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GAIN AND LOSS IN MEMBERSHIP AS RELATED TO RESIDENCE OF MINISTERS (One year period)
| Churches with: | Country | Village | Town | City | Total | |||||
| Resident minister | 8 | 8[17] | 10 | 8 | 34 | |||||
| Number gaining | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | |||||
| Number stationary | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Number losing | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Non-resident minister | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | |||||
| Number gaining | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Number stationary | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Number losing | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
About two-thirds of the churches with resident ministers made a gain in membership; of the churches with non-resident ministers only about one-third show a gain. Fourteen churches were either pastorless or were served by a supply. Six of them made a gain during the year preceding the survey.
UNIQUE STUDIES OF RURAL AMERICA
TOWN AND COUNTRY SERIES TWELVE VOLUMES
MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
Edmund deS. Brunner, Ph.D.
What the Protestant Churches Are Doing and
Can Do for Rural America—The Results of
Twenty-six Intensive County Surveys
| Description | Publication Date | |
| (1) | Church and Community Survey of Salem County, N. J. | Ready |
| (2) | Church and Community Survey of Pend Oreille County, Washington | Ready |
| (3) | Church and Community Survey of Sedgwick County, Kansas | Ready |
| (4) | Religion in the Old and New South | Forthcoming |
| (5) | The New and Old Immigrant on the Land, as seen in two Wisconsin Counties | Ready |
| (6) | Rural Church Life in the Middle West | Ready |
| (7) | The Country Church in Colonial Counties | Ready |
| (8) | Irrigation and Religion, a study of two prosperous California Counties | Ready |
| (9) | The Church on the Changing Frontier | Ready |
| (10) | The Rural Church Before and After the War, Comparative Studies of Two Surveys | Forthcoming |
| (11) | The Country Church in Industrial Zones | Ready |
| (12) | The Town and Country Church in the United States | Forthcoming |