# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S81
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1916. 81

firmed 37 adults and 5 children. The latest figures are given in the statistical table. The place where the station is located is called Rosebud and lies about three and a half miles northeast of Neenah. — At Oak Hill, about four miles southeast of Rosebud, Missionary Lane at Pentecost (June 11) opened the very promising Pentecost Station and founded a Sunday school with 23 persons as well as a confirmation class with 27 persons. The services are held here in a Negro schoolhouse. — At the beginning of June Miss Young traveled to Sedan, near Vredenburgh, Monroe Co., about twenty miles southwest of Oak Hill, and there on June 4 organized the St. Andrew's Sunday school with 15 pupils and on June 7 called into being a weekday school with 16 children as well as a confirmation class with 12 persons. She writes that the prospects near Vredenburgh are very good. The premises in which she works are an old, empty Negro cabin.

It is indeed a great door that God has opened for us in Alabama. The incomparably rich harvest which we have been permitted to gather in here in so short a time, and the great future, have filled our mission friends and also our colored Christians with joyful enthusiasm. To the gracious God be praise and thanks for it!

Many a one will perhaps also like to know how Miss Young came to write to the chairman of the commission. She had first turned to the well-known Negro leader Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee, Ala., and told him her distress. The chairman of the commission had for some years been in correspondence with Washington and had also repeatedly sent him statistical data for the *Negro Year Book* published at Tuskegee, and had written all sorts of things worth knowing about our work among the Negroes. Washington now sent the teacher a copy of the *Negro Year Book*, which contains the chairman's address, and gave her the advice to turn to us. How she did so has already been reported.

The Lord, our God, who has led us so unexpectedly and wonderfully into this new, hopeful field, will now also give us the necessary men and means to work the field properly and to carry the bright light of the Gospel ever farther into the "Black Belt"!

2. Our Workers.

In our service at the close of the last school year there were 58 workers, namely 1 mission director, 6 white professors, who in part also help out in the mission work, 8 white and 16 colored missionaries, 4 white and 10 colored teachers, 12 colored women teachers and 1 colored student as assistant. Of the 16 colored missionaries