Word: exoduses
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...first exodus took place in 1963, when Dwain Evans, a Churches of Christ preacher, led a trek of 85 families, most of them from Texas, to West Islip, Long Island. So successful was this experiment-the West Islip congregation now has its own $300,000 church and has won 100 converts-that other ministers set up similar communities in Somerville, N.J., and Stamford, Conn. This year, the Churches of Christ plan to organize new congregations in Rochester, N.Y., Burlington, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. By 1968, they hope to ship a readymade congregation to Sao Paulo in Brazil...
After the decision was made, James Pounders of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the exodus organizer, flew to Stamford with 56 members of his new congregation for job interviews. According to one employment agency, some firms seemed worried that the Churches of Christ members "would try to convert everybody in the shop." Nonetheless, by the time the move took place last August, three-fourths of the missionaries had jobs waiting for them...
Then Harvard offered a way out. A number of researchers at the Ed School wanted to sponsor a project that would study Exodus' effect on the children it carries and their parents. As part of the project, they planned to ask the Office of Education for enough money to support Exodus generously for the duration of the study -- at least a year. It seemed to be both a good idea and a politically feasible one. Though the support of the Boston School Committee wasn't necessary, it was won. The members of the committee favored the research part...
...last week, Commissioner of Education Harold Howe II told Harvard and Exodus that the plan had been rejected. The Office of Education, he said, might fund the research, but it could not provide the money that had been requested -- almost $160,000 -- for Exodus. He explained that these were far from normal operating expenses in a research proposal and, with little research money available anyway, they had to be cut. It was possible, he said, that some money could be provided for Exodus -- and it seemed clear that he was impressed by Exodus and not against the idea of federal...
...idea would have been more impressive, though, had it been backed by the $160,000. The request was not unusually large; the gains from seeing what a group like Exodus can do when it is adequately financed would have been great. It was the wrong time for the Office of Education to refuse to make an exception...