| Show Methodists Aid Group The United Methodist Church meeting in St. St Louis recently recent recent- ly voted to give in 1971 and another 2000 in 1972 to its commission on religion and race to be The used in the service of minority minority minority mi mi- mi- mi peoples IN ADDITION the church has undertaken a special fund drive in these years to raise another to aid 12 black colleges supported by bythe bythe bythe the church These two sums add up to toan toan toan an an amount equaling about 20 percent of the past annual budget of the church and andare andare to aid minority minority minority mi mi- are major steps education OF th th the money will c come come me from rom a reduction in spending on foreign missions which seems highly ate In the past many US U.S. churches have spent millions annually financing missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries trying to convert Asians and Africans and others while many fellow Americans lived and worked under severe handicaps at home CHARITY in this case has not always begun at home and the recent action of the United Methodist Church is logical and commendable |