The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 136

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this year three parsonages and several chapels are
planned. ‘Two parsonages have practically been
completed at the time of writing. Two new mis-

sionaries were added to our list last year, which

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

schools at some time of the day when the Spanish
school. does not require. the attendance of our
pupils. This arrangement presents many. difficul-

ties and hindrances, which, however, our future -

schools will eliminate. May God continue to

bless our mision-work in Argentina!
Argentine Publicity Bureau.

-Great Missionary Possibilities.

What great missionary possibilities dea-
coness work offers may be seen from the
following items which the Superintendent of
our Lutheran Deaconess Association, Rev.
Bruno Poch, was kind enough to send us: —

“Parsonage” in Misiones, Argentina.

gives us a total of fifteen men, — the largest number |

of men ever active in Argentina. Four Argentine
students are preparing for the ministry, three in
Porto Alegre, Brazil, and one up in the States.
One new parish was created last year, and this year
four new parishes ought to be established. Several
adults were instructed on the basis of our Spanish
Catechism and have been confirmed. Several tracts
and pamphlets were either written in Spanish or
translated into that language. In several parishes
regular Spanish services were conducted. Rey.

., Church in Merou, Argentina.
The first self-supporting church in Argentina.

Jauck, our native Argentinian, has established a
German-Spanish Christian day-school in his parish.
We sorely need more of these schools. We hope
_ and pray that our teachers’ seminary will soon pro-
vide us with efficient teachers for our schools. Most
of our missionaries conduct German Christian day-

_ City Mission to call another woman helper.

“The Board for: Indian Missions in Ari-
zona has called two deaconesses who grad-
uated from the Deaconess Training-school at Beaver
Dam, Wis., last spring. They entered upon their
duties’ about the “middle of August. Another
deaconess, who graduated from the Fort Wayne
Training-school, will enter our Italian Mission field
at West -Hoboken, N. J, by the beginning of Sep-
tember.

“The wonderful results obtained. by the faithful
labors of our first woman helper in the Chicago
Mission have prompted the Board for the Chicago
Miss

Wegner, ‘also a deaconess graduate of the
Beaver Dam. .Training-school,. will go to
Chicago to assist Pastor. Sandvoss in his
‘work. The report-for 1924 shows that nearly
eighty. persons. have been won for Christ and
our Lutheran Church through the efforts of
our first woman helper in Chicago.

“Six urgent requests for the placing of
deaconesses could not be considered because
we have not enough workers. The great need
of trained woman helpers in various depart-
ments of church-work is being felt more and
more in our circles. We regret that we have
none available this year for our Foreign Mis-

*sions in India and China, where the need for
woman helpers is particularly great.

res “Our Luther Deaconess Association has at

present twenty-five deaconesses in training and ex-
pects to enroll ten more this fall. Thus far the
ladies’ aids of forty-five congregations have prom-
ised to support the splendid work carried on by the
Lutheran Deaconess Association. We hope and
pray that many more will join to help this great