The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 51

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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Christian faith. Just as fire radiates heat and light
illumines, so faith must express itself by sharing
its joys and blessings with others.

Is your faith thus active? And if it is, are you
striving to arouse the interest, sympathy, and love
of your fellow-members, and are you trying to in-
duce them to express ‘these things in gladness of
service and in generosity of giving? F.J.L.

The Lutheran Church of Our Savior
in Buffalo.

It is gratifying to realize that this colored mis-
sion enterprise made a hundred-per-cent. gain
during 1928. At the beginning of the year the
mission numbered fifteen people. At the close of

A Group of Saturday-School Pupils
of Our Buffalo Mission.

Candidates for Baptism and Confirmation: in Our
Buffalo Mission.
the year twenty-nine baptized and confirmed mem-
bers were on our roll, one member having died
during the year.

The report of the missionary reveals that sixty
services were conducted, with an average attendance
of twenty-one persons. Nine children were bap-
tized and five adults confirmed. Thirty-three people
communed, and one body was given Christian burial.

Twenty-five Bible classes were conducted on
Wednesday evenings, nineteen periods of catechet-
ical instruction were given to the children, while

the missionary made 828 calls at homes and held

575 interviews at the chapel. :
The enrolment of the Sunday-school together

-with the cradle roll now is seventy-eight children, .

sixty being on the roll of active pupils. The average
attendance at Sunday-school sessions is twenty-two
children.

The Saturday-school has an enrolment of
twenty-six children, while the vacation school held
during the summer months attracted twenty-four
children.

The Ladies’ Aid Society has twenty-five women
on its membership roll, the Girls’ Club boasts of
ten members, and the Junior Society, recently
founded, has seven.

During the past year special services were held
on all festival occasions. ‘The children of the
Sunday-school beautified these services with anthems
and recitations. A choir director has been engaged,
and a children’s choir is now being organized.

The social life of the mission has been very
active. A number of socials, sales, hikes, pic-
nics, etc., were held, which were liberally patronized
by the colored people.

At the January meeting of the Joint Church
Boards, resolutions were passed looking to the erec-
tion of a chapel for the mission. These resolutions
must, of course, be ratified by the various congrega-
tions of the city before they can be acted upon by
the Executive Board. We hope such ratification
may be made in the near future in order that we
may proceed with the plans for the chapel. Surely
a chapel is very much needed by the mission. The
present quarters are overcrowded and are no longer
adequate for the needs of the mission.

Mr. Dominick, the student-pastor, is continuing
his splendid work and will be with us until late
summer. He is available at any time for talks to
church organizations on the mission in which he is
laboring. H. F. Winp.

Immanuel Lutheran College Chronicle.

The mother of a student who receives his sup-
port out of the Indigent Students’ ‘Fund recently
wrote Dr. Nau: “I pray God that . . . may always
prove himself worthy of the great blessings that
God has given him through the Mission Board.”
While this mother confesses that we are worthy of
none of the things we receive, she realizes that
among men such students are regarded as worthy
of support as redeem the time and thus make the
most of their golden opportunities.

A welcome visitor during ‘February was
Mr. Henry Horst, who on the fifteenth of that
month delivered a lecture illustrated with well-
chosen and exceptionally clear slides on his trip to
the mission-field in South America. . In honor of
the visitor, who annually provides the Christmas