# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S866
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866 MISSIONS

Statistics for China
In China we have 16 male missionaries, 3 female missionaries,
10 wives of missionaries, 11 children of missionaries; total, 40.
Of national co-workers: 6 pastors, 10 evangelists, 41 school-
teachers, 17 other workers; total, 74,
Souls, about 2,000,

Work Begun in the Philippine Islands

The members of Synod will recall that in 1941 a resolution was
passed aiming at beginning mission work in the Philippine Islands.
The actual initiation of this movement had to be postponed because
of the war; now, however, it was possible to get a start. Pastor
Theo. D. Martens was given a leave of absence by his congregation
at Pittsburgh and served for a year in Manila. While his first
efforts went towards the spiritual care of members of the armed
forces, it was inevitable that he should also come into contact with
Filipinos or American civilians. Since the summer of 1946 the
Rev. A. A. Carino and the Rev. and Mrs. Herman Mayer have also
been in Manila. The Executive Secretary of the Board spent
a month in Manila and its environment. At the present time both
Pastor Carino and Pastor Mayer are in full activity, Rev. Martens
having returned to his home church in Pittsburgh. The service
center is maintained at 1312 General Luna, Manila, where services
are conducted every Sunday morning and other church activities
have their center. Pastor Mayer also conducts instruction classes
in a private home some two miles farther down this section of
Manila in the home of a police captain. Rev. Carino conducts serv-
ices and instruction classes in a neat chapel built in the Santa
Cruz section. He also conducts instruction classes in a private home
about a mile away from the site of this chapel. What hath God
wrought! Within a month there are regular services at two places
and regular instructions at two additional places, with plans for
future work and also for the opening of Christian day schools
going forward at a rapid pace! A plot of ground has been pur-
chased in the Expana Rotunda section.

Statistics for Philippine Islands :

In the Philippines we have 2 male missionaries, 2 wives of
missionaries, 5 children; total, 9.

Souls, 115.

Mohammedan Missions

The Board attempted to inaugurate a more intensive effort to
carry on Christian mission work among Mohammedans, and with
this in view in 1946 calls were extended to two men to do such
work. These calls, however, were declined by the candidates to