# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S24
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24 Proceedings of the thirtieth convention

was bought for $6,002.80. For this purpose $1,608.37
was in our treasury. The rest our mission treasury has
advanced temporarily. The dedication took place on Sunday, 17 January 1926. The congregation has 11 voting members, 40 communicant
members and 66 souls. Missionary McDavid has also already preached a few
times in Oakland.

63. St. Mark's, Atlanta, Ga. (Founded 1913. Missionary:
John Alston, since 1919.) The congregation has grown. Communicant
members: 38 (increase: 9). Souls: 52 (increase: 19). At
the corner of Arthur and McDaniel Street the Mission Board
at the beginning of April 1926 purchased a building site for a new chapel.
The lot measures 60×100 feet and costs $500. Street
improvements have brought the price to $1,434.79. Architect
Steinmeyer has been commissioned to supply a plan for the new church.
Two years ago $8,000 was appropriated for the building. The
children of the Central District have given $7,712.64. Perhaps
some adult will give what is still lacking.

64. St. Matthew's, Meherrin, Va. (Country congregation. Founded
1886. Missionary: L. G. Dorpat,* since November 1920.)
This old, well-informed congregation, which in the course of the years has given many
members to the congregation at Yonkers, N. Y., has grown again in this
biennium. Voting members: 26. Communicant
members: 76. Souls: 155 (increase: 19). Rev. Dorpat also keeps
school. On Sunday, 20 June 1926, his son Martin
Dorpat, a candidate for the ministry from Springfield, was ordained and installed in St. Matthew's.
He is to serve as missionary at Meherrin and
as itinerant preacher in Virginia and in the Carolinas.

65. St. Philip's, Philadelphia, Pa. (Founded 1919.
Missionary: Paul Trumpoldt,* since 3 August 1924.) Our
young missionary works with great enthusiasm among the large
coloured population of Philadelphia, and with success. The
number of souls has more than doubled. The services are so
well attended that at times there is only standing room. This summer
a student from Greensboro is helping in a "canvass." Since the building
in which the mission has lived for rent in recent years was offered for
sale and no good solution was at hand, we saw ourselves compelled
to buy the property — a two-story brick building and a double
house that brings in $50 a month. The price for the
entire property is a mere $8,784. Since in our mission treasury only
$467.70 was available for Philadelphia and in a treasury in Philadelphia
about $1,200, our treasurer had to borrow the greater part of the
purchase sum. The Synodical Conference (*Synodalkonferenz*) is asked to decide how this
debt is to be paid.

66. Bethany, Yonkers, N. Y. (Founded 1907. Missionary:
Wm. O. Hill, since March 1911.) Souls: 98. Communicant
members: 65. Voting members: 15. The communicant members
last year raised $1,747.19 for church purposes, thus on average $29.12 each. The congregation still meets in the
parish house of the congregation of Rev. v. Schlichten. For years it has
exerted itself to collect a building fund; but there is still lacking about
$10,000. The Synodical Conference should help here.

67. Grace, St. Louis, Mo. (Founded 1904. Missionary:
Paul E. Gose,* since 14 June 1925.) This congregation has in