# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S104
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104 Proceedings of the 28th General or

...goal toward which our missionaries, together with their congregations, must continually be exhorted and encouraged.

In the New England territory of the Lithuanian mission, Pastor Drignat has stood since last year; he was called from Philadelphia, Pa., to Naugatuck, Conn., as missionary for New England, with Naugatuck as his base. A well-organized Lithuanian congregation with its own church building exists there. From this place the missionary makes his regular circuit through various towns in Connecticut, as well as to Boston, Mass.

A further missionary in this mission ought necessarily to be appointed for western Pennsylvania, and especially also for Chicago, where the field is ripe for harvest.

In the Lithuanian mission, then, two missionaries presently serve, ministering together to six congregations and preaching stations with 680 souls.

III. Polish Mission.

Three years ago, when the Polish mission was handed over to the Venerable Synod, it had one missionary in its service: Pastor C. Mikulski at Baltimore, Md. The small Polish congregation of Baltimore owns church property, which it obtained with the help of the local German mission board. This property still carries a mortgage of $2000.00, which, by resolution of the last Synod, was to be taken over by the General Church-Building Fund where possible. The General Church-Building Fund's failure to carry out this resolution has caused much correspondence and unpleasantness, and the Venerable Synod will likely receive a communication on this matter from the mortgage holder, the Augsburg Old People's Home Society of Baltimore, requesting that this resolution finally be carried out.

Through Pastor Mikulski's removal in 1909 to the newly founded Polish congregation in Detroit, Mich., Baltimore became vacant. After repeated calls, a successor to Pastor Mikulski was finally found in Pastor W. Tober. Unfortunately he was able to devote his full strength to the Polish mission for only a very short time, since he could not bear the extensive travel. He accepted a call to Baltimore's German city mission and confined his work in the Polish mission to Baltimore. For the far larger territory — Philadelphia, Pa., Trenton, N. J., and New York — Pastor Sattelmeier of Scranton, Pa., has been called, and he will take up his office there in April. The prospects for the Polish mission are as favorable as could be imagined in these three populous cities, where the Poles number in the thousands. But here too the complaint holds: "The laborers are few!"

In the Polish mission, three missionaries (once Pastor Sattelmeier has taken up his office) will serve 6 congregations and preaching stations with a combined 566 souls. —