# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S688
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

104 MISSIONS

present at the service held in Honolulu, was seriously wound
We thank God that he has again recovered. ,
Thus the war delayed the opening of a new mission stati
The Board of Home Missions turned over the spiritual care of oy
Lutheran civilians to the Army and Navy Commission, Our Co
mission purchased a service center in one of the choicest locatior
in Honolulu. It is centrally located. A chapel was set aside
this building, having a seating capacity of about 200. A ‘pas
was called to take care of the spiritual needs of servicemen a
civilians. In 1943 4,800 attended the services, 2,200 partook of Ho.
Communion. During the past year five local adults were confirm
There is a deep local interest in a Christian day school. ‘A fund
about $1,200 has already been gathered for a school. The Ca
fornia and Nevada District Mission Board was placed in charge 9
the development of missions in the Hawaiian Islands. With the
help of the Board of Home Missions a missionary will be sent:
the Hawaiian Islands as soon as present conditions will permit. “©
If time will permit, the convention might call upon the secretary
of missions to briefly report on the stirring meeting held at Honolulu
Mesico.— After years of patient effort we now have gainec
a foothold both in Mexico City and in Monterrey, Mexico. For
good reasons we cannot write in full. But the Board of Home
Missions will appreciate the privilege to tell on the floor of the
convention, of the mysterious workings of the Lord, and of the:
success granted in this our neighbor republic. At present
missions in Mexico are under the supervision and the directi n
of the Texas District Home Mission Board. The interest in the,
development of these missions in Mexico is rather restricted
and localized within, the Texas District. As we look to the future
and to the development of an aggressive intensified mission progr;
not only in Mexico but also in Central America, reaching down to
Panama, we believe the effort to be of such magnitude and of
such far-reaching importance that these missions ought to. be
the concern not of one District only but of the entire Synod and:4
that the appointment of a separate committee for these missions
ought to be seriously considered. The experience gathered by
brethren in Texas in the conduct of missions in Mexico might be
considered in the election of one or the other of the brethren to
the Committee on Missions in Mexico and in Central America.

Membership of the Board of Home Missions.— At the con
vention held at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1941, it became our solemn
duty to. report the death of a faithful member of the Board, Pastor
Wm. Grother, and of the prolonged illness of Pastor E. F. Schueler.
During the past triennium it pleased the Lord to call to the Church