The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 67

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER 67

the dedication of this house of worship the congre-
gation numbers sixty-one souls, including seventeen
confirmed members. The Sunday-school has an
enrolment of 103 children. The ladies’ aid society
numbers fifteen women; the junior society, twelve
young people.

“From the very beginning of this enterprise
Lutheran Christians of Buffalo and vicinity affili-
ated with the Synodical Conference have supported
this work with their gifts and prayers. For the
past four years the Board for Colored Missions of
the Synodical Conference has subsidized the work.
From the beginning the work has been under the
supervision of Lutheran Institutional Missions of
Buffalo.” F.J.L.

Trinity and Its New Pastor.

The past Easter Day will be long remembered by
the members of our Trinity Congregation in New
Orleans, and by the Rey. Luther Robinson the day
will never be forgotten; for in the afternoon of
that day he was installed as full-time pastor of
Trinity by the undersigned in the presence of a
large gathering after Superintendent G. M. Kramer
had delivered an installation sermon on the basis
of 1 Cor. 15, 58, which came from the heart and
went to the hearts of his hearers.

This is the third time that Trinity, since its
organization in 1912 by the Rev. Ed. Schmidt, now

Trinity Chapel and School, New Orleans.

in Sheboygan, Wis., had a full-time pastor. The
first full-time pastor was the Rey. Aaron Wiley, now
principal of our Bethlehem School (Superintendent
Kramer, pastor). ‘The second full-time pastor was
the Rev. S. Thies, now pastor at Cordova, Nebr.
Pastor Robinson is not a stranger in Trinity.
During the school-year of 1928—29 he taught the

upper grades in Trinity School, and since his gradu-
ation from Immanuel Lutheran College in Greens-
boro, N. C., in 1930, he again taught the upper
grades of Trinity School and assisted the under-
signed at Trinity Church and at St. Paul’s by
preaching several times
each month and making
occasional calls among
Trinity’s members.
Trinity is located in
a fast-growing down-
near the
Canal, and
opportunities for
the future of our con-

section,
Industrial
the

town

gregation are becoming

greater from year to
year. By patiently la-

boring among the people
of his race, Pastor Rob-
inson will be able to win

a goodly number of souls for Christ with the
Gospel.

Rev. Luther Robinson.

Until now the congregation has grown slowly,
due partly to the sectarian element in the neighbor-
hood of Trinity, partly to the fact that the pastors
of St. Paul’s lacked the time to work among the
people as this should have been done. It must be
borne in mind that the former full-time pastors of
Trinity remained only a short time and that, when
the congregation had no pastor of its own, it was
served by the pastors of our large St. Paul’s
Congregation.

At this writing Trinity numbers ninety-six souls.
Of these exactly fifty are communicant members.-
In the school an average of one hundred children
are daily instructed in God’s Word and in the sec-
ular branches by Pastor Robinson and Miss Tommie
Lee Jackson. The day-school children are also en-
rolled in our Sunday-school. :

Although Trinity is but small, it is nevertheless
one of the best congregations of our Mission. There
is such a healthy spirit at Trinity that one finds
great joy in serving this little congregation. Most
of its members attend divine services regularly and
often partake of the Lord’s Supper; and they lead
a God-pleasing Christian life.

It was stated above that the prospects for
Trinity’s future growth are good. We wish to add
here that, besides gaining adults for his church,
Pastor Robinson will also have splendid opportuni-
ties to train the children who have been baptized