. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... themselves in villages andbig towns. The professional classes that servethe farmer do not live with the farmer. This situation shows why country churches aresuffering such losses. INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT THE average country church is but a single-cell structure. At best it has but one roomfor church and Sunday school and probably abasement or addition for kitchen and primarydepartment. The frequent lack of a parsonagemakes it impossible to maintain a resident pastor. UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTI
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... themselves in villages andbig towns. The professional classes that servethe farmer do not live with the farmer. This situation shows why country churches aresuffering such losses. INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT THE average country church is but a single-cell structure. At best it has but one roomfor church and Sunday school and probably abasement or addition for kitchen and primarydepartment. The frequent lack of a parsonagemakes it impossible to maintain a resident pastor. UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTIONOF FORCES DENOMINATIONAL lines have been sotightly drawn in the country that eventhe economic urge of a decreasing populationfails to bring the churches together. Considering that rural churches are generallybunched in villages and grouped in competitiveareas in the open country it is evident that theplaces are many in which one church mustdepend upon only ten or twenty families. One eastern town has six churches for onehundred and fifty people and no residentminister. They Preach Here and They Live Here. 92 MILES ^ 3 CHURCHESWITHIN A 5 MILE RADIUS 3 PASTORSWITHIN A 7 MILE RADIUS AN ACTUAL CONDITION REVEALED BY THE SURVEY HOME MISSIONS: Town and Country 65 THIRTY-SIX COUNTRY CHURCHES THIRTY-SIX CHURCHES IN SIXTEEN TOWNS WITHIN A SIX-MILE RADIUSWITH A POPULOUS UNTOUCHED TOWNSHIP IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT
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