Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-04-29
TEAM WORK AIM
OF INTERCHURCH
CAMPAIGN PLAN
GREAT MOVEMENT DOES NOT
STAND FOR ORGANIC UNION
OF DENOMINATIONS.
CANVASS ALL PROTESTANTS
Campaign Week Ia Set for April rs, to
May 2-Entirs Quota for State OF
Wisconsin te Be So, 547, o67'42.

The Interchurch World Movement
Of North America is a movement OF
the churches. by the churches, for the
churches.
Il is an eVangelistic movement, hrst,
last and all the time, for its object is
to enable the Protestant Churches OF
the United States to contribute their
| due share toward the evangelization
OF the world.
The means by which this object
may beat be attained are expressed
in the one INCORPORATION.
Every denomination that joins the
InterchuFch Movement retains abso-
lutte autonomy and exercises absolute
| control over its own denominational
policy ALI of the participating de-
nominations acting together through
| their representatives on the General
Committee. control the policies OF the
Interchurch Movement
Common Tasks For Participation.
The function Of the Interchurch
World Movement is to provide the ma
chinery for this cooperation.
The Common tasks in which the
churches participating in the Move
ment plan to cooperate include the
| following: the missionary undertak-
1ngs OF the churches at home and
abroad; assistance to local churches;
promotion Of the spiritual ideals OF
stewardship, life service and the
power of prayer. and such other
church activities as education, the
adequate support of the ministry and
| the provision and maintenance Of hos
pitfalls and homes.
Cooperation ia such undertakings
as these is a plain matter Of efficiency.
There are thirty denominations par
| ticipating in the Interchurch World
Movement 1t is obvious that sin
gle comprehensive program, embrac-
| ing the collective wisdom Of all of
| these denominations, is going to get
more efficient results at less expense
than thirty different programs, each
framed entirely independently Of all
| the rest.
VIII Canvass All Protsstants.
BY joining together in a great unit
ed, Simultaneous campaign, the
churches participating in the Inter
church Movement will not only can
vass their own constituency, they will
| canvass the whole Protestant consti
tuency of. the United States. They
will not only receive their denomina-
tional contributions, but they will also
share In the undesignated gifts which
will ultimately be distributed pro rata
among the participant denominations.
The plan dictates Of efficiency and
| economy III doing the Lords business
point to the need Of some organization
TO provide the machinery Of co-opera-
ton which the Interchurch Movement
Is providing.
| 1t is not only this machinery which
the Interchurch. Aoevment provides.
| Working In close cooperation with
nearly q hundred UNCONVENTIONAL mis-
sion boards, 1t has also provided
body OF accurate information regard
ing the worlds needs on which the CO.
| operating churches may base their
programs.
The survey of religious conditions
| throughout the world Is the most COM
prehensive investigation of it's kind
| ever undertaken.
Through the machinery provided by
| the Interchureh World Movement it Is
possible also to put a more effective
| emphasis on the evangeIistic message
Of the churches.
| Weight Of Numbers Effective.
1t Is easier to conduct a campaign
| OF stewardship Of life work Or of evan
gelism pure and simple, with thou
| sands participating in the campaign
| than with hundreds. There is effect
| fveness in the mere weight of num-
bers, and there is force in the creation
of a general atmosphere.
This applies particularly to the
| evangelistic campaign which Gull
minated In a great ingathering of
souls on Easter Sunday, April 4th.
1t applies also to the note that will
| be struck at 2 p. m. on Sunday, April
% At this hear all the members of
all the churches participating in the
| Interehurch World Movement are
| asked to bow their heads for five min
| utes in silent prayer for the success
of the great united simultaneous ap-
peal of the churches, commencing at
that moment. for the physical re-
sources that viii enable the legions of
the Lord to march forward to certain
victory.
The entire quota for Wisconsin in
the United Simultaneous Campaign of
the Interchurch World Movement is
S3,547 ,06742. During the Campaign
week-Aprii Is, to May each par
ticipatins denomination will raise its
own quota. The aggregate amount for
the UNCONVENTIONAL quota being ST.
195,06742.
The remaining amount of $1,352,00
will be raised from friends who recog-
nize the value Of the church, but are
not af1ltated with any denomination,
and this will be divided among the
participating churches pro rata.