Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 65

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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1950 65

school is general, and plans looking forward to making at least
a small beginning next fall are receiving encouragement.

The pastor has also been conducting regular weekly services
at the State (T. B.) Sanatorium at McCain, N.C., which have been
richly blessed. Several young people from various parts of the
State have been received into membership, and their earnestness

‘and joy in Bible study and the deeper spiritual experiences is
heart warming, to say the least. One young lady testified recently
that she had found greater happiness and peace of mind in her
years of illness than she had ever known in her years of health.
The same sentiment was echoed by others.

St. Luke’s, High Point, N.C.
Rev. F. A. Foard, Pastor

High Point is located seventeen miles south of Greensboro,
Guilford County, N.C., and is an industrial city. The chief indus-
tries are furniture and knitting. The population numbers between
40,000 and 45,000.. Approximately one third of the population is
Negro.

St. Luke’s Church is located at the corner of Walnut and
Leonard Streets, near the limit of the Negro section. It is in the
neighborhood of five other Negro churches. The property on which
our church is located has little room for extensive building
expansion.

The congregation at High Point was begun as early as 1908.
It was served from the college in Greensboro by the faculty and
students of the seminary for a number of years. The first place of
worship was at a private home, located in the southern part of
High Point. Rev. R. O. L. Lynn, now dean of Immanuel College,
served as pastor for a number of years. It was not until 1916 that
a building, which looks more like a single classroom of a school
building than a house of worship, was erected.

In 1948 St. Luke’s Congregation, which had been held partly
together by the faithful Sunday school superintendent, Mr. Boss,
made known its desire to have a pastor serve during the summer
(St. Luke’s could only have services during the school term since
students went elsewhere during the summer months).

In 1948 Candidate-H. A. Foard, the son of Pastor Frederick
Foard, was requested to serve out his vicarage in High Point.
Pastor Foard was later called by St. Luke’s as the pastor and was
installed September 25,. 1949.

St. Luke’s Congregation has shown a marked growth and
improvement in the last two years. According to the records in
1946, there were sixty-two baptized souls. Of this number, thirty-
three were communicant members, and seven were voters. In 1948
there were to be found at St. Luke’s thirty-five baptized souls,
of which twenty-three were communicant members, The present
membership is composed of sixty-two baptized souls, of which
forty-three are communicants and seventeen voters. The congre-
gation has increased its budget from $400 in 1946 to $1,500 in 1950.

Mount Olivet, Catawba, N.C.

This congregation, which now worships in a small frame chapel
on an abandoned highway some five miles from town, is without
mission prospects and has been without a pastor for almost three