Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — PLAN CHURCH “AD” CAMPAIGN [ARTICLE]

PLAN CHURCH “AD” CAMPAIGN

American Missions Will Spend $50,000 for Newspaper Publicity Next Fall. Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of newspaper advertising space is to be purchased next fall by the American Home Missions council in order to present current social and religious problems fully and frankly to. the people of the United States. The money has been appropriated by the home missions council, comi posed of the twenty-seven general boards engaged in national home mission work and the council of women for home missions, which has nine constituent women’s boards, national in their scope, these organizations repre- ' senting practically the entire Protes- , tant home mission forces of America, j ’The campaign is to be under the direc- . tion of the Rev. Charles Stelzle of the I bureau of social service of the Presbyterian church. Th-e campaign will begin early in the fall,' culminating in “home mission week” from November 17 to 24. I Committees will be organized in the 2,500 American cities having a population of 2,500 or more, these committees to become responsible for the campaigns in nearby towns and villages.