The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1930, Page 134

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134 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

9. Mount Pleasant, N.C. Founded 1893. Mis-
sionary: J. W. Fuller. Membership: 59. Gain: 1.
Property: Church, school, and parsonage. The
church was considerably damaged by a storm,
May 14, 1929. The congregation has had the
damage repaired at a cost of $300.

10. Drys Schoolhouse, N. C. Founded 1897.
Missionary: J. W. Fuller. Membership: 45. Prop-
erty: Church. Student Pledger is conducting a
summer-school of six weeks’ duration here.

11. Fayetteville, N.C. Founded in 1913. This
station was twice abandoned and the work resumed.
The work here is now being done by students under
the supervision of Pastor Fuller. Membership: 5.
No property.

12. New Bern, N.C. This town is in the Black
Belt of Eastern North Carolina. In August, 1928,
Pastors L. and M. Dorpat, father and son, both of
Meherrin, Va., visited New Bern, and some months
later the town was explored by Pastors Frank Alston
and M. Dorpat. The Board decided to place Pastor
M. Dorpat at New Bern. He arrived there on De-
cember 27, 1928, and remained there till May of
the following year, when he removed to Baltimore
to take charge of the work in that city. In a short
time a missionary is again to be placed at New Bern,
and in the mean time students from Greensboro will
serve the station under the supervision of Pastor
Fuller. New Bern is the home of Mollie Louder
and the orphans which she has adopted. The Board
could not see its way clear to found an orphanage,

- but hopes that charitable friends will remember

Mrs. Louder and her orphans. Membership: 20.

18. Salisbury, N. C., Founded in 1895. Mission-
ary: Felton Vorice. Membership : 70. Gain: 17%.
Property: Church and school.

14. Catawba, N.C. Founded 1895. Missionary:
F. Vorice. Membership : 23. Gain: 8. Property:
Church, which is in great need of repairs.

15. Conover, N.C. Founded in 1904. Mission-
ary: F. Vorice. Membership: 3. Decrease: 4.
Property: Church. ,

16. Rockwell, N. C. Founded in 1893. Mis-
sionary: F.H. Foard. Membership: 48. Gain: 8.
Property: Church and school..

17. Bostian Cross Roads, N. C. Founded
1904, Missionary: F.H. Foard. Membership: 44.
Gain: 1. Property: Church, owned by the congre-

18. Gold Hill, N.C. Founded in 1893. Mis-

sionary: F.H. Foard. Membership: 32. Gain: 2.

Property: Church. ~

‘were released to the congregation there.

19. Hight Point, N.C. Founded in 1908. Mis-
sionary: J. E. Shufelit. Membership: 5%. Gain: 38.
Property: Church, which also serves as school.
Missionary Shufelt greatly desires a new church in
a better location. The living conditions have so
changed in this rapidly growing industrial center
that our little church has white neighbors on both
sides. Pastor Shufelt is of the opinion that an
appropriation of $12,000 for a new church-school
would take care of the congregation’s needs.

20. Winston-Salem, N.C. Founded in 1913.
Missionary: Jesse A. Hunt. Membership: 46.
Increase: 24. Property: Church.

21. Greensboro, N.C. Founded in 1893. Mis-
sionary: Paul D. Lehman. Membership: 186.
Increase: 21. The two congregations — Grace and
Luther Memorial — were united in 1928. The new
church-school was dedicated May 11, 1930. This
beautiful building, in which also the students of
the college attend services, was erected at a cost of
$32,427.07. The old Grace Church was destroyed
by fire, “November 11, 1928. The lot has not yet
found a buyer. During the vacancy Prof. Wm.
Gehrke served the congregation as pastor and was
assisted by the students.

Pursuant to a resolution passed by the Synodical
Conference two years ago, the sum of $7,500 was
contributed from the Colored Missions treasury to
the building of Ebenezer Church, the white church
to which the professors of Immanuel Lutheran
College with their families belong. Later the sum
of $1,500 was loaned this congregation by the Col-
ored Mission’ Board.

22. Southern Pines, N.C. Founded in 1898.
Missionary: Prof. Walter H. Beck (member of Wis-
consin Synod), who serves the congregation with
the help of students. Membership: 39. Gain: 5.
Property: Church.

28. Meherrin, Va. Founded in 1883. Mission-
ary: L. Dorpat. Membership: 107. Decrease: 32.
Members of the congregation living in Baltimore
Hence the
great decrease. Property: Church-school, parson-
age, and 28 acres.

24. Baltimore, Md. Founded in 1929. Vacant.
Candidate J. Schlichting of the Springfield Semi-
nary has accepted the call to this station and will
be installed in August. The station was served by
Pastor M. Dorpat from April, 1929, to April, 1930.
Services are held in a Y. M.C. A. eae Mem-
bership: 18. .

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