# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S82
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80 Proceedings of the tenth convention

2. New Orleans, La.

In New Orleans work has been carried on without interruption since the last convention of the Venerable Synodical Conference by the teachers Berg and Vix and the missionary Bakke. By the acquisition of the spacious church on Franklin Street, which was dedicated on the first Sunday in Advent 1882 (3 December), the mission has won a firm footing in a part of the city that is heavily inhabited by Negroes. Here an average of 20 adults gather on Sundays for the service. Besides this, the missionary also preaches in the small chapel near Claiborne Street, where the church attendance is admittedly considerably smaller (on average 15 adults are present). In mentioning the mission on Claiborne Street it should be reported at once that the Commission saw itself compelled to acquire real estate for this station. The chapel stood here on rented ground, for which not only a relatively high rent of 8 dollars a month had to be paid, but which could also be sold at any time, so that we should then not have been able to remain with our chapel. When, therefore, the local commission in New Orleans pointed out that in the next block on Annette Street, between Claiborne and Derbigny, suitable building lots were for sale, the Commission acquired a plot there, 80 feet wide and 127 or 67 feet deep, at the price of $310.00, of which sum two thirds are paid. The chapel was moved onto this plot and then subjected to a necessary repair, so that it can serve for years as a schoolhouse, after a larger church building has been erected, by God's grace, for this station also. — New Orleans is evidently our most hopeful station. Our two weekday schools were always full, indeed overfull. The number of pupils stood between 180 and 215. In the Sunday instruction in Bible history and the catechism between 125 and 178 children took part. In 1883, 15 confirmands and 20 adults were instructed; this year 20 confirmands and 8 adults. The station at present counts 60 communicant members. Why it seems advisable to the Commission to appoint a further missionary, the Commission permits itself to set out below.

3. Meherrin, Lunenburg Co., Virginia.

In place of Green Bay, Va., Meherrin, Va., appears in this report. Your Commission, namely, found itself obliged to give up the mission at Green Bay and to transfer it to the place named. As early as February 1883 Missionary Bühler reported that in Green Bay only a few adults still attended the Sunday services and that the number of school children also had shrunk greatly. At