Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 68

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68 Proceedings of the Forty-First Convention,

in making her privately established school for underprivileged chil-
dren a center for Christian education. In a modest frame building
she instructs a class of 57 pupils, most of whom walk from 8 to 10
miles to school. Her only income is the modest salary she receives
from the Department of Education of the State of South Carolina.
She has a vision. She desires to put Christ into the lives of these
people and, above all, to seek a change in their hearts and lives
through the Word of God. This is an appeal similar to that of
Rosa Young of Alabama. We have been able to furnish her with
a minimum of Sunday school supplies and should like to implement
the program with preaching services.

THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS DISTRICT
By the Rev. A. H. Semmann

Negro Missions in the Chicago Area

In the Chicago area there are said to be over 400,000 members
of the Negro race. Pastor M. Carter has been among his people
for many years. He has succeeded in building up a self-sustaining
congregation with more than 400 communicant members at the
present time.

The Northern Illinois District Mission Board has worked among
the colored people in the South Side area of Chicago for about
twelve years. What has been achieved during these years? We
shall let Pastor Andrew Schulze tell the story in an article which
we are attaching to our report.

Our Board also carried on work among the Negroes in Evans-
ton, Ill., for about five years. A building was bought there and
entirely remodeled and made suitable for a chapel and living
quarters for the pastor. This mission did not progress at all —
for what reason we are not able to say. The building was sold at
quite some loss and the mission closed.

Now our Board has purchased a lot in the Princeton Park
area and is having plans drawn up at the present time for the
erection of a temporary chapel just as soon as we succeed in
getting a pastor for the Church of Christ the King. Another pastor
is then to be called who with Pastor Schulze is to work up this
field and establish a congregation. Much groundwork has already
been done there, Whilst Pastor Schulze is working with this new
pastor in Princeton Park, he is also to begin laying the groundwork
for a mission in Altgeld Gardens, another very large Negro project,
where some contacts have already been made. Altgeld Gardens
mission having been established, other areas await exploration
and work.

The field is indeed white unto the harvest.

On Chicago’s South Side

About twelve years ago the Northern Illinois District of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod began a mission on Chicago’s
South Side in a very densely populated area adjoining the largest
Federal housing project of the city. The mission there begun took
on the name of the project — the Ida B. Wells Mission.

From the beginning of the work and until December, 1947,
a Christian day school was maintained. Hundreds of children were,

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