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Negro Mission

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• Bethesda Lutheran Home, Watertown
• Children’s Home, St. Paul
• China Mission
• Church Extension
• Dr. Martin Luther College
• Feebleminded Home
• General Institutions
• General Missions
• General Support
• Greensboro College
• Home Mission
• Indigent Students
• Indian Mission
• Michigan Seminary
• Negro Mission
• Northwestern College
• Seminary and Debts
• Student support
• Synodic Administration
• Theological Seminary

Alfred Baur, Cedar Mills

• Indian Mission $100.00
• Home Mission $135.00
• Negro Mission $100.00
• Indigent Students $20.00
• Church Extention $30.00
• General Institutions $103.69
• China Mission $10.00
• Negro Mission from Minnie, Louis, Edwin and Clarence ‘’Witte’’ $8.00
• General Instituitons $40.35

Total: $547.04

Jacob Baur, Town Ridgely

• Dr. Martin Luther College $14.00
• Hime Mission $14.25
• General Support $13.75
• Negro Mission, Greensboro College $18.00
• Indigent Students $16.00
• Seminary and Debts $10.00

Total: $86.00

Henry Boettcher, Gibbon

• Mindekranz from Ladies Aid $5.00
• From Mr. and Mrs. Her. Luehring $2.00
• For Bethesda Lutheran Home in memory of Willy Hoefer $7.00
• Student Support $20.00
• General Support $20.40
• From Ladies SEwing Circle for Children’s Home, St. Paul $25.00
• Feeblemided Home $25.00

Total: $104.00

Henry Bruns, Sanborn

• General Institutions $75.13

Total: $75.13

Paul C. Dowidat, Minneapolis

• Theological Seminary $200.00
• Northwestern College $200.00
• Dr. Martin Luther College $200.00
• Michigan Seminary $112.12
• Indian Mission $100.00
• Home Mission $200.00
• General Support $200.00

Total: $1,212.12

C.G. Schmidt, Wood Lake

• Michigan Lutheran Seminary $10.00
• Dak-Montana Academy $5.00
• Home for the Aged $5.00
• Indian Mission $10.00
• Home Mission $10.00
• Negro Mission $5.00
• Poland Mission $5.00
• Student Support $10.00

Total: $60.00

W. J. Schultze, Hutchinson

• Dr. Martin Luther College $122.00
• Home for the Aged $82.00
• General Missions $100.00
• Indian Mission $130.00
• Home Mission $200.00
• Negro Mission $100.00
• General Support, Mindekranz in Memory of Pastor A. Baur $38.00

Total: $650.00

Eugene Hinderer, Streeter, ND

• Eugene Hinderer, Zion Mobridge, SD
• The Zions community to mobridge, SD preacher

The China Mission Society, later known as the Evangelical Lutheran Mission for China, was established in May 1912 by Pastor Edward L. Arndt who, at that time, was a professor at Dr. Martin Lutheran College in New Ulm, Minnesota. The following year Missionary Arndt arrived in China and established himself at Hankow. In 1916 an offer was made to turn this work over to the Synodical Conference. The matter was deferred until individual synods and districts could react; however, in 1917, the work of this society was transferred to the Missouri Synod. In time, Missionary Arndt would become a protagonist of George Lillegard concerning the “Term Question.”

In 1919, contributions to the “China Mission” were $46.26, the following year that number increased nearly ten-fold to $344. --- Freedmen of the South Since 1877 the Synodical Conference had been conducting mission work among the “Freedmen of the South.” This was a large and important field. In 1919 this field consisted of Luther College in New Orleans, Louisiana; Immanuel College at Greensboro, North Carolina; and Alabama Lutheran Academy and College in Selma, Alabama.

In 1937 this mission field comprised 76 congregations and 7 preaching stations, over 10,000 souls, 5,107 communicants, 2,455 pupils in Christian Day Schools, and 4,683 in Sunday schools. Financially this was the most highly supported field by our synod until Paul Anderson arrived in Nigeria in 1946. A direct effort was made in this field by the ELS in Minneapolis where, under the heading of “Negro and Foreign Missions,” it was reported in 1949 that a congregation had been formed in south Minneapolis. At that convention Pastor Julian Anderson, who served this congregation, appealed that the synod adopt St. Philip’s Lutheran Church as their “pet-Project.”

Luther College was closed in 1925. Immanuel Collegein Greensboro, North Carolina was closed in 1961. The college in Selma, Alabama was sold to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in 1962. After 1946, the congregations in this field were absorbed into the districts of the various synods of the Synodical Conference.

