# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S285
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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360 MISSIONS MISSIONS: 861
was up to the figure of twenty-five in the fall of 1948, Then a : Nevertheless our missionaries have 8ained a foothold in various
reversal of political fortunes in China affected also our Work in | gelds‘and the work is developing nicely, Thus while in 1948 they
very adverse fashion. However, at this writing as far as we know 4 sported a total of about 550 souls, they were able to report 720
church work is going on at practically all of our stations in Cy; atthe end of 1949. In Manila there are two organized congrega-
through the activity of our missionaries and national workers and tions, Bethel and Immanuel, while Grace Mission is approaching
. members. Missionary R. J. Mueller and family are still in Shanghaj that point, and Trinity is also getting under way. At Bethel there
: and carrying on work also in the way of broadcasting. Mission. is a Christian day school offering instructions in Grades 1 and 2.
aries E. H. Thode and Frederick Schalow, with their Tespective Pastors R. range, L. Buuck, O. Buntrock, and R. Plagens are
families, are still in Hankow. In Hongkong, Missionary Wilbert serving the fields named above in that order. They are ably as-
Hoeltje and the Misses L. Behling, M. Boss, and G. Simon are sisted by the Rev. G. Dionisio, our first national pastor who was ;
busy at work. God alone knows what the future may have in trained in the Philippines. He preaches in the Tagalog dialect
store for China. However, we should hold ourselves in Feadiness three times each Sunday and delivers a radio sermon in that
to resume the work on full scale as soon as possible. In the Mean. dialect every week. Our missionaries also do considerable radio
time we must support the workers stil] on the field and Pray work in Manila. There is much mission activity and work with
earnestly for the cause of the Gospel in China. At the same time instruction classes. In the Binalonan field, 120 miles north of
we rejoice to see that our four workers in Hongkong have devel. Manila, Missionaries E. Aradanas and N. Becker are at work, sery-
oped such a fine mission activity. They report teaching 300 high ing also Moreno, Urdaneta, and Dagupan. Stil] farther north, at
school pupils so that these receive two hours of religious instruc. Candon, we have Rev. A. A. Carino, where he can put his knowl-
tion a week. They are conducting missionary services in refugee edge of the Iocano dialect to good use. He also serves at Darapidap
camps, and teaching wherever opportunity presents itself, and several other places. New work has been started in the Moun-
Of our former China personnel, Missionaries R. Bringewatt, tain Province with Baguio as base. The work Teaches northward
P. Martens, K. Voss, G. Wenger, and A. Ziegler have accepted from here into the valleys inhabited by the Igorots. Missionaries
calls in the United States. Missionary V. Hafner is stationed in L. Nieting and H. Kretzmann serve here. Mr. Simon Bilagot, in
pa aa Haiwaii under the Board for Home Missions. Missionary H. Hinz, training for the ministry, assists them as guide, interpreter, and
‘ Bg : after his year of furlough, is temporarily engaged in Panama and is evangelist. On the island of Mindanao, Missionaries H. Mayer and
yo ye planning on doing work among the Chinese in California after J. Wilenius work as a team in and out of Cagayan, while Mis-
pow June 1. Missionaries R. Egolf, L. Hass, P. Kreyling, R. Meyer, and sionary A. Strohschein is working from Davao eastward.
he a 3 : 4 R. Suelflow, and Nurses N. Lenschow and A. Mueller have been There are splendid °pportunities for us in the Philippines,
an one moved to Japan. Missionaries L, Buuck, H. Kretzmann, and J There are also very urgent needs, such as chapels and housing
a at Wilenius are at work in the Philippines. Miss Olive Gruen is at facilities and mechanical helps. Jeeps and Gospel wagons and
“4 sk present on furlough in America. At this time it is truly a matter visual-aid materials of all kinds are required to carry on the work
: es: of praise to the Lord that throughout the disturbed conditions in energetically. Literature must be developed and Provided. We
BEL China and with the possibilities of many things going wrong, amid must carry forward plans for the training of the native ministry,
fs much perplexity and anxiety, God has protected our missionaries We must intensify our efforts to build an indigenous Church,
a 5 so that not one of them suffered harm. One very encouraging feature of the work in the Philippines is the
Cee = hearty manner in which the members already gained have shared
; a The Philippines in the work, contributing their time and talents, and in a com-
a a Three years ago, when Synod met, we had two missionaries mendable fashion, their earthly possessions. in
ns in the Philippines, Alvaro A. Carino and Herman R. Mayer. Today, Re
nr by the grace of God, there are thirteen ordained pastors at work Japan : EQ
ae ° in the Philippines. Mission work is never easy, and in the Philip- __ Astonishing, really breath-taking developments mark our mis-
pines we do not have mass conversions. Mission work there is Sion effort in Japan. ‘Your last convention authorized beginning z
: aa about the same kind of mission work as you have in the average work in Japan. It was difficult to gain entry into the country, but :
7 : American city. It is a matter of winai souls one by one, instruct- with the very able assistance of four of our chaplains, a survey of ;
7 " ing them, strengthening them, training them to reach out for others. Mission °Pportunities was made by the Executive Secretary of
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