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 INTERCHURCH 
 WORLD MOVEMENT 
 of NORTH AMERICA 
 
 Syllabus to be used in the consideration of the 
 
 Foreign Missions Survey and Program 
 
 CLEVELAND, OHIO 
 APRIL 30 —MAY 1 
 1919 
 
 Headquarters of the Movement 
 
 111 FIFTH AVENUE 
 
 NEW YORK CITY 
 
Foreign Missions Survey and Program 
 
 I. Basis of Survey 
 
 1. World Program 
 
 The campaign statement for the Interchurch Movement is to be regarded as a preliminary step 
 toward an intensive survey of the responsibility of the Christian forces of North America for their 
 world program. It should be correlated as soon as possible with similar studies of the responsibilities 
 of branches of the Christian Church in other lands. 
 
 2. Each Continental Field a Unit 
 
 The survey will build toward a unified program on national and continental lines for each field. 
 
 3. Efficiency Estimates: 1920-1924 
 
 The survey will secure a statement of money needed to place on an adequate basis of efficiency for 
 the five years, 1920-1924, the existing work and approved projects of the various missionary 
 agencies cooperating in this united church appeal. 
 
 4. Prior Consideration of Needs for 1920 
 
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 The survey looks to a five years’ program. Its financial and other statements, however, are to be in 
 such form as to give satisfactory basis for a one-year appeal adequate to the needs of that year as 
 related to the longer period in prospect. 
 
 5. Cooperation 
 
 Facts discovered through the survey will help to safeguard against unnecessary duplication and com¬ 
 petition, presenting also in clearer outline the great unattempted tasks in “occupied” territory. 
 
 II. Methods 
 
 1. Questionnaires to the Fields 
 
 (1) Questionnaires sent by the central office of the Interchurch Movement 
 
 a. For statistical financial data; 
 
 b. For general promotional data. 
 
 (2) Statistical financial data will be referred to the respective boards for review and such authorization 
 as they desire to make. 
 
 2. Material Already Available 
 
 Collation, so far as possible, of data which has already been collected by various statistical agencies 
 and the missionary organizations. 
 
 3. Denominational Programs 
 
 Statement by each denominational board and society of its denominational program including its 
 financial needs. 
 
4. Survey Directors for Continental Sub-divisions 
 
 Appointment of survey directors for each of several continental sub-divisions: Southern Asia, 
 Latin America, etc. 
 
 These directors are responsible for securing the combined judgment of field leaders on a field-wide 
 program, and for uniting the data of each division into a comprehensive statement of the program 
 of that division, taking full account of the denominational programs. 
 
 5. Interdenominational and Non-denominational Studies 
 
 Carried on through organizations already working on these bases. 
 
 Disclosing outstanding facts in the opportunity and condition of union enterprises. Such data should 
 be included for existing or approved union and interdenominational work as may be agreed upon 
 by the societies and fields primarily concerned. 
 
 6. Sample Studies 
 
 Intensive study of sample problems in various fields, for instance: 
 
 A province in India. 
 
 Certain cities in various parts of the world, etc. 
 
 7. Unoccupied Territory 
 
 Consideration of fields at present unoccupied, but for which the North American agencies evidently 
 have a prime responsibility. 
 
 8. International Relationships 
 
 Study of the relation of the responsibilities of the Christian forces of North America to the responsi¬ 
 bilities of the forces of other parts of the world. 
 
 9. Deputations 
 
 Special commissioners to ensure on the field thorough assembling of data on problems for intensive 
 study and, in some cases, to bring by personal contact the viewpoint of specialists in particular lines 
 of work. 
 
 10. Plan of Classification and Publication 
 
 After all the data is in hand the foreign section of the Interchurch World Program will be classified 
 by: 
 
 (1) Denominational projects. 
 
 (2) Interdenominational or union projects. 
 
 (3) A summary of the whole. 
 
 No. 14. I. 15C. APRIL. 1919. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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