# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1930_S54
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54 Proceedings of the thirty-second convention

"I know that the work is often a thankless one, not appreciated by those in
whose interest it is done, and bound up with strain and toil. You will permit
me to wish you success in your work also for the future, which it deserves in
rich measure because of its thorough character.

"I cannot close this letter without telling you what a pleasure my visit to the
Zion school at Taits was, in which teacher Rivers teaches. Both in the
religious subjects and in the recitations of the classes the performances were
distinguished by skill, quickness and intelligence in a manner such as I have
seldom seen in a school. The performances of the chart class in the catechism
were so excellent that I do not regret having made so long a journey; it was a
pleasure to me to see all this."

Through our mission schools many children have been brought to their Savior and
his church, in some places and at some times, to be sure, only a few. In the
congregation at Salisbury, N. C., for example, which for more than a decade has
been a kind of problem child, Missionary Vorice was permitted at Easter to
baptize seventeen schoolchildren and confirm four. Missionary Holsten at
Concord, N. C., wrote after Easter: "Here in Concord we rejoice over the
blessing that God lays upon our school. Teacher McDowell told me today that
all his pupils except four are now Lutheran. At Easter I baptized nine
schoolchildren and confirmed sixteen, as well as three adults whose children
attend our school. I am convinced that our schools can be brought to the point
where they 'pay for themselves.' That requires work, however." The greatest
blessing has been experienced by the Mount Zion school in New Orleans
(P. Oskar Lücke). From this school more than 200 children could be won for the
church in two years.

In other places, however, it is different. There are schools in which the
strange children for the most part come neither to Sunday school nor to
preaching, but go either to no church at all or to a sectarian church. Perhaps
they come to our Sunday school now and then so as not possibly to lose their
place in our mission school. The teachers and missionaries are, namely,
required to tell the children: should our school become overfilled, then the
children who also come to our Sunday school and preaching will have preference.
If the Mission Commission sees that a school absolutely does not "pay for
itself," it closes the school (Napoleonville, Springfield) or reduces the
teaching staff (St. Paul's, New Orleans). The funds thus saved are used in such
places where the pupils hold fast to us entirely.

Pastors and Professors.

In the service of the mission there are 9 professors (7 white and 2 colored)
and 37 pastors (15 white and 22 colored). The following changes have occurred
in this biennium:

Departed.

1. G. G. Krest, Mobile, Ala., by acceptance of a call to Meta, Mo.

2. G. L. Krönk, Grace, St. Louis, Mo., by acceptance of a call to Grangeville,
Idaho, on June 23, 1929.

3. P. G. Weeke, Alabama, by resignation of office in May 1929.