Opportunity In South Alabama
To brethren in Christ Everywhere:
I would like to write a personal letter, or make a personal call, to each one of you, but time and other matters will not permit.
I am writing by this method about a very important matter. The small congregation in Thomasville, Alabama, and I began a mission meeting under a tent in Pine Hill, about 14 miles from Thomasville, on June 17th. Our work in this effort, as well as other work done in the area, convinces those who know the work that the most effective and economical means of preaching the gospel in that area is a daily radio program over the Thomasville station. I know of no place where I think such a program would do more good.
The Bellview Heights congregation in Birmingham, supports bro. Horace Huggins full time in Thomasville (if others help in this support, I do not know of it). Brother Huggins is to some degree wasting his time, talents, and means, in trying to reach the thousands in that part of Alabama who know not God, nor His truth. Why? Because he must travel miles and miles, and tire himself beyond endurance to reach the people he needs to contact, and whom he could reach via radio.
Brother Huggins does not know (I have not told him yet) that I am making this effort. But after spending a great deal of time with him and his fine family, and working with him in about four series of meetings in that area, I am thoroughly convinced that no better man for this work can be found. This is not an extravagant or hasty statement, but a conclusion I have reached after long experience with him in his work.
The manager of the radio station, my niece down there writes me, will let us have 15 minutes every day in the week for $35.00. Bro. Huggins is now being put on the station on Sunday afternoons by the brethren of Thomasville church; so we need only $30.00 weekly to put on this very important work, and use the time and talent of this good preacher, that will otherwise not be utilized. Brethren, we are spending thousands to build meeting houses that (I think) are unnecessarily expensive, and a bit out of keeping with the meek and lowly Man of Galilee and other thousands to send white men to Africa, Japan, and other places, while millions of colored and white people right here in America can say, "no man hath hired us!" Write to Horace Huggins, P.O. Box 873, Thomasville, Alabama, and tell him how much you, or the congregation, will give for this work, weekly or monthly. "The King's business requires haste!"
Rt. No. 2, Box 340 Dora, Alabama