BAPTIST UNION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 12

BAPTIST UNION

ASSEMBLY IN DUNEDIN THE WEEK’S PROGRAMME The Baptist Union and Missionary Society of New Zealand will conduct its fifty-eighth assembly in Dunedin, commencing to-day, and the proceedings will last until Wednesday of next week. The assembly will be opened with a welcome tea to delegates in the Crawford Lounge at 6 p.m. to-day. followed by a civic welcome by the Mayor (Mr A. H. Allen). A public meeting will then be held, at which the presidential address will be given by the new president (the Rev R L. Fursdon).

To-morrow preliminary business will be dealt with during the morning and afternoon in the Hanover Street Baptist Church, and in the evening the annual meeting of the Baptist Women’s Missionary Union, the laymen’s meeting, and the annual meeting of the Ministers’ Association will be held. There will be a business session of the assembly on Saturday morning, followed by an assembly outing at Chingford Park in the afternoon and a musical festival in the evening. The principal activity on Sunday will be a Bible class rally in the afternoon in the Hanover Street Church, and the assembly will conduct further business during the morning and afternoon of Monday, the evening being devoted to a public tea and a missionary meeting. Elections and other business will receive the attention of the assembly on Tuesday morning and afternoon and in the evening a procession of witness of young people will march from the Hanover Street Church o the Queen’s Gardens, and subsequently an evangelistic rally will be held m the church The final business matters to come before the assembly will be disposed of during the following morning and afternoon.