# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S865
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 365

in our various churches showed a great deal of interest during the
visits of the Executive Secretary, and these lay members make
a very favorable impression.

Also in China the training of national workers would loom up
as a very important feature of our work. During the war this
part of our mission effort was badly disrupted. To keep out of
the way of the Japanese invasion, the seminary was moved from
Hankow to Wanhsien. There various upsets cut down the number
of our students. One young man was graduated in the summer
of 1946. Now plans are under way to re-open the seminary at
Hankow, where we have a fine set of buildings, and indeed a begin-
ning has been made since Missionary Ziegler began with a prac-
tical course of instruction early in January, 1947, for four men.
It is planned to take in a group of students this fall and to launch
the work of the seminary on a somewhat higher level again. But
we shall need added manpower for the faculty in this important
institution. It is also planned to renew our efforts to turn out
Chinese literature after the sad interruption of the war. An im-
portant forward step was the launching of work in Shanghai, where
Missionary R. J. Mueller is now living and where he conducts serv-
ices in English and in Chinese every Sunday. Surveys have been
made for initiating work also in other large centers. Another
feature of our work is the broadcasting of the Lutheran Hour on
three stations in China, at Shanghai, Chungking, and Kunming.
Christian day schools are maintained at several places, either di-
rectly by the mission or as private ventures by teachers who are
members of our Church and with the children of our members
attending, while plans are going forward towards developing the
Christian day school system at still other places. At Wanhsien we
have a middle school (high school) attended by over four hundred
young people, with a great deal of emphasis placed on presenting
the Christian doctrines in instruction periods and through work
with individual students. —

Changes in personnel to be recorded for the last triennium are
as follows: New workers since the last convention of Synod are
Wilbert Hoeltje, Miss Martha Boss, Herbert Kretzmann, Ralph
Bringewatt, O. A. Buntrock, Le Roy Buuck, Paul Kreyling, Roy
Suelflow, John Wilenius, Victor Hafner, while former Missionaries
R. J. Mueller and E. H. Thode with their families returned to
China. Missionary G. K. Wenger returned to his field after a few
months’ furlough. Missionaries H. C. Meyer and C. E. Dohrman
accepted calls in the United States, while R. C. Egolf is at present
serving as a service-center and hospital pastor for the Army and
Navy Commission.