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These statistics and many others are contained in the new Mission Handbook, an authoritative volume of data and analysis to be issued this month by a subunit of World Vision, a major evangelical relief agency based in Monrovia, Calif. The data show sizable increases in activity since the last Handbook, published eight years...
...branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
...hype, acting on curators who do not wish to seem stuffy, have made pseudo events like this common -- even if the brevity of the artist's career fills his curriculum vitae with solemn entries like "1960: Receives from a family friend The Natural Way to Draw, an artist's handbook...
...University is saying the executivecommittee of the Board has final say over thevoter handbook. That is tantamount to censorship,"he said
Correction of an "administrative error" has given Government thesis writers a week-long reprieve. According to the department's Thesis Writers' Handbook, the 80- to 120-page works were supposed to be due on March...