Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
INTER- WORLD DRIVE
 BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY

Following a series of conferences held in each of the counties of Connecticut, at which the attention of all the churches was turned toward the program of the Interchurch World Movement, the man agement of the movement now proceeds 10 a nation wide financial campaign This will begin in all of the conlmuni- ties of the country at o'clock, by the style of time locally prevailing, on the afternoon of Sunday, April 25th
 Through an organization which has been more or less completely set up in every community cooperating in the canpa ign. teams will commence a can vass lasting for I week for the secur- ing of pledges from citizens of two classes. The A class will consist of all members of churches or of church or ganizatons or all those who have given money for church purposes within the past two years. Tlese win be approach cd by their denTninational teams if their denomination has 2 campaign of it's own. The other class, called B. consists. of Friendly Citiaens, or those who, while i not directly connected with or contrib utors to. churches, are friendly to the work of the churches and willing to aid in creating Q great general fund for the advancement of religious work in the country.
 Tn Connecticut two of the leading de- nominations. the Congregational and the ] Baptist have important denominational ] campaigns of their own The Coagrega- i tionaiizts. covering about 325 churches 1 in Connecticut and represented in aI- most every community have to raise in 1 this state $375,G00, which is 10 be strict i ly for meeting the high cost of living i of their special denomnational work i That is 10 say. foreign missions home 1 missions, and all dcnominational schools | have faced the higher cost which all in- i dividuals have faced. and in the Congre- i gational work 2 deficit has been ac- l cumulated which it is necessary to make l up, and against which they must pro- i vide in the future. They therefore pro- i pose to raise as special fund, wholly ! apart from their regular contributions tc | benevolent obiecte-$3T5 600 in the state its share of $?.n00,000. which is to be raised in the country. This is approx i tmately 165 per cent. of the annual con | tributiOns of Connect icut Congregation alists for denominational work
 This appears insignificant however l beside the task which the Baptists ot Connecticut undertake Only 15. churches, with 9 membership of 26.243 l propose to pledge total of S2 255. 900
 70 he paid in folT years. The averag, tUtst O' Oilleclicut F5alflSt c0ntrlbu 1 lions for benevolent work is S100. .00O
 The total amount of benevolences an,
 home expenses of all the churches in tn
 state was last year $433 900 The Bap
 lists. therefore. are 10 raise for eacl
 year about 500 per cent. of what the,
 usually raise for henevolences and al
 amount considerably larger than wha
 they raise each year for benevolence l and home exDenses
 The amount indicated to be raise l from the Friendly Citizens of Connect
 cut is S1.25000o This is strictly out
 side of the amounts mentioned abov
 and is to be used for general Inter
 church work. including surveys fie! work. and the general conducting of tn
 Jnterchurch campa ign. but it is under stood that an amount equal to half c
 this is to be returned to Connecticut i the support of educational institution
 and of the weaker churches. This is [ come in payments to the different de
 nominations in proportion to their size.