# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1888_S40
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40 Proceedings of the twelfth convention

and now measures 80 × 127 feet in all. The building of a church together with a confirmation-class room for about $2000.00 has been begun and will in any case be completed before the reopening of the school after the vacation. The St. Paul's congregation numbers 72 souls with 45 communicant members. The Sunday church attendance is 75; the Sunday school numbers 118, the weekday school 95 pupils. In special instruction are 7 more persons.

St. Trinity Church is the name of our third station in New Orleans, in the suburb of Carrollton. It is served by Missionary Pastor Burgdorf. It has existed since the autumn of 1885. Already in the following year an assistant had to be assigned to the missionary in the person of Teacher W. Jöckel, who was installed in his office on the 10th Sunday after Trinity 1886. At that time the school already numbered 90 pupils. The parents of the Sunday school testify that it is not possible for them to keep the children back when the bell calls from the tower to Sunday school.

Last spring this mission suffered a bitter loss: the one adult member of the congregation up to then died, yet a joyful, blessed death, upon the confession of her Lutheran faith. Mrs. Johnson, that was her name, had, since she came to us, never missed a service except in the most pressing need; she came in storm and rain, in cold and heat as well as in pleasant weather. She always came as an eager learner, a Mary sitting at the Savior's feet. She came with all her children to Sunday school, in which she helped with great love and skill to feed the lambs of Christ. She also held daily household devotions with her children and sought, by diligent drilling in Dietrich's Catechism, which she held high as an inalienable possession, to advance herself and her children ever more in the knowledge of Christian truth. She could not praise enough to others what a precious treasure she had found in the Lutheran church. After her death God has nevertheless brought some other adults to it. The congregation now numbers 10 souls, among them 5 communicants; 43 persons attend the services. The Sunday school numbers 117, the weekday school 95 pupils.

The Bethlehem Station (Missionary August Burgdorf). At its last meeting the Rev. Synodical Conference authorized its Commission to begin yet another new station in a part of the city of New Orleans heavily populated by Negroes without church provision, and to publish an appeal in the organs of the Synodical Conference to raise the necessary funds. A suitable lot was soon found in the district in question; but the purchase of it had to be given up, because despite the appeal that had appeared the contributions for this purpose flowed very sparsely. In January