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""Missions Accomplished"" Page 25

Deacons being commissioned General Council, June 1852, Claremont, California

A Mission of Fellowship Expanded

WHERE SIX MEN met a few years ago, a hundred meet today. through the past biennium the Laymen's Fellowship has grown in every dimension: numerically, geographically, in service and in spirit. It is appropriate that now the first national convention has been scheduled (for Chicago in February, 1955).
Each year the national committee selects targets for special emphasis. High on the 1954 list are extension and enrichment of existing men's groups and personal visitation evangelism, spotlighting the increasing spiritual concern of the Fellowship. Suggested programs for monthly meetings are keyed to the theme, "This I Believe..." And workers with men's groups in the United States and 15 foreign countries keep up to date on our numerical and spiritual growth through the monthly news bulletin. 
State Conference and Convention Laymen's Fellowships now number 42. Not content merely to represent local groups, they actively engage in doing something about church problems in their areas. 

The Laymen Build
In North Carolina and Virginia the Southern Convention Laymen's Fellowship is developing a simmer conference center for the two states. Already ground has been broken and more than $1,000 raised for the project. Several men's groups have agreed to provide lumber and to build individual cottages; other volun

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Deacons being commissioned General Council, June 1852, Claremont, California A Mission of Fellowship Expanded WHERE SIX MEN met a few years ago, a hundred meet today. through the past biennium the Laymen's Fellowship has grown in every dimension: numerically, geographically, in service and in spirit. It is appropriate that now the first national convention has been scheduled (for Chicago in February, 1955). Each year the national committee selects targets for special emphasis. High on the 1954 list are extension and enrichment of existing men's groups and personal visitation evangelism, spotlighting the increasing spiritual concern of the Fellowship. Suggested programs for monthly meetings are keyed to the theme, "This I Believe..." And workers with men's groups in the United States and 15 foreign countries keep up to date on our numerical and spiritual growth through the monthly news bulletin. State Conference and Convention Laymen's Fellowships now number 42. Not content merely to represent local groups, they actively engage in doing something about church problems in their areas. The Laymen Build In North Carolina and Virginia the Southern Convention Laymen's Fellowship is developing a simmer conference center for the two states. Already ground has been broken and more than $1,000 raised for the project. Several men's groups have agreed to provide lumber and to build individual cottages; other volun