Picnics, combined services and informal fellowship brought each congregation to a new understanding of one another. The English church provided a new base for sponsoring immigrants from the ethnic homeland. Many families were united. C. Transition - the neighborhood has changed. A new church is formed to take over the facility as the existing culture dies out.
Cities grow, evolve, and decline.
Sometimes there will be a rebirth and resurrection. Transition is a relative term because it can be slight or a complete change. All of the examples in Chapter IV are examples of churches in transition. But in this case complete change has taken place in the community. For the church to continue to exist it had to have a racial as well as a socio-economic change.