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CHAPTER IX

Fellowship and Community Activities
Many churches make use of fellowship activities among
their own members, and community activities outside the
church, as means of furthering the development of their members and rendering a service to the people of the entire neighborhood. The fellowship activities include clubs and recreational work for the different age- and sex-groups. While
all of these are in a way social, some emphasize either the
financial or the educational interests of the church. They
also include interchurch relations, which are generally embraced under the term "comity." The community activities
include various types of social service, such as work to reduce
juvenile delinquency.
Fellowship Activities
In the fellowship activities especially, the churches develop
a sense of family unity among the members and satisfy the
hunger of the youth for recreation and sociability, and of newcomers for friendship. These activities also provide opportunities to enlist and train the members in various ways.
CLUBS
Organized clubs for educational, social and financial purposes are found in almost every church. Of the 609 urban
churches studied, 348 reported an average of six clubs each.
Usually the larger the church the larger the number of clubs.
In a church with heavy financial responsibilities, the number
of clubs may exceed the number found in another church
with the same number of members but without heavy financial burdens. Although it is difficult to say exactly how many
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