The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Sheet 135

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Lovistana.

1. Alexandria. Founded in 1923.
Eugene Berger. Membership: 99.
Property: Church-school.

2. Mount Zion, New Orleans.
Missionary: Oscar W. Luecke. Membership: 491.
Gain: 202! In the past two years many children
were gained through the agency of the school and
baptized. Property: Church and school. In 1928
the school received an addition costing $2,000.

3. St. Paul’s, New Orleans. Founded in 1879.
Missionary: E.H. Wildgrube. Membership: 479.
Gain: 38. Property: Church, school, and portable
school.

Missionary:
Increase: 9.

Founded in 1878.

4. Trinity, New Orleans. Founded in 1912.
Missionary: E. H. Wildgrube. Baptized member-
ship: 71. Gain: 20. Property: Church-school.
Since July, 1930, Pastor Wildgrube is assisted by
Candidate Luther Robinson in St. Paul’s and
Trinity. Rev. Robinson will also teach in Trinity
School.

5. Bethlehem, New Orleans. Founded in 1887.
Missionary: G. M. Kramer, who also serves as super-
intendent for the Louisiana Field. Membership:
293. Gain: 38. Property: Church and school.

6. Concordia, New Orleans. Founded in 1912.
Missionary: G. M. Kramer. Membership: 13.
Gain: 23. Property: Church-school. The congre-
gation needs a new church, located in a more desir-
able locality. To carry out this idea, an appropria-
tion of about $13,000 is necessary. —

7. Napoleonville. Founded in 1905. Mission-
ary: G.M. Kramer. Services held twice a month;
attendance about twenty. Membership: 2. Loss: 9.
Property: Church-school. The parsonage has been
sold. The school was closed a year ago. The village
is rapidly going backward, suffering greatly because
of the removal of many of its people.

§. Mansura. Founded in 1898. Missionary:
C. P. Thompson, a son of the congregation. Mem-
bership: 148. Gain: 14. Property: Church-school
and parsonage.
Colored Missions more mission-workers than any
other congregation. On the first Sunday in July
Pastor Thompson ordained three young sons of the
congregation for the ministry. Of the four colored
candidates for the ministry who graduated from
Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, this year,
three were from this little congregation at’ Mansura.
A number of sons and daughters of this congrega-
tion are enrolled in our higher mission-schools,

This congregation has given our -

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where they are preparing themselves to serve the
Church.

We thus have eight congregations in Louisiana,
whose total baptized membership is 1,756. In the
near future, work will be resumed in Baton Rouge,
the Capital of the State, and Pastor Wildgrube will
again take up the temporarily abandoned work at
Pailets Land in New Orleans.

SovuTHEASTERN Frerp.

This field extends from Atlanta, Ga., to Yon-
kers, N. Y.

1. Atlanta, Ga. Founded in November, 1913.
Missionary: John Alston. Baptized membership : 73.
Gain: 12. Property: Church-school.

2. Spartanburg, S.C. Founded in November,

1913. Missionary: Gustavus Roberts. Member-
ship: 61. Decrease: 25. Property: Church-
school.

8. Charlotte, N. C., St. Paul’s. Founded 1889.
Missionary: Cuthbert J. Malloy. Membership: 26.
Loss: 80. Property: Church-school; parsonage.

4. Charlotte, N. C., Mount Zion. Founded 1896.
Missionary: C.J. Malloy. Membership: 26. De-
crease: 20. Property: Church. The property in
the northern part of Charlotte (Bethel) has been
sold for $775. The consolidation of the two con-
gregations has not yet been consummated.

5. Monroe, N.C. Founded in 1900. Mission-
ary: C.J. Malloy. Membership: 18. Decrease: 6.
Property: Church.

6. Concord, N.C. Founded in 1883 by Rev. D.

Koonts. Missionary: Melvin Holsten. Member-
ship: 280. Gain: 29. Property: Church and
school. Both buildings are in bad condition and

very poorly located. The mission should be relo-
cated and given a new church and school. Cost of
site and church-school would be about $25,000.

7. Shankletown, N. C., a suburb of Concord.
Founded in 1919. Missionary: M. Holsten. Mem-
bership: 34. Decrease: 3. Property: Church.
The children ‘of this congregation attend the Con-
cord school.

S. Kannapolis, N.C. Founded in 1902. Mis-
sionary: J. W. Fuller. Membership: 175. De-
crease: 6. ‘The former pastor, Frank D. Alsten,
who also served as superintendent of those congre-
gations of the Southeastern Field, served by colored
pastors, died March 20, 1930. He was an efficient,
diligent, and conscientious laborer. Pastor Fuller
became his successor at Kannapolis, June 1, 1930.
An assistant teaches the school and assists in
preaching. Property: Church-school.