# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S967
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

384 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

serving them than by means of a circuit-riding missionary
equipped with a church on wheels? Thus the idea of a trailer
mission was born. Trailer Mission Manual has been issued by
Prof. R. Caemmerer, Rev. W. C. Birkner, and Rev. A. Maack.

We have a fully equipped trailer mission at work
In Montana
On the Alaskan Highway
In the Southern California District
In the Atlantic District
In the Central District ( beginning the
first of July)

Detailed planning for the use of the trailer mission has been |,
done also by the California and Nevada District and the South-.
eastern District.

The Northern Illinois District Mission Board put a trailer
mission to work in Chicago early in the fall of 1943. Rev. A. H.

Semmann, chairman of the Northern Illinois District, reports on
April 24 as follows:.

“The mission started with the trailer and tent last summer,
is getting along most wonderfully. Those brethren did a very
fine job and laid a very good foundation, upon which our man
has been able to build up. A congregation has now been or-
ganized in Mount Greenwood (111th Street in Chicago’s South
Side). They have 18 voters to start with and 86 communicants
and some over 130 souls. Prospects are very good.”

In the Atlantic District the Lutheran Women’s Missionary
League is financing the Trailer Mission,

_ - Our Lutheran Trailer Mission is fully equipped. A Trailer .

Mission outfit is not inexpensive. A complete outfit with auto-. |

mobile, chapel trailer, tent (seating 150) with chairs, platform,
loud-speaker system, moving picture projector, reels, slides, '
literature, mimeograph equipment, charts, : etc., costs, under '
present wartime priority restrictions, approximately $3,500 per
unit. Our latest trailers are miniature chapels equipped with
_ altar, crucifix, lectern. A private service with about 25 people
can be held in the trailer. If necessary, the missionary and his
wife make the trailer their home. Wherever the Trailer Mission. . -
has been tried and worked, it has received God’s richest blessings.
The Rev. W. Sonsthagen from the Montana area tells of the or-
ganization of a Sunday school of 142 pupils in one of his stations