Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-30
MISSION SESSION
OPENS TOMORROW
28 National Organizations
y VIII Be Represented
Here This Week.

Protestant religious leaders from %
national organizations, having a mem
berShip of 23,000000, will attend the
five-day sessions of the North American
Home Missions Congress, beginning to-
morrow in the Calvary Baptist Church
TO discuss social and religious condi-
tons N America.
The congress, which will be held I'M
der auspices of the Home Missions
Council, is regarded by leaders OF the
Protestant churches in this country as
the outstanding event in the history OF
American home missions. The afhli-
ated organizations have appointed SOC
delegates.
The bodies represented are: National
Baptist Convention, Northern Baptist
Convention, Church of the Brethren
Christian Church, Congregational, Dis
ciples of Christ, Protestant Episcopal
Church, Evangelical Church, Evangeli-
cal Synod of North America, American
Friends, United Lutheran Church in
America, African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, Free Methodist Church OF
North America, Methodist Episcopal
Church, Methodist Episcopal Church
South, Methodist Protestant Church,
American Moravian Church, Presby-
terrain Church in Canada, Presbyterian
Church in the United States South
ern), Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, United Presbyterian
Church of. North America, Christian
Reformed Church, Reformed Church in
America, Reformed Church in the
United States, United Brethren In
Christ, the United Church of Canada
and the American Sunday School Union
Other Bodies Cooperating.
Also cooperating in the Home Mis-.
sions Congress are the Council OF
Federal Council of the Churches Of
Christ in America. DR.. William II.
King, executive secretary OF the 'coun-
ell, has been making preparations Tor
the congress for three years, in CO.
operation with other agencies.
The Washington congress will marx
the first time that the Protestant de-
nominations in this country have ever
met together for such thorough study
of the common task of home missions.
Eat no time in the whole history of
home missions has there been greater
need for the re-orientation and re-
evaluation of this great enterprise than
today" said DR.. King.
The first session of the congress will
be held tomorrow at 2 pm. in Calvary
Baptist Church, when the congress Will
organize and DR.. Charles L. White, its
president, will make a general state
ment concerning its purpose. the three
national commissions cooperating with
the congress also will make their re-
ports. They are composed of experts
engaged in the study of 1.-THE Task
and Administration of Home Missions"
Promotion and Publicity in the Inter-
est of Home Missions" and Comfy
and Cooperation in Home Missions"
In the evening DR.. Carl Petty minis
ter of First Baptist Church Of Pitts
burgh, will give an address on Home
Missions in. the Modern World" Con-
ference groups on Tuesday and We'd
nesday and Tuesday evening will deal
with various subjects involving the gen.
eral scope of the mission field.
Wednesday Evening Speakers.
Wednesday evening addresses win be
given by Mrs. F. C. Reynolds trustee
of the Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of the M. E. Church. who will
speak on The West Indies; President
Mordecai johnson Of Howard Univer-
sity, whose subject will be Christian
Missions and the American Negro" and
Mrs Ruth Muskrat Bronson, assistant
guidance and placement officer, Indian
Field Service of the Department Of the
Interior. She will speak on THE
Indian"
Thursday IL conference groups win
report their findings to the general
sessions. Speakers in the evening in
clude DR.. H. Oliver, principal Of St.
Andrews College, Saskatoon, and mod
orator of the United Church of Can
ada, who will speak on The Winning
of the Frontier In Canada" and DR..
John r. Mott, chairman of the Inter-
national Missionary Council, whose sub
feet will be Our World Mission"
Friday morning the Findings Com
mittee will report. DR.. Herbert N.
Morse will present plan for Int
grafton OF the Congress-" and DR.. King
will outline the follow-up program.
The closing service will be held at
noon, under DR. Henry c. Swearingen
of st. Paul, MINI, former moderator
of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States He also will be in charge
of the MONDAY devotional services Of
the congress.
The Home Missions Congress is part
OF q five-year program inaugurated by
the Home Missions Council which al
ready has been in operation three years.