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in the neighborhood which has lost its home by fire. Or it may be furnishing supplies for kindergarten work with Mexican children in Texas.

Revival and Evangelistic Meetings

Revival meetings as a means of evangelizing, and as a means of building congregational life, have had a long history in the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. As noted, John S. Coffman of Indiana was the pioneer evangelist in the nineteenth century. By 1900 this method was well established in the Mennonite Church, and in another twenty years or so it became customary for nearly each congregation to have a series of revival meetings annually. Ohio Conference churches have used this method extensively and with certain variations.

A study of conference records and congregations' activities reveals the names of many other evangelists who labored for days and weeks in local congregations. Among them were such persons as Noah Troyer of West Liberty, Enos F. Hartzler of Marshallville, Maurice O'Connell of Lima, O. N. Johns of Louisville, A. J. Steiner of North Lima, William G. Detweiler of Smithville, D. D. Miller of Berlin, John S. Mast of Elverson, Pennsylvania, and Aaron Mast of Belleville, Pennsylvania.

B. B. King, formerly of West Liberty, Ohio, and C. F. Derstine of Kitchener, Ontario, were evangelists who held many meetings in Ohio churches during the 1920's and 1930's. Both of these men were experienced in city mission work and were frequently used in urban evangelism.

In 1951 George R. Brunk, Jr., held meetings at Orrville, Ohio, which attracted crowds numbering several thousand to the large tent which occupied part of a field near the town. ' Brunk held numerous revival meetings in Ohio churches, among them the West Liberty community in October 1953 and later among churches in Holmes and Fulton counties. The meetings were carefully planned, with numerous prayer groups and with publicity committees doing much of the preparatory work for the meetings.

As a result of the revival interest a new organization, the Christian Laymen's Tent Evangelism, was formed and in December 1952 held its first meeting at the Kidron Church, Kidron, Ohio. About one hundred and twenty members formed the organization which elected a board of trustees and engaged Howard