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14 WINNETKA TALK December 8, 1928 CONGREGATIONALISTS IN "STEP UP" MOVE Winnetka Church Co-operates in National Movement to Strengthen Church Work A nation-wide "Step-Up" movement to increase support for the work of the Congregational churches is being launched this month. All members are asked in connection with the an- will be taken by most of the churches on Sunday, December 9, to "Step Up" to a higher level of giving. The Win- netka Congregational church is co- operating in this movement. All other costs, it is said, rise an- nually and the cost of the local and world work of the churches also in- creases. If progress is not made in giving the churches will fall back in their work. To stand still is to step down. In order for the churches to hold their own there must be a "Step Up." The "Step Up" movement was ini- tiated by the denomination's Commis- sion on Missions. Explain System Persons now giving ten cents a week are asked to increase to fifteen cents, those giving fifty cents to sixty-five, those giving a dollar to a dollar and a quarter and those giving other amounts to make similar increases, "The plan," according to Dr. Charles C. Merrill of Chicago, secretary of the commission, "is so simple that it is almost certain to bring a smile when presented in a public way. But if it is followed it will mean greater re- sources for the local church in its serv- nual Every Member Canvass which Fe Colors Are: Nile Flesh White and Peach i A BE BE BE BLL MIRED TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY YOU DARE TO GIVE Fashioned of crepe de chine and glove silk. Tailored or lace trimmed models at prices to suit every purse. ELM ST. AT CHESTNUT ST. PHONES 631 AND §32 WINNETKA HERE EEEEEREEA Christmas Shopper G. L. ZICK & CO. "THE STORE ON THE CORNER" ERRRRNNE A Peep at this section will delight the SEEEENEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY ice to its membership, to its commu- nity and to the world. "The individual giver is the person whose 'Step Up' is of essential im- portance. His 'Step Up' will make possible a 'Step Up' for his local church. This in turn if carried out in all or in many of the churches of the state will bring about the 'Step Up' of the state. The states together will make the 'Step Up' for the na- tion." The Every Member Canvass has Dbe- come generally recognized not only by Congregational churches but also in other communions during the last eighteen years as the most business- like and successful method for financ- ing modern church work. Visitors or canvassers in pairs visit every home in a parish. Each person in every home is asked to enlist in the support of the church through a definite pledge, large or small. Experience, it is stated, has shown that the canvass strongly pro- motes the unity of the churches, "bind- ing the members more closely together in their common loyalty to the task of building Christ's kingdom in. the world." The "Step Up" plan has already been successfully used several years by a number of progressive churches including the Flatbush church, Brook- lyn, where the plan originated, and the Broadway 'Tabernacle, New York. This year all the state Congregational conferences have united with the na- tional Commission on Missions to in- troduce the plan throughout the coun- try. Aids Home Missions In home missionary work the "Step Up," it is said, will mean better sup- port for home missionary pastors serv- ing in communities otherwise without adequate religious ministrations; it will mean more aid for new churches, parish houses and parsonages; it will mean the promotion of more thor- ough religious education in church, community and college throughout the country; it will mean improved schools and centers for social work among people of the "underprivileged" races in United States; it will make possible more tangible evidence of appreciation to aged and retired ministers for their vears of faithful labor, In foreign work the "Step Up" will open new rooms in Christian schools for hundreds of boys and girls for whom now there are no accommoda- tions; it will provide physical and spi- ritual healing for many patients who cannot now be received into the mis- sion hospitals; it will extend the influ- ence of the Christian gospel to many thousands of lives. Churches Must Hold Place The churches, it is held, must either strengthen their local and their mis- sionary work or lose their rightful place in a growing world. The work is all for one purpose: "to build right- eousness, brotherliness and goodwill into the structure of the modern world that the Spirit of Christ may rule." The total amount which is needed to finance the regular local and mis- sionary work of the 5,548 Congrega- tional churches in the United States during 1929 is over twenty-five million dollars exclusive of the increase which will come through the "Step Up" plan. The amount raised last year by the churches for local expenses was $22,- 056.818: the amount raised for reg- ular missionary work was $3,076,663. The communicant membership of the churches is 928,558. The missionary work includes the activities of over 3,000 American pas- tors, evangelists, teachers, physicians, nurses and social workers employed in this country and abroad, and the help of 5,755 nationals employed in foreign countries. DONATES SCENES Mrs. Douglas Smith, of 915 Sheridan road, has donated some Venetian and Roman scenes to the Horace Mann school.