# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S37
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1922. 37

(German and English.) In addition, printed letters to the pastors and to the teachers were sent out with the circulars. The collection is still in progress. How it will turn out cannot yet be said at present. Even if the hoped-for sum of $150,000 for the so necessary new buildings should not be reached, our dear Negro Mission has nevertheless gained wide publicity on this occasion.

7. Publicity. To spread information about the Negro Mission and to awaken and promote interest in it, the following in particular is done: "Die Missionstaube" [The Mission Dove] and the *Lutheran Pioneer* are published monthly. Both mission papers cost only 50 cents each. They ought to have a far wider circulation. — The three lantern-slide lectures on the Negro Mission enjoy ever greater popularity. The pictures from the mission are beautiful, the accompanying lecture, typewritten, instructive. Rev. Theo. F. Walther is manager of these lantern-slide lectures. Whenever opportunity offers, the writer of this makes trips lasting weeks to serve congregations with these lectures. — Last autumn a good opportunity offered itself to send out one of our Negro pastors, Missionary Marmaduke N. Carter, with a lecture on our Negro Mission. He made such an exceedingly good impression with his lecture that we were swamped with orders. He is already engaged for the whole of the present year and for part of the coming year. Missionary Stoll had to help him out for a time. God willing, Carter is to be active in this way for another year or two. — Last autumn Missionary W. O. Hill of Yonkers, N. Y., in the Atlantic District of the Missouri Synod, undertook a concert tour with four Negro students from Greensboro. At every concert he gave a lecture on our mission. As soon as a favorable opportunity in every respect offers, this plan is to be resumed.

8. Representatives of the Negro Mission in the Synodical Districts. As a result of removal by call and the like, several synodical districts are without a representative of our mission. May the Synodical Conference fill these places again.

9. In property our Negro Mission owns: 2 colleges, 2 professors' residences (Greensboro), 15 chapels, 5 chapels in which school is also held, 20 chapels and schools under one roof, 8 schoolhouses, 10 parsonages and 3 small houses inhabited by church workers, together with the lots belonging to them. The entire property has approximately a value of $225,000.

10. Mission Workers. In the service of the Negro Mission stand the following workers: 1 mission director, 1 superintendent in Alabama, who at the same time also serves several mission stations, 9 white professors, some of whom also serve mission congregations, 23 missionaries (5 white and 18 colored), 14 teachers (2 white and