# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S515
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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od should be engaged in requires at least one full-time
, and it is hoped this convention will give approval to such

endation. Relief Administered

g the past three years the General Relief Board actively
.a number of larger relief projects and gave assistance
pastors and teachers and their families.

Midwest floods received the attention of the General Re-

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the Kansas District, which, together with the amount
y the District, totaled over $62,000 available for relief
milies and six congregations.
second disaster which received the attention of the General
ard was the flood in 1952 which hit the States of Nebraska,
nd Missouri. Help was offered to all the Districts along the
Streams and their tributaries. The Board gave a grant of
‘the Northern Nebraska District for flood relief in this

congregations (one in the States, one in Brazil)
rs in India (to cover effects of inflation)
in West Berlin for relief

Future Plans

‘Board of Relief is looking forward to a very considerable
‘in its activities and will approach the members of Synod
F to assist in the program of relief which it hopes to carry
ious areas of the world. The need is particularly great
‘ rmany and Berlin, in Hong Kong, in India, in Korea,
ng the Arabs of Palestine. In this atomic age it is not
to predict what other areas might become disaster areas
e as Christian people will be called to give assistance.
lard hopes to effect a program that is so constituted and
ed ‘that it may upon short notice bring comfort and aid
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eded, and to give effective Christian witness through such
Board feels that it has a great challenge in that it must
be ready to administer relief, but must also lead our great