General Conference Appropriations to Foreign Missions for 1903 by I. H. Evans

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1903

General Conference Appropriations to Foreign Missions for 1903

By I. H. Evans

Our people will be interested to know the appropriations made for mission work the coming year. The following amounts were appropriated by the General Conference and the General Conference Committee at this last conference. Of course it was distinctly understood that these appropriations could not be held against the General Conference Committee as a debt, or as an obligation, but that we would go to the people with our petitions, showing them the needs of the fields in foreign countries, and do everything in our power to secure the requisite funds to carry on the work already started. You will notice that there were no appropriations made for new work. These appropriations are last year's audits, and do not take in any advance moves, nor the expense of sending new workers to these distant lands.

We wish to call your especial attention to the great needs of the evangelical work. We believe that there will be a hearty response on the part of our people from one end of the country to the other to assist us in carrying on work, not simply in its present form, but to extend it into other regions, and to add workers to those already sent abroad.

The General Conference Treasury department will take great pleasure in answering any queries, or furnishing any information to those of our people who are interested in foreign missions. If there is any question about the work in any of these fields that you would like to have answered, you are invited to write in, and we will give you any data concerning the same.

Surely the harvest is white, the calls are manifold, and we, as a people, must buckle on our armor and work with renewed energy to carry the gospel of the third angel's message to all the world. We need your prayers and most hearty support that the work of God may triumph.

CALLS FOR 1903

Mission	Amount
Canadian Union	$3,600
Mexico	4,004
Central America	2,069
Central America—South	1,056
Jamaica	2,500
East Caribbean	5,500
South America	10,796
British Union	16,755
German Union	4,000
Scandinavian Union	2,350
Oriental	6,500
European General	700
Polynesia	7,161
Porto Rico	1,016
Bermuda	592
India	5,828
China	3,500
Japan	5,173
West Africa	2,896
South Africa	9,194
Southern Missionary Society	2,400
European credits	638
Operating Mission Department	9,536
Southern Field	6,728
General Conference evangelical work in home fields	15,508
Australian collection	10,000
Honolulu	4,000
Christiania	2,000
Frederikshavn Sanitarium	1,000
Religious liberty collection	2,000
General Conference Association obligations	10,000
Greater New York	6,000
Virginia	2,000
Nashville Publishing House	10,000
Southern medical work	9,000
Huntsville School	4,000
German East Africa	5,000
British School	10,000

$205,000

Donations for any of these missions or other special objects will be thankfully received. I. H. EVANS, Treasurer of the General Conference.