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Part 2: The Rural Parsonage
Traditionally, each local United Methodist church provides its minister with a furnished house called a parsonage. As you might expect the quality of these parsonages with their furnishings were not always equal and still aren’t.
Being a small church in a small rural community in the early 1950s, the Chatfield church had been served by student pastors for many years. The instructions to the…