# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1928_S53
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1928. 53

that some think we should rather build up our higher institution in Greensboro properly.

d. Yonkers, N. Y. Two years ago the Commission was instructed to help the congregation in Yonkers with its planned church building in such a way that $15,000 would be lent to it interest-free for ten years. The Commission was to borrow the money. It would, however, like to lay this matter before the Honorable Synodical Conference once more for consideration.

New Needs.

a. Pensacola, Fla. Superintendent Georg A. Schmidt writes: "When I was asked two years ago in Lockport whether we could not get along in Pensacola without a new building, I withdrew my request for a chapel in this city in view of the crying need in other places. But now I must come with a humble and yet urgent request, that a chapel be granted for this only Lutheran mission station for Negroes in this State of Florida. Pensacola is a pretty city with about 30,000 inhabitants. We hold our services and our school in an old barber shop. If there is anywhere within the bounds of the Synodical Conference a mission station that is a disgrace to the Lutheran Church, it is just this old shack in which our Lutheran church has its home. The pastor and his people are almost ashamed to invite people to come to the services. It is due to a special measure of grace alone that the congregation has grown at all and numbers 36 souls, of whom 27 are communicants and 8 voting members. We ask earnestly for this faithful little flock. A suitable building would cost not more than $6,000."

b. Catherine, Wilcox Co., Ala. This is a country station on the prairie. The work was begun here last autumn in a lonely old hut about 14 x 14 feet in size. 51 children attended school in this little box. The services are also held here. At Easter the firstfruits were baptized and confirmed, 19 in number. Superintendent Schmidt says: "This place promises a rich harvest. Only about $1,200 will be needed to buy a building site and to erect a modest but practical building."

c. Maplesville, Chilton Co., Ala. This too is a country station. How the work was taken up here is described elsewhere in this report. On Palm Sunday 25 persons joined. Superintendent Schmidt says: "That we cannot hold services for the long run, let alone school, in a member's little room is clear. We should build at this place too soon. Only $1,200 is needed for a chapel-school. The prospects for growth are good."

d. Teachers' Residences in Alabama. This item properly belongs also to the "old needs"; for of the six residences appropriated at $600 each only one has been built for lack of money, and this cost only $550.

e. Parsonages at Nyland and Tinela, Ala. Missionary Montgomery, who serves four mission stations and must live in Nyland, took there some years ago the only dwelling available for rent. It is a wretched shack. A parsonage