The Home Mission summer schools are also valuable in promoting
the study of the textbooks from year to year and in providing the
opportunity of hearing from missionaries concerning their service
and fields. A background of prayer, Bible study, and Christian
fellowship adds much to the helpfulness of these special summer
assemblies.

"Let us try to realize the significance of the fact and in these
eight summer schools that are affiliated with the Council and in the
Home Missions institute conducted by the Council itself at Chautauqua,
nearly 5000 women devote a week or more of their precious summer
vacation to perfecting themselves as leaders in missionary work in
the local churches. We should never cease to feel the inspiration
of this, and to welcome the promise of great things for the spreading
of the kingdom of God held out in the full consecration of the highly
developed powers of such a goodly company of Christian workers."

Women's national Home Mission Boards and Societies are of
primary importance, for upon them rests the responsibility of
the administration of all women's Home Mission activities. The
earnest, prayerful planning of the Boards provides the methods of
work for societies, the literature and the effective forwarding
of the many lines of service on the field.

The Boards with painstaking, loving care seek to meet the
constantly growing requirements of the fields committed to them,
many times attaining almost the impossible in erecting buildings
and responding to the appeals from people and places lacking the
gospel ministry, and needing desperately the provision of a school