# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1930_S47
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1930. 47

14. Catawba, N. C. Founded 1895. Missionary: F. Vorice. Souls: 23.
Increase: 3. Property: church, which is in great need of repair.

15. Conover, N. C. Founded 1904. Missionary: F. Vorice. Souls: 3.
Decrease: 4. Property: church.

16. Rockwell, N. C. Founded 1893. Missionary: F. H. Foard. Souls: 48.
Increase: 8. Property: church and school.

17. Bostian Cross Roads, N. C. Founded 1904. Missionary: F. H. Foard.
Souls: 44. Increase: 1. Property: church. It belongs to the congregation.

18. Gold Hill, N. C. Founded 1893. Missionary: F. H. Foard. Souls: 32.
Increase: 2. Property: church.

19. High Point, N. C. Founded 1908. Missionary: J. E. Shufelt. Souls: 57.
Increase: 38. Property: church, in which school is also held. Missionary
Shufelt would like to have a new church in a more favorably situated place.
The situation has changed so much in the rapidly growing city that our little
church has white neighbors on two sides. He thinks a new church-school would
require an appropriation of $12,000.

20. Winston-Salem, N. C. Founded 1913. Missionary: Jesse A. Hunt. Souls: 46.
Increase: 24. Property: church.

21. Greensboro, N. C. Founded 1893. Missionary: Paul D. Lehman (colored).
Souls: 186. Increase: 21. The two congregations -- Grace and Luther Memorial --
were united in 1928. The new church-school was dedicated on May 11, 1930.
This fine building, in which the students of the College also attend
services, cost $32,427.07. The old Grace Church was destroyed by fire on
November 11, 1928. We have not yet been able to sell the lot. During the
vacancy Prof. Wm. Gehrke served the congregation with the help of a student.
In accordance with the resolution passed at the last convention of the
Synodical Conference (*Synodalkonferenz*), $7,500 from the mission treasury
was contributed toward the building of the Ebenezer Church and a further
$1,500 was lent. Our professors with their families belong to this white
church.

22. Southern Pines, N. C. Founded 1898. Missionary: Prof. Walter H. Beck
(from the Wisconsin Synod), who serves the congregation with the help of
some students. Souls: 39. Increase: 5. Property: church.

23. Meherrin, Va. Founded 1883. Missionary: Lorenz Dorpat. Souls: 107.
Decrease: 32. Members of the congregation who were living in Baltimore, etc.,
have received their dismissal to congregations there. Hence the decrease.
Property: church-school, parsonage and 28 acres of land.

24. Baltimore, Md. Founded 1929. Vacant. Candidate J. Schlichting from the
seminary in Springfield, Ill., has accepted the call extended to him and will
be installed in mid-August. Missionary Martin Dorpat served the station from
April 1929 to the end of April 1930. Services are held in a Y. M. C. A.
building. Souls: 18.

25. Washington, D. C. Founded 1916. Vacant. Candidate J. Schlichting will
serve this station from Baltimore. Souls: 12.