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in Flint Hill, Va., and Burns ville and directed children’s work at First Baptist Churchy Richmond. Also, during student days she did music anded ucational work for First Bap^ tist Church, Thomasville, N. C., one summer andservedfor four summers with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, either working in Bible schools or teaching study courses in small church es.
She and her husband have | two children, Jeffrey, nearly I four, and Ellen,—21 -months.
In Richmond for appointment and a week of orientation at Foreign Mission Board head quarters, Mr. Divers, told how at a Baptist summer assembly in 1950 he came to a gripping realization of the disproportionate ratio between Baptist ministers in the United States and in other countries. “There I first recognized that the world is the field of labor for the Christian minis ter,“ he siad. “I made a silent vow to God that if he wanted me to serve elsewhere in the world, I would be willing." Mrs. Divers said she began to learn about missions dut* ing childhood, though at that time she visualized a mission ary as "a little old grayhaired lady in China." Her commitment to foreign mission service developed grad ually over a long period. Mr. and Mrs. Divers were among 28 missionaries appointed during the Foreign Mi» sion Boards March meeting, bringing the Southern Baptist overseas mission staff to 1,923,
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