# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S457
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Report of Board for Higher Education 487"

} per year. The total annual. cost, then, to Synod would: be
$20,000.00 ‘per year than $10,000.00.

Future Growth

feason most frequently advanced for the retention of the
I institution. has been the possibility of vast expansion of the,
thwest.. It has been urged that Synod maintain its foothold in:

se imminent new developments. It has also been pointed out _
1e rate of growth of membership of the District has been rather.
onienal, far exceeding that of most areas of Synod. An examina-.,.°
of the facts will bring out the inadequacy: of such considerations.

: total population of the. States embraced in the Oregon-
Eshington District (Washington, Oregon, Idaho) according to the
4O'U, . census was 3,357,000. War. conditions have resulted in
brormal influx of industrial workers, so that currently, but no
“also temporarily, the. population may be in excess of 3,500,000.’
@.communicant membership of the District at the close of 1941
as: 8° 13,128.

Table 9
WASHINGTON-OREGON DISTRICT

Congregations— Concordia.
Stations Synod, Communicant Graduates

(Total) Membership Pastors Members’ Transferred

Total in.11 years...
Average students ...

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v8 | POP PDD PH OR

The rate of growth of the District in the past ten years has been ‘
eater, it is true, than the rate of growth of Synod.as a whole,. Since -
932, pastors have increased:from 73 to 80, stations from 120 to 148;
communicant members from 8,266 to 13,205. If this rate of growth
“maintained for the next ten years, the District may be expected to
ave 20,000 communicants by 1952; af the rate of growth doubles,
6,000.

Other sections of this report analyze Synod’s, future needs for
theological candidates. Synod’s 900,000 communicant members in an
North America are expected to supply not. more than .115. to: 126.
a ndidates per year, or one for every 7,000-8,000 communicants. The -
. proportionate. share. for the Washington-Oregon District would thus
urrently be. about two candidates per year. . If the District supplies

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