# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S406
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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have some residual hearing. However, the sign language never will
disappear, for it is the natural language of the deaf, and most of
them who are educated by the so-called oral method take to the
signs as a duck takes to water. Therefore in some schools we use
no signs, in others we speak and sign simultaneously, as our
missionaries do also in most of their services.

Our Executive Secretary

In 1953 he spent ten days with the Boston man to advise him
as to the work and also to give him further training in the sign
language; five weeks in the Texas Field for the purpose of training
a new man; stopped off in the Denver Field, where a new worker
was to be placed; spent six weeks in the Omaha Field during the
illness of our Omaha man; visited the Des Moines Field, stopped
also in Memphis and then spent some time in the Jackson, Miss.,
Field with a new worker. In 1954 he attended the Mission Council,
visited the sign classes in St. Louis Seminary and also in Springfield
Seminary, spent some time in the Jacksonville Field and stayed
in St.Louis for several days when Board of Assignments met.
Also the following fields were visited: Sioux Falls, Minneapolis,
Detroit, New York, Newark, Madison, and St. Paul. In 1955 these
fields were visited: Spokane, Portland, Seattle, Indianapolis, Wash-
ington, D.C., Jacksonville, Fla.; Newark, New York, Boston,
Rochester, N. Y.; Oklahoma City, Houston, and Kansas City;
preached at the PTR in Rochester, N. Y., and installed a new
pastor in Madison. Whenever he visits a field, he preaches in
every station and then has informal meetings with each group,
speaking from their pastor’s reports concerning church and Com-
munion attendance, contributions, personal evangelism, always en-
couraging them in order that they may grow in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Aside of this work he also
is assistant in the Minneapolis Field.

Regional Representatives

Several years ago Ephphatha Conference appointed six regional
representatives: