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Catacombs 65. Only 350 people are listed as members of his congregation; yet thousands of tourists jam the American Church on summer Sundays, and about 3,000 U.S. Parisians attend services at least intermittently. Sargent's imaginative methods of evangelism have extended the church's "outreach" to roughly half of the 20,000 Americans in the city, and to a goodly number of Frenchmen as well...
...tent called a shamiana, and New Delhi's Hindus, Moslems, Jains and Buddhists gaped at their diversity. Archbishops and patriarchs, metropolitans and primates, bishops, canons, pastors and professors-capped, cassocked, bearded, bareheaded, in flowing robes or academic gowns, in business suits or sarongs-bodied forth the range and outreach of Christianity. Among them: Anglican Arthur Michael Ramsey, Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, German Evangelical Otto Dibelius, Episcopalian Arthur Lichtenberger, Greek Orthodox Lakovos...
...defense, there is nothing illusory about Schloredt. "There's an art to being aggressive," he says. "The idea is that if you can soften up the other guy, he'll be thinking about you. Take a big end. If his passes are good, he'll outreach you and pull them in. And if you just tackle him around the shoetops, he'll fall down, all right. But that's not good enough. You've got to tackle him so he thinks your helmet is going to tear right through him. Next time he comes...
...large university, Pusey maintained, is also an advantage to the undergraduate body. "If the college now has something special to say to undergraduates," he declared, "we are confident this is owed in large measure to its setting in the midst of a multiform dynamic University with a vital outreach into the world...
...Roman Catholic Church in Indo-China is one of the oldest and most successful examples of Christian outreach in the Far East. Missionaries were established in Indo-China long before the French colonizers arrived. Among the most successful of these was 25-year-old Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes of Avignon. A brilliant linguist, within six months Father de Rhodes began transforming the character writing of Vietnamese into a Romanized script. He rapidly built up a native clergy, which kept the church strong during periods of persecution under unfriendly monarchs...