Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 21

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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1950 21

Needs for Alabama Expansion Program

The Negro population of Alabama is more than one million.
Missions stations should be established at the following places:

Tuskegee. (This was resolved by the Milwaukee Convention
in 1948.) $10,000 needed for chapel.

Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, with a population of 12,000
Negroes. $10,000 chapel cost. .

Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, where 45,000 Negroes
reside. $10,000 required to establish mission.

Many other places beckon us to enter. The Superintendent
of the Alabama field reports that for a proposed expansion in
Alabama “the Missionary Board will need an additional $100,000
in the ‘coming biennium.”

Re Seattle, Wash.

“Trinity Lutheran Church, located in the heart of the colored
district in Seattle, Wash., is planning a relocation of its church
and has offered to sell its present property, consisting of a church,
school, and parsonage, to the Missionary Board for the sum of
$30,000. The Missionary Board is keenly interested in this propo-
sition and expresses the hope that Synodical Conference will pro-
vide the necessary funds to acquire said property.”

Re Budget

The Treasurer, Mr, Chas E. Groerich, presented to the Plenary
Board the proposed Budget for Domestic Missions for the period
of 1950—1951. The budget calls for a total of $209,950. “It was
resolved by the Plenary Board to present this budget to the
Synodical Conference at its convention in August for adoption.”

Re Building at Selma

“Resolved, That the Missionary Board petition the Synodical
Conference for a grant of approximately $20,000 for the construction
of a library, classroom, and administration building at Alabama
Lutheran Academy, Selma, Ala.”

AFRICA

When the Synodical Conference in 1934 resolved to send
a delegation of three pastors to West Africa in order to explore
the possibilities of beginning mission work in Great Britain’s large
and populous colonial territory Nigeria, there was little expecta-
tion that this enterprise would be blessed with such phenomenal
success as has been exhibited over a comparatively short period
of time. ;

What has been accomplished in Nigeria, where dwell some
thirty million people in an area of 372,674 square miles, since our
first missionaries began proclaiming the glorious tidings of God’s
grace in Christ Jesus?

The statistics of our Lutheran Church in Nigeria answer the.
question in loud, accented tones. We shall present them according
to geographical districts and follow with a tabulation of comparative
figures over a four-year period.