# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S686
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

102 MISSIONS

Loans to Districts Loans to Congregations

Balance Past Due

17. N. Dakota and Montana _ 28,350.00 —-| 14,554.49
18. Northern Iinois _... awe) 22,000.00 — —
19. Northern Nebraska _ — ——} 13,565.16
20. North Wisconsin _. — —; 5,150.00
21, Oklahoma 7,800.00 — —
22, Ontario ————-——---|_ 7,375.00 —! 6,000.00
23, Oregon and Washington _. 16,046.99 —/| 1,840.00
24, South Dakota... 8,786.52 —| 3,426.80
25. Southeastern -| 50,941.34 —. —
26. Southern 2. .-| 6,215.95 —| 5,030.90
27, Southern California _ | 29,605.00 —— 5,050.00
28. Southern Illinois 12,900.00 — —
29. Southern Nebraska —. —/| 3,358.49
30. South Wisconsin _.. .-| 26,650.00 —
31. Texas -| 18,800.00 —
32. Western _ . 12,700.00 —
33. Miscellaneous 30,887.90 —_—~

. $564,726.56] $61,394.93

[403]
Report of the Board for Home Missions

in North America

Home Missions experienced a year of the Lord’s unbounde
blessings, financially and otherwise. More than 1,000 missionaries
pastors, teachers, and other helpers were active on the Home Mis
sion front, serving more than 1,500 stations with more than 150,000
souls. The work is now extended to every State of the country;
to most of the Canadian Provinces, to Mexico, to the Hawaiian
Islands, to Alaska.

The Shifting Population. —'The past year forced a new type
of work upon us. When thousands upon thousands of our fellow.
Lutherans followed the endless streams of men and women into
the housing projects in the war-created centers, our Mission Boards
faced new problems in the conservation of our members, The
National Advisory Emergency Planning Council together with
the Board of Home Missions and the local District Home Mission
Boards took matters in hand. Various Districts were subsidized
to enable them to call additional pastors. into these areas. From
February 1, 1943, to December 31, 1943, 42 men were supported.
from the Wartime Missions and Conservation Fund. The majority
were full-time men. A total of 43,830 calls and follow-up calls
were made; 4,248 Lutherans and 1,156 Lutheran children wer
located; 5,504 unchurched adults and 1,849 unchurched children

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