By D. Duane Cummins
TCU Press

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Dale Fiers served as executive secretary of the International Convention of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), president of the United Christian Missionary Society, administrative secretary of the Commission on Restructure, and was the first general minister and president of the church. In this biography Dr. Cummins crafts a picture of a remarkable church leader and in so doing chronicles a history of the way a significant religious body dealt with the ambivalences of its own experience, how missionary work developed into less paternalistic relationships, how a church struggled between attempts to minister on the local scene and throughout the world.