Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty's Government, said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, will pay the premiums instead, thus insuring the rebuilding of bombed-out churches, chapels, parsonages, parish houses. This was good news indeed to British churchmen, who have already seen thousands of churches bombed, including 200 Methodist and 114 Baptist in the London area alone...
Regional planning for Protestant churches got its first big boost last week. The starting point: two able reports on population shifts and religious needs around Philadelphia, made at Allentown, Pa. to the annual Methodist Conference for the Philadelphia area. Impressed, the delegates from the conference's 322 churches and missions voted a ten-year, $250,000 program by way of starter...
...reports were authored by the Rev. W. Vernon Middleton, pastor of Philadelphia's Covenant Methodist Church and secretary of the Philadelphia Missionary and Church Extension Society, and Dr. W. Galloway Tyson, who spoke for the conference's four district superintendents. Keynote-that oldtime revival-service vangelism is not enough-was struck by Minister Middleton. Said...
...church must study the city as a total picture and plan accordingly," said Dr. Tyson. Primarily urban and suburban in scope, the plan will also cover the country districts. Dr. Tyson reminded the 700 conference delegates that 76% of U. S. Methodist pastors and 65% of the 8,000,000 Methodist membership are in rural charges...
Zions Herald, 118-year-old Methodist weekly, last week ably stated the case against praying to be seen...