Since the appointment of a national leader by the Department of Religious Education in 1929 the work among the isolated has become a definite part of the program of nearly every diocese and district. The president of the Woman’s Auxiliary in the Diocese of North Carolina is eager to enlarge and intensify this work in the diocese.

Through this ministry thousands of adults and children throughout the church are now enjoying fellowship within the Church who would otherwise have lost touch with it. And the Church has every reason to expect that there shall result from the efforts and prayers of many of these isolated people revived mission churches, Sunday schools gathering in all the unchurched children of a community, and it may be other leaders like the late Bishop Burleson, whose father was brought into the church through the church’s ministry to the isolated. In other words isolated people constitute not only a field but a force of great potentiality… . All branches will be asked to send in names of isolated people; and to provide ways for isolated people near them to get to district meetings; and to work out ways and means of drawing into closer fellowship with their isolated – as one parish branch does by “giving every fifth meeting to dividing into small groups and going off in cars in different directions to call on those who are isolated.”

(Source: “The Church’s Ministry to the Isolated,” The Carolina Churchman, October 1933, p. 10)