# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1954_S112
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112 Proceedings of the Forty-Third Convention,

BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

Forty-Sixth Report of the Missionary Board
for Negro Missions
1952—1954

UNITED STATES

In presenting to the Synodical Conference our report on our
Domestic Mission setup, we shall endeavor to cover only those
phases of our work which are not indicated in the various separate

Boards of our institutions at Selma, Ala., and Greensboro, N.C.

Since the reports from the field cover extensively the history,
the development, the Statistics, and the expansion Possibilities, we
shall limit our preface and comment only briefly on certain vital
matters which are essential and necessary for an understanding of
the many problems confronting us. We wish to acknowledge with
gratitude the fine co-operation exhibited on the part of Districts

for the Missionary Board to make use of the funds for the open-
ing of new fields, particularly in the southern area.

lished in Bessemer, Ala., a suburb of Birmingham, in Montgomery,
the capital of Alabama. Four other places in Alabama have been
developed since the last convention, namely, Maplesville, Tuskegee,
Point Clear, and Trinity Gardens. The details on these mission
Stations are found in the Alabama Field report.

At the last convention of the Synodical Conference the Mis-
sionary Board indicated that it is endeavoring to open up mission