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Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...rags and papers stuffed into broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
Sunday school attendance, said Brother Gourley, had jumped 20% and the turnout for services was better, too. "We're running 35 to 45 worshipers at Fletcher on Sunday, 65 at Ebenezer and 50 at Pimento . » The three district churches had raised more than $2,000 for such improvements as the Ebenezer's new electric organ, an oil furnace and wallpaper for the parsonage...
...Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Mayo also was Roby Fletcher prizeman of Adelaide and a Davis Murray research scholar...