# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S412
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412 MISSIONS

3. There is a large turnover of workers,

. Our missionaries are working under definite handicaps, e. g.:

- Lack of visual aids for work among the deaf and of proper
helps for the missionaries; :

. Lack of an adequate salary policy to retain workers;

. Lack of autos and proper transportation for the missionaries,

. The workers and congregations are isolated:
. Great distances generally separate the workers and their
congregations from the Board;
b. Congregations and pastors are not closely connected with
hearing congregations;
ce. While the pastors are members of their synodical Districts,
the congregations are not.

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Districts in which it is located and a mode of procedure in the
functioning of work among the deaf. Another matter for vital
decision is the fact that deaf congregations at the present time
do not belong to any ‘synodical organization.

Accordingly your Committee recommends:

1. That the Mission to the Deaf be placed under the synodical
District in which it is located.

workers,

2. That the Ephphatha Conference be continued and aug-
mented by part-time workers under the supervision of the Board
for Home Missions in North America.

3, That a contact man, who is to be a full-time executive
Secretary of Mission to the Deaf, be called by, and work under,
the supervision of the Board of Home Missions for North America.

Nore.— He is to publish proper helps and manuals for the mis.
sionaries; to be available to Districts to give counsel; to supervise the

Ephphatha Conference; to be responsible for the editing of the necessary
periodicals,

4. That the Mission Among the Blind be divorced from the
work among the deaf.