# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1892_S44
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44 Proceedings of the fourteenth convention

There is less hope for the other two, yet it is hoped that through them we can hold the gathered congregations until we can replace their places by new workers. In Phifer's congregation a church is being built for $900.00, the site of which was donated by two English Lutheran congregations, and in Reimerstown a small church for $350.00. Missionary Phifer receives $25.00 salary from our treasury. The name "Lutheran" has a good ring in the Carolinas and is the dominant denomination there. The Lutheran congregations there are highly pleased that our Church is taking up the mission work so vigorously, and have unasked already promised their cooperation. In short, we can look into the future for this mission with the most joyful hopes. Missionary Bakke already has in Concord a congregation of 55 souls, 35 communicants, a weekday school of 56 and a Sunday school of 85 children. But he needs in Concord a new church and a schoolteacher, in order to be able to devote himself wholly to the mission work.

In conclusion the commission permits itself to make the following remarks:

1. During the two past years the commission has held a regular meeting every month, the proceedings of which were carefully minuted. It is in lively contact with all the missionaries, who send in exact quarterly reports on their activity as well as on the state and progress of their mission. Each station, too, has been visited during this time by one of its members. With this convention the term of its office expires, and a new commission is therefore to be elected.

2. By order of the commission the three missionaries Bakke, Burgdorf and Schooff took part this time in the convention of the honorable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] and are ready, on request, to give an oral report on the mission and to answer any questions or bring forward particular wishes.

3. The "Miſſions⸗Taube" [Missions Dove] has 14,000 readers, the "Pioneer" 5000, in view of the 300,000 communicants of the Synodical Conference an exceedingly small number. The surplus of the papers yielded $1508.74 in the last two years. An enlargement of their circle of readers would therefore mean a considerable increase of our income, which is most necessary with the thus enlarged extent of our mission work.

To God, our Savior, be praise and thanks for the great blessing hitherto experienced in our mission. May He remain with us with His protection and blessing and make us ever more willing and faithful for this blessed work, to the great honor of His name and to the salvation of many immortal souls!

In the name and by commission of the commission

C. J. Otto Hanser.
St. Louis, in August 1892.