# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S240
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240 MISSIONS

Your Board met every other month for a two-day sessi
order to carry on its work.

” The total cost of operating this department for the threety
period was as follows: 1950 — $583,466; 1951 — $657,648; 4!
$692,309.64.

Home Missions

The Home Mission program of The Lutheran Church
souri Synod is unique in so far as the major portion of the
Mission program is carried on by the District mission boards:
that reason the amount for Home Missions, as it appears in §
budget, represents only about 15 per cent of the total amoun
for Home Missions in our Church.

During the year 1950 the total amount spent for Home#
sions in the United States .and Canada was $2,204,025. S
share of this amount, the amount paid out to eleven Distrie
subsidy, amounted to only $328,707, or 15 per cent.

The same ratio prevailed for the year 1951. During thi
our thirty-two North American Districts spent $2,455,899 for

_ Missions. Synod’s Home Mission Board subsidized eleven <¢
thirty-two Districts to the extent of $370,588, or 15 per cent.:,

The total cost figure for Home Missions for the year
not available at this writing. However, we can report that Sy
Home Mission Board subsidized the Districts to the exte
$412,750.

During the year 1952 the Ontario District joined the r:
subsidized Districts because it needed assistance to meet. the;
opportunities arising, particularly from the large influx of :
The Texas District was given a grant to assist in the op

three new stations. :

The twelve Districts being subsidized at the present
the following: Alberta and British Columbia, Atlantic, Ca
‘and Nevada, Colorado, Florida~Georgia, Manitoba and Sas
wan, Montana, Northwest, Oklahoma, Ontario, Southeaster
Southern California.

‘The Home Mission program of our Synod covers the
“965 congregations and 267 preaching stations. These
by 782 pastors.

Horie Mission Expansion
During the four-year period 1948—51 we opened

Home Mission stations in the United States and Canada.

us an average of 99 new stations annually.

- , We have very carefully studied the possible expansion

next four-year period and believe that a goal of 480 new: