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Radio Ministry Extension Work

Mr. and Mrs. R. Dale Simpson were CBM Radio representatives for many After 11 years of service in Alabama,
years. Children‘s programs, prepared by them, were broadcast weekly over sev- Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Birky moved
eral stations in Florida, one in Pennsylvania, and over WIVV Vieques, Puerto to Indiana to carry on the CBM exten-
Rico. A children‘s Bible correspondence course in the Gospel of John was of- sion work in 1958.
fered over the air. These lessons were graded and returned. Many received They began to devote themselves
Christ through the CBM radio ministry.
full-time to extension work in Indiana,
A youth radio Bible quiz, directed by Robert A. Johnson, divisional director Michigan, Ohio, and nearby states. In
of North Carolina, was a popular broadcast in their area for many years. a few years a total of 812 boys and
girls attended CBM camps through
A regular broadcast had gone out over the air from Elizabethton, Tennessee. this ministry. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Birky, and children

Requests came regularly to the National Office from workers, teachers,
churches, Sunday schools, and other groups, asking permission to use
the CBM plan and materials. A tentative extension plan was tested in
several states. In areas where CBM did not have a full-time worker, or
where schools were closed to the program, extension work was car-
ried on through an approved local committee. This committee was to
assume full financial responsibility for supplies and awards, including
camp.
The CBM Memory Program was also being carried on in other states
by approved workers through Bible Clubs, youth groups, and other
Dale and Ann Simpson Bob and Marge Johnson, Sr. channels. Today several foreign countries and stateside ministries are
using the original correspondence lessons that were written by Mrs.
New Life Camp, Raleigh, NC
Agnes Mackey.

Foreign Ministry
Montana Wilderness
Former CBM missionaries and CBM
Rev. Kenneth Amsler campers now serving the Lord on for- Bruce and Fran Weber CBM
eign fields, and other missionaries and missionaries to Jamaica School of the Bible
leaders in various countries have re-
ceived permission to use CBM meth- 1987 Duane Matthews served as dean of Montana Wilderness
ods and materials. The Bible Memory School of the Bible at C Bar N Camp in Augusta, Montana.
Program proved to be a blessing in
Zululand, South Africa. CBM Bible 1988 John and Terry Erickson from C Bar N attended CBM
correspondence lessons have been candidate school at Wa-Floy and returned to work with
translated into various languages. The Duane Matthews.
General Director, Kenneth A. Amsler, had been ap-
proached by many missionaries at conferences, asking (CBM worked with C Bar N and the Montana Wilderness School
for materials to use on foreign fields. CBM began to of the Bible, but they chose not to come under the umbrella of
have an increasing service to foreign missionaries. CBM. Currently John Erickson serves as the director.)

Current enrollment at MWSB is 60 students per year. Total
number of summer campers runs about 400 per year.
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