It is possible to hold successful evangelistic efforts without heavy expense to the conference. This past spring and summer I held three such efforts in Kansas. The first was a short church effort-in fact, just an eight-day church revival. At the close of this meeting eleven were baptized. This was accomplished without any additional labor or expense to the conference.
The second was a six weeks' hall effort. The Meetings started the first of April. M. H. Jensen, one of our regular conference workers, assisted. Forty were baptized. And the additional expense to the conference was only about $15.
The third was a theater effort. It lasted some eight weeks. The conference furnished a music director and a Bible worker for this effort. Both of them worked for very meager salaries. One hundred fifty dollars was also furnished by the conference. As a result of this effort twenty-nine were baptized.
It should also be said that both of these larger efforts were held where we had no church, and therefore did not have the support of a local church. But in each place we now have a church with an attendance of about fifty. In connection with one effort a church school has already been established.
To add to the economy of this picture, I am the pastor of the Topeka church, and the church just lent me for a few months to hold these meetings. The church has worked faithfully in my absence, and now I am organizing a baptismal class here in Topeka. The members also started the Harvest Ingathering work before I returned.
Topeka, Kans.
