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...peaceful farming village in the Alleghenies, Schellsburg had for more than 70 years supported four churches -St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran, Schellsburg Methodist, Schellsburg Presbyterian, and St. John's Reformed (United Church of Christ). But since World War II, the community's population has steadily dropped. None of the congregations numbered more than 85; none could afford a full-time minister. When the Methodist church burned in 1945, the congregation took to renting the Presbyterian church for twice-a-month services. Three of four congregations have operated a Sunday school in common since...
High Attendance. For a few church members, the new way of worship was too much of a shock, and they refused to attend the services. One conservative Presbyterian opposed the merger as a Communist plot. But the great majority of the four congregations liked the compromise forms and the experience of worshiping together in a large group. Except on Easter Sunday, attendance seldom averaged more than 25 for each of Schellsburg's four churches; now there is a regular congregation of 130 at the new church, including some families that previously belonged to no church...
...make a Sunday sermon attractive is to deliver it on Wednesday. In big cities, midday in midweek finds thousands of office workers hungering in the spirit as much as in the body. The foremost respondent to this need is St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church in downtown Sydney, Australia, filled every Wednesday noon to its 1,000-seat capacity, while an overflow crowd of 300 or more watches from an adjoining hall on closed-circuit television. All have come to hear the "Wednesday tonics" of the Rev. Gordon Powell...
Douglass, who has championed these experiments despite opposition from more traditional clergymen, believes that the church "must meet people where they carry on their most vital tasks." In Detroit, United Church, Presbyterian and Episcopal ministers jointly carry on an industrial mission at 30 factories, visiting both workers and management during lunch hours. Last week, the Homeland Ministries Board approved the assignment of a minister to live and work in one of Pittsburgh's new high-rise apartment buildings. His "church" will be the laundry room, the sundeck, the lobby-anywhere that residents gather to talk...
...minutes' walk of one another on what Berkeleyites call "Holy Hill"; the others are within easy driving distance. But what made the Union necessary was the high cost of academic improvements. Although the individual seminaries have plenty of topflight teachers - Old Testament Scholar James Muilenberg at the Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, Systematic Theologian Keith Bridston at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - none of the schools ranked among the nation's best. Only two had doctoral programs, and their libraries ranged from average to inadequate. Back in 1959, the seminary presidents began meeting to discuss the possibility of exchanging...