# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S420
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

420 MISSIONS

affirmed the recommendation of its Mission Committee and con-
veyed through its executive Secretary, Rev. Wm. von Spreckelsen,
its petition to the Missionary Board of the Synodical Conference
“to assign additional workers at an early date to the Central
Florida and Greater Miami areas.” It is conservatively estimated
that within the next five years we shall need some two hundred
fifty to three hundred thousand dollars for development of mission
work in Florida.

In order to be in a position to place Negro workers into Negro
communities of the South, it is necessary that we concentrate on
our two colleges at Selma, Ala., and Greensboro, N.C. The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has remitted its proportionate
share for the erection of a new dormitory-physical education
building at Greensboro. This building was dedicated in May 1956.
It is now anticipated that with sanitary housing facilities more
ministerial students will be enrolled at our college at Greensboro.
Special attention must be given to our Alabama Lutheran Acad-
emy-College at Selma, which is serving well as a preparatory
school for the training of future ministers of the Gospel. In order
to cope with state regulations and requirements, it is necessary
to carry out the building project which was inaugurated by the
Synodical Conference a few years ago. There is a desperate need
for a dormitory and an administration building at Selma. We must
now focus our attention on this institution. On March 28, 1956,
a resolution was forwarded to the Missionary Board by the New
Orleans Pastors’ and Teachers’ Conference. In the preamble of
this resolution it was definitely stated that “in order to meet
favorably and successfully the present and future standards and
prestige of proper accreditation, it is imperative that our Academy
and College become fully accredited.” The conference then peti-
tioned the Missionary Board of the Synodical Conference “to
contact the proper accrediting agency in Alabama and authorize
said agency to send an evaluation committee to our Alabama
Academy and College to study and evaluate its property, library,
and science facilities, etc.,” so that the “standards of our Academy
and College may meet the rating requirements of the accrediting
agency.” In order to cope with the requirements of the state, it is
essential that an administration building, with library and science
facilities, be erected, likewise a new dormitory. The Synodical
Conference has already appropriated $125,000 for such a building;
however, approximately the sum of $50,000 more is required to
complete the project.

The budget needs for our Negro Mission work in the United
States for fiscal year 1956—57 amount to $298,500.

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