Our churches were our earliest educators and they are also our oldest private agencies giving aid and hope to the poor. In Alaska today there would be no community action program without the initiative of the Salvation Army. which is establishing in small villages a day care program to enable mothers to earn added income during the fishing and canning season. Our migrant workers throughout the western part of the country would be virtually nonexistent without the planning and impetus which the migrant ministry has brought into many farm areas where these workers are employed. Throughout the South and in many of our big cities. churches and church schools are serving thousands of children in the Head Start program. We literally cannot duplicate or find substitutes for their contributions to the war on poverty.