# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S64
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64 Proceedings of the twenty-first convention

and Sunday school. Attendance at both is good and regular. Number of souls: 31; communicants: 22.

In the station The Rocks service with preaching and Sunday school is likewise held every second Sunday. This station must have a chapel, for until now the services have been held in Negro huts. Number of souls: 44; communicants: 13; voting members: 6. Baptized were 3, confirmed 2. 40 children attend the Sunday school.

5. Salisbury, Catawba and Conover. This mission field has been served since October 1904 by Missionary Lash, a Negro. In this period he baptized 31 children and confirmed 3. Present number of souls: 90; communicants: 15. The weekday school was attended on the average by 27, the Sunday school by 43 children. The missionary keeps the school.

On 5 April 1905 the little congregation in Salisbury lost its church and school through a violent windstorm, and since that time the poor people have had to make shift with a small, miserable hall, for which rent must be paid. It is to be hoped that it will soon be possible to erect the new church and school, for which the poor members have already collected $108.62 among themselves and want to collect still more.

"The outlook for the mission at Catawba is good," writes Pastor Lash, "and the members are strong Lutherans, some of them having been Lutherans for thirty-five and forty years." [Printed in English.] Present number of souls: 25; communicants: 7. Church attendance is very good, from 46 to 118. Baptized were 2, confirmed 5. The Sunday school numbers 21 children. Here too summer school is held with great success.

In Conover preaching has been held once a month since January 1906. A building lot, 264×528 feet, has already been secured. 21 children attend the Sunday school. Voting members: 3; under instruction are 5 persons.

6. Greensboro, Elon College and Rudds Station. (Pastor Joh. C. Schmidt.) In Greensboro there was much work to be done in the last two years, and the demands made on Missionary Schmidt were many-sided. He had not only to serve his congregations, but also, on behalf of the Commission, to direct the building of the College. His time and his strength were taken up by the purchase of the land, the preparation of the plan and the specifications, and above all by the supervision of the construction of Immanuel College.

The number of souls in Greensboro is at present 58, the number of communicants 20, of voting members 5. Monthly contribution: $12.00. In the school, which numbers 66 pupils, Teacher Buntrock taught last year alone, without the help of the missionary.

Besides Greensboro the stations Elon Col-