# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1928_S54
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54 Proceedings of the thirty-first convention

would cost about $850. At Tinela, too, a parsonage is needed. Building cost: $850.

f. Camden, Ala. If the work there is to be continued, building is absolutely necessary. For some years now we have been paying $6 a month rent for a small hut by the roadside, which stands in the shadow of a large colored Baptist church and not far from a large Methodist church. Since the hut belongs to a colored Baptist preacher, we may expect that the mission in Camden will be put out on the street. Despite the unfavorable circumstances the congregation has gained 57 members, of whom 27 are entitled to communion. The chapel-school will cost about $2,000. Our congregations in Alabama gave $750 two years ago for a building site in Camden, the county seat of Wilcox County and center of our fifteen congregations in this county. — Since our young missionary Gauthreaux will marry in August, Superintendent Schmidt also asks for a parsonage in Camden, which would cost about $850.

g. School Benches in Alabama. The seating in our schools in the Black Belt of Alabama is in an exceedingly sad state. $1,500 is requested for school benches. Our schools in Alabama are in almost every respect still ahead of the other schools for Negro children. But we must see to it that things do not go for us here as in North Carolina. The mission school is among our best means of mission work.

h. Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N. C. The time has come when we must erect two new buildings, a residence and dormitory building for our boys and a classroom building. The former would cost about $55,000, the latter about $68,000, together about $125,000. The Commission has instructed its architect, Mr. Theodor Steinmeyer of St. Louis, to prepare blue-prints, which are to be laid before the Conference. It would take too long to describe here the urgent necessity of these two buildings. That will be done orally at Omaha. A plan will also be presented there for how the necessary funds can be raised.

i. A College Church in Greensboro. About four blocks from our college two building lots were bought in June, on which a church is to be built for our Luther Memorial congregation. The site cost $1,600. Street improvements, etc., will cost a further $1,600. Our Grace Church in Greensboro is two and a half miles from the college. The opportunities for a mission school as well as for the further growth of the Grace congregation are also very slight. The Grace congregation is therefore to be united with Luther Memorial and the old property sold. In this way the $15,000 will also be saved which was appropriated two years ago for a school for the Grace congregation. The neighborhood in which the new church-school is to be erected is new and offers a good opportunity to build up a large congregation. $30,000 is requested for the building.

j. The white Ebenezer Church in Greensboro is the church home of our professors and their families. These form a large part of the congregation. Ebenezer must build and asks the Synodical Conference for help. The Mission Board thinks that $7,500 should be appropriated for this purpose.