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Word: intercristo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There should be no job shortage for the volunteers of 1976. The Intercristo computer job-matching service offered 14,000 potential openings, mostly in the Third World, where opposition to missionary work in some areas is still intense. The new Mission Handbook, to be published by World Vision this month, reports that there are now an all-time high of 35,698 Protestant missionaries from the U.S. (v. 7,010 Roman Catholic ones), and that church members' annual giving to mission boards totals $633 million, a 60% jump in three years. Though several denominations such as the Episcopal, United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of a New England Haystack | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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