The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1931, Page 22

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Lutheran Mission Auxiliaries of the
Twin Cities.

The object of this organization is to promote city
mission work in St. Paul and Minneapolis and to
foster Christian fellowship and cooperation among
the Lutheran women of our connection in this com-
munity. For the sake of convenience a unit was
organized in each city. The aims and ambitions of
both units are identical, and their working-pro-
grams function on parallel lines. Any woman who
is a communicant member of a Synodical Confer-
ence church is eligible to membership. ‘The dues
are $1.00 a year in St. Paul and $1.50 in Minneap-
olis. At present there is a combined membership of
more than nine hundred. The monthly meetings in
St. Paul and the bimonthly meetings in Minneap-
olis are held in the various churches. The members
of the local ladies’ aid are hostesses. The offering
which is received at the “coffee table” flows into the
auxiliary’s treasury.

The standing committees function as follows: —

The Membership Committee has a local repre-
sentative in each congregation, and she reports to
the chairman regularly. The chairman of the Music
Committee makes arrangement that music is pro-
vided for regular and special services and for cor-
ridor singing in institutions, according to the city
missionary’s need. The welfare chairman has charge
of the collecting, mending, storing in an orderly
and accessible manner, and, sometimes, the distrib-
uting of usable clothing and articles for the needy.
— The chairman of the visiting committee arranges
and supervises the visiting of volunteer visitors in
the public hospitals. She supplies the volunteers
with lists of names which she has received from one
of the city missionaries or the woman worker. She
also appoints the day for such visiting. The rep-
resentatives to the Veterans’ Hospital Association
represent our society in the recreational activities
planned for the veterans in the United States Vet-
erans. Bureau Hospital near our two cities. All
committees report at each meeting of the Ladies’
Auxiliary through their chairman.

The city missionaries, Rev. A. E. Frey, St. Paul,
and Rev. W. Melahn, Minneapolis, and the woman
workers, Miss Anna O. Pusch, render reports at all
_ regular meetings of the Auxiliary, citing individual
ases of interest, which gives information and serves
is 2 Stimulus for further activity.

he Auxiliary pays such incidental expenses of

Sunday-school literature, tracts, a subscription of
500 copies a month of the Good News, as well as
emergency orders for groceries, milk, medicine, car-
fare, etc. Individual volunteers show their love to
the Master in sewing garments and making picture-
books for the children in hospitals, knitting squares
for afghans, and making wheel-chair pads. To date
more than 700 little hymnals have been made by

volunteers. Left-over hymn sheets from noonday
Lenten services were used for these booklets. They
are welcomed by all patients.

The above activities have been enumerated

simply to pass on to other interested women a few
ideas in service.
Anna O. Puscu, in ZL. LD. L. Bulletin.

A Successful Home Mission Enterprise.

Concerning the flourishing St. Paul’s Church at
Flint, Mich., President John Schinnerer writes in
the December, 1930, number of the Michigan Lu-
theran: —

“St. Paul’s of Flint was founded some twenty
odd years ago as a mission of the Michigan District
and in the few years since has developed to be a
well-established congregation, numbering around
475 communicant members, worshiping in a beauti-
ful church on the main street of that city, owning
a spacious parsonage, conducting a parish-school in
charge of Teacher Alb. M. Wunderlich, and at the
same time showing commendable zeal in the support
of the work of Synod and District. Four other
missions have since been started in that city, served
by the Pastors Riemer and Kretzmann, two of
which are organized congregations. The develop-
ment of our Church in Flint presents visible evi-
dence of the blessed results and success of our work.
in the field of Home Missions.”

The Direct Result of Home Missions.

“Without that work there would be no congre-
gation of our Church in Flint; hundreds of our
fellow-Lutherans who have moved to Flint would
have scattered; other hundreds, together with their
children, would have been lost to our Church. By
establishing, and for a short time nursing, that mis-
sion in Flint some twenty odd years ago, not only
the flourishing St. Paul’s Congregation, surrounded
now by four other mission-congregations, has been
established, but hundreds of fellow-Lutherans have
been supplied with the one thing needful, and other
hundreds are being brought into the fold of the

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