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Home and Foreign Mission Board. It was recommended that we participate in World Missions. Ten thousand dollars was sent to Israel as "Jews For Jesus" mission. A Hurricane Emergency Committee was formed - three church members, chairman of deacons, and pastor. A Constitution and By-laws Revision Committee was also appointed. The church voted on and approved two deacons and their wives attending World Mission Conference at Glorieta or Ridgecrest. In August	Bruce Burrows	was elected as	deacon to	replace	Dr. Joe
Powell who had died while	serving	in that	office.
In January 1987 we learned that the church had contributed $5,324.31 for Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. The budget for the year was $185,225. In February the church agreed to pay twenty-five dollars a month for three years to defray expenses on a church building in North Dakota. A van was bought to replace the old one. In April the church voted to buy a house at 223 Nicholson Avenue in	Waveland for	thirty	three	thousand	dollars	for	a
Missionary Resident	Home for missionaries who are on furlough	or
leave. During May	one	thousand	six hundred eighty dollars was
collected for Annie Armstrong offering. The church joined the Mississippi Mission	Fund to raise	forty five thousand dollars	as
the great commitment	or thirty nine	thousand dollars as minimum	in
a period of five years. This is above the Cooperative Program. In June Greg	Smith, Rene1	Smith,	and Perry Gibson	were elected	as
deacons. In July Brother Walter McCraw was elected to attend the Anti Abortion Rally in Washington, D.C. This was the "National Rally For Life" held in August. In September seven lots on Hancock Street in Bayside Park were purchased for nine thousand dollars. A loan in the name of First Baptist Church would be secured at 9 3/4%