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members. The congregation owns its chapel and
keeps its property in good repair. Several members
who had been lured into the lodge Pastor Shufelt
succeeded in rescuing by the help of God.

25. St. Luke's, High Point. (Founded in 1908.
Missionary: F. Foard, since January, 1924.) The
number of baptized members has risen from 23 to 28.
A school costing about $2,000 was to be erected at
this station. The children of the Southern Nebraska
District gave $2,047.74 for the purpose. But a
second and more thorough investigation by the
writer and the late Superintendent Smith brought
to light circumstances which induced the Board to
postpone building for the time being. This station
will in future be in charge of Professor Naether,
who will serve it with the help of the theological
students of Greensboro, which is only fifteen miles
away. Pastor Foard will probably be transferred
to Monroe.

26. St. James’s Southern Pines. (Founded in
1898. Missionary: F. Foard, since January, 1924.)
This station has 35 baptized members, a gain of 2,
and 19 communicant members.

27. St. Mark’s, Winston-Salem. (Founded in

1913. Missionary: Jesse Hunt, since February,
1921.) The baptized membership-has grown from
15 to 19. Communicants: 13. The children of

Iowa and Minnesota were to gather $8,000 for a
chapel at this place and have collected $7,494.39 of
the sum. The Board has bought a site, which
cost $1,526.24. Our architect, Theo. Steinmeyer of
St. Louis, has been asked to furnish plans for a
chapel. Professor Naether spent a part of his
summer vacation at Winston-Salem helping our
missionary in making a canvass. The rapid growth
of this city gives us reason to hope that our, mission
at this place should flourish.

28. Grace, Greensboro. (Founded in 1898.
Missionary: Wiley H. Lash, since October, 1923.)
This congregation has grown in the past two years.
In four years the baptized membership has grown
from 53 to 94. The communicant membership is 86.
Voting members: 23. ‘Though the membership is
only 94, the Sunday services are attended by an
average of a hundred persons. The congregation

_ contributes $40 monthly to the salary of its pastor.
The school had an enrolment of 70 pupils, who were
Instructed by Anna Cobb and M. V.Lash. A new
school building is very much needed.

29. Trinity, Blon. (Founded in 1891. Mis-
sionary: W.H. Lash, since October, 1923.) This
station is near the town of Elon College, so named
because the whites have a large college here. The

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chapel is in poor condition. The few members have
asked to buy the chapel together with the one and
one-half acre of land on which it stands. The Board
has offered it to them at the low price of only $400.
About $500 will have to be spent by the people in
putting it in proper repair. Baptized member-
ship: 17 (loss: 1). Communicants: 6. Voters: 2.

80. Immanuel Lutheran College Mission, Greens-
boro. (Missionary: Dr. H. Nau.*) During the
school-year Sunday-school is held every Sunday
morning with the students boarding in the college.
In the evening service, held on Sunday night, the
theological students are given ample opportunity
to preach.

81.Luther Memorial, East Greensboro. (Founded
in 1924. Missionary: Prof. H. Naether.*) About a
mile southeast of our college are located the so-called
Balky Bottoms. Here the zealous Professor Naether
has opened a mission in a rented house. He preaches
every Sunday evening. ‘The Sunday-school has
50 pupils and the day-school an enrolment of 44.
This fact, that the Sunday-school enrolment exceeds
that of the day-school, is something unusual in our
work. Only then when we have gained the children
for our Sunday-school, experience proves, have we
gained them for our Church. Miss Addie McTier
is teaching the school. Mrs. Naether, who formerly:
was engaged in mission-work in Porto Rico, assists
in the school every morning without cost to the
Board. Ten children of the school and Sunday-
school Professor Naether has baptized. It is desir-
able that we find a different location for this
mission, since it is not centrally located.

82. Mission, Pomona, near Greensboro. (Founded
in 1926. Missionary: Prof. H. Naether.*) Pomona
lies about three miles west of Greensboro and is
practically a suburb of the city. Here Professor
Naether opened a mission on the fourth of April of
this year. Services and Sunday-school are held in
a log house, which has been put at our disposal free
of charge. ‘Two souls have already been gained.

In North Carolina we have 22 congregations and
préaching-places with a total baptized membership
of 1,212 and a communicant membership of 763. In
this old ficld there are only two congregations that
show any noteworthy progress: Mount Calvary at
Kannapolis and Grace at Greensboro.

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33. St. Luke’s, Spartanburg. (Founded in 1913.
Missionary: Gustavus S. Roberts, since August 2,
1925.) This is our only Negro congregation among
the large Negro population of South Carolina.