# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S460
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460 MISSIONS

land missionary and installed him in that city and then seven weeks
with the Seattle missionary and installed also him. Much of the
time in these fields was spent in training these new workers for oy;
Mission. Then he also visited the Indiana and Pittsburgh fields for
four weeks, and also the Jacksonville and Montana fields for several

‘weeks, preaching in all stations of these fields.

Chapel Projects

Above it was mentioned that we have seventeen chapels for
the deaf, seven of them being erected during the past triennium,
For each the General Church Extension Board of Synod has granted
us the maximum amount of $10,000. In Los Angeles a chapel was
bought and remodeled; in Cleveland a chapel was dedicated in
1949, for which we also received $15,000 from P. T. O., and the
General Lutheran Women’s Missionary League also gave a goodly
sum for this project; in New York a chapel, for which we received
an additional: $5,000 from P.T.O. besides the $10,000 from Church
Extension Board; a chapel in Sioux Falls, erected entirely by the
L. W. M. L. of South Dakota, across the street from the South
Dakota State School; a student center and parsonage in Washing-
ton, D. C., dedicated also in 1949; in Memphis, Trinity Church set
aside a room in its new parish hall which is to serve as a chapel for
the deaf; and at the present writing plans have been drawn up for
a chapel-parsonage at Jacksonville, [l., which is to be erected near
the Illinois State School, where our missionary has seventy deaf
children in religious classes. For this project we shall ask the
Church Extension Board of Synod for $10,000, in addition to the
$10,000 set aside for this purpose by the Central Illinois L. W. M. L.
and the amount to be raised by the three Illinois Districts, for
children from these three Districts attend this school and are being
taken care of by the Jacksonville missionary. May God richly bless
the L. W. M. L. organization and its districts and also Trinity
Church in Memphis for their interest and kind help.

Ephphatha Conference

This conference of Synod’s workers among the deaf has met
every year during this triennium and has proved to be a great
blessing to every missionary. They attend local conferences, pas-
toral meetings, District meetings, but it is necessary that they
meet with one another and discuss the needs and the problems
of this specialized work. This year, however, our budget did not
permit our missionaries to meet. We hope that funds will be

_ available in the future that this so important and necessary con-

ference may be held. The members of your Board, if possible all
of them, attend these meetings and confer with each missionary aS
to his field.

MISSIONS 461

Visual Aids
Ephphatha Conference has appointed a committee for the
purpose of studying and considering the needs of such aids, par-
ticularly adapted to Synod’s work among the deaf, and to present
the needs of a special appropriation for such aids to Synod.

Synod’s 1947 Resolution

At the Centennial Convention in Chicago it was recommended
and resolved that our Board and the missionaries continue to work
for closer contact with the Districts in which work is carried on.
This has been done. The Mission Board of every District has been
reminded of this resolution, and twelve have replied, assuring us
of their interest and co-operation. They were requested to assist
the missionary whenever necessary and possible, call attention to
deaf who are not being served, help to gain entrance into State
schools in which we are not yet working, call upon the missionary
at conferences and District meetings to give a report on his work
and thus bring this blessed work to the attention of our Christians.

Indeed, the Lord has been with us during the past triennium,
whereof we are glad. And we pray: “Let the beauty of the Lord,
our God, be upon us; and establish Thou the work of our hands
upon us; yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it,” Ps. 90:17.

Boarp or Missions to THE Dear
Pastor Wm. Busecs, Chairman
Pastor C. C. Niemann, Secretary |
Mr. G. F. Kruse, Treasurer
Pastor O. H. Lorres

Mr. J. P. MILLER

Commending Board for Work Among Deaf
(Memorial 410) .

Holy Cross Lutheran Church for the Deaf, meeting in St. Louis,
Mo., April 9, 1950, with grateful hearts took cognizance of the
Scripturally appointed Lutheran Board of Missions to the Deaf.
Actual observations and associations with said Board, over a long
period of time, motivate the following expression:

1. The Board’s representatives show a deep understanding
of the efforts involved in bringing the holy Gospel to the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing. The Board knows the difficulties involved when
said handicapped persons, in the majority of cases, come from
non-Lutheran and in many cases from unchurched and un=

friendly homes.
2. While everywhere confused Deaf mission projects of other