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Missions of the Spirit

THE WORK of the Treasury Department of the Board of Home Missions is conducted in accordance with recognized standards of sound business procedure in the secular world. It must be stable. It must follow careful accounting and business practices. It must invest widely to earn adequate dividends. It must keep the future in mind as well as the present. 
But perhaps there is a difference, and if you talk to the staff of this department you see it and feel it. The business has, ultimately spiritual profit as its objective, and each dollar has meaning only as its use can be measured by the great goals of God's purpose for man. A dollar looks different when it is dedicated .

Financial Needs of Our Fellowship
Our treasurer speaks to us sternly when he looks first at what must be done and then at our financial resources to do it. Here is what he tells us
It costs a lot of money to start new churches, to help them build, to assist them through the first lean years. Our Church Building Loan Fund has done very well to date but we cannot pretend we have all the funds we need even for what we have already planned. 
The colleges of the AMA cannot provide modern education with the equipment for science classes and laboratories. Possibly physicians or engineers or industrialists could be persuaded to donate some, but much must be purchased.
Our church related colleges are not in a happy financial situation. In fact, we Congregational Christians may well have done less than any other denomination in direct church support of these colleges in the last four decades, however good our record before that. The place these colleges have earned in American life and culture merits better treatment and concerted church support.

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Missions of the Spirit THE WORK of the Treasury Department of the Board of Home Missions is conducted in accordance with recognized standards of sound business procedure in the secular world. It must be stable. It must follow careful accounting and business practices. It must invest widely to earn adequate dividends. It must keep the future in mind as well as the present. But perhaps there is a difference, and if you talk to the staff of this department you see it and feel it. The business has, ultimately spiritual profit as its objective, and each dollar has meaning only as its use can be measured by the great goals of God's purpose for man. A dollar looks different when it is dedicated . Financial Needs of Our Fellowship Our treasurer speaks to us sternly when he looks first at what must be done and then at our financial resources to do it. Here is what he tells us It costs a lot of money to start new churches, to help them build, to assist them through the first lean years. Our Church Building Loan Fund has done very well to date but we cannot pretend we have all the funds we need even for what we have already planned. The colleges of the AMA cannot provide modern education with the equipment for science classes and laboratories. Possibly physicians or engineers or industrialists could be persuaded to donate some, but much must be purchased. Our church related colleges are not in a happy financial situation. In fact, we Congregational Christians may well have done less than any other denomination in direct church support of these colleges in the last four decades, however good our record before that. The place these colleges have earned in American life and culture merits better treatment and concerted church support.