The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 54

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

for this year will be in proportion to the time and
energy that we can put into the work. Therefore
the wor should be carried on with increased energy
and perseverance.

STATISTICS OF THE YEAR’S ACTIVITIES.

55 services were conducted.
52 Sunday-school sessions were held.
28 Saturday-school sessions were held.
16 vacation-school sessions were conducted.
29 Bible classes were held.
20 catechetical instruction periods.
10 Sunday-school teachers’ meetings.
276 visits to homes were made.
289 interviews and conferences were held with pros-
pects.
8 people were baptized.
8 people were confirmed.
21 ladies’ aid meetings.
28 girls’ club meetings.
rehearsals for entertainments.
Easter program.
Children’s Day program.
Saturday-school program and exhibit.
Reformation Day program.
Christmas entertainment.
Christmas program. t
Mother and Daughter banquet.
girls’ club Lincoln Day entertainment.J
Sunday- school picnic.
ladies’ aid rally and social. j
Sunday-school Rally Day. 4
Hallowe’en social.

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Contributions of Members.

In January of this year the envelope system for
contributions was introduced. Concordia Publish-
ing House envelopes are used, and contributions
are made much more liberally than heretofore.
Regular gifts for missions are now also miade every
Sunday by practically all the members.

Time of Services.

Sunday morning services have been held regu-
larly at 11 o’clock and about once a month a Sunday
evening service is conducted, with an average atten-
dance of about twenty-five at each service.

In a meeting of the joint boards of the Buffalo
churches, held January 31, the above report was
rendered and the joint boards heartily endorsed the
energetic continuance of this work. All members
felt that the blessings which the Lord has bestowed
on the work in the past surely are our guarantee for
the future. The members of the boards further-
more felt that efforts should be made pss a
full-time missionary. It was thereforé*tsSolved to
appeal to the Board for Colored Missions, which
controls our Colored Mission work all over the
country, to take over this work and to place a full-
time graduate missionary in Buffalo. ;
H. F. Winn.

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New Orleans Jottings.

The editor of the Lur1eran PIoNEER has just
returned from New Orleans, the city in which he
spent the first eighteen years of his ministry as a
worker among the freedmen. Though other duties
took up almost all his time while he was in the
Crescent City, he found it possible to attend two
services at good old St. Paul’s, his charge for many
years, where he met not a few of his former
members. He found many of them the same true,
loyal Lutherans they were when he left them almost
twenty years ago.

It was impossible for the writer to attend ser-
vices in all the churches during his short stay, but
he did take the time to visit all five of the colored
mission schools, though he arrived at Concordia
School, Carrollton, a few minutes after the pupils
had been dismissed. The kindness of Pastor Luecke
of Mount Zion made it possible for the Editor to
get around to all the various schools. Superinten-
dent Kramer was to have taken the writer on this
trip according to plans made soon after the writer’s
arrival in New Orleans; but circumstances pre-
vented Pastor Kramer from acting as our guide.

Trinity School.

Trinity School, ’way down in the lower part of
New Orleans, we found in charge of Student Leh-
man, of Immanuel College. He is a brother of Prof.
P. Lehman, of Selma, and a son of our congregation
at Mansura, now called Lutherville, La. Mr. Leh-
man impressed us as being a very capable teacher.
He informed us that he had fifty-four children en-
rolled in six grades. The children told us that
they liked our school, and the teacher said that he
was well satisfied with the attendance and deport-
ment of his pupils. Pastor Wildgrube of St. Paul’s
is also the pastor in charge of Trinity. He is. quite
hopeful as to the prospects of this station and says
that the services are being quite well attended.

St. Paul’s School.

From Trinity Pastor Luecke hurried the writer
to St. Paul’s School, which is now housed in the
buildings formerly occupied by Luther College.
The thought that Luther College is no more, so
concretely and forcibly brought to our mind by
seeing the schoolchildren in rooms formerly occu-
pied by students, filled our heart with deep regret
and, we are not ashamed to confess, our eyes with
tears. You know the writer of these lines was the
first instructor of Luther College and spent six