# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S250
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

249

cial Matters], demonstrates clearly that there has been increasing
competition for the synodical dollar and that with the passing of
the years the synodical dollar, too, has been shrinking in contrasting
proportion to the congregational dollar, the District dollar, and
the extrasynodical dollar.

Since both the need for, and especially the supply of, synodical
dollars for synodical capital investment purposes has been and
is under intensive discussion, it may be informative and helpful
to examine a tabular listing of the increasing valuation of church
property of our congregations in the last thirty-five years, from

1920 to 1955:

Property Value of Congregations, 1920—1955

United States and Canada

Year

Value

Increase over
Previous Year

$ 46,849,000
49,339,000 $ 2,490,000
53,362,000 4,023,000
59,973,000 6,611,000
66,561,000 6,588,000
74,404,000 7,843,000
81,706,000 7,302,000
87,367,000 5,661,000
92,285,000 4,918,000
97,585,000 5,300,000
99,872,000 2,287,000
98,391,000 —1,481,000
94,173,000 4,218,000
92,340,000 —1,833,000
83,881,000 —8,459,000
(1934 figures used; no new
91,997,000 8,116,000
91,345,000 — 652,000
92,044,000 699,000
94,418,000 2,374,000
96,727,000 2,309,000
99,035,000 2,308,000
100,964,000 1,929,000
107,319,000 6,355,000
106,060,000 —1,259,000
113,121,000 7,061,000
128,897,000 15,776,000
143,496,000 14,599,000
174,656,000 31,160,000
210,763,000 36,107,000
245,072,000 34,309,000
283,821,000 38,749,000
320,638,000 36,817,000
354,480,000 33,842,000
396,006,000 41,526,000
440,369,000 44,363,000
95q 1g 0" 48140 000
Br ,8U1 000 219% OUD

% of Increase

over 1934

figures reported)

10%
9%
10%
13%
15%
18%
20%
28%
26%
35%
54%
71%
108%
151%
192%
238%
282%
323%
372%
425%