# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1925_S136 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 136 - ‘ this year three parsonages and several chapels are planned. ‘Two parsonages have practically been completed at the time of writing. Two new mis- sionaries were added to our list last year, which THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. schools at some time of the day when the Spanish school. does not require. the attendance of our pupils. This arrangement presents many. difficul- ties and hindrances, which, however, our future - schools will eliminate. May God continue to bless our mision-work in Argentina! Argentine Publicity Bureau. -Great Missionary Possibilities. What great missionary possibilities dea- coness work offers may be seen from the following items which the Superintendent of our Lutheran Deaconess Association, Rev. Bruno Poch, was kind enough to send us: — “Parsonage” in Misiones, Argentina. gives us a total of fifteen men, — the largest number | of men ever active in Argentina. Four Argentine students are preparing for the ministry, three in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and one up in the States. One new parish was created last year, and this year four new parishes ought to be established. Several adults were instructed on the basis of our Spanish Catechism and have been confirmed. Several tracts and pamphlets were either written in Spanish or translated into that language. In several parishes regular Spanish services were conducted. Rey. ., Church in Merou, Argentina. The first self-supporting church in Argentina. Jauck, our native Argentinian, has established a German-Spanish Christian day-school in his parish. We sorely need more of these schools. We hope _ and pray that our teachers’ seminary will soon pro- vide us with efficient teachers for our schools. Most of our missionaries conduct German Christian day- _ City Mission to call another woman helper. “The Board for: Indian Missions in Ari- zona has called two deaconesses who grad- uated from the Deaconess Training-school at Beaver Dam, Wis., last spring. They entered upon their duties’ about the “middle of August. Another deaconess, who graduated from the Fort Wayne Training-school, will enter our Italian Mission field at West -Hoboken, N. J, by the beginning of Sep- tember. “The wonderful results obtained. by the faithful labors of our first woman helper in the Chicago Mission have prompted the Board for the Chicago Miss Wegner, ‘also a deaconess graduate of the Beaver Dam. .Training-school,. will go to Chicago to assist Pastor. Sandvoss in his ‘work. The report-for 1924 shows that nearly eighty. persons. have been won for Christ and our Lutheran Church through the efforts of our first woman helper in Chicago. “Six urgent requests for the placing of deaconesses could not be considered because we have not enough workers. The great need of trained woman helpers in various depart- ments of church-work is being felt more and more in our circles. We regret that we have none available this year for our Foreign Mis- *sions in India and China, where the need for woman helpers is particularly great. res “Our Luther Deaconess Association has at present twenty-five deaconesses in training and ex- pects to enroll ten more this fall. Thus far the ladies’ aids of forty-five congregations have prom- ised to support the splendid work carried on by the Lutheran Deaconess Association. We hope and pray that many more will join to help this great