# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S668
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

668 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

act such neglect of God’s Word in Germany, a grant of $150,00@
was made to the American Bible Society immediately after
last war. Repeatedly, since then, other funds have been granted s@
that to date $247,409.64 has been given to the American and othed
Bible Societies for the printing of God’s Word in German, Japan
and Norwegian.

To enumerate in any detail the wealth of Christian litera
sent or published by the Emergency Planning Council would b ej
beyond the space allotment of this report. Suffice it to say that
every group — child, youth, or adult — was thought of in the allo-g
cation of funds for the publication of His Gospel message. It is noq
overstatement to say, judging from the thousands of acknowledg
ment letters received from pastors, laymen, women, and children;
that this phase of our Church’s relief activity was a major boo

Dr. T. O. F. Herzer, chairman of the Council and a Missouri Synod |
Lutheran, has been zealously helping refugees to resettle in Canada.. |

The Canadian Lutheran World Relief handles thousands of 4
refugees for all of Canada. Processing takes place at Muehlenberg 4
Camp at Hanover, from where they are taken aboard the Beaver- 4
brae, a refugee ship which plies between Canada and Europe every
thirty-five days. In addition to the large number of refugees in
Germany, there are about 300,000 refugees of German origin in 4
Austria who are being processed and sent out at the rate of 75 to 4
100 per month. The total number of Volksdeutsche immigrants #
brought to Canada as of March 1, 1950, is 10,839. 4

To assist in this work and other relief measures of the 4
C.L.W.R., the Emergency Planning Council has to date given q
approximately $200,000 of its funds. ‘

CROP g

The Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) has for the q

last four years solicited goods in kind from rural communities 4
throughout the States. In this way it has gathered trainload upon
trainload of foodstuffs, ‘mostly grain, for the needy in Europe.
At times CROP has also accepted cash donations, which in turn

were converted into commodities. :

Since CROP is a relief agency associated with Church World di