# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S29
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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 29

by Superintendent G. M. Kramer, in a
special service. May the Lord bestow His
blessing upon the work of this new laborer!

Calls Extended.—At the regular meet-
ing of our Mission Board held January 14
it was unanimously resolved to call Can-
didate Byron R. Skinner and Rev. Omar
Rau, of Gravelton, Mo., into our Colored
Missions. The former will be stationed in
Alabama, the latter at Cincinnati, O.

Visitation. — Rev. Louis A. Wisler and
Mr. Theodore Steinmeyer, both members of
the Mission Board, spent about two weeks
on the mission-field during the month of
January.

Piney Woods, Miss. — During the
night of January 9 the girls’ dormitory at
the Piney Woods Country Life School burned down,
driving the girl students out into the cold night
rain. Fortunately no lives were lost. Rev. Wisler
and Mr. Steinmeyer, who had visited the institu-
tion, telegraphed this news to the Board in
St. Louis, advising that relief be given in the hour
of need.

A Change in North Carolina. — Rev. J. E.
Shufelt recently removed from Rockwell to High
Point. He took charge of the promising field in
that city some months ago.

Philadelphia, Pa. — The congregation in this
city has laid the corner-stone of its new church
amid great rejoicing of pastor and people. It is
expected that the building will be ready for dedica-
tion the end of April or the beginning of May.
Who will help the congregation at this time?

Recent Additions to Our Missionary Staff in India.

Left to right:

after a year's furlough.

Mrs. Zorn, Rey. R. M. Zorn, Miss G. Oberheu (nurse), Rev.
G. Oberheu, Rev. L. Wetzel, Mrs. Oberheu ‘and her three children, Rev. D.
Chuvala, Mrs. Chuvala, Rey. H. Peckman, Mrs. Fritze and Rey. A. Fritze_
with two children. — Missionaries Oberheu and Fritze are returning to India _

New Missionaries to China.
Rey. R. Mueller, Mrs. Mueller, Rev. E. Seltz.

India and China.-—The number of our mis-
sionaries working in these two countries has been
augmented by the return of several missionaries
from their furloughs and by the arrival of a number
of new workers. Despite this increase, however, the
number of our laborers is still small in these im-
mense fields ripe for the harvest.

Foreign Missions Disagreement Settled.— The
large and flourishing mission established by the
Hermannsburger Missionary Society in the Madras
Presidency of India in 1868 has now been definitely
and permanently taken over by the Joint Synod of
Ohio. This fine field among the Telugus has been
served by the Joint Synod since 1920, when the
political situation compelled the German society to
transfer it to the American church-body. — The

Missionary Naumann
and Wife,
who also went to India.