# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S901
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 401

The principal events and changes in Synod’s Missions to the
Deaf and Blind during the past triennium are herein set forth.

Six missionaries have been called into the work among the
deaf: Candidates C. Schleicher to the Sioux Falls, S.Dak., field;
H. Schauland to the Indianapolis field; H. Rohe to the Pittsburgh
field; F. Gyle to the St.Louis field; and M. Kosche to the In-
dianapolis field, which had become vacant. Pastor J. A. C. Beyer
was also called into the work.

Three pastors accepted calls into hearing work: H. Schauland
of Indianapolis into the Colored Mission, J. Streit of Oklahoma to
a congregation, and A. Lutz into the Foreign Mission work. It is
such vacancies that cause much delay in the work among the deaf.
Comparatively few men are available for this unique work; and
when one who has proved himself is called out of this mission,
it ‘naturally makes a gap in deaf work.

Student A. Hauptmann has for the past two years been doing
fine work in the Montana field.

At present a missionary has been called to fill the vacancy in
the Texas-Oklahoma field, and two missionaries have been called
to two new fields — Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

The Executive Secretary, Pastor J. L. Salvner, D. D., during the
past three years, aside from serving as assistant in congregation work
in Minneapolis, has visited fifteen of our twenty-one fields. Twenty-
one State schools and five city schools for the deaf were visited
with missionaries who work in these schools, and many other trips
were made in the interest of the work. Bible studies were written
every month and many other articles.

Chapels have been purchased in Oakland and Los Angeles,
Calif. Cleveland and New York are planning on building chapels
in this Centennial year of Synod. The St. Louis chapel-parsonage
was sold.

We have at present active in our Mission to the Deaf twenty-
two missionaries, one student, and one part-time worker. They
serve about seventy-five per cent of the States in our country and
several stations in Canada, Their services are welcomed at many
institutions, especially schools for the deaf and hospitals. At three
stations also colored deaf receive the message of Christ Crucified.
The missionaries in Jacksonville, Ill, and St. Louis, Mo., also in-
struct students in the sign language at the seminaries in Springfield
and St. Louis respectively.

From the following general survey of the work done in the past
three years you can see that our missionaries come into contact
with many children and adults:

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