Catherine Hoegeman, a Missouri State University assistant professor of sociology and anthropology and Dan Prater, director of the Drury University Center for Nonprofit Communication have completed a first-of-its-kind report on The Springfield Area Congregations Study. The study looks at traits and contributions of congregations in Greene and Christian counties.  Hoegeman called the study a “high level, birds eye view” of congregations. 

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