In his 1965 address to the Southern Baptist Convention, President Wayne Dehoney challenged the churches, the Convention, all agencies, boards, commissions, institutions, and organizations to unite in “Operation Penetration”–a planned and coordinated effort to accelerate the preaching and teaching of God’s Word throughout the world.
Individual Baptists and groups of Baptists, associated by Christian bond of any nature, are urged to rededicate themselves to this task through intensifying support of the denomination’s program of “proclaiming and witnessing” and through other appropriate individual and group action.
RESOLUTION ON WORLD EVANGELISM CONGRESS
WHEREAS, Southern Baptists are committed to the ministry of evangelism, and
WHEREAS, Billy Graham is one of its leading exponents in our generation, and
WHEREAS, he is planning the “World Evangelism Congress” in West Berlin in the fall of 1966,
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED:
1. That we express our appreciation to Billy Graham for his leadership in the field of evangelism;
2. That we pledge our prayers for and our genuine interest in the promotion of this World Evangelism Conference with the desire that God may use this meeting to spark a renewed interest throughout the world in evangelism and missions.
RESOLUTION ON HEMISPHERIC REVIVAL CRUSADE
WHEREAS, The doors of evangelism are now open in the greater part of Latin America and revival is sweeping Brazil, and
WHEREAS, The Brazilian Baptist leaders desire to see a simultaneous revival throughout the Americas by 1969,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED That the Southern Baptist Convention give its full encouragement to the Foreign Mission Board and the Home Mission Board to study crusade possibilities with the Baptist leadership in the countries involved.