F. W. Detamore

H.M.S. Richards, speaking at the Evangelistic Council in San Francisco, on the possibilities of the radio, closed his appeal by saying, "Let us work, for the night cometh when no man can broadcast." His paraphrase struck the hearts of all.…

I have found the Bible study correspond­ence school to be very effective in my radio follow-up work. For my opening offer, I framed a letter as follows:

"And now friends, I have a special offer which will appeal to every…

In starting an evangelistic campaign in a new city, how can one convince the public that the projected series is not just another revival as disappointing as former ones? Over some radio stations the haranguings of various evan­gelists…

What a thrill it is to see "another angel fly in the midst of heaven" and to know that we are all having a part in fulfilling the command, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord" ! We are all one in this radio work. This Voice of Prophecy is your…

Because of the prejudice of the people and because so few were willing to accept truth, Christ counseled His followers not to publicize His Messiahship—the very purpose of His visit to this globe:…

Whether one is a local pastor beginning a " series of meetings, or an evangelist who has been invited in to conduct a campaign, he faces the problem of organizing the church for the proposed paign. The simplest and yet most thorough method…

In the Lord's service there is no place for either lordship or serfdom. We as work­ers in His cause all need to study what the Master meant when He said, ^-All ye are breth­ren." Would that God would humble our hearts and do away…

The counsel of the Spirit of prophecy is that we should visit the ministers of other faiths when we come to a new town. But we are also cautioned that we should not reveal to them too early our intentions and plans in the presenta­tion of…

Our first series of evangelistic meetings in Shanghai (April 4 to July 25, 1948) was entirely in English, and was conducted almost exactly the same as we would in America, only I had to speak much more slowly, which was a difficult change.…

We have asked several pastors with whom Fordyce Detamore and his team have worked, to answer some questions regarding the permanency of this program. These men have naturally had close personal experience with the plan, and we are glad to…

[Months ago we asked Fordyce Detamore to write out some of the suggestions included in his talks at workers' meetings on how a minister can condense and organize his program so that he can have time for evangelism. In complying with our…

In our evangelistic meetings we have found the use of an altar a very effective aid in making two special calls.

Pastor Roger Holley had an altar made out of plywood. It is collapsible and is painted so as to give the appearance of…

The shepherd should make it as easy and as natural as pos­sible for the sheep to enter the fold. The minister should make it as easy and as natural as pos­sible for individuals to enter the church. Jesus drew His hearers. He developed in…

Those More Easily Reclaimed

We have mentioned pre­viously the types of back­slider that are difficult to re­claim. Now we are to think of those more easily reclaimed.

1. Former workers.

a. Fallen…

Problems and Possibilities

Don't call them backslid­ers—you'll hurt their feel­ings!" people often object. But I know of no other term that really fits. "Former mem­bers" means little, for one might be a former member of…

We lay a great deal of stress on the importance of personal visitation in our meetings. The singing evangelist and I both carry a heavy weekly load, visiting back sliders and developing the interest.

The Pastor

One cannot…

Using the Bible Marking Plan in an evangelistic series the great­est single new method we have found in more than thirty-five years of preaching. At the General Conference in San Francisco in 1962 Elder G. E. Vandeman ex­plained the plan,…

Have you tried the fool­ish but entertaining idea of running a film back­ward? (I photographed a wedding several years ago and in running the film backward I felt I was witnessing a di­vorce!) It is a fact that when we run a film in reverse…

FORDYCE W. DETAMORE, Far Eastern Division Evangelist

Just as I arranged paper and pen to write I this article, there came a knock at my hotel door here in Medan, Sumatra. It was a young Indonesian Moslem, nineteen years old. He came…

IT WAS nearing midnight as Pastor Don Gray and I sat visiting after the rest of the workers had gone to bed. Pastor John Osborn had asked me to come to the Southeast­ern California Confer­ence workers' retreat to be held in the moun­tains.…

Probably one of the most difficult problems evangelists face is that of keeping up a steady week-night attendance. For years this has been one of our most perplexing problems.

Oh, of course, by special programs, moving pictures,…

PART II

now let us here discuss the actual con ducting of the open-air meetings.  Your platform should be about table height. If it is too low, the people cannot see the speaker; if it is too high, the audience is too far away…

PART I

Has desperation sometimes driven you as an evangelist to the discovery of a valuable new plan or approach in your work? While occasionally success has taught me some things, I have learned much from failure. I cannot explain…

He Looked for Someone to Help

THE evangelist must be prepared for certain times of feelings of utter aloneness. Not merely when you travel and long for home, but even in your work there are periods of destitute loneliness. It may…

ANYONE who is working his heart out for a cause must be prepared for criticism. This is true of those in positions of leadership in the work of the church, and it is especially true of the public evangelist. Among the most distressing criticisms…

Men are not voted in as evangelists. It may be voted that a pastor become conference president or youth leader of the conference, but no committee can vote that a man become an evangelist anymore than a wrestler could be voted to become a…

Despite all handicaps, the cause of Christ marches on to victory. Five years of drouth, loss of crops, alternating floods and dust storms, have brought severe trials to our believers in the Middle West. But in…