# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S660
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

660 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Child Feeding Program

Since 1934 religious training for children had been taboo
Germany. During the war years the child was neglected mdf
than ever. Father was at war; Mother worked in ammunition fag
tories. Since the war, little enough, because of the pressing n
for reconstruction of other things, has been done for orphan
or wayward, forsaken children. Only through American help hav
German Lutheran churches been able to make any kind of progr
along these lines in the past few years.

Already in 1946 the need to help Europe’s unfortunate, inn
cent children was realized by the Emergency Planning Counei
By means of a “silent campaign” among the membership of S
$450,000 was contributed toward a child-feeding program.
this child-feeding program gained momentum, the Emergency Plat
ning Council bought additional foodstuffs—twenty carloads:
cereals, two carloads of oranges, truckloads of soups and o'
necessary foodstuffs. Every year this program grew in proportions
And each year a greater number of young lives have been sa
from starvation. Present plans call for a continuation of the chil
feeding program in the Eastern Zone only, where $75,000 will
expended this year. a

Orphanages

The L. W.M.L. began its work among the European orphi
ages in July, 1945, and only recently has diverted its Leag
projects into other mission channels. What great good their Christ
tian efforts have accomplished only God knows. Our estimate cai
only be gauged by the thousands of letters received from vario
orphanages supported by the L.W.M.L. These letters, often
written by children in their childish scrawl, bring “Thank you's"g
for that which has been done by the ladies of our Church. 4

The L. W. M.L. with its 100,000 members has put forth valiants
efforts by furnishing layettes, children’s clothing, medical kitsa
children’s prayer books, toys, and money to the orphaned childrem
in Europe. Among the recipients of the ladies’ beneficence wa
an orphanage in Bagband; three in Heidelberg-Wolfschlucht, W:
desruh, Koenigstuhl; an orphanage near Munich; one in Berlin
a children’s home near Giessen; Sperlingshof orphanage; a
orphanage near Paris; two orphanages in Poland; and one in
land.

During Christmas of 1947 and 1948 the L.W.M.L. in c
junction with all of Synod’s congregations put forth a spec
effort under the name of “100,000 Bundles for Christmas” to gathe
toys, clothing, trinkets, and other items for the needy children
Europe. Not only orphanages, but also children’s hospitals, scho
and Sunday schools were the recipients of these gifts. ,