Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 35

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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1950 35

succeeded by the undersigned. The present membership consists
of 179 souls, 105 communicants, and 12 voters.

This congregation still serves the student body of the Alabama
Lutheran Academy-College. The members, together with the stu-
dents, make one large family. Its pastors have also served con-
tinually as instructors in the Academy-College. It now has a thriv-
ing Christian day school of 88 pupils and a kindergarten of 24.
Ten children were baptized on Palm Sunday, and seventeen were
confirmed.

It is our prayer that a church can be built in the near future.
This would most likely aid our progress in Selma.

R. F. Jenkins, Pastor
East Selma, Ala.

St. Timothy was organized by Rev. Charles Peay in 1920. The
present membership is 129 souls, 28 communicants, and 7 voters.
Here we have always had a large Christian day school, through
which we have been well known throughout this section of Selma,
having brought the good news of salvation by grace through faith
to many. The present enrollment of the day school is 55. Mrs. R.
E. Skinner, who has served as a consecrated mission worker and
teacher in witnessing for Lutheranism in Alabama since 1923, is
the teacher. The Sunday school has 80 members. In recent weeks
we received 24 children by Baptism and four by confirmation.

We are still worshiping in a one-room chapel-school, made
from an abandoned cottage. We are greatly in need of a church
structure. It is our hope that the two congregations in Selma
can be combined to become a strong, self-supporting church body.

We ask your continued prayers for God’s blessings upon the
preaching and teaching of His Word in our midst.

. . R. F. Jenxins, Pastor
King’s Landing, Ala.

Hope Ev. Lutheran Church, King’s Landing, is situated on
the bend of the Alabama River, seventeen miles southwest of
Selma. It was organized April 20,1924, by Rev. G. A. Schmidt.
The congregation has shown life from the beginning. Pastor
Schmidt wrote in the Colored Lutheran of April, 1924: “Just five
minutes ago we returned from our meeting at our new station,
King’s Landing. More than eighty persons were in attendance.
This is not an unusually large number for midweek instruction.
We have on our list forty souls who expressed their intention to
become Lutherans.” Pastor Schmidt served this congregation about
one year. On September 13, 1925, Rev. G. Kreft was installed as
pastor, followed by Rev. R. O. Lynn, who was succeeded by Rev.
Dewitt Robinson, who served this congregation faithfully for twelve
years. Pastor B. L. Thompson served from 1942 to 1945, when the
undersigned was installed.

During these years the congregation has progressed, although
not without difficulty. The fruits of the Gospel are manifested
among its members. The greatest thrill that the undersigned has
had during his ministry here was when a certain man who ‘had
taken four courses of instruction under as many different pastors
was confirmed. He is now a faithful witness to his Savior. This is
a living example of the fulfillment of Scripture: “My Word shall
not return unto Me void... but it shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it.”