Authorization and Planning

The secretary and associate secretaries of the Ministerial Association, being aware of certain instruction given by Mrs. White to our evangelists, and sensing the need for a single volume that would set forth the full picture of counsel and cautions addressed to evangelistic workers, approached the Board of Trustees of the Ellen G. White Publications in 1944 with the suggestion that a volume be prepared presenting the full body of counsels on this subject.EGWMR 95.3

The Board of Trustees, after carefully studying the question and making some investigation of available materials, authorized the compilation of a volume of the counsels to evangelists and instruction concerning evangelism. They set up two committees to execute the work. The first was a fostering committee of five, headed by a General Conference vice-president, and comprised of representatives from the Board of Trustees, the Ministerial Association, and an evangelist of long experience. It was the duty of this committee to plan for the compilation and to give general guidance to its preparation.EGWMR 95.4

The second committee was a working team of two, comprised of the secretary of the Ellen G. White Publications, Arthur L. White, and Miss Louise Kleuser of the Ministerial Association. The work of gathering and arranging the materials was assigned to this team.EGWMR 95.5