Self-Supporting Missionary Council

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 24, 1908

Self-Supporting Missionary Council

SCATTERED throughout the South there are a number of persons engaged in self-supporting missionary work. During the last four years some of these self-supporting workers have been permitted to meet with those doing the same kind of work at our regular conferences; but as the time of these meetings was usually taken up with the business for which they were called, little opportunity was left for such workers to exchange experiences and ideas, and study the principles and methods which must be followed in making self-supporting work a success.

For this reason it has seemed best to many who are deeply interested in this kind of work to meet together for a two-weeks' conference, and devote a large part of the time to the study of self-supporting missionary work. Undoubtedly we are approaching the time when thousands of lay members will be impelled by the Spirit of God to enter regular missionary work at their own expense. Many of our people are being stirred by the Spirit of God at the present time over this question, and are writing letters of inquiry regarding it.

A number of our leading conference men who are in deep sympathy with this kind of work, and are interested in its success, will attend. The council will be held at the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, at Madison, Tenn.

The Institute will do everything it can to entertain those who attend. It will be necessary for each one to furnish his own bedding. Board will be served on the European plan.

There are many who feel that God is calling them to the South. This would be a good meeting to attend to gain information of the Southern field. For further particulars address E. A. Sutherland, Madison, Tenn.