# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S55
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1914. 55

Besides the Grace congregation we have in Greensboro a second mission, namely at Immanuel College, which is directed by Director F. Berg and has 10 souls, 6 communicants, 1 voting member, 53 weekday-school pupils and 63 pupils in the Sunday school. The weekday school is conducted by M. N. Carter and Evans W. Reid. Unfortunately it has to record a considerable decrease in the past year; yet the prospects for the opening of school in September are somewhat better again. The services, which are held on Sunday afternoons in the assembly hall of Immanuel College and are usually conducted by Dir. Berg, have an average attendance of 28 hearers.

St. John's, Salisbury, Rowan Co., 49 miles southwest of Greensboro. Missionary: W. H. Lash. Teacher: J. F. M. Thalley, since September 1913. In Salisbury live 2,432 Negroes. Of these there are now under Missionary Lash's pastoral care 42 souls (decrease: 1), 24 communicants (increase: 8), 10 voting members (increase: 6). Contributions: $886.75. Teacher Thalley's class has 66 children, Missionary Lash's class 27; together 93; that means an increase of 31 children. At present a new school is being built, which will cost about 800 dollars. Of this the congregation contributes 200 dollars; the remaining 600 dollars must be raised by charitable gifts from our friends of the mission. The new school had become an urgent necessity. The large flock of children was crowded together in a classroom 20×30 feet and had to be taught in this small space at the same time by the missionary and the teacher. — Besides the congregation in Salisbury, Pastor Lash also serves congregations in Catawba and Conover.

Mount Olive in Catawba lies 38 miles west of Salisbury. Catawba has only about 300 inhabitants; a third of them are colored. Statistics: 15 souls (decrease: 6; by death 3 this year), 5 communicants (decrease: 2), 3 voting members (decrease: 1), 25 children in the Sunday school; church attendance: 62; 3 adults under instruction.

Bethel, Conover. Conover, well known in our circles, twelve miles from Catawba and fifty from Salisbury, has 421 inhabitants, of whom about 150 are said to be Black. Bethel is only small; it numbers 7 souls (increase: 2), 5 communicants (increase: 2), 2 voting members (increase: 1); Sunday-school pupils: 18. Yet the services, which are held on Sunday mornings, were attended in the last quarter by an average of 46 persons. Two adults are under instruction.

Concord, Grace. Missionary: W. G. Schwehn. Concord lies in Cabarrus Co., 72 miles southwest of Greensboro and 23 miles from Salisbury. It has 8,715 inhabitants, of whom 1,831 are Black. In October 1912 Missionary Messerli followed the call of the white