The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 150

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

b. Two years ago the Synodical Conference ap-
propriated $6,000 for an addition to the Alabama
Luther College in Selma, Ala. This is an institu-
tion with four high-school classes and one normal
class; but for these five classes we have only three
classrooms. Speedy relief is greatly needed!

e. Schools in North Carolina. —'The appropria-
tion was $32,000 in 1926, but there was no money
at hand to build even one school. The difficulties
under which our schools must be conducted in
North Carolina have in recent years increased to
such an extent that many are of the opinion that
instead of expending moneys for elementary schools
in the State, we should fare better if we were to
put Immanuel Lutheran College in a better con-
dition.

d. Yonkers, N. Y.— The Board was directed by
the last convention to help the congregation at
Yonkers in its contemplated church-building en-
terprise by a loan of $15,000 for a term of ten years
without interest. The Board was to borrow this
sum for the purpose. However, the Board desires
to lay this matter before the Synodical Conference
once more for consideration.

New Needs.

a. Pensacola, Fla. — Superintendent Geo. A.
Schmidt writes: “When I was asked at Lockport,
two years ago, whether it would not be possible for
us to get along in Pensacola without a building,
I stepped back with my request in view of the
crying needs elsewhere. Now, however, I come to
you with the urgent plea to appropriate moneys for
a chapel to serve this lone Lutheran colored mis-
sion in Florida. Pensacola is a beautiful city, with
about 30,000 inhabitants. We are at present con-
ducting our services in an old barber shop. This
also serves as our school. If there is anywhere
within the bounds of Synodical Conference a place
that is a disgrace for our Church, it is this dilapi-
dated building, which serves as the church home
for our flock in Pensacola. Pastor and people are
almost ashamed to invite people to come to services
there. Due to a special measure of God’s grace the
congregation has really grown until we now have
a congregation of thirty-six.souls. Of this number
twenty-seven are confirmed members. We plead for
this faithful little flock. An appropriate building
here will not cost more than $6,000.”
 b. Catherine, Wilcox Co., Ala. — This is a new
rural station on the prairie. Work was begun here

last fall in a lonely old hut, measuring about

14X14 feet. Fifty-one children attended the school

conducted here. The shack also serves as chapel.
Last Easter the first-fruits were’ baptized and con-
firmed, nineteen in all. Superintendent Schmidt
writes: “This place promises a rich harvest of souls
for the Savior. Only $1,200 will be needed to
purehase a building site and erect an adequate
building.”

ce. Maplesville, Chilton Co., Ala. —'This, too, is
a rural station. We have previously described how
work was begun here. Last Palm Sunday twenty-
five persons joined the mission. Superintendent
Schmidt writes: “That we cannot continue to con-
duct our services in the hallway of some one’s
home is self-evident. Much less will it be possible
to conduct a school there. We ought to build at this
place. A chapel-school could be erected for $1,200.
The outlook is good.”

d. Teacherages in Alabama. — This point really
belongs under the head of “Old Needs,” since of the
six teacherages granted two years ago, each to cost
$600, but one could be built, and this cost only $550.

e. Parsonages at Nyland and Tinela, Ala. —
Missionary Montgomery, who serves four stations
and lives at Nyland, several years ago moved into
the only house to be rented at that place. It is
a miserable shack. A parsonage would cost about
$850. At Tinela a parsonage is also needed. Cost,
$1,000.

f. Camden, Ala. —If the work at this place is
to be continued, it will be absolutely necessary to
build. We have for the past years been renting
a small hut at a monthly rental of $6. This shack
stands in the shadow of a larger colored Baptist
church and not far from a good-sized Methodist
church. The building in which we worship ‘is
owned by a Baptist preacher, who wants to sell,
and this fact makes our tenure very uncertain.
Under most adverse circumstances our Camden con-
gregation has gained fifty-seven members, of whom
twenty-seven are communicants. A chapel-school
would cost about $2,000. Two years ago our con-

-gregations in Alabama collected $750 for a building

site in Camden, the county seat of Wilcox County
and the center of our fifteen congregations in the
county.— As our young Missionary Gauthreaux
expects to marry in the near future, Superintendent
Schmidt asks that a parsonage be built for the
Camden parish at a cost of about $850.

g. School Equipment in Alabama. — 'The desks
and other equipment of our schools in the Black
Belt of Alabama are most primitive. The sum of
$1,500 is asked for school equipment. As yet our
schools are superior to the other. schools of the