# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1954_S149
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America, 1954 149

yet there is some progress made in recruiting new. members for
the church.

Recently another medium has been opened for the spread of
Lutheranism in our community and adjacent areas. A radio station
in Alexandria, La., has offered our pastor an opportunity to broad-
cast a Lutheran sermon once a month. Many calls have been re-
ceived from radio listeners, a king about the Lutheran Church,
Since these broadcasts were inaugurated, our church attendance

leaks all over and that immediate repairs were needed, The old
parsonage, which had been built fifty-four years ago, was beyond
repairs. It was deemed best to tear it down and rebuild it from
the materials that could be saved, Now, here was the problem how
to finance these building plans. The congregation, already burdened
with its running expenses, and paying a part of the pastor’s salary,
could not possibly raise the necessary funds to make these repairs,
A loan was thought of, but from whom? A suggestion was made
to ask the Missionary Board for a two-thousand-dollar loan. But
the greatest problem was how to meet the payment on this loan by
@ small congregation which can hardly meet its running expenses,

Holy Cross, Shreveport, La.

The Lutheran mission at Shreveport, La., now called Holy
Cross Lutheran Church, was started by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Douzart,
who moved to Shreveport from Mansura, La., in the year 1944,

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