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...pioneer and chief practitioner of this new art is Norman Whan, a former insurance telemarketing consultant, who runs a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization called Church Growth Development International. Whan, 46, a Quaker, specializes in starting up brand-new churches, using a target of 200 members as the number needed for a self-sustaining congregation. "When you ask 20,000 people," explains Whan, "you can get at least 200 to do anything." In addition to canvassing, Whan has conducted "The Phone's for You!" seminars for 2,000 Protestant congregations from Canada to Florida (cost per attendee: $295). Another...
...Most ministries realize how to reach rural people," says Whan, "but there are millions in cities, in high-rises and behind gates." To reach these urban populations, the telephone has proved to be a handy -- and safer -- substitute for door-to-door buttonholing and an ideal pastime, especially for older churchgoers. Whan claims that about 10% of those dialed by churches seem mildly interested at first contact; after follow-up letters and calls, some 1% of them end up visiting worship services. Calvary Church, in a yuppie enclave outside Tampa, did even better. After eight volunteer canvassers phoned...
...Whan's ultimate goal is to phone every household in North America each year with a personal invitation to attend church services. That would require 2 million callers to contact 100 homes apiece -- a total of 200 million heavenly junk calls. No problem, says Whan. "It literally could be done in three hours." Even St. Paul might be impressed. If the telephone had existed in his day, he could have evangelized from his living room instead of wandering over land and sea for two decades. Just imagine the sales pitch: "How are you this evening? Good. My name is Paul...
...might say that Judge Garrity has a blind spot whan it comes to sexual discrimination. Every woman's group in the country will line up with us in our appeal," Gilmore said...
Hassan Namazee '72 says he encountered so much resistance from Safran whan he funded a fellowship to benefit Iranian students and Iranian scholarship that he discontinued the program after its first year...