BAPTIST ASSEMBLY MEETS

Southland Times, Issue 23651, 28 October 1938, Page 8

BAPTIST ASSEMBLY MEETS

RECOGNITION OF SIX NEW CHURCHES (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 27. Domestic business occupied the greater part of the sessions in Wellington of the New Zealand Baptist Assembly today. The following six new churches were formally received into the union: Te Awamutu (Auckland), Miramar (Wellington), Lyttelton Street (Christchurch), Sunshine and Green Island churches (Dunedin) and Georgetown (Southland). The finance committee’s annual report showed contributions to church funds, including the following: Auckland Tabernacle Buildings Trust, £1200; Baptist Women’s Missionary Union, £1995; Young Women’s Bible Class Union, £826 4/4; Young Men’s Bible Class movement, £394 2/7; selfdenial appeal, £3716 1/10. The report stated that during the year £3350 had been invested in Government and local body debentures and £lOO on mortgage. The total cash receipts for all branches of work for the year amounted to £17,395 12/4. On the recommendation of the principal of the Baptist College, the Rev. J. J. North, D.D., ministerial recognition was accorded by the union to the following ministers who have passed their probationary period: The Rev. D. G. McKee, 8.A., Petone; the Rev. J. Ayson Clifford, M.Sc., Karori; the Rev. E. P. Y. Simpson, Mosgiel, Otago. Tonight’s session was devoted to a discussion on the Baptist College. The dedication of two outgoing students of the college, Messrs B. F. Carlisle, Wellington, and G. T. Beilby, M.A., Hastings. took place.