# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S286
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

286 MISSIONS

moved from the Newark area to St. Paul, and thereupon -f
C. R. Gerhold of the Boston area accepted the call into the Ne
field. This current year the Oakland field has been divided;
Geo. Gaertner remaining in the Oakland area, and Pasto
Delaney of the Texas-Oklahoma territory will move into
Francisco area July 1. :
At the present time three fields are to be supplied: the
field, vacant since August, 1952, the Texas-Oklahoma fieli
vacant in July, and the Jackson, Miss., field, which will be wa
when Vicar Sallach returns to the seminary. Calls have bee
tended repeatedly, but so far always have been returned. ‘We
heed the words of our Savior: “Pray ye the Lord of the tt
that He will send forth laborers into His harvest.” Matthew
Here we may mention that Pastor N. P. Uhlig conducts,
classes at the Springfield Seminary, and Pastor Reinking .
St. Louis Seminary. During the past triennium a number o
dates who studied the sign language in these classes were
to us. With the help of God we are planning to go forward.
ing to our five-year plan we intend to place additional m
the Kansas City, the New York, the Los Angeles, the Wash
ton, D.C., and the Newark fields, and into Canada. Thus, by:
grace, we hope to have about forty full-time workers by 1956;

Praise God for Conferences and Regional Meetings®

The Ephphatha Conference did not meet in 1950; it con
in Minneapolis in 1951 and in Detroit in 1952. A number of
conferences were held. The Dixie Conference met several
as did also the Northwest, the Northeast, and the Great’:
Conference.

In the Ephphatha Conference all our missionaries mi
also the members of the Board attend. This conference is 0
help and benefit to the workers in this specialized field. “Yj
regional conferences also the laymen take part. Deaf men
deliver papers. Some of the topics were: “The Christi
Home,” “The Christian and His Church,” “The Christian
World.” :

Praise God for New Chapels and Parsonages

In 1950 Trinity Church, Memphis, the Rev. V. Brugge
built a new parish house and in it set aside a room to_
a chapel for the deaf furnished with altar and lecte
Church, Fargo, the Rev. A. H. Grumm, D. D., pastor, also ha
a room to the deaf Fargo congregation which is being fut
by the deaf themselves. St. Peter Church, Devils Lake,
the Rev. L. Dierks, pastor, in its‘new church has include
chapel to be used by the deaf of that city, especially by.