# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S34
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34 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh convention

For the current year the mission treasury needs about $82,000, for 1921 approximately $115,000 (about 15 cents per communicant). It would be desirable for the *Synodalkonferenz* [Synodical Conference] to determine in advance the sum that should be raised from year to year, and for all then to help so that the goal set is reached. In this way the Commission would get firm ground under its feet.

Special Needs.

1. A dormitory for Negro girls in Greensboro. Needed: about $30,000 (already received: $2466). 2. Professors' residence in Greensboro. Between $6000 and $7000 needed. 3. Building lot and building in Napoleonville, La. Needed: about $3500 (already received: $1517). Not quite so urgently needed for the time being: 4. Building lot and building in Winston-Salem. (No exact inquiry yet as to cost.) 5. Building lot and building in St. Louis. (About $20,000. On hand: $7676.) 6. Building lot and building in Albemarle. (Perhaps about $4500.) 7. Building lot and building in Plaquemine. (No exact inquiry made yet.) 8. Building lot and chapel in Atlanta.

Negro Migration to the North.

It has already been mentioned that in recent years great crowds of blacks have left the South and emigrated to the North. If the loss which our mission has suffered thereby is not to become still greater, we must occupy the larger gathering points of Negroes in the North with missionaries. But that can happen only if the friends of the mission everywhere increase their charitable gifts or the congregations in the cities concerned guarantee a large part of the necessary means. Thus the two pastoral conferences in Chicago have not only encouraged the Commission to take up the Negro Mission vigorously in their city, but have also promised vigorous help.

The Mission Commission.

1. Since in the year 1916 the congregation of the Commission's chairman had urgently requested that the possible re-election of its pastor be dispensed with, after the re-election had taken place Prof. Mezger was commissioned to speak with the congregation. The result was that the congregation gave its consent only so far that its pastor should serve for about five more months, so that a new chairman could be elected and work himself in somewhat. Prof. Mezger was elected chairman, but declared that he could not possibly perform the work which the office brings with it. So the Commission in February 1917 made use of the right which the Rev. Synodical Conference had given it and, in the fear of the LORD, elected a mission director and editor of the "Missionstaube." The election fell on the