# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S117
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 117

...declared itself willing to wait until the Delegate Synod, on the assumption that once a second pastor was called, Pastor Knippenberg would help out in the school about two hours daily. The congregations have therefore submitted a call for a second pastor and ask the Venerable Synod to grant them one from among this year's candidates. "Should the requested help be refused us this time," the petition states, "our school in Kentish Town would thereby be endangered. English schooling has awakened, and the authority pursues its goals, especially in London, with great vigor." The second pastor would then also help in the school at Tottenham.

The congregations bear, at truly very great sacrifice, the full support of the pastor and one teacher, and partial support of the second teacher. The second pastor would for the time being have to be paid from the mission treasury. In the past three years, $2341.76 was spent by the Commission for London. Unfortunately, the comparatively few gifts for this mission do not come in as they should, so that we have almost always had to struggle with shortfalls in this treasury. —

The Synod had the great joy of being able to welcome a member of our mission congregations in London, Mr. Karl Arendt. Mr. Arendt had chosen the time of the Synod's convention to pay a visit to America in general and to his fellow Lutheran believers in particular. He brought cordial fraternal greetings from both London congregations, from Pastor K. Knippenberg, and from the two teachers H. J. Müller and J. Vornsand. In their name he gave thanks for all the love shown them and gave the assurance that all costs devoted to the mission there had been put to good use. He told of the blessing that had come to them precisely through reading Dr. Walther's writings.

Resolved, that the request for a second pastor be granted, since the school at Kentish Town would be endangered if this request were not granted, and that the Synod take over this pastor's salary for the time being.

Resolved, to convey, through Mr. Arendt, a cordial fraternal greeting to the fellow believers in London.

For more, see under "Admissions."

c. New Zealand.

Let the Commission's report follow first:

Four of our young men are presently at work here, under blessing. A traveling preacher is urgently needed. Pastors F. Hassold and C. Dierks, who have served as missionaries, have both accepted calls to congregations there, but continue, as best they can, to also serve the mission stations until a missionary arrives. Already last year a call for this position lay before the Assignment Committee and was even presented by it to a candidate, but was not...