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its social-work secretary $1,200 yearly. The pastor, who has
had some college and seminary work, has spent two of his
twenty-eight years in the ministry at this church, which owns
and operates a community house equipped with offices, parlorrooms, clubrooms, dormitory quarters for young women,
cafeteria, laundry, a gymnasium and a roof-garden. The
church program consists of the traditional activities. The
Sunday church school meets in an assembly room and three
or four classrooms in the church building, and its program
is decidedly traditional. In addition to its traditional activities, the church conducts a vacation church school, athletic
teams, basket-ball, volley-ball, tennis and gymnastic work, Boy
Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Rangers groups, and the community house referred to. Also included are handicraft, dramatic, and art classes. A number of other activities were
listed in the "paper" program of the church, but were not
being actually carried on at the time of the investigation.
The "E" church is located in a southern city. It has a
membership of 215. The pastor holds A.B. and B.D. degrees.
Six months of his ten years' pastoral experience had been at
the church. In addition to the pastor, who receives $2,000
yearly, the church, with outside financial help, employs a general worker at $720, a social worker at $1,080, a nursery
matron at $360 yearly, and six other people. The total current expense budget for the year is about $7,085. The church
has a community house in addition to its church building.
Its program includes the traditional church activities, an employment agency, a day-nursery, a clinic, and a kindergarten.
Although this church is located in a community in which the
facilities for Negro welfare are quite limited, it is finding it
necessary to curtail some of its activities because of a lack of
finances. It happens that a clear illustration is furnished here
of one of the dangers attending when a church performs the
special or technical social-welfare activities. The emphasis on
these activities has served in a great measure to subordinate