# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S419
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MISSIONS 419
we have a small nucleus of Lutherans in the city of Spartanburg.
In Mississippi the field is ripe to harvest. In this entire state we
have only one Lutheran congregation, with a communicant mem-
bership of fewer than thirty-five. Here, too, much money is needed
to expand our work. From the very inception of our work we
have labored in Louisiana, particularly in New Orleans; in recent
years, however, we have established Lutheran mission stations also
in strategic areas like Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La. Chapels
are needed to develop our work properly in this particular state.
In Florida we are working in close conjunction with the Florida-
Georgia District to bring the Gospel to our Negro brethren.
Opportunities present themselves for the spreading of the Gospel
in such cities as Tallahassee, Orlando, Winter Haven, Miami,
Tampa, and St. Petersburg. On April 22, 1956, we were permitted
to dedicate to the Triune God a fine chapel-school in the city of
Jacksonville. On March 13 a resolution was presented to the
President of the Florida-Georgia District of The Lutheran Church
— Missouri Synod by Grace Lutheran Church of Winter Haven,
Fla., in which the congregation embodied in the preamble of its
resolution the following:

“Wuerras, The field among the colored in Florida is so ex-
tensive; and

Wuereas, It is a hopeless proposition for one man to establish
churches and at the same time cover the field; and

Wuereas, Work in central Florida indicates a distinct field
there; and

Whereas, It is reasonable to suppose that there are many more
such areas; therefore be it

Resolved, That Grace Lutheran Church of Winter Haven, Fla.,
request the Board of Directors of the Florida-Georgia District
through its Missions Committee to petition the Missionary Board
of the Lutheran Synodical Conference to send more workers
into the field.”

The resolution of this congregation was also presented to the
Committee for Mission and Church Extension of the Florida-
Georgia District of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod. The
following was recommended to the Board of Directors of the
District:

“That we urge the Board of Directors of the Florida-Georgia
District to petition the Missionary Board of The Lutheran Synod-
ical Conference to assign, as soon as possible, additional workers
to this field.”

The Board of Directors of the Florida-Georgia District re-