MISSION WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 13

MISSION WORK

PRESBYTERIAN" CAMPAIGN

The last General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church instructed the Foreign Missions Committee .along with the Home and Maori Mission Committees to make arrangements: to carry out an'intensive campaign throughout the Church with the idea ,of educating and inspiring the Church in missionary enterprise. In May tho campaign began in Southland, and has visited Christchurch, and opened yesterday in Wellington when the pulpits were filled by missionary deputies. A . one-day conference will begin in St. John's Church to-morrow, when proceedings will open at 10.30 a.m. with a devotional service led by the Rev. J. R. Blanchard. At 11.30 the Rev. J. li. Gray will speak on "The Outcast Problem in India," and at 2.30 an authoritative statement of policy will be given by representatives of each mission. The speakers for the evening rally at 7A5 will be the Rev. G. Budd, Sister Jessie, and the Rev. J. L. Gray, and meetings and lantern lectures will be held during the week. Levin, will also be visited by tho campaigners, s and the Butt Valley Presbyterian Churches are united for a oneday conference. The meetings are expected to be very interesting, and to fully achieve the object of the campaign, which is to educate and inspire all members of the Church in missionary matters. . :.