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Foreign mission work consisted of the Apache mission in Arizona which was finally thriving by the 1930's. In addition, support was given to a group of Lutheran pastors in Poland. As members of the Synodical Conference, the WELS also supported the Negro Mission in the South and the mission work in Nigeria. There were voices in the WELS that were alarmed at the lack of mission zeal. Professor August Pieper sounded sharp criticism in his 1919 convention essay.

The WELS was saddled with a $750,000 debt in the middle of the Great Depression. With the debt hanging over the synod's head, any mention of new mission outreach was met with negativity. In fact, on a yearly basis in the 1930's over half of the seminary graduates could not be placed. Beginning with the 1935 convention, however, a concerted effort to pay down the debt was begun and by 1945, the synod was in the black.

Young women were present from out Johannes Lutheran church at 2:30 Mexico within recent years. sel. Prof, and Mrs. R. Neitzel and daughter, ' Prof. W. H. Behrna, Prof. AiKronht .Tnhn "Hoffman and G. C. Saturday afternoon. Memorial of town. Members of Alliance presented the girls at the house baskets of canned wreaths, known as Mindekranz, dedl eating various sums of money to char jelly and fruits. eemug. ima uccn jiuanjui.u. J future date has yet been' decided Bretscher, all of Springfield; Rev. P. Schultz, president of central Illinois district; Rev. T. Mehl"and Rev. E. itable institutions and works, were Plans for the $45,000 church building to. be erected liy the congregation of the Second Unfted Brethren church, were completed last week and actual wont or construction is expected to begin Tuesday morning. received to. the amount of $200. MECCA. SHRIXe TO MEtT Members of Mecca Shrine White Shrine of Jerusalem, will a stated meeting at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening in Eldorado UaZ for the purpose of Initiation upon. i . - Bertholdt. both of Danville: Rev. J. Tests indicate that Arabian Mocha

The text in the upper right reads: "Ferner sei es gestattet, auf den 'Mindekranz' aufmerksam zu machen. Anstatt für vergängliche Blumen bei Begräbnissen eine große Summe auszugeben, wird diese viel segensreicher angewandt, wenn man das Geld als eine Stiftung zum Gedächtnis eines lieben Angehörigen oder Freundes für die Versorgungskasse oder für den Versorgungsfonds hergibt. Für diesen Zweck sind geeignete Karten zu haben, und zwar in deutscher und englischer Sprache"

"In addition we like to use the opportunity to point out the 'Mindekranz'. Instead of spending a great sum at funerals for short-lived flowers, that sum will be used as a much greater blessing if the money given as a endowment in memory of a loved one or friend as support for a retiree system or pension funds. For this purpose there are appropriate cards, in both German and English language".

This seems to be a new-world term. I have never heard of it, I haven't found it my scientific etymological dictionary and there are only few references to it on the Internet (and all of them seem to be from the US).

It seems that the Germany's-German equivalent term would be "Kranzspende" (wreath donation), where money is donated to a non-profit in lieu of flowers etc. It's certainly German-derived (Kranz = wreath) but I have no idea where the prefix "Minde" comes from. Probably the english "mind" as in "in memory"?

Your question on WikiTree G2G has been answered by Mauritz-15:

The text in the upper right reads: "Ferner sei es gestattet, auf den 'Mindekranz' aufmerksam zu machen. Anstatt für vergängliche Blumen bei Begräbnissen eine große Summe auszugeben, wird diese viel segensreicher angewandt, wenn man das Geld als eine Stiftung zum Gedächtnis eines lieben Angehörigen oder Freundes für die Versorgungskasse oder für den Versorgungsfonds hergibt. Für diesen Zweck sind geeignete Karten zu haben, und zwar in deutscher und englischer Sprache"

"In addition we like to use the opportunity to point out the 'Mindekranz'. Instead of spending a great sum at funerals for short-lived flowers, that sum will be used as a much greater blessing if the money given as a endowment in memory of a loved one or friend as support for a retiree system or pension funds. For this purpose there are appropriate cards, in both German and English language".

This seems to be a new-world term. I have never heard of it, I haven't found it my scientific etymological dictionary and there are only few references to it on the Internet (and all of them seem to be from the US).

It seems that the Germany's-German equivalent term would be "Kranzspende" (wreath donation), where money is donated to a non-profit in lieu of flowers etc.

It's certainly German-derived (Kranz = wreath) but I have no idea where the prefix "Minde" comes from. Probably the english "mind" as in "in memory"?

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• http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2304&context=dissertations
• Luth Children’s Friend Society, Minneapolis - https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/religious/lutheran-social-service-of-minnesota/
• http://essays.wls.wels.net/bitstream/handle/123456789/3548/OttoBreak.pdf;sequence=1
• http://www.blts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CAF-ELS-Mission-Work.pdf
• http://www.eugenicsarchive.org
• http://www.dnai.org