The Church on the changing frontier

by Helen Olive Belknap

GRADING FOR HOME MISSION FIELDS—PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN U. S. A.

A.	Promising Field:
	1. Prospect of self-support.
	2. Strategic service opportunity.
B.	Problematic Field:
	1. Uncertain of community development.
	2. Denominational responsibility uncertain.
C.	Field to be relinquished:
	1. Should be self-sustaining.
	2. Work should be discontinued.

This would be a good test to apply to every aided church on the Range.

XXIV

NUMBER OF CHURCH SERVICES

Number of Services a Month	Country Churches		Village Churches		Town Churches		City Churches		Total
Eight	3		3[13]		12[14]		7		25
Seven	0		0		0		0		0
Six	0		0		1		0		1
Five	0		0		0		0		0
Four	6		6[13]		0		2		14
Three	0		0		0		0		0
Two	9		3		0		0		12
One	12		0		0		0		12
No regular service	2		2		0		0		4
Services in summer only	2		0		0		0		2
Total	34		14		13		9		70

About three hours a week set aside for church services and Sunday school means six days a year; only twenty-five out of seventy churches have as large a number.

XXV

ATTENDANCE AT SERVICES COMPARED WITH SEATING CAPACITY AND ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP

		Beaverhead		Hughes		Sheridan		Union
Average seating capacity		197		277		286		160
Average active membership		49		59		117		24
Average attendance at services		52		50		80		67