The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Sheet 184

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

(increase of 17) and 18 communicant members.
The Sunday-school has an enrolment of 15 pupils.
Property: Church, dedicated January 4, 1931.

Summary. — Thirty-seven congregations and
preaching-stations. Souls, 3,263; communicants,
1,730; voting members, 432; Sunday-school pupils,
2,124; day-school pupils, 604.

Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N.C.
By Present H. Nav.

During the biennium covered by this report Im-
manuel Lutheran College at Greensboro, N. C., en-
joyed the uninterrupted blessing and protection of
the Lord.

The faculty consisted of seven professors, of
whom two are exclusively engaged in the seminary
and five in the high school and the junior college.
During the biennium Professor Gehrke left the
faculty in order to accept a call as superintendent of
the Eastern Field. His place was taken by Professor
Pennekamp. At the end of the present school-year
the services of the home economics teacher were
dispensed with for financial reasons.

Enrolment.

1930—31 1931—32
Seminary .......... 12 (vicars, 2) 13 (vicars, 4)
College ...........- — 20
High School ....... 55 61

The student-body in 1931—32 was larger than
in the 1930—31 owing to the addition of the Fresh-
man College class. The large number of accredited
State high schools in North Carolina, their favorable
locations, and the economic situation tend towards
a decrease in the high-school classes of private
schools. Normal ‘students are not especially men-
tioned; their number (3) is included in the Fresh-
man College class.

Immanuel Lutheran College graduated five
theological students for the ministry in 1931. All
five are now engaged as pastors in our mission. In
1932 only two theological students were graduated.
In 1933 we shall have five graduates. In 1931 four
normal students graduated, but only two found
employment in our mission-schools. In 1932 Im-
manuel had no normal graduates, since the normal
course was lengthened to two years.

Ten of the non-Lutherans attending our school
joined the Lutheran Church during the biennium.
Pastor Lehman, the college pastor, attended to the
religious instruction of these catechumens. All
students without exception attend Sunday-school
and services at Grace-Luther Memorial Church.

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The relations between the college and Grace-Luther
Memorial Church are excellent.

This biennium saw the much-needed remodeling
of the old Administration Building into an up-to-
date school-building and the renovation of the old
elementary school-building on the campus into a
first-class academic and science building. Immanuel
Lutheran College has now a physical plant which
is adequate for all legitimate purposes of the school,
modern, sanitary, and inspiring to teachers and-stu-
dents alike. Faculty, students, and our colored
congregations desire to thank the Synodical Con-
ference for the great improvements.

In accordance with a resolution of the Synodical
Conference the Freshman College class was added
to the school in the fall of 1931, and the theological
course was lengthened by the addition of one year.
Our future pastors will have a junior-college educa-
tion and a theological education which covers four
years of seminary instruction. The two junior-
college years run parallel with the first two years
of the seminary course. During the last five years
the faculty has been working towards a course of
study for the theological seminary that will meet
the changed conditions under which our colored
brethren have to work. We believe that we have
now at Immanuel Lutheran College a course of
study both adequate and modern and at the same
time Lutheran to the core.

Immanuel Lutheran College now needs an un-
disturbed development in order that recent changes
and improvements may take root and wholesome
policies may be carried throughis sto bar rich fruit
for our mission-work.

May the Lord continue to bless our mission and
Immanuel Lutheran College as a humble instru-
ment in His cause!

Transfers.

On June 15, 1931, Rev. C. L. Bliss, Springfield,
Jll., left our services, having accepted a call to
ane, Ill.

On September 6, 1931, Candidate E. H. Bohm
(St. Louis) was installed at Trinity, Springfield, Ill.

Upon his graduation in January, 1931, Can-
didate Haskew Bates assumed charge of the mission
in New Bern, N.C. On March 18, 1932, he was
temporarily transferred to Chester, Pa. New Bern
is being served once a month by students from
Greensboro. In late summer Rev. Bates will be
allocated to Jackson, Miss., and work at Chester,
Pa., will be discontinued.