# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1930_S46
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46 Proceedings of the thirty-second convention

4. Charlotte, N. C. Mount Zion. Founded 1896. Missionary: C. J. Malloy.
Souls: 26. Loss: 20. Property: church. -- The property in the northern part
of the city (Bethel) has been sold for $775. The union of the two
congregations has not yet been able to be carried out.

5. Monroe, N. C. Founded 1900. Missionary: C. J. Malloy. Souls: 18. Loss: 4.
Property: church.

6. Concord, N. C. Founded 1883 by P. D. Koonts. Missionary: Melvin Holsten.
Souls: 280. Increase: 29. Property: church and school. Both are in
extreme need of repair and the mission is obliged to build elsewhere. Need:
for a building lot and for a church-school about $25,000.

7. Shankletown, N. C., a suburb of Concord. Founded 1919. Missionary:
M. Holsten. Souls: 34. Decrease: 3. Property: church. The school-age
children attend the school in Concord.

8. Kannapolis, N. C. Founded 1902. Missionary: John W. Fuller. Souls: 175.
Decrease: 6. The former pastor, Frank D. Alston, who was also at the same time
superintendent of the congregations in the Southeast that are served by
colored pastors, died on March 20, 1930. He was a capable, diligent,
conscientious worker. P. Fuller, who serves two other congregations besides,
was installed as his successor on June 1. A vicar heads the school and
preaches now and then. Property: church-school.

9. Mount Pleasant, N. C. Founded 1893. Missionary: J. W. Fuller. Souls: 59.
Increase: 1. Property: church, school and parsonage. The church was damaged
by a storm on May 14, 1929. The repairs, which came to a little over $300,
are being paid for by the congregation itself.

10. Drys Schoolhouse, N. C. Founded 1897. Missionary: J. W. Fuller. Souls: 45.
Property: church. This summer school is being held here for six weeks by
student Pledger.

11. Fayetteville, N. C. Founded 1913. The work, however, was twice
discontinued. P. Fuller has oversight of the work done by students. Souls: 5.
No property.

12. New Bern, N. C. This place lies in the Black Belt of eastern North
Carolina. In August 1928 the PP. Lorenz Dorpat (father) and Martin Dorpat
(son) of Meherrin, Va., made an exploratory trip to New Bern. A few months
later the PP. Frank Alston and M. Dorpat explored the city. The mission
board resolved to transfer Missionary M. Dorpat there. He arrived there on
December 27, 1928, and stayed until May of the following year, when he moved to
Baltimore to take over the mission station there. At the beginning of the
coming year a missionary is to be appointed again. In the meantime the
station is served by students from Greensboro under P. Fuller's supervision.
In New Bern lives Mrs. Mollie Louder with the orphans she has taken in.
The Commission could not decide to establish an orphanage, but hopes that
charitable friends of the mission will remember Mrs. Louder and her orphan
children. Souls: 20.

13. Salisbury, N. C. Founded 1895. Missionary: Felton Vorice. Souls: 70.
Increase: 17. Property: church and school.