# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S295
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 295

issionary Daniel Chuvala, while Missionaries R. H.
|, Buehner, William Landgraf, George Schroeder, and
resigned from mission service.

China — Hong Kong

ong. In most of the stations where we had work, there is
church work going on, by native workers and members,
y face great difficulties. A truly amazing mission de-
; took place in Hong Kong. From scratch three years
ow have 691 members there, with active work at twelve
id about thirty different places, with one missionary and
men workers and about fifteen full-time Chinese workers,

k. The work is carried on among regular residents of
eng and Kowloon, and then also among the refugees who
, med into Hong Kong literally by the hundreds of thou-
id many of these are in very destitute circumstances. In
‘to’ the regular work of the mission, of preaching, teach-
ing people for Baptism and Communion, there are some
tures in the work at Hong Kong, namely, a determined

le training, by which people should be enabled to give
ive witness for Christ. Perhaps 200 different people, to
it men of rather good former training or position, have
our to five months of training, five days a week, and
eral such terms of intensive Bible study, combined

er countries, such as Formosa and Malaya, or when
back into the interior of China again, as most of them
In Hong Kong there is also very effective radio work,
ffort has to go into the providing of literature. By the
of things, relief measures must also be undertaken,
#!so make demands upon the time of the staff although
ble to enlist some well-trained Chinese personnel for

ary H. A. Hinz returned to Hong Kong in 1950, when