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176 EVANGELISMeven though the time is not strictly simultaneous. It ismuch more important that every effort be made to safeguardthe church-members against the idea that one strenuousweek will discharge the obligation of the year. The aimmust be to make this week the climax of a whole year spreparation and the beginning of another year s, persistentfollow-up. It should also be made dear that the objectiveof the week is not necessarily to hold a series of large meetings, but rather that it is to enlist every church-member insome form of direct evangelistic work. In many centres,,perhaps in most, no special meetings will be held. It hasbeen suggested that in most places one of the definite objectives should be to seek to win the families that already haveone or more representatives in the Church or in Christianschools. Such suggestions as these and others will be madein fuller detail by the Forward Evangelistic MovementCommittee to those who desire this.The proposal essentially is that missions and churchesshould plan for a special week of evangelism, in which everychurch-member is asked to take part. Such a definite pieceof work set before the Church in the near future shouldlead to more definite preparation and active service. Thecentral aim of such a plan would be to stimulate the Churchas a whole, and every member of it, to take a definite andregular part in the work of evangelism and to help them torealize that the responsibility for this work rests on the wholebody of the Church and not on paid workers only. Thepurpose should be to create a persistent, organized, andenthusiastic missionary endeavour in the whole Church,among both pastors and laymen, of which this week ofevangelism would be but the beginning. Such a unitedeffort would bring to the churches a new sense of realunity, and with that a new knowledge that each congregation and each member is supported by the resources of thewhole Church.Findings^^e comim^ee nas thus ^ar devoted a conS here of Worksiderable proportion of its attention to thestudy of evangelistic work for students, both men and