Division of Town and Country. Roanridge Training and Conference Center. Records

EA-00-R0310-02

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Division of Town and Country. Roanridge Training and Conference Center. Records

• 1931-1971 (Creazione)

2 cu. ft. (7 boxes partial)

Growing concern with the rural church in the1920s led to the creation of the Division of Rural Work in 1924 as a subsection of the Department of Christian Social Service. In 1942, three years after the Department of Christian Social Service had been renamed the Department of Christian Social Relations, the Division of Rural work was moved to a position under the Division of Domestic Missions. Then in 1949 it was placed under the Home Department and renamed the Division of Town and Country Work.

From 1945 to 1977 Roanridge Training and Conference Center in Missouri was the primary center of operation for the Division of Town and Country within the Home Department, although the two entities were structurally distinct. The Division’s records contain administrative and program files, conference materials, reports generated by the Division (often in consultation with Roanridge or with persons affiliated with the National Council’s Unit of Research and Field Study), and resource materials formerly housed in the Roanridge Library. Of particular interest in the latter series is a scrapbook collected by Edna Eastwood on the Church’s early ministry to the “isolated,” and a set of surveys generated by the Unit of Research and Field Study. Also present are subject files and correspondence documenting field visits and consultations to rural areas throughout the country.

This fonds is described as file series 5 in the finding aid for the Records of Roanridge Training and Conference Center.

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• Roanridge Training and Conference Center. Records
• Rural Workers Fellowship. Records

• Evangelism
• Rural churches
• Rural clergy
• Rural development

• Kansas City, Missouri

• Allison, W. Francis (Soggetto)
• Cochel, Wilbur A. (Soggetto)
• Davidson, William (Soggetto)
• Page, Herman (Soggetto)
• Samuelson, Clifford Leroy (Soggetto)