# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S458
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. 458 ‘ MISSIONS

- Matt. 9: 37-38.

to the adult deaf in Delavan and later also in Beloit, Wis.; durin
the school year of 1949 to 1950 two Springfield students, Messrs:
Boerner and Lennon, alternated in serving the school every wee
and also preaching in Delavan, Beloit, and now also in Rockfo:
Ill. Rev. O. C. Schroeder of Chicago served Delavan during th
summer, — A missionary is needed also in Des Moines, Iowa, wher
your Board, upon receiving the approval of the Board of Directo
of Synod, purchased Trinity Church for the deaf at the price 0
$10,000. In this city we have thirteen voting and 34 communican
members. At the present time this field is being served by o
Omaha missionary, who has 200 children in weekly religio
classes in the Iowa State School at Council Bluffs and 97 in th
Nebraska State School at Omaha, has a congregation of 26 voting
and 84 communicant members, and ministers to deaf in niné4
preaching stations. We requested a candidate for the Des Moine
field. — This summer the Memphis field will be vacant again whe
Vicar Wm. Reinking of our St. Louis Seminary returns to th
Seminary in fall, in order to continue his studies. During. hii
vicarage the work has been richly blessed. On Thanksgiving Dai
four deaf adults were confirmed and on Easter Day two moré
We have requested a worker also for this field from the Board
Assignments. — Another man should be placed also in the Chicag
area. Synod’s Chicago missionary has a congregation of 40 v
and 114 communicant members. Besides weekly services in ¢
congregation he also conducts services twice a month for ‘
colored, with an average attendance of thirty-five, and mini
to deaf in eight preaching stations in Illinois, Indiana, and M
gan. — Again, our Kansas City worker needs help. Besides his wo:
in his congregation and his many preaching stations and school
work in Kansas City and the State School of Kansas at Olath
he makes monthly trips to Denver, where he ministers to ‘t f
communicants, and to Colorado Springs, where the Colorado Sta
School is situated, in which he‘has six children in religious cla
and then conducts services in the city with an average attendan
of sixty-six, fifty-seven of whom:come from the School. Whenev
he goes to Colorado, a St. Louis student takes over the servic
Kansas City. We wish our budget would permit us to place a :
manent man into Colorado. — And from Florida a deaf man wri
of the great need of religious wdrk to be done in that State. Hé
writes: “If the Lutheran Church Kas an able, consecrated
who can fill the bill, let him come in.” Indeed, “the harvest trul:
is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lo
of the harvest that He will send forth laborers into His harvest,