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402 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
We have an assortment of promotional literature which is available from Ttt
Sunday School Department of the Sunday School Board or from the state Sunday
school departments.
The Baptist Sunday School Board, through its Sunday School Department.
will provide during 1946, without ccst to the churches, necessary material for
the organization of new Extension departments. This material can be secured
from The Sunday School Department of the Sunday School Board.
The circulation of On Duty for God and Country is now 215,000 copies. The
circulation of The Better Home is 130,000 copies.
We have approximately 600 associational Extension department superintendents.
Through these volunteer leaders we endeavor to reach all of the
churches regularly with literature, suggestions, and various kinds of helps.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL WORK
HOMER L GBICE, Secretary
SIBLEY C. BURNETT. Associate
The 10.222 Vacation Bible schools of 1943 was an increase of 2.738 schoo
(36 1 2 per cent) over the 7,484 schools of 1944. the largest increase in any
one year in our history. The total enrolment in the schools was 801,218, of
which 672.189 were pupils and 129,029 were faculty members. If these could
have been lined up six abreast with the rows three feet apart to march down
a highway, they would have made a procession 76 miles long—64 miles of pupils
and \i miles of faculty members.
moTM? ^P res ' contrasted with an enrolment of 213,581 in 1,810 schools in
1936, the first year ol promotion through the use of the district association,
shows ciearly what has been accomplished in ten years of such promotion, and
also what it has meant to make the Vacation Bible school a division of the Sunday
school.
10 o^° th ^ r n.6n 7*1 for checking Vacation Bible school growth is to compare th
13,2,1 schools ^or the five years of 1935-1939 fan average of 2,112 schools a
year) with the o4.20o schoo.s for the five years of 1940-1944 (an average of
THE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS or 1945
=chooh a year), and with the 10.222 schools in the one year of 1945^
fifl Sr/nn^f e 3 0l i ment *° ? e ^ ho ° 1 f °l the 10 ' 222 s ls was 79, of who
66 were pupils and 13 were faculty members. The average dailv aVe^danc*
to the school was 61, or 78 per cent of the enrolment.
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The average cost to the school vras S°6 c* 4ft f»pnr= -f. c«„i, „„,»n ^^.^n«j
or slightly less than 6 cents a day for each pupil. PUpd eTiXoned >
The average length of the schools vrz- 7 *> davs a HPrrMM «-p „,„„- „
half day from the average of 7.6 days in 1944. * '
decrease of almost a
In the 7,627 schools that reported on the mis=i