# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1930_S53
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1930. 53

3. Yonkers, N. Y. The congregation in this city has erected a parish house for
$12,000, which was dedicated on November 10, 1929. The congregation itself
raised $8,000 and still owes $4,000.

4. Greensboro, N. C. The beautiful new church-school, for which $30,000 was
appropriated two years ago, could be consecrated to the service of the Triune
God on May 11, 1930. Lot and building together with furnishings cost
$32,427.07. The Honorable Synodical Conference is asked to approve this excess
expenditure.

At present new buildings are being erected in Birmingham, Ala., and
Philadelphia, Pa. In Camden and Maplesville, Ala., nothing has yet been built.

Parsonages.

1. Tinela, Ala., 1928. $850 was appropriated two years ago. It has turned out,
however, that it is not advisable to build so cheaply. Building cost $1,034.05.
The Honorable Synodical Conference is asked to approve this excess expenditure,
as also those under Nos. 2 and 3.

2. Possum Bend, Ala., 1929. Cost $936.36.

3. Arlington, Ala., 1929. Cost $1,000. Two years ago $850 was appropriated for
a parsonage at Nyland. It was, however, erected at Arlington, which belongs to
the same parish.

Teachers' Residences.

1. Tilden, Ala., 1928. $550 was appropriated; the cost, however, came to only
$541.89.

2. Buena Vista, Ala., 1930. Cost: $1,000. A gift of the sisters J. Firzlaff and
A. Heinecke in Sheboygan, Wis.

Addition.

At the Mount Zion station in New Orleans an addition to the school had to be
made in 1928, which cost $2,000. Whoever has noticed what unprecedented growth
the congregation has experienced through the school will gladly be ready to
approve this expenditure.

Our Mission Schools.

The number of our mission schools amounts to 52, which at the beginning of this
year were attended by 3,320 schoolchildren. They receive the instruction usual
among us in religion as well as in the secular subjects. Here we let follow an
opinion about our schools.

Horace M. Bond of Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn., is an official in the
service of the Rosenwald Fund who helps decide where moneys for Negro schools
are to be spent. Last winter the State of Alabama, at the request of the
officials of Wilcox County, had a census of education taken in that county.
Mr. Bond, a colored man, came to the South to take a look at the situation on
the spot. In a letter to our superintendent he writes, among other things, the
following:

"What I have seen of your schools has convinced me that they are doing a most
remarkable work. The romantic story -- for me, a Negro -- of the coming of the
Lutheran Church to this most neglected region and of the great things it has
done is -- you may believe me -- encouraging and delightful.