TRAINING BAPTISTS
Preparations, including the intensive training of 1000 men, are now being made for Baptist churches in New Zealand to undertake a programme described by Dr. Billy Graham “as the most effective way of evangelism.” Entitled “Project Winsome,” it is directed by Dr. J. A. Lavender, of Bakersfield. California, who on Monday opened the South Island section of the training programme with a one-day seminar for clergy. Yesterday he addressed ministers in Dunedin. He will then return to Auckland to begin a series of 12 laymen’s rallies. At each of the rallies laymen will receive training in “personal evangelism,” which will equip them to approach people and explain the Christian Gospel to them. The method was being used for the first time outside the United States, Dr. Lavender said. It was not a hard sell approach but a very studied and deliberate effort to tell Baptist men how to go about their work of personal evangelism.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31307, 1 March 1967, Page 20
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