# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S302
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802 MISSIONS

petitioners, together with Synod’s Secretary of Missions, D
Streufert, and his assistant, Dr. H. A. Mayer, to study prd
involved and to formulate a workable plan of operation.. |
same time this committee was empowered with the exec
the synodical program of medical missions after it had
the necessary approval of the Board of Directors and the nec
appropriation of funds from this Board. That was in 1950.
During the latter part of 1950 and early in 1951 numerous’
ings were held with representatives of the two existing m
mission societies, one in Chicago and the other in St. Louis...
were also Dr. O. H. Schmidt and Pastor H. Koppelmann, Exe,
Secretaries from the Foreign Mission Department; Dr. K.
Executive Secretary of Negro Missions in the United Sta
Africa. The Rev. Justus P. Kretzmann, formerly mission
Nigeria, West Africa, was appointed full-time Executive Se
In this capacity he served from December 1, 1951, to Feb
1952. Since that date he continued to serve on a part-time
An office was established in the Lutheran Building at 210:
Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.
A letter was sent to all pastors of the Synodical Confe
requesting names and addresses of medical personnel among
bers of our churches. The co-operation was most gratifyin
replies as of February 1, 1953, brought the names and a
of 5,018 men and women in the medical profession.
A bulletin titled The Cross and the Caduceus was issued
two months and sent to all pastors and to men and women
medical profession.
New chapters of the Lutheran Medical Mission Assool
were organized in Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, New York City;
Francisco, and Omaha. °
Contributions were made as follows: $500 by the SI
chapter for the clinic at Sapporo, Japan; $1,000 by thes
chapter for Japan; and $150 for medical supplies in the P
Islands. As of February 19, 1953, cash contributions we
in the amount of $2,135.50 for membership dues; for sche
$784.53; for hospitals in Nigeria, Africa, and India, '$
Gamma Delta awarded a medical scholarship. Other gto
also making donations for this fund.
As we record the contributions made in the interest of.
missions, we, too, cannot but point with deepest gratitud
magnanimous gift of $70,000 of the Lutheran Women’s
League for the Ambur, India, hospital. May the Lord mo
tifully bless them for this gift of love. ,
To grasp, even on a very limited, conservative, an res
scale, the opportunities as they are opening to us i
far-flung medical mission program is unfortunately not.