New Britain herald., 1930-11-19
CHURCH EDUCATION
 COUNCIL ID MEET
Pastors and Lay Delegates to
 Convene Here December s

The Connecticut Council of Relig- ious Education will hold its 73rd convention and annual meeting in New Britain on December 6. bring ing together pastors and religious education leaders and lay workers from all parts of the state of Con- necticut. There will be morning. afternoon and evening sessions all of which will be held in the First Church of Christ, with a banquet session to be held in Trinity Meth odist church at 5:45 o'clock in the evening.
 Only three times in the long series of conventions which this organiza- ton has held has New Britain been selected as the meeting place, once in 1880, agam in 1892 and the most recent time was in 1921. The Con- necticut Council of Religious Educa- tion was organized in 1857, at that time bearing the name of State Sab bath School Teachers association. Later the name was changed to the Connecticut Sunday School Teach- CTS association and for many years the name was the Connecticut Sun day School association but in 1925 by act of the general assembly of the state the name was changed to the Connecticut Council of Religious Education.
 The body is the branch for the state of Connecticut of the Internd- tional Council of Religious Educa- ton in which 42 denominations CO., operate. It conducts summer school of religious education, CO., ordinates the efforts of denomina- tions and other Christian agencies in the state in the interest of a more complete education for the child, conducts a summer school and ac- credits community leadership train ing schools for the training of lead ership, promotes surveys of church schools and gathers statistical data, promotes interchurch and interde- nominational fellowship and unity of spirit in the cause of Christian education through the state. The onc-day convention has been found to be very helpful and it presents q very strong program by national leaders such as Dr. Benjamin S. Winchester of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Robert M. Hopkins, general secretary Of the World Sum- day School association, and out standing leaders from Yale Divinity school and the Hartford School of Religious Education.
 This will be the first convention held under the direction of the new ly elected general secretary of the Connecticut Council Of Religious Education. Rev. J. Quintcr Mill Ter. Mir. Miller has only this year taken up his work in the state or ganization but he comes with splen- did educational preparation and years of professional experience. He in Virginia in 1921, received the de- gree of master of religious education in Boston university in 1923, later was a graduate student in Harvard university and is now completing his work for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Yale Divinity school. Mr. Miller served as direc- tor of religious education in local churches. later as the superintend- ont of the Cleveland Council of Re- ligious Education and for two years as instructor in religious education in Boston university
 An outstanding feature of this convention will be an extensive eX- hibit Of materials for use in re- ligious education in all departments from the cradle roll to adult edu- cation and including the Temple of Religious Art from the collection of pr. H. Augustine Smith of Boston.
 All sessions of the convention will be open to the general public.
 The officers of the Connecticut Council of Religious Education are: Rev. Theodore A, Greene, New Brit ain, president; James l.. Case, Nor wich vice president; John ". Pot ter. Waterbury, treasurer; Henry B. Fancher, West Hartford auditor.
 It is expected that hundreds of delegates will be present, represent ing the non-Catholic churches of all parfs Of inc state