The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-03-26
SOUND BUSINESS
BASIS FOR CHURCH
tnterchureh World Movement
Natural Growth OF Tendency
To Eliminate Waste
AVOIDS USELESS COMPETITION
Relioious Financierine RevoIutionixed
BY Success OF Men And Mlllons
Movement And Cooperation
10 Result

80 = &AOACh "OIlo MOvCA4~AS
OF North America is an attempt BY
forward-looking leaders of the various
evangelical denominations of the Unit.
ed States and Canada to coordinate
the resources in men, money and mate
rial for Protestant America.
Historically 1t is the logical u
growth of a tendency of the national
boards In each denomination to form
working alliances among themselves.
IN which each board shall preserve its
identity and control its own personnel
and treasury.
In 1ormer times, the home mission
society, b foreign mission society.
inc church extension society and the
VARIOUS philanthropic and eleemosy.
nary agencies Of any denomination
conducted their affairs independently
Oh n another. Each surveyed its
W restricted territory, prepared a
pudget or money and workers for It's
own purposes and made its own an
pea 70 Its constituency for support.
1hls could only mean that these
were more or less in com.
petltion with n another; that there
were waste and duplication Of work
a"o money. and that among them all
some work was neglected and some
denominational were entire.
y overlooked. Because Of their spe-
ciaiized training. the leaders Of each
agency regarded themselves as pecu-
marry lifted for their tasks. and jeal-
ousiy regarded attempts at outside
interference.
Decide On Experiment
Alter decades Of such haphazard
methods. the leaders OF one denomina.
ton decided on an experiment. 1hev
thought 1t would be possible for the
agencies to get together for q com.
mon study Of all the opportunities and
OF their brotherhood. to
MAKE OUT a unified budget Of men and
money, and TO conduct a concerted an.
e Tor funds. II was made clear
tnat each constituent board should
preserve complete autonomy.
When the board representatives met
tney round 1t possible to eliminate 4
great amount OF organization ex.
penses. They ultimately worked ont
a budget and plan of campaign that
was satisfactory to all. This resulted
IN the famous Men and Millions
Movement" Of the Disciples of Christ.
which brought in what was then con.
sidered the staggering sum Of S..
SOC. 0 for a fve-year program. The
members Of the communion were so
pleased with this businesslike method
OF conducting affairs that they con.
tr1buted even more generously than
had been expected.
The success Of this enterprise revo.
~iutionized the whole business of
church fnanciering. The other great
denominations Immediately adopted
the plan. The UNCONVENTIONAL assocfa.
tons have come to be known as "for.
ward movements" and some thirty of
them are in. existence today. Each n
has clarified all the information in re.
lation to enterprise within the denomi.
nation. and has reduced the business
OF collecting and spending money to a
science.
World Budget Formed
The Interchurch World Movement is
simply a plan to do INSTRUMENTATION.
ally what the forward movements
have done within the various COM
munions. IT means that every denomi-
national budget will be made in the
hight Of world needs instead of in the
semi-obscuritv Of incomplete informa-
ton. 1t can that contributions to
one denomination will not be in waste
ful competition with contributions to
another, because all the fellowships
will have worked out their program
together.
The functions Of the Interchurch
World Movement are threefold. First.
1t collects. by mean Of world surveys
all the pertinent facts on which de-
nominatfonal programs may be built.
Second, It sets up the practical ma.
chinery Of cooperation. Third, It acts
In an advisory capacity whenever its
advice is requested.
The Movement has nothing to do
with organic church union or ne%%o~.