# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S281
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352 MISSIONS

field; Rev. W. J. Hintz of North Dakota, into the vacant Seattle field.
Rev. R. Mackensen of Missoula, Mont., to the Delavan-Ma, a
Wis., field. — Other changes: Pastor Westermann of the Memphis y
field was transferred to the newly created Washington, D.c
Pastor Gyle, of St. Louis, Serving as vacancy pastor with the help
of St. Louis students. Vicar Wm. Reinking of our St. Louis Semi.
nary, is ministering to the spiritual needs of the deaf in the
Memphis field since July 1, 1949. Rev. A. T. Jonas of the Seattle
field was moved to the vacant Los Angeles field upon Pastor Walter
Uhlig’s accepting a position with the Michigan ‘Rehabilitation
Bureau for the Deaf. — Two of our workers, Pastor N. Zellmer of
Portland, Oreg., in service since 1942, and Pastor Walter Hintz of
Seattle, after serving in the Mission for five months, rej
because of ill health. Thereupon Pastor J. A. Beyer of Columbus
was called into the vacant Seattle field, Mr. Luther Russert of our
St. Louis Seminary temporarily serving in the Columbus field, —
Two of Synod’s workers, Pastor Hans E. Bollow of the New Orleans
field and Pastor Curtis Schleicher of the South Dakota field, have
accepted calls into hearing congregations but still are doing part.
time work among the deaf in their respective Districts, the Southem
and the South Dakota District.

Needs of Our Mission and Expansion

At the present writing we have two vacancies, the Columbus
and New Orleans fields. We have requested candidates for these
vacancies. We must render thanks to our God for granting us
a man for the Delavan-Madison field. At Delavan, Wis., the State
School is located. There we have 86 deaf boys and girls in religious
classes, ten of whom are communicant members. In the city of
Delavan there are 23 communicants. This field has been without
a regular pastor since June, 1946. During the school year 1947
to 1948 Student Hauptman of our Springfield Seminary ministered
to deaf in this area every week end; during the school year of 148
to 1949 Student Kraus of our St. Louis Seminary had religious
instructions at the school every other week, and he also preached
to the adult deaf in Delavan and later also in Beloit, Wis.;. during
the school year of 1949 to 1950 two Springfield students, Messrs.
Boerner and Lennon, alternated in serving the school every week
and also preaching in Delavan, Beloit, and now also in Rockford,
Ul. Rev. O. C. Schroeder of Chicago served Delavan during the
‘summer, — A missionary is needed also in Des Moines, Iowa, where
your.Board, upon receiving the approval of the Board of Directors
of Synod, purchased Trinity Church for the deaf at the price of
$10,000.. In this city we have thirteen voting and 34 communicant
members. At the present time this field is being served by’ our

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Omaha missionary, who has 200 children in weekly religious
classes in the Iowa State School at Council Bluffs and 97 in the
Nebraska State School at Omaha, has a congregation of 26 voting
and 84. communicant members, and ministers to deaf in nine
preaching stations. We requested a candidate for the Des Moines
field. — This summer the Memphis field will be vacant again when
Vicar Wm. Reinking of our St. Louis Seminary returns to the
Seminary in fall, in order to continue his studies. During his
vicarage the work has been richly blessed. On Thanksgiving Day
four, deaf adults were confirmed and on Easter Day two more.
We have requested a worker also for this field from the Board of
Assignments. — Another man should be placed also in the Chicago
area. Synod’s Chicago missionary has a congregation of 40 voting
and 114 communicant members. Besides weekly services in this
congregation he also conducts services twice a month for the
colored, with an average attendance of thirty-five, and ministers
to deaf in eight preaching stations in Illinois, Indiana, and Michi-
gan. — Again, our Kansas City worker needs help. Besides his work
in his congregation and his many preaching stations and school-
work in Kansas City and the State School of Kansas at Olathe
he makes monthly trips to Denver, where he ministers to ten
communicants, and to Colorado Springs, where the Colorado State
School is situated, in which he has six children in religious classes
and then conducts services in the city with an average attendance
of sixty-six, fifty-seven of whom come from the School. Whenever
he goes to Colorado, a St. Louis student takes over the service at

writes: “If the Lutheran Church has an able consecrated
, - man
who can fill the bill, let him come in.” Indeed, “the harvest truly
is B enteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord
of the harvest that He will send forth laborers int i ”
Matt oe Ss into His harvest,
Contributions

outside purposes; in 1948, $53,521; in 1949, $58,108. The Milwaukee
Congregation and its pastor have requested your Board that the
pastor be relieved of all Preaching stations, chiefly because of _
Teasons of health of the pastor, but also in order that he may be
able to devote all his time to the building up of the Milwaukee