Word: churchless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings in 1940 for churchless southwestern areas. He still travels the circuit himself each summer, telling Bible stories and frontier yarns...
...Salvation. The result, says Winter, is that low-income groups still living in the "inner city" have been left churchless (in Boston, for instance, five inner-city Methodist churches have folded up in ten years), while the new suburbanites are as poor in what constitutes real Christian community as they are rich in community centers...