# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S232
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

282 Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields

Report of Committee 2
Your Committee recommends that this overture be referred
back to the writer since the Committee is of the opinion that this
is a matter belonging before the Board of Foreign Missions.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Report of Board for Colored Missions
(Memorial 415)

Negro Missions at Home

In our work among the Negroes in this country there are
active 54 pastors, 22 of them white and 32 Negroes. They are
serving 10,500 baptized souls, 6,078 communicants, 3,479 pupils in
day-schools, and 5,078 in Sunday-schools. We have two -institu-
tions for higher education: Immanuel Lutheran College and
Seminary, with 100 students (5 in the Seminary Department) and
Alabama Lutheran Academy with 35 students. This mission is
represented in 19 States. Remembering that the Negro is the
“tenth man,” one realizes that we have reached but a very small
portion of the Negro population. Heavy migration from the South
has increased the population of most Northern cities naturally.
While there is yet much ground to be occupied in the South,
Northern cities offer unlimited opportunities for expansion, and
because of the typical economic conditions among the Negroes in
the South, we must look to our congregations in the North for
numerical and financial strength. ;

Our Negro Christians show their love and gratitude for the
Gospel received by comparatively fine contributions. While a
marked improvement has been made in this respect, two con-
gregations now are self-supporting, and several more are advancing
toward that goal, the mission as such will nevertheless be dependent
on help for years to come. Small and unproductive stations have
been combined into circuits wherever possible, and thus the
available man power is profitably employed. Opportunities for
expansion are very near unlimited in the North, where initial work
is expensive, but where the prospects for eventual self-support
are very promising.

African Missions

The past three years have been years of progress and blessings
in our Nigerian Mission. According to the latest available statistics
from the field, the mission numbers 6,161 baptized members, 2,188
communicant members, 1,453 Lutheran pupils in the day~-schools,
and 44 congregations. The Central School, with an enrolment of