# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S673
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684 FINANCIAL MATTERS

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Resolved, That this memorial be declined.

Report of General Relief Board
(Memorial 821)

responsibility,

Meetings were held with vari
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with the Board of Social Welus leaders of our Church, and

Board Enlarged ,

member March of 1953 the Relief Board consisted of three
men ers: Me» red Wambsganss, Rev. Edwin ‘A, Nerger, chair-
7 . Pa Wolf, ‘treasurer. In March of 1953 the Board

the initial fonstruction

FINANCIAL MATTERS 685

the hungry, to visit the sick and those who are in prison, to
e clothing to those who are naked. The Board of Directors with
assent of the General Relief Board appointed the Rev. E. T.
ernthal, Mr. A. T. Wilson, and Mr. William Fenske to the General
ief Board.

: The Board of Directors of Synod also authorized the General
eRelief Board to procure such help as would be necessary to carry
Mout this program. Pursuant to that authorization the Board ob-
tained the services of Rev. Werner Kuntz of Detroit to serve on
Fa temporary full-time basis to help get the program under way.
E-It is the thinking of the Board to engage someone permanently as
Fan administrative officer. To execute a program of relief such as
® our Synod should be engaged in requires at least one full-time
director, and it is hoped this convention will give approval to such

a recommendation.
Relief Administered

During the past three years the General Relief Board actively
engaged in a number of larger relief projects and gave assistance
to several pastors and teachers and their families.

Two Midwest floods received the attention of the General Re-
lief Board.

The first devastating flood was the one that hit Kansas and
Missouri in 1951. The General Relief Board made a grant of
$35,000 to the Kansas District, which, together with the amount
collected by the District, totaled over $62,000 available for relief
to 115 families and six congregations.

The second disaster which received the attention of the General
Relief Board was the flood in 1952 which hit the States of Nebraska,
Iowa, and Missouri. Help was offered to all the Districts along the
flooded streams and their tributaries. The Board gave a grant of
$5,000 to the Northern Nebraska District for flood relief in this
disaster. .

In addition to the above relief the following assistance was
granted to workers and institutions:

Two congregations (one in the States, one in Brazil) ___ $ 2,300

Workers in India (to cover effects of inflation) —_.__ — 10,000
Refugees in West Berlin for relief —--- 20,000
Two widows granted relief totaling _..._._.__» => 925
Four missionaries (for loss sustained returning home) _..__ 1,700
Three ministers given grants totaling ___._______ 2,000
Handling charges for food packages to India —____.._.____. 2,000
School for the blind in Kunming, China ...._-_-_>>E 130
Future Plans

The Board of Relief is looking forward to a very considerable
increase in its activities and will approach the members of Synod
regularly to assist in the program of relief which it hopes to carry