# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S60
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60 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth convention

Missionary March let the five rooms on the second floor of the school be occupied free of charge. The Sunday school is attended by 20 children and the service by an average of 10 persons. It is a hopeful field.

Wilmington is the second-largest city in North Carolina; it has a population of 25,748, of whom 12,107 are Negroes. This port city lies 83 miles from Fayetteville in a southeasterly direction. It had been named, along with Winston-Salem, Kernersville and South Carolina, by that Immanuel Conference as a field that ought to be explored. The Mission Director and Missionary March traveled there from Fayetteville in November 1913 and took a two-day look around. They soon found a favorable mission field in the part of town called Brooklyn. The missionary has preached there several times in a rented room. His summer school already numbered 20 children on June 28. Missionary March says: [Printed in English.] "This field is the ideal place for us to do mission work, for there are plenty of people here. We need a man to stay here and work the field at all times." The candidate for the ministry Otto Richert of the seminary in St. Louis has been called to Wilmington. A chapel is needed. As in Atlanta and Winston-Salem, so too in Wilmington mission work was begun by us about fifteen years ago, but because of the missionary's illness was soon given up again. — The preaching place Candor in Montgomery Co. Missionary March gave up this year. The work did not pay; moreover, as is evident from what precedes, he was otherwise sufficiently occupied.

8. South Carolina.

Spartanburg, St. Luke's. Spartanburg lies 76 miles southwest of Charlotte, N. C., where Missionary McDavid is stationed. Director Bakke visited Spartanburg from Charlotte on November 12, 1913, and found a promising field there in a part of town where only colored people live and can buy property. An old Negro log cabin was rented for 6 dollars a month, and school benches were sent down from Concord. Pastor McDavid at once did mission work for a few weeks, held the first service on November 23, and opened a school in mid-December. On January 12 of this year Miss Wilmar Barnhardt of Concord was then appointed as teacher. She had 30 pupils. The same number is in the Sunday school. The services, held every two weeks, are attended by an average of 20 persons. The largest audience was 36. The candidate for the ministry Henry D. Kent of Immanuel College in Greensboro has been called to Spartanburg. His ordination was performed on July 12 in Mount Pleasant by Pastor J. Alston with the assistance of Pastor Schwehn.