EVANGELICAL UNIONS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 15

EVANGELICAL UNIONS

Conference At Lincoln

The twenty-sixth annua] conference of the New Zealand inter-varsity fellowship of evangelical unions will this year be held from May 7 to May 12 at Canterbury Agricultural College. Lincoln. It will be attended by 250 students from universities, agricultural and teachers' college throughout the Dominion. Speakers to take part in the conference will include Dr. Masumi Toyotome, a former assistant professor of Christianity at the Tokyo International University, who is now the executive secretary of the Japanese Evangel’, cal Missionary Society. He is at present conducting missions in New Zealand and Australia under the sponsorship of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Other speakers will be the Rev. Francis Foulkes. a New Zealand Rhodes scholar who has been working for the Church Missionary Society in Nigeria as a theological lecturer, and Mr Charles Troutman, who was the general secretary of the Australian inter-varsity fellowship for seven years. He will soon take up the position of general secretary of the American inter-varsity fellowship. The presidential address will be given on the evening of May 8 by the Rev. Betteridge, of Dunedin. On May 10 representatives from national missionary boards will join the conference to take part in a special missionary day. Others present will include the secretary of the fellowship in New Zealand (the Rev. W. Hutchinson) of Wellington, and the fellowship's travelling secretary (Mr K. Ralph) also of Wellington. Preliminary organisation has been done by local members of the group in Christchurch. The last conference of the organisation was held last year in the North Island at the Masterton showgrounds.