The country church in industrial zones; the effects of industrialism upon the church life of adjacent rural areas as illustrated by two typical counties . he churcheswhich do not have to share their pastors with other churches 72 percent, gained, as compared with 27 per cent, for churches on two-point circuits, 17 per cent, on three-, 24 per cent, on four-, 17 percent, on five-, and 2 per cent, on six-point circuits. The advantageis, therefore, all with the one-point charge. Size of membership has a relation to growth. The greater theresources in personnel, finance, and enthusiasm of members,
The country church in industrial zones; the effects of industrialism upon the church life of adjacent rural areas as illustrated by two typical counties . he churcheswhich do not have to share their pastors with other churches 72 percent, gained, as compared with 27 per cent, for churches on two-point circuits, 17 per cent, on three-, 24 per cent, on four-, 17 percent, on five-, and 2 per cent, on six-point circuits. The advantageis, therefore, all with the one-point charge. Size of membership has a relation to growth. The greater theresources in personnel, finance, and enthusiasm of members, thebetter the organization. All the churches which have a membershipof more than 150 made a net gain last year. The percentage ofchurches gaining and the average size taper oflf together. Of 71 THE COUNTRY CHURCH IN INDUSTRIAL ZONES churches with memberships between 100 and 150, a little less thanthree-fourths gained, of those between 25 and 100, a littleless than two-thirds gained, while of those with memberships of 25or less, one-sixth gained. CHURCHES GAINING AND LOSINGDURING ONE YEAR PERIOD COLUMBIA COUNTY 100 CHURCHES HARFORD COUNTY74 CHURCHES. RELATION OF SIZEOF CHURCH MEMBERSHIP TO GAIN SMALLCHURCHES MEDIUMCHURCHES 60% 38% ?CM ?(% JEDl ^^^^^^m gained] ^Kf 0-50MEMBERS 50-100MEMBERS LARGECHURCHES 13% NEDl / OVER 100MEMBERS Chart based on figures from 174 Protestant churches CHART VI In Columbia County, there is a wide difference between thebest evangelized and the poorest evajagelized communities, pre-viously referred to, in the percentage of churches growing. In thebest evangelized communities just one-half of the churches made 72 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP a gain last year; in the poorest evangelized communities, wherethere are, on the average, seventy-five more persons per church andwhere the number of un-evangelized persons per church is greaterby 166, just one-fourth of the churches gained. It may be considered that these points all come to the samething, which is that the wel
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