. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ese two factors are present, other things equal,the results both in numerical gains and in general efficiency will beout of all proportion to the increased outlay. A significant enterprise in this field will be undertaken duringthe coming year in Indiana. Upon formal request of New AlbanyPresbytery and the Synod of Indiana the Board of Home Missionsis cooperating with these two bodies in the countrychurches of the Presbytery. A New Alb
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ese two factors are present, other things equal,the results both in numerical gains and in general efficiency will beout of all proportion to the increased outlay. A significant enterprise in this field will be undertaken duringthe coming year in Indiana. Upon formal request of New AlbanyPresbytery and the Synod of Indiana the Board of Home Missionsis cooperating with these two bodies in the countrychurches of the Presbytery. A New Albany Promotion Plan Com-mittee has been formed by the three cooperating bodies, which con-sists of Rev. F. W. Backemeyer. of the Synod; Rev. W. W. Logan,of the Presbytery, and Rev. Warren H. Wilson, of the Church andCountry Life Work of the Board. The treasurer of New AlbanyPresbytery is to be treasurer of the Committee. To this Committeeeach of the three parties has entrusted its powers of missionaryinitiative, supervision and control, and through this Committee allmissionary monies to be expended in New Albany Presbytery will 64 HOME MISSIONS. FACTS FROM THE FIELD 65 pass; the Committee itself having the supervision of Home Mis-sion work in the Presbytery. The reason for this plan is that the New Albany churches, 53 innumber, have at the end of the war period a very small number ofministers. The plan proposes an active promotion of the churchesof the Presbytery, by the offer of adequate salaries and of an aggres-sive policy of community work. The first step taken by the Committee was to ask the Inter-church World Movement to survey the counties of the Presbyteryand to advise as to the fields worthy of promotion. Upon thesefields, committed to the Presbyterian Church for promotion by theCounty Meetings of the Tnterchurch World Movement, the atten-tion of the Committee will first be bestowed. We will thus have be-hind the Home Mission churches in the Presbytery the united sup-po
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