# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S697
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS ; 118

~ Report of Board for European Missions

“While at the Fort Wayne convention in 1941 your Board of
ie Missions in Europe had to report that because of the war no
tics were available, we must now report that since then we
e had no direct contact whatever with the brethren in our
Mropean Free Churches and can give no information as to the
tus of these churches and church conditions on the Euro-
san field.

- Yet the Board was not inactive. The chairman attended sev-
al meetings of the chairmen of the various synodical mission
ards, which. were held at the suggestion of the Postwar Planning
Committee and at which postwar mission work in the European
field was thoroughly discussed and various suggestions made by
Synod’s executive secretary of missions as to the work to be done
‘the European field after the war. A number of meetings were
“held by your Board at which these suggestions and various other
atters were carefully considered and thoroughly discussed.
May God grant that this war will soon come to an end and
ust and lasting peace be established, so that the Gospel may again
have free course; and when that day comes, may the Lord open
new doors for our messengers of peace and salvation especially
also in the European field.

Tue Boarp or Home Missions In Europe

Rev. A. G. Dick, Chairman

Rev. E. F. Mitter, Pa..D., Recording Secretary

Rev. P.G. Sanper, Foreign-Correspondence Secretary
Mr. Georce Oversecx, Treasurer

Mr. FrevericK BAUMANN

[407]
Report of Board of Missions to Deaf and Blind

Again we look back over another three years of faithful work
in the Missions to the Deaf and Blind. Again all glory be to God!

The year 1944 marks the forty-eighth anniversary of Synod’s
work among the deaf and the seventeenth year of work among the
blind. May God continue to bless this work.

The past triennium has perhaps been the most trying in these
missions because of the many vacancies that occurred and the
many changes that became necessary. It pleased God at the end
of 1941 to summon within three months two of our missionaries
from this vale of tears to the Church Triumphant: Pastor Arthur
Boll, who had for forty years served in this mission, and Pastor
William Gielow, who, after his work at the School for the Deaf

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