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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

DescriptionPublication Date
(1)Church and Community Survey of Salem County, N. J.Ready
(2)Church and Community Survey of Pend Oreille County, WashingtonReady
(3)Church and Community Survey of Sedgwick County, KansasReady
(4)Religion in the Old and New SouthForthcoming
(5)The New and Old Immigrant on the Land, as seen in two Wisconsin CountiesReady
(6)Rural Church Life in the Middle WestReady
(7)The Country Church in Colonial CountiesReady
(8)Irrigation and Religion, a study of two prosperous California CountiesReady
(9)The Church on the Changing FrontierReady
(10)The Rural Church Before and After the War, Comparative Studies of Two SurveysForthcoming
(11)The Country Church in Industrial ZonesReady
(12)The Town and Country Church in the United StatesForthcoming