Excerpt from A Handbook of the Community Church Movement in the United States The chief purpose of this Handbook is to describe the community church movement, not as some one thinks it should be or will be, but as it actually is; to tell what a com munity church is, judged by the study of all types of such churches as they operate at their present stage of development; to de scribe their methods of organization, their special community-serving activities, and to give to the reader reliable data by which he may judge for himself of the success and importance of the movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.