# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S280
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

350 MISSIONS

Office Salaries (one man, four women) we $LS
Office Equipment _-
Office Supplies 0 a
Literature and Miscellaneous Printing __ .
Prayer Books and Devotional Booklets __ . 1625
Postage, Telephone, and Telegraph _____ . 54

Travel and Incidentals ~ ie

Contact Key Pastors ..... _ i
Service Centers 0 4495
Commission Meetings __.__ cesses —~ 21%
Service and Hospital Pastors 20,295
Chaplains wna nn nnn ne ne ee ee ne _ 1 189
Regional Conferences ___ a 5179
Pension Fund 380
Interim Salaries ____ 1,645
Special Salaries wa eteaene 2769
Real Estate Maintenance a 3800
Automobiles 2 ~— Les
Office Maintenance — 3635
Miscellaneous —— 5,600

The above figures are not audited and are Ziven to indicate
the Commission’s approximate expenditures.

The work of the Armed Services Commission must continue.
We should be grateful that the necessary funds to carry on the
work are on hand and no request need be made for an allowance
out of Synod’s budget. O. A. Sauer, Secretary

[409]
Report of the Board of Missions to the Deaf

When Paul and Barnabas returned to Jerusalem after one of
their missionary journeys, “they were received of the church and of
the Apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had
done with them,” Acts15:4. So your Board of Missions comes
before you declaring all things that God has done with us in
our blessed work among the deaf and deaf-blind.

Workers Among the Deaf

With thanks to God we can report that we have twenty-five
full-time workers, including the Executive Secretary, one part-time
worker who also works for the Board of Missions to the Blind, four
others who besides to their hearing congregations minister to
deaf in their parish or-community. Thanks be to God, who during
the past triennium has sd graciously protected our missionaries on
their thousands and thousands of miles of travel in order to bring
Christ to the deaf in our country and parts of Canada.

; Statistics
Synod has thirty organized congregations, numbering 451
voting members, the largest being the Detroit congregation, with
43 voting and 144 communicant members. Seventeen of these have

MISSIONS 851

sapels of their own. In the other places our hearing Christians
open thie doors of their church or school to our missionaries and
their deaf for worship. For this we, indeed, are very grateful.
Furthermore, we have twelve parsonages; for the other men Synod
must rent homes, often at exorbitant prices. The communicants
of our 30 congregations and 235 preaching stations number 3,174.
During the past triennium 240 children were confirmed, 179 adults

baptized, and 410 confirmed. Synod’s workers preach to the deaf

in large centers, where they usually reside, as well as in smaller
communities. They minister to white and colored, visit homes for
the aged deaf, call on deaf in State hospitals, and work also in
schools for the deaf. Fifty-three deaf-blind are under the spiritual
care of Synod’s missionaries,

Schoolwork

In our country there are seventy-three public residential
schools, 139 public day schools, and 37 denominational and private
schools, a total number of 249, with a total attendance of 20,252
deaf boys and girls. Among the denominational schools there is
only one Protestant school, and that is our Lutheran school for the
deaf in Detroit. God willing, another Lutheran school for the deaf
will be opened this fall in New York. Our missionaries work
in 39 (six for colored) of the 73 residential schools in our country
and in seven day schools of the 139. In most of these schools our
missionaries conduct religious classes, At the close of last year
they had 1,089 deaf children in these classes. In some schools they

speak to the assemblies, often addressing more than 350 deaf boys” -

and girls at one time. In Washington, D. C., our missionary has
52 students under his spiritual care at Gallaudet College, the only
school for higher education for the deaf in all the world. May
our good Lord open the doors of the other schools to our mis-
sionaries and also grant us the men for this work,

New Workers and Changes

During the past triennium many changes have taken place in
Synod’s work among the deaf. Rev. Theo. De Laney of Barstow,
Calif, accepted the call into the vacant Oklahoma-Texas field;
Rev. G. C. Ring of Hanford, Calif., to the ‘vacant Portland field;
Candidate Hans E. Bollow of our St. Louis Seminary, to the vacarit
New Orleans field; Rev. C. Roland Gerhold of Hawthorne, N. Y., to
the newly created Boston field; Candidate Hauptman, of our Spring-

field Seminary, to the Montana-Spokane field; the New York field

was divided, Candidate George Kraus-of our St. Louis Seminary
taking over the work in the New York area, and Pastor Possehl,
formerly missionary in New York, the work in the New Jersey
area; Rev. J. A. Beyer of St. Paul, to the newly created Columbus