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Radio Broadcast
First Baptist Church, Shreveport, La.
twice a month have installed or are planning to install receiving sets. Now that this church station has been completed, they will have services twice every Sunday and throughout the week as regularly as the city church. And they will have the same sermons and the same music that the people of the biggest Baptist church in the world enjoy.
It is stated that half of the Baptist churches of Louisiana are without pastors. The same is true of many other states. These churches are in small towns and in neighborhood settlements, in many cases off the railroads.. Bad roads make many of them inaccessible through a large portion of the year.
That the church radio will be a boon to the isolated congregation is agreed by all religious workers. Many preachers declare that radio offers the church bigger opportunities than anything science has produced since the invention of the printing press. Some say that it ranks above the printing press in importance.
The rural church, long a neighborhood gathering place, will take on greater importance as a civic, educational and cultural centre, as a result of the installation of radio. People will gather at the church evenings throughout the week, as well as on Sunday, to hear the best
in music and lectures, to receive market reports, to get the day's news, and to hear the many other things offered by the country's broadcasting stations.
But radio will not take the place of the pastor of the small church, according to almost unanimous verdict of church leaders. They say the personal touch of the individual minister cannot be supplanted by the radio service. They regard it as supplementing his work, and offering him opportunities for bigger work, rather than substituting for him. Many a church has fallen apart through lack of a pastor, because there was no reason for the congregation to assemble. The radio is expected to remove this condition of affairs.
Aside from the religious services, many features will be broadcasted by the Shreveport church station. The auditorium, the largest in the city, has been offered as a civic and educational centre. The world's greatest singers and lecturers will be heard here, and their concerts and lectures will be available to all who have receiving sets. On the ninth floor of the church tower is a i3-bell chime, of which the largest bell weighs 3,000 pounds. Daily concerts are given by a trained chimer. A chime connection makes the broadcasting of