The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1933, Page 44

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44 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Pray for Your Church-Papers! — The editors
need your prayers; the contributors need your
prayers; so do the subscribers; and the canvassers
— ALL! Very few people pray for the church-
papers — WILL YOU? ™

Eastern Field News. — One of the members of
our Springfield congregation presented the church
with a set of fine linen covers for altar, lectern, and
pulpit as well as with the necessary Communion
cloths. — A recent issue of the Westchester Tribune
contained a story about our colored congregation at
Yonkers, N. Y., and also brought a cut of Pastor
Wm. O. Hill. — Pastor Mueller of St. Philip’s,
Cleveland, recently baptized five children. — The
Winston-Salem congregation was increased by the
reception of three new members, two by Baptism
and one by letter. — Our colored mission in Balti-
more is also growing. Two new members were re-
cently received by confirmation. The missionary is
quite hopeful for the future.

Alabama Field Statistics. — This field now
numbers thirty-three stations, with a baptized mem-
bership of 2,622 and a communicant membership of
1,401. The Sunday-schools have an enrolment of
1,572, while the day-schools are attended by 922
pupils. Last year 190 were baptized, 167 were con-
firmed, ten couples were married, and twenty per-
sons received burial. In the course of the year 5,676
communed, which means that the 1,407 communi-
cant members of the field each partook of Holy Com-
munion on an average four times. The church and
Sunday-school contributions amounted to $5,253.87
for the year.

Two Canvasses in Iowa. — A canvass at Wool-
stock, Iowa, resulted in the formation of an adult
class of twenty and a children’s class of nine, all
preparing for confirmation. Services are attended
by an average of fifty-four, Sunday-school by an ay-

erage of thirty-nine students. The prospects are -

good for the opening of a day-school.— A canvass
at Clinton, Towa, revealed the presence of many Lu-
theran and over a hundred unchurched families.
Services are held in a rented building. Average at-
tendance at’ services, forty-five; at Sunday-school,
fifty-two. Eight children have already been bap-
tized; a class of six children is preparing for con-
firmation, and an adult catechumen class of goodly
_ size is a certainty. — In other States there are the
_ same opportunities. Let us occupy!

A Mission-School. — The day-school of our Lu-
theran Pilgrim Church in Santa Monica is truly a
Mission-school. Of the ninety children enrolled
only forty-seven are children of members. And what
these non-members think of our school you may see
from the following words of Teacher Greinke, the
principal: “An elderly lady, who is suffering from
an incurable disease, tells us that she prays for our
school. Recently she directed a stranger to our
school. The result was that a little girl was taken
from a girls’ boarding-school and enrolled with us.
Her parents are members of no church. Now the
mother contributes ten dollars a month to our school
of her own free will. She has also asked for a set of
church envelopes and has requested baptism for her
little girl and promised herself to attend the next
class preparing for church-membership.” God bless
our parish-schools !

Mission-Mindedness in Southern California.—
Christ Church of Los Angeles has come to the con-
clusion that it should change its location, so it may
do more mission-work, and now it is casting about
to find a desirable neighborhood where it may do
more mission-work.— San Fernando till recently
was served by the pastor of North Hollywood, but
with considerable inconvenience. The thirty-four
communicant members of this little congregation
have now called their own pastor, and the cost of
this new arrangement is borne entirely by the mem-
bers of San Fernando. Of course, the young pastor
and his wife are willing to bring a great personal
sacrifice in order to make this arrangement possible.
Pastor and people must be commended for their
willingness to bring these sacrifices for the spread-
ing of the Lord’s kingdom. — After a thorough can-
vass a new mission has been opened in the Beverly
Hill district and another one in the auditorium of
the Horace Mann School in Los Angeles. — At Lyn-
wood, where a new mission was opened less than a
year ago, a new chapel has been dedicated.

A Mission Sunday-School. — The Sunday-
school of our church at Pomona, California, draws
its members from Pomona, Chino, Cucumonga,
Claremont, LaVerne, Ontario, and San Dimas. No
doubt, it took many visits and not a few personal
invitations, often repeated, to draw these members
to Pomona from so many communities. Pomona

itself is a city of more than 20,000 inhabitants, a

large field in itself, while the other places mentioned
are from five to ten miles distant. What an encour-
agement for all of us to go into the highways and
byways to induce people to “come in!”