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Highest average per capita contribution for 1945: the Nazarene Church with $55.79. Lowest: Southern Baptists, with $14.18. The Northern Presbyterian Church, with an average contribution of $27.59, edged out the Episcopalians' $27.22; Southern Presbyterians outdid them both, with $31.90. Average contribution...
Industrial Chaplain. Presbyterian Smith calls himself an "industrial chaplain." From the beginning, he and his wife have lived with and served their flock on the industrial front lines-going down into the mines, attending union meetings, helping conduct mine foremen's classes...
...Service Award. His church has recently promoted him to be a supervisor of mountaineer mining missions, and he has moved into Morgantown with two ordained assistants and a third on the way. Both owners and miners are so appreciative of Smith's work that they have asked the Presbyterian Board of National Missions to open nine more centers like the Shack...
...most cherished projects, the Miners' Memorial Pool to provide free summer swimming and winter skating for Scotts Run. Assembled for the dedication were representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the A.F.L., the C.I.O., the U.M.W, as well as a mine operator, an editor, a Catholic priest and a Presbyterian churchman...
...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...