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in Co-operation The East Harlem Protestant Parish The East Harlem Protestant Parish started in a store front. Today it has an annual budget of $80,000, and it still operates out of storefronts. But these now house four organized churches, a medical clinic, an employment center, an active program of family life and parent education, and the multitude of other activities that make up this unique combination of Christian service and Christian evangelism. The churches enroll 930 children and 410 young people .The program for children, unlike many church sponsored programs in such areas is built this year around education for church membership. The Parish owned farm up the Hudson which is in nearly year round use. Men enrolled in the Brotherhood of Christian Workers discuss "What is the Christian meaning of my job?" Operation "T" is a full scale attack on government agencies, backed with careful factual study, to get them to enforce housing ordinances so that the people of the Parish can live under conditions of minimum decency. Had you been on Second Avenue last Christmas Eve just before midnight, you would have seen a candlelight procession from four churches marching to a parish wide service to proclaim the birth of our Lord, and you would have been proud that your Board of Home Missions had a share in lightning the darkness in East Harlem. Mission Extended It is not only in New York City that the underloved need the story of God's love told to them in the language of faith in action. In other cities the churches were looking for a way to make some real impact on the inner city. When the East Harlem Protestant Parish showed the way others followed in it. - In New Haven A small group of Yale Divinity School students took the pattern of the group ministry, and applied it on one of New Haven's most depressed blocks. Result - the Oak Street Christian Parish. - in Chicago The Chicago Congregational City Missionary Society studied the ministry in East Harlem, found it good, and called one of the Parish ministries to start a similar enterprise on Roosevelt Road in Chicago. Result - the West Side Christian Parish. - In Cleveland The Church leaders in several denominations, perplexed by the difficult problems of ministering to Cleveland's inner East Side, heard of the Parish and invited some of its staff to come to Cleveland to share ideas. Result - as this is written, one of the Parish ministers has just gone to Cleveland to start a similar ministry there.
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in Co-operation The East Harlem Protestant Parish The East Harlem Protestant Parish started in a store front. Today it has an annual budget of $80,000, and it still operates out of storefronts. But these now house four organized churches, a medical clinic, an employment center, an active program of family life and parent education, and the multitude of other activities that make up this unique combination of Christian service and Christian evangelism. The churches enroll 930 children and 410 young people .The program for children, unlike many church sponsored programs in such areas is built this year around education for church membership. The Parish owned farm up the Hudson which is in nearly year round use. Men enrolled in the Brotherhood of Christian Workers discuss "What is the Christian meaning of my job?" Operation "T" is a full scale attack on government agencies, backed with careful factual study, to get them to enforce housing ordinances so that the people of the Parish can live under conditions of minimum decency. Had you been on Second Avenue last Christmas Eve just before midnight, you would have seen a candlelight procession from four churches marching to a parish wide service to proclaim the birth of our Lord, and you would have been proud that your Board of Home Missions had a share in lightning the darkness in East Harlem. Mission Extended It is not only in New York City that the underloved need the story of God's love told to them in the language of faith in action. In other cities the churches were looking for a way to make some real impact on the inner city. When the East Harlem Protestant Parish showed the way others followed in it. - In New Haven A small group of Yale Divinity School students took the pattern of the group ministry, and applied it on one of New Haven's most depressed blocks. Result - the Oak Street Christian Parish. - in Chicago The Chicago Congregational City Missionary Society studied the ministry in East Harlem, found it good, and called one of the Parish ministries to start a similar enterprise on Roosevelt Road in Chicago. Result - the West Side Christian Parish. - In Cleveland The Church leaders in several denominations, perplexed by the difficult problems of ministering to Cleveland's inner East Side, heard of the Parish and invited some of its staff to come to Cleveland to share ideas. Result - as this is written, one of the Parish ministers has just gone to Cleveland to start a similar ministry there.
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