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The EFMA-IFMA executives’ retreat came up with suggestions about cooperating with Roman Catholics in Bible translations. What’s a missionary’s reaction on the field when he’s invited to share in a joint Protestant-Catholic project?

The following statement was adopted at the joint retreat for mission executives, October, 1968, sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association.

American missionaries to the Turkish Empire first went to work among Muslims and Jews, and to revive Near Eastern Christians.

Are some of our American and British structures for ministerial training inadequate for the younger churches? Are the schools on the mission field really facing the social, cultural and spiritual problems that are innate to their soil? Does our theological education effectively aid a virile and effective growth in the church?

The moral and ethical dilemmas posed by advancements in modern medicine are not those of the stateside practitioner alone. It’s not only the doctor at the medical center who puts someone on an artificial kidney who faces them, or the surgeon who selects a patient for an organ transplant, but also the medical missionary.

If it be true that second century Christians sometimes formed themselves into burial clubs in order to achieve a type of organization legal under Roman law, then that fact could give the Czechs, the Basques, and other oppressed minorities today some good ideas on how to run an underground church in an unconventional form.

The beginning of courses in anthropology at the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary has brought a quantity of correspondence from Bible school and seminary professors of missions asking for information, course outlines and reading lists. The correspondence reflects the feeling on the part of some professors of missions that anthropology ought to be included in their program and an uncertainty of how to go about it.

This article is an address Rev. Michael E. Haynes gave at the Park Street Church Missionary Conference in Boston on Apr. 28, 1968.

Fewer and fewer students are enrolling in the missons departments of Bible colleges. If the trend continues, some of the departments are going to fold up.

Way out in Timbutktu a missionary confessed to me his greatest frustration: how to tie himself to a time schedule that works when there is no built-in system or supervision of his job. Out of this discussion came a request to share some suggestions at a men’s retreat in the Philippines.