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...projects is done by pros, says Auxiliary Bishop John Spence. Recognizing the growing role of professionalism, the Methodists' American University in Washington awards M.A.s and Ph.D.s in church business management. But some Protestant clergymen now tend to think that professional fund raising is counterproductive. Says the Rev. Theodore Palmquist: "Our people don't like to give when they know that 10% of their money will go to professionals...
...very much interested in unity, but I'm not interested in union," argues Dr. Theodore Palmquist, pastor of Washington's Foundry Methodist Church. "In Protestantism, division is our strength because we allow for differences in opinion. If you're more emotional you can go to an emotional church; if you like ritual, you could choose the Episcopal Church...
After graduating from business college in Seattle, Massachusetts-born Theodore Palmquist went to work for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., but quit because there were too many girls in the office ("I spent all my time opening and closing windows and fixing typewriter ribbons"). At C. M. Lovsted and Co., he worked his way up to be advertising manager. Five years later, at 27, he quit to enter the ministry. It took seven long years of college (University of Washington, College of the Pacific) and theological school (Pacific School of Religion) before he was ordained, but even during...
...Yellow Paper. Friendly, greying Dr. Palmquist went to Wilshire in 1947, and "only asked them to let me build the kind of church I would have liked to belong to when I was in the advertising business." This meant hiring "the country's foremost Bach organist" and a full-time drama coach (six plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years...
...Palmquist looks forward eagerly to his new post because he sees Washington as the center of the world. He is sure to give Foundry parishioners more bounce to the ounce than many a staid Easterner has known. "Who else would print a church bulletin in red on yellow paper?" he asks...