# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S456
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

466 MISSIONS

others who besides to their hearing congregations minister
deaf in their parish or community. Thanks be to God, who dui

the past triennium has so graciously protected our missionaries’
their thousands and thousands of miles of travel in order to bi bet
Christ to the deaf in our country and parts of Canada.

Statistics
Synod has thirty organized congregations, numbering
voting members, the largest being the Detroit congregation, wi
43 voting and 144 communicant members. Seventeen of these ha
chapels of their own. In the other places our hearing C
open the doors of their church or school to our missionaries
their deaf for worship. For this we, indeed, are very grat
Furthermore, we have twelve parsonages; for the other men Syn
must rent homes, often at exorbitant prices. The communican’
of our 30 congregations and 235 preaching stations number 3,17
During the past triennium 240 children were confirmed, 179 adul!
baptized, and 410 confirmed. Synod’s workers preach to the,
in-large centers, where they usually reside, as well as in s: ;
communities. They minister to white and colored, visit homes:f
the aged deaf, call on deaf in State hospitals, and work alsa:
schools for the deaf. Fifty-three deaf-blind are under the spirity
care of Synod’s missionaries.
Schoolwork
In our country there are seventy-three public residenti
schools, 139 public day schools, and 37 denominational and pri
schools, a total number of 249, with a total attendance of 2025am
deaf boys and girls. Among the denominational schools theres
only one Protestant school, and that is our Lutheran school f
deaf in Detroit. God willing, another Lutheran school for th
will be opened this fall in New York.: Our missionaries
in 39 (six for colored) of the 73 residential schools in our co
and in seven day schools of the 139. In most of these schools-o
missionaries conduct religious, classes. At the close of last
they had 1,089 deaf children in these classes. In some schools. the
speak to the assemblies, often addressing more than 350 deaf L
and girls at one time. In Washington, D. C., our missionary.
52 students under his spiritual care at Gallaudet College, th
school for higher education for the deaf in all the world.
our good Lord open the doors ef the other schools to our
sionaries and also grant us the men for this work.

New Workers and Changes

During the past triennium many changes have taken plac
Synod’s work among the deaf. Rev. Theo. De Laney of Bai
Calif, accepted the call into the vacant Oklahoma-Texas: