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A Mission for Informed Churchmanship THE CHURCH in Fruitvale, California, felt it did not have much of a future where it was located. Before moving, however, they asked our Director of Research to take a look at their situation. He showed them how to look at a community from the standpoint of its potential for a church; and they found, that if they opened their eyes a little wider they could see many prospects they hadn't seen before. today the church is raising money for a new building. The basic function of research is to help people open their eyes a little wider and see a little more clearly. The specialist in research is a specialist because he spends his life learning techniques by which facts can be collected that are reliable and objective and can be put together in systematic fashion so that they add up to answers to questions. A local church - even an association or a conference - can't afford to specialize this much in its staff. A national board can, and it can put the talents of its research specialist at the service of churches, associations and conferences. helping them to analyze and solve their own problems, and in the process helping the Board of Home Missions to understand how it can use its resources most wisely. The researcher spends some time in the office, studying census reports, questionnaires, yearbook statistics, maps, and the other paraphernalia of research. But the major emphasis is on on-the-spot observation, interview and study. The biennium found our research director tramping the streets in "high potential" west coast cities, interviewing miners in Colorado, talking to church officers in New Hampshire, studying possible church sites on Long Island and in many other places. He travels a long way from his ivory tower. Research Activities 1953-1954 The Indians of South Dakota First Congregational Church of Oakland, California Fruitvale Congregational Church Oakland, California Congregationalism in Silverton, Colorado Garfield County Congregationalism, Colorado Our Churches in Endicott and Elmira, New York The Dorchester Community Center, Georgia. Congregationalism in Worcester, Massachusetts Moving the First Congregational Church, Indianapolis The Fort Berthold Indian Churches New Church in Nashville, Tennesee Research for Conference on Higher Education Research for Conference on Church Extension Defiance College Church, Ohio New York Rural Congregationalism Pleasant Hill Church and Community, Tennessee A Parish Workbook for Rural Churches Theology for the Rural Church A Conceptual Framework for Comity Our Spanish Churches in the Southwest Our Mission in the South Huntington Long Island, and its churches.
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A Mission for Informed Churchmanship THE CHURCH in Fruitvale, California, felt it did not have much of a future where it was located. Before moving, however, they asked our Director of Research to take a look at their situation. He showed them how to look at a community from the standpoint of its potential for a church; and they found, that if they opened their eyes a little wider they could see many prospects they hadn't seen before. today the church is raising money for a new building. The basic function of research is to help people open their eyes a little wider and see a little more clearly. The specialist in research is a specialist because he spends his life learning techniques by which facts can be collected that are reliable and objective and can be put together in systematic fashion so that they add up to answers to questions. A local church - even an association or a conference - can't afford to specialize this much in its staff. A national board can, and it can put the talents of its research specialist at the service of churches, associations and conferences. helping them to analyze and solve their own problems, and in the process helping the Board of Home Missions to understand how it can use its resources most wisely. The researcher spends some time in the office, studying census reports, questionnaires, yearbook statistics, maps, and the other paraphernalia of research. But the major emphasis is on on-the-spot observation, interview and study. The biennium found our research director tramping the streets in "high potential" west coast cities, interviewing miners in Colorado, talking to church officers in New Hampshire, studying possible church sites on Long Island and in many other places. He travels a long way from his ivory tower. Research Activities 1953-1954 The Indians of South Dakota First Congregational Church of Oakland, California Fruitvale Congregational Church Oakland, California Congregationalism in Silverton, Colorado Garfield County Congregationalism, Colorado Our Churches in Endicott and Elmira, New York The Dorchester Community Center, Georgia. Congregationalism in Worcester, Massachusetts Moving the First Congregational Church, Indianapolis The Fort Berthold Indian Churches New Church in Nashville, Tennesee Research for Conference on Higher Education Research for Conference on Church Extension Defiance College Church, Ohio New York Rural Congregationalism Pleasant Hill Church and Community, Tennessee A Parish Workbook for Rural Churches Theology for the Rural Church A Conceptual Framework for Comity Our Spanish Churches in the Southwest Our Mission in the South Huntington Long Island, and its churches.
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