Meeting of the Komstad Mission Society on May 6th, 1875.

The Chairman opened the meeting with prayer and then took the chair. The undersigned was elected as Secretary pro tem.

The Chairman explained that the persons previously elected as delegates at the meeting on October 23, 1874, this meeting held in Sioux City, P. Lindholm and C. Bengtson now had joined the First Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sioux City and this Society therefore had lost its Secretary, P. Lindholm. Now therefore the meeting was asked if not two other delegates should be elected to replace these two resignations and this question was answered with a yes.

G. Norgren was nominated and elected to fill P. Lindholm’s position as Secretary and C. Anderson to replace C. Bengtson.
 
Decisions.

1st.       That Komstad Mission Society should apply for membership into the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod at the second Annual Meeting of the Synod to be held at Stockholm, Wisconsin (Pepin County) on the 22nd of this month.

2nd.     That Komstad Mission Society in co-operation with The First Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sioux City, Iowa, would place a request for a teacher before the above-referenced Synod meeting.

3rd.      That Komstad Mission Society in co-operation with the First Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sioux City, Iowa, would send Brother Lindholm to the above-referenced Synod meeting to represent the interests of the Society as well as the Church and that the travel costs to be split evenly between the two congregations.

5th.      A proposal was put before the meeting, that Anna Maria Anderson would offer, as a gift, land for a Church building (5 acres) of the Southeastern corner of the Southeast quarter of Section 18 Township 95 Range 51 Clay County, as well as a letter deed for this land upon which she herself had received full title. This gift was gratefully accepted by the meeting.