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...neighborhood. The measure of our success is not how many people you bring to church but how much impact you make." Cromey's mission has made its impact with colorful street processions on major church festivals, a wide range of new youth programs. His next project: a storefront submission in the 90%-Negro Hunters Point area. In addition to diocesan funds, Cromey hopes to get financial help from some wealthy suburban parish; he believes that "the suburban churches will have to pay the bills for the Inner City for some time to come...
Seven Days a Week. Most of these adherents are poor, few of them well educated. Their churches are simple-a storefront congregation in New York's Spanish Harlem, a barren cinderblock rectangle on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The minister is likely to be a factory worker himself, secure in the Pentecostal belief that "a man of God with a Bible in his hand has had training enough." Whether he calls his church Pentecostal or Holiness or Church of God, he emphasizes an event usually glossed over by mainstream Protestants: the Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection, when...
...cure juvenile delinquency is to ask bad apples why they have worms. So argues Psychologist Charles W. Slack, who came upon the method accidentally in a Harvard project started four years ago called Streetcorner Research. Originally, he set up shop in a Cambridge storefront and paid young punks to talk their troubles into a tape recorder to find out what made them tick. In the process, he discovered to his surprise that they talk their troubles out: the crime rate among Slack's subjects has fallen by half...
Most ministers of the mainstream Protestant churches profess not to be worried by storefront or cinder-block competition. "They're no real problem." says the Rev. Hugo Leinberger, church extension director for the North Illinois synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...
...They make something of a splash when they start-but people get a little sophistication, a little education, and this kind of religion loses its appeal." Others are not so sure, and regard the growth of storefront religion as a challenge to the relevance of traditional Protestantism...