The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 76

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Items of Missionary Interest.

(By the Eprror.)

New Orleans.— Pastor Luecke has opened a new
mission between Bethlehem and Mount Zion on the
one hand and Concordia on the other, in a territory
with a dense colored population. Sunday-school
and services are being conducted in an old, aban-
doned Negro chapel. The territory is not over-
churched: hence there ought to be good prospects
for our new mission. The Sunday-school is being
conducted by one of the Mount Zion teachers. The
new mission will be no expense to the Board since
the Sunday collections take care of the rent. God
prosper the new enterprise!

Bethlehem, New Orleans.— ight children were
received into the communicant membership of Beth-
lehem on Easter Sunday; six of these had not yet
been baptized. A class of adults is being prepared
for confirmation.

Eastern Field Notes. — Mrs. Pease, a former
member of the Editor’s when he was in charge of
Mount Zion, New Orleans, died in Chicago a few
months ago. She was a member of St. Philip's,
Chicago, at the time of her death. She united with
the Lutheran Church about forty-five years ago.
Five communicants of Pastor Carter’s church are

Rev. Edmund Bohm.

students at a normal school in Chicago and are
among the banner students of the institution. —
St. Philip's, Cleveland, received eight new members
by Baptism in recent weeks. A building fund has
been begun for a chapel. A choir and a young
people’s society have been organized. — Trinity,

Springfield, is taking on new life. The attendances
in church and Sunday-school have doubled. —
St. Philip’s, St. Louis, is decorating its interior and

installing a small pipe-organ. The congregation is

Le

Rev. Andrew Schulze.

financing both projects. Pastor Schulze’s car has
been busy every Sunday morning for years past in
gathering in the Sunday-school children living a
distance from the church. Though the endeavor
has not been a financial success, it has brought big
returns in the way of increased enrolment. ‘The
intention is to send out other cars in future. —
Several North Carolina congregations have received
new members by the rite of confirmation. The
budget system, which has been introduced in a
number of the congregations, is already beginning
to show good results in the way of increased receipts.

Iowa District Home Missions. — This District
is subsidizing forty-five stations. The Board for
Home Missions has in its employ thirty pastors,
two regular teachers, three woman teachers, and
six students. In 1931 eight new missionaries and
two regular mission-teachers were added to the
Home Mission staff. The mission-congregations
showed a healthy growth, there being an increase in
the baptized membership of the subsidized stations
of 827. The number of communicant members in-
creased by 531. There were 199 more pupils in the
Sunday-schools of the various missions at the end
of the year than there were at the beginning, and
the end of 1931 found eighty-five more pupils in
the day-schools than did the end of the previous
year. Hight new mission-congregations and -sta-
tions sprang into existence in this District in 1931.