The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-01
COUNTY CONFERENCE
TO Be HELD IN APRIL
Interchurch World Movement
to Send Big Team"
Here.
TO SHOW RESULTS OF SURVEYS
All Local Protestant Churches Cooper.
ating in Movement Will Be
Represented.

hPAii thC AhtSiS W SAAN
Movement will hold its conference IL
this county. Representatives are now
being selected by the local Protestant
Churches of denominations associated
with the movement, and from present
reports the attendance at the confer
ence will number well into the hun
dreds. In addition to the representa-
tives selected by the churches, the
conference will be open to all church
members and friendly citizens who
wish to attend.
The meeting place probably will be
the county seat, and the attendance
will be composed of the membership
of the Protestant churches Of the
county.
| The conferences will last one day
only. During that day will be present
ed the whole program of the Inter
church World Movement for promoting
cooperation in missionary and genera,
church activities among the Protestant
churches. Time will also be given to
| discussion of the local problems re
vealed by the InterchIrch Movements
out the United States.
This county conference will be just
one Of the 2000-odd to be held through
out the United States on approximate
~ the same dates.
No Sidestepping of Problems.
It will be, it is said, a very excep
tional county that does not hear some
more or less unpalatable truths cor
corning unchurched areas. or wasteful
competition, or underpaid and alb
sentee preachers. Not many counties,
It is stated, are able to show an aver
age ministerial salary higher than the
average for the whole United States,
which ia 1897, while barely one-third
Of the entire Protestant population of
the United States, according to esti-
mates made by the Interchurch survey.
has an opportunity for regular church
attendance.
Besides full consideration of local
problems, the program at the county
conference will present the outstand-
Ing results Of the worldwide survey Of
religious, social and economic condi-
lions made by the Interchurch Move
ment, the material for which has been
gathered from every corner of the
earth. Special emphasis will also be
laid on the place of prayer in Christian
life, the Importance of assisting young
people in the right choice Of their life
work and the duty of laying aside a
definite proportion Of income for re-
ligious purposes. Lantern slides will
be freely used to illustrate the various
addresses.
The conference will be managed by
local committees, and the various top
les under discussion will be handled by
. team of from five to eight men and
women, recognized as church leaders
in the county or state. This team, in
addition to the local meetings, will be
responsible for conducting the confer
ences in seven other counties.
Big Educational Campaign Prepared.
This series of conferences repre-
sents only an intermediate stage in a
great campaign of intensive education
in practical Christianity preparatory to
the united appeal for missionary funds
and workers which will be held by the
Protestant denominations cooperating
In the Interchurch Movement between
April % and May 2. The members of
the team that will address the county
conference were themselves trained as
. faculty" Of specialists in the various
aspects Of the Movement at q series
of state and pastors conferences. Sim
ilarly, those who attend the county
conference will in turn form . "fac-
ulty" for interpreting the message OF
the Interchurch Movement to their To-
cal churches.
Thus it is expected that before April
20 the ideal of church cooperation ad-
vocated by the Interchurch World
Movement, in place of church COM
petition. and the program of evangel-
ization that goes with it, will be "a
miliar to every one of the fifty million
Protestants in the United States.