Word: fifield
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Their successor is husky, cleft-chinned, 50-year-old Dr. L. (for Lawrence) Wendell Fifield, for the past 14 years pastor of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church. Downtown churches, such as his in Seattle, have special, tough problems. Dr. Fifield tackled his with the same zeal which, during an earlier pastorate in South Dakota, earned him a State handball championship. Well-liked by men as well as women, he reduced his church's indebtedness by $116,000, brought nearly 1,600 new members into the congregation (now over 2,000). He built a radio audience all over...
...district it serves-the Heights overlooking the bay and the Manhattan financial center-have been converted into small apartments or torn down to make room for shops. The church today has 1,200 members, but it spends only $34,000 a year on upkeep and good works. Said Dr. Fifield last week of his new parish: "It should be the beacon for all our churches in America. At present...