# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S94
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94 Proceedings of the 29th General or

[continued from the previous page] ..."Central." He found nine to ten places there needing service, but has already founded three new places in addition. For Buenos Aires, Pastor Rüsch — who previously also helped serve the whole Pampa region — has now been stationed exclusively as city missionary. The mission in this city is exceedingly difficult. But here too Christ is not proclaimed in vain. A small flock has already gathered there around the banner of the pure Gospel and is growing, if slowly. At the same time, Pastor Rüsch is also active as emigrant missionary.

The Commission would like to draw attention to the *Ev.-Luth. Kirchenblatt* [Evangelical Lutheran Church Paper], which is published in Brazil. The mission there would be helped by its wider circulation.

Your commission, together with the President, has recognized that it is urgently necessary to call a mission director for Brazil, which the Brazilian District has been requesting for several years. It asks the Reverend Synod to approve this.

London, England.

Concerning the mission in this giant city, we can report that the Lord's work there has had a quiet, steady course. There are two congregations there, Kentish Town with Pastor Knippenberg and Tottenham with Pastor Holls. Teacher Möller has accepted a call to Iowa. The school, which had already been a source of concern before, consequently closed. Pastor Holls earnestly tried to keep it going, but it could not be done. The school of the Kentish Town congregation, by contrast, has grown, so that a second teacher had to be hired. The request for this was granted by the previous Delegate Synod. Unfortunately, the gifts for this mission do not flow as generously as they should.

New Zealand.

Here we currently have four pastors and one teacher. Pastor Teyler, the senior worker there, has accepted a call to the United States and left New Zealand. His congregation is still vacant, but has sent a call to one of this year's candidates. Teacher Palm has been sent to this congregation, since the civil authorities threatened to close the school if a dedicated teacher were not employed. He labors there with blessing. The Maori Te Punga, who was trained at Springfield, has moved there and begun a mission among his heathen countrymen, concerning which, however, we have no reports at all. He also helps in the so-called Inner Mission there.

They are mostly quite small congregations that our brethren serve there, and serving them involves a great deal of effort. Hope of growth is slight. We may not, however, abandon our fellow believers there. We would, however, like to put before the Reverend Synod the question of whether it would not be advisable to recommend to the pastors there, who stand without any synodical connection, that they join one of our sister—