The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 62

Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

⤓ Download .txt · copy text

62

Lutheran Deaconess Notes.

A most interesting lecture was given on the
evening of February 2 by Pastor F. Brand, Director
of Foreign Missions, at the Deaconess Home in
Fort Wayne, Ind. Arrangements had been made
enabling all deaconess students to attend. Pastor
Brand dwelt on conditions in India and China,
stressing the great need of trained woman workers
in these countries, who are willing to help bring
the Gospel to the women of India and China. Two
deaconess students of the Senior Class have ex-
pressed their willingness to serve the Lord in the
foreign field.

Ey * *
Miss Ina Kempff, the first deaconess graduate
of our training-school at Fort Wayne, has become
our first missionary deaconess. The Detroit Lu-
theran Ladies’ Mission Society had realized for
some time the great need of a trained woman
worker to assist the city missionary in institutional
mission-work. The Deaconess Association gladly
met the request of the Detroit Mission Society,
which supports Miss Kempff. We trust that other

ladies’ aids will follow the splendid example given

by the Detroit society. At a large gathering held
in Detroit recently the aims and objects of the
Deaconess Association were explained, and it was
shown that we are doing well to train young women
for special service in the field of charities and mis-
sions. Pastor Witte, city missionary of Chicago,
called attention to the blessed work done by his
woman helper. During 1924 about 80 persons have
been persuaded through her efforts to attend Lu-
theran services regularly. A number of them have
joined as communicant members. We-.must have
woman workers who will work among women espe-
cially in hospitals and other institutions.
* %* Ca

A day of rejoicing for the Lutheran Deaconess
Association was the first Sunday in March. The
‘first graduates from our Deaconess Training-school
at Beaver Dam, Wis., were installed on that day.
Four young ladies received their diplomas. Two
of them are already employed at our Bethesda
Home for Feeble-minded and Epileptics at Water-
town, Wis., where helpers were sorely needed. Our
Bethesda Home is a real mission institute. Any
‘one passing through Watertown ought not fail to
‘Visit: the institution and to attend the services there
*to see how well the patients respond to the Christian

_ atmosphere prevailing in the’ institution. Surely
this institution deserves the whole-hearted support

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

of all lovers of missions. A comparatively small
number of patients pay for their board. The
majority are to a great extent charity cases. We
hope to see a Deaconess Training-school opened at
the Watertown institution this spring. The course
will cover two years. One young lady has already
arrived to take the course. When are the others
coming? ‘Those desiring further information will
please write either to Mr. L. Pingel, Superinten-
dent of Bethesda Lutheran Home, Watertown,
Wis., or to Rev. B. Poch, Lutheran Deaconess
Home, 2916 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.
The Deaconess Association is making a special
effort to enro]l at least 10,000 members to enable
it to carry on its blessed work of training Lutheran
young women to serve in various departments of
the great harvest-fields of the Church. One dollar
a year is the membership fee, which includes a sub-
scription for the quarterly issued by the association,
The Lutheran Deaconess. B.P.

Items of Missionary Interest.
By the Eprror.

Foreign Missionary Expansion of the United
Lutheran Church. — The United Lutheran Church
has decided to buy the entire works of the Berlin
Missionary Society in the province of Shantung,
China. The purchase price is reported to be
$185,000 and is to be paid’in ten equal annual
instalments. This change is also one of the results
of the World War. The Berlin Missionary Society
began its work in Shantung in 1898. The last re-
port to which we had access gives the following
statistics: Three stations, each with outstations,
five foreign missionaries, and two deaconesses. The
stations are situated in the neighborhood of the
former German concession of Kiaochow. — The
United Lutherans have also voted to build a college
in their Indian mission-field at a cost of $300,000.
The United Lutherans have an extended mission
among the Telugus of South India. -

Disciples’ Jubilee Fund for Missions, — The Dis-
ciples’ missionary society has gathered a million-
dollar jubilee fund to be used for home and foreign
missions. So far $402,200 has been appropriated
for various building enterprises in Africa, Asia, and
South America,

Baptist Missions in the Congo Region. — The
work of the American Baptists along the Congo is
singularly successful. They last year baptized 1,192