Congregational Mutual Aid

CTL-E-1385 · Practice · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The sickness-relief, burial, and newcomer-support functions of small congregations: pooled pennies for burial, aid in illness, and migrant reception networks.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:congregational-mutual-aid; source research type(s): practice. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Frazier via Harris; Lincoln & Mamiya (1990); Butler (1991) via Boyd (1998)
James Grossman, Land of Hope (1989), via Boyd (1998); Nonprofit Quarterly (2026)

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