# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1089
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386 MISSIONS

the preaching of the Gospel — hatred
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were a means in the hands of God to bring the Gosnay tions
areas and to strengthen fellow Christians and knit “the. other
Osely together to do even greater thin yore
psery fogs gs for the Lord and His
In spite of manifold difficulties the South i
Ameri istr;
are forging ahead. They are gradually “becoming of age”
are advancing to full manhood. The time is not too far dan
when the guidance and the direction of all of the affairs f ‘
Church on the South American continent can be turned cen
hem How soon our fellow Christians beneath the Southern Cy *
w e able to tak i i ss
Mine € over also the full financial obligation time
For more than fifty years the Mother Ch
et f urch fostered
American missions with the greatest care. For fifty years en th
pastors and missionaries and subsidized them. And it was not
vain. For today we are ministering to over 80,000 blood-bought
souls on the South American continent. Then too, we also heve
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South America,
Argentina

The work of the Argentina District i
t includes Argentina, Uru-
guay, and Paraguay. Also in this District a continued effort. is

now self-supporting. The District Mission Board and the officers

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of the District are, however, ever alert to give these parishes tt e

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MISSIONS 387

ie Argentina District was also remembered in the distribution

Agntevideo School Project —....___.__.____.___ $15,000.00
Chapel at Rosario, Argentina ________________ 15,000.00
Two Professors’ Dwellings at Villa Ballester, Arg. __ 30,000.00 -

* Motorization. ————__________.___ 10,000.00
The District will be represented at this convention by President
$97 Beckmann and Pastor C. F. Truenow. Both are veterans in
3, mission field in Argentina.

te Paraguay and Uruguay.— Missions in these countries are
der the guidance and direction of the Argentina District. Two
missionaries are carrying the Gospel to six different areas.

Brazil is the country where our Church first began mission
activities in South America. We are going forward at every turn.
‘ The D.P. work done in the “Ellis Island” of Rio de Janeiro,
the so-called Blumeninsel, is paying off in Goiania, Recife, Salvador,
and other places — also in Sao Paulo, where we organized a Latvian
congregation with about 200 souls and 135 communicants. They
have a pastor with them who also is a D. P. immigrant. Recently
another large unaffiliated group of Lutherans of about 6,000 souls
requested the services of one of our pastors. During the year 1951
199 adults were baptized and confirmed; 140 parish schools had an
enrollment of 6,382 pupils. The Ginasio at Porto Alegre is a school
and high school sponsored by a number of our congregations and
pastors. It is self-supporting. It has an enrollment of 800 pupils.

It will also be our privilege, D. v., to have in our midst at the
convention the President of the Brazil District, the Rev. Rodolfo
Hasse, together with a lay delegate, Mr. Waldemar Goerl of Porto
Alegre, Brazil. This is the first time in the history of our South
American Missions that a lay delegate from South America will
be present at a synodical convention. Their personal reports as
well as the information given the convention in their separate
overtures will tell the story. 7

The following allotments were made to the Brazil District: for
parsonage and. chapel $25,000; for motorization $25,000; for Ginasio,
Porto Alegre, $25,000. ,

Our Seminaries

Our report would not be complete if we would not also touch
upon the fact that our South American Districts are bending every
effort to train a national ministry.

Seminario Concordia at Villa Ballester, Argentina, with an