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In honor of The Mission Society’s founding president and wife, the Rev. Dr. H.T. and Alice Maclin, The Mission Society announced the founding of “The H. T. and Alice Maclin Mission Training Institute” as the name of its future annual missionary training conferences. The most recent of these conferences was held in Huancayo, Peru in August of 2012. 

The Mission Society President Dick McClain and vice presidents Jim Ramsay and Lewis von Herrmann presented a framed certificate to H.T. and Alice in their home in Decatur, Georgia, in the presence of their three children. The certificate was accompanied by a letter from The Mission Society vice president and resident missiologist, Dr. Darrell Whiteman. It included the following:

“You [the Maclins] have already left The Mission Society several legacies – from your example of effective communication of the gospel and tireless service in mission, to your courageous guidance of The Mission Society through its first years, and to your continuous modeling lives of servanthood. Now, as we announce the founding of this Mission Training Institute, your legacy will expand. We will forever be reminded of your commitment to solid, thorough, missionary training. And what thrills us most is that effective training led by The Mission Society is now taking place all over the world. As the mission baton is rapidly being passed from the West to the Majority World, training that prepares our brothers and sisters in Africa, Asia, and Latin America for cross-cultural ministry will become even more important.

“Thank you for your life-long commitment to mission, for the way you continue to inspire and encourage those of us who are following in your footsteps, and for your contagious love for Jesus.”

In the past three years, The Mission Society has trained 60 Mission Society missionaries as they prepared for cross-cultural ministry in various locations around the globe. Orientation Training, now called The H. T. and Alice Maclin Mission Training Institute, has been held in Brazil in 2010 and in Peru in 2011 and 2012. In addition to the 60 missionaries trained, The Mission Society trained 24 “missionary kids,” 15 guests from the United States, and 114 ministry leaders, pastors, and missionaries from other countries including, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Kenya, and Jamaica.

The Maclin children have committed more than $100,000 toward the funding of the Institute over the next four years, and The Mission Society is privileged to offer our friends the opportunity to participate and to match the gifts of the family.  If you would like to join the Maclin family in this special honor, please contact Lewis von Herrmann in the advancement office at 800.478.8963, or email him at lvonherrmann@themsisionsociety.org.