committee of fifty-five key evangelical leaders from twenty countries was announced this month for the World Congress on Evangelism.

“We have been fortunate to enlist men who have been active on many frontiers of Christian advance in our century,” said Dr. Billy Graham, evangelist and honorary chairman of the congress, and Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of Christianity Today and chairman of the congress, in a joint statement.

All five continents are represented on the committee, which is the first announced list of delegates to the congress, scheduled to be held in West Berlin. October 26-November 4, 1966. In all, the congress will gather some 1,200 delegates, observers, and newsmen to West Berlin’s famed Kongresshalle, a stone’s throw from the East-West border. The congress is a tenth-anniversary project of Christianity Today.

In addition to Graham and Henry, the following were named to the Sponsoring Committee:

The Rev. Tom Allan, M.A., Craigton, Scotland: Minister, Church of Scotland, and author of Tell Scotland and other books. (Presbyterian)

Professor Ishaya S. Audu, M.B., B.S., Lagos, Nigeria; Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty, University of Lagos. (Anglican)

The Rev. Jean-Paul Benoit, Paris, France; President, French Evangelical Alliance. (Reformed Church of France)

Sir Cyril Black, M.P., London, England; Member of Parliament. (Baptist)

Mr. Hans Bürki, M.A., Ph.D., Angelrain, Switzerland; Swiss Studenten Mission. (Reformed Church of Switzerland)

The Rev. Baker James Cauthen, Th.D., D.D., Richmond, Virginia; Executive Secretary, Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. (Southern Baptist)

The Rev. Boris Decorvet, Litt.B., B.D., Geneva, Switzerland; Pastor in the National Church of Switzerland. (Reformed) The Rev. Wayne Dehoney, B.D., D.D., Jackson, Tennessee; President, Southern Baptist Convention, and Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jackson, Tennessee. (Southern Baptist)

The Rev. Harry Denman, D.D., Litt.D., Nashville, Tennessee; formerly General Secretary, General Board of Evangelism, The Methodist Church. (Methodist)

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Otto Dibelius, Ph.D., LL.D., Berlin, Germany; Evangelical Bishop of Berlin. (Lutheran)

The Rev. Bishop Timothy S. K. Dzao, LL.D., D.D., Kowloon, Hong Kong; Bishop of Ling Liang World-Wide Evangelistic Mission. (Independent)

Mr. Elmer Engstrom, D.Sc., LL.D., New York, New York; President, Radio Corporation of America. (Presbyterian)

The Rev. William Fitch, B.D., Ph.D., Toronto, Canada; Minister, Knox Presbyterian Church. (Presbyterian Church in Canada)

The Rev. C. Darby Fulton, D.D., LL.D., Decatur, Georgia; Past Executive Secretary, Board of World Missions, Presbyterian Church, U. S. (Presbyterian U. S.)

The Rev. Arthur F. Glasser, B.D., D.D., Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; Home Director for North America of Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Reformed Presbyterian, Evangelical Synod) The Rev. Umberto M. Gorietti, Rome, Italy; General Secretary, Assemblies of God in Italy. (Assemblies of God)

The Most Reverend Archbishop Hugh Gough, M.A., O.B.E., Sydney, Australia; Primate of Australia, Archbishop of Sydney. (Anglican)

The Rev. Richard C. Halverson, Th.B., LL.D., Washington, D. C.; Pastor, Fourth Presbyterian Church, and Vice-President, World Vision. (United Presbyterian)

The Rev. Kyung Chik Han, B.D., D.D., Seoul, Korea; Pastor, Young Nak Presbyterian Church. (Presbyterian)

The Rev. J. Lester Harnish, M.Th., D.D., Portland, Oregon; President, American Baptist Convention, and Pastor, First Baptist Church, Portland. (American Baptist)

The Rev. Akira Hatori, B.A., B.D., Tokyo. Japan; Radio Evangelist, and Chairman of the Board, Japan Bible Seminary. (Gospel Evangelistic Church)

The Rev. Ross F. Hidy, San Francisco, California; Pastor, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. (Lutheran Church in America) The Rt. Rev. Bishop A. W. Goodwin Hudson, London, England; Bishop in The Church of England; Rector, St. Paul’s Church (Portman Square). (Anglican)

The Rev. Canon Leslie Hunt, M.Th., D.D., Toronto, Canada; Principal, Wycliffe College. (Anglican)

Professor Norman C. Hunt, B.Comm., Ph.D., Edinburgh, Scotland; Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh. (Baptist)

The Rt. Rev. Bishop A. G. Jebaraj, Palayamkottai, South India; Bishop of the Church of South India. (Church of South India)

The Rev. Timothy Kamau, Nairobi. Kenya; Radio Evangelist. (Africa Inland Church)

The Rev. Gilbert Kirby, M.A., London, England; General Secretary, World Evangelical Fellowship, and General Secretary. The Evangelical Alliance. (British Congregational)

The Rev. A. Kurumada, D.D., Tokyo, Japan; President, Fukein Remnei Church. (Japan Holiness Church)

The Rev. Michael Kyriakakis, B.D., Athens, Greece; Pastor, First Evangelical Church. (Greek Evangelical Church)

The Rev. Robert J. Lamont, L.H.D., Th.D., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Minister, First Presbyterian Church. (United Presbyterian)

The Rev. Ruben Lores, B.A., San Jose, Costa Rica; International Coordinator of Evangelism-in-Depth, Latin America Mission. (Baptist)

The Rev. Duke McCall, D.D., Litt.D., Louisville, Kentucky; President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. (Southern Baptist)

The Hon. Ernest C. Manning, LL.D., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Premier, Province of Alberta. (Baptist)

Mr. E. K. Martin, Soppo, West Cameroon. Africa; Director of Education, Cameroon Baptist Mission. (German Baptist)

The Rev. Benjamin Moraes, B.S. in Th., Ph.D., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Pastor, Presbyterian Church, Copacabana, and Professor and Head of Law Department, University of Guanabara. (Presbyterian)

The Rev. John T. Mpaayei, B.A., MA., Nairobi, Kenya; Secretary, The Bible Society in East Africa. (Africa Inland Church)

The Rev. Harold John Ockenga, LL.D., D.D., Boston, Massachusetts; Pastor, Park Street Church. (Congregational)

Mr. René Pache, LL.D., Vennes-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland; President, Emmaüs Bible Institute. (Christian Brethren)

The Rev. Gordon Powell, M.A., B.D., Sydney, Australia; Pastor, St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church. (Presbyterian)

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Chandu Ray, S.T.D., D.D., Karachi, Pakistan; Bishop of Karachi, Church of England. (Anglican)

The Rev. Asdrubal Rios, Maricaibo, Venezuela; President, Evangelical Church of Venezuela. (Evangelical Church of Venezuela)

The Rev. Paul Schmidt, Berlin, Germany; Director, European Evangelical Alliance. (Baptist)

The Rev. Paul Sorensen, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Assemblies of God)

Strachan, just prior to his death in February, agreed to serve. The Rev. R. Kenneth Strachan, Th.M., LL.D., San Jose, Costa Rica; General Director, Latin America Mission. (United Presbyterian)

The Rev. John R. W. Stott, B.A., M.A., London, England; Rector, All Souls Church, Langham Place. (Anglican)

The Rev. Clyde W. Taylor, M.A., D.D., Washington, D. C.; General Director, National Association of Evangelicals. (Baptist) The Rev. Andre Thobois, Paris, France; President, Baptist Federation of France. (Baptist Federation of France)

Pastor Fernando V. Vangioni, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Evangelist, and President, Latin American Committee on Evangelism. (Brethren)

Mr. I. Ben Wati, B.D., M.A., New Delhi, India; Executive Secretary, Evangelical Fellowship of India. (Baptist)

Mr. C. Stacey Woods. A.B., B.Th., Lausanne, Switzerland; General Secretary, International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. (Christian Brethren)

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Friedrich Wunderlich, Ph.D., D.D., Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Bishop of Germany. The Methodist Church. (Methodist)

The Rev. Thomas F. Zimmerman, D.D., Springfield, Missouri; General Superintendent, Assemblies of God. (Assemblies of God).

Miscellany

The first Christian service ever permitted in the modern stadium of Northern Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim capital of Kaduna turned out to be the largest gathering of any kind to assemble in the stadium. Negro evangelist Howard O. Jones preached to a crowd of 16,000 at the closing meeting of a crusade sponsored by New Life for All, an inter-mission evangelistic project. A telecast followed.

A government survey shows that American clergymen have an average of 17.1 years of education but draw a median salary of only $4.008. In a list of 321 occupations, clergymen’s salary ranks 245th.

Evangel College of Springfield, Missouri, won regional accreditation last month. It was granted membership in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools as a four-year college of arts and sciences. Evangel, operated by the Assemblies of God, has an enrollment of 720.

An official Bible for Protestants as well as Roman Catholics seems a distinct possibility in the Philippines. Preliminary studies were disclosed last month during the annual session of the Advisory Council of the Philippine Bible House in Manila.

Personalia

Dr. Sterling W. Brown was named president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He has served as executive vice-president of the organization since 1953.

Dr. Meredith Kline is resigning from the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary to become professor of Old Testament at Gordon Divinity School.

Dr. Clark H. Pinnock, lecturer in the faculty of theology at the University of Manchester, has been named assistant professor in the Department of New Testament at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dr. J. E. Lesslie Newbigin, an associate general secretary of the World Council of Churches and director of its Division of World Mission and Evangelism, has been named bishop of the Madras Diocese of the Church of South India.

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