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Selling pews was drummed out of most Protestant churches long ago; yet Gilead Baptist Church in Detroit recently inaugurated a $1.20 weekly payment by each member for the "space" he takes in church. Bazaars are under fire: the Rev. Eugene Carper, director of research and strategy for the Massachusetts Council of Churches, thinks that bazaar workers should do some thing more beneficial for the spiritual life of the church, like visiting the sick and the aged in hospitals. But in May the Congregational church in wealthy Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, held a rummage sale that raised $40,000 from donated...
Raising capital for building-as opposed to getting money for week-to-week operation-creates other controversies. Baptist Minister the Rev. Dale Ihrie of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., financed his church by selling bonds to his congregation; they liked it because "they owe the money to themselves," and he liked it because many holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop...
...major 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...
...tougher form, pledging becomes tithing; some Protestant fundamentalists stress tithing so much that it almost seems a prerequisite for membership. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Don H. Hughes, a Catholic, wrote a leaflet that shows a crucified Christ with the inscription, "God's sacrifice for me!" and on the back says...
Churches must have money, and most ministers stoutly defend fund-raising systems that work. But many would also prefer to "do away with bazaars, raffles and anything that smacks of a church supported by gadgets," as the Rev. James Madden, vice chancellor of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, puts it. He, and others, want "to bring back the idea that supporting the church is something natural...