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Program 



The Training of Church Workers 



1. Every effort should be made to train leadership in the local 

 church, such as Sunday School teachers, lay readers, elders, dea- 

 cons, leaders of young people's societies, officers of the various 

 organizations for old and young within the church. 



2. Training in young people's meetings. 



3. Training in Bible School. 



4. Normal class leader and lectures. 



5. Conferences and institutes. 



6. Reading and correspondence courses. 



7. Personal interviews. 



8. Practice work for novices, including apprenticeship system. 



9. Inter-church visitation. 



X. THE PREACHER A COMMUNITY BUILDER 



Policy 



The immediate work of the pastor is with the local church to 

 which he is responsible, but his efforts should by no means be 

 confined to the church. The church should, as it were, lend its 

 pastor to the community for such helpfulness to individuals, 

 agencies, and causes as will definitely contribute to the building 

 up of the community as a whole. 



Program 



The pastor may help in many or all of the tasks of rural com- 

 munity building that have been suggested heretofore in this out- 

 line on behalf of "better farming, better business, and better 

 living. ' ' 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



THE COUNTRY CHURCH 



Ashenhurst, J. 0. The Day of the Country Church. Funk, N. Y., 



1910. 



Beard, A. F. Life of John Frederick Oberlin. Pilgrim, Boston, 1909. 

 Bemis, C. 0. The Church in the Country Town. American Baptist 



Assn., Boston, 1912. 

 Branson, E. C. The Church as a Country Life Defense. Bui. State 



Normal School, Athens, Ga., 1911. 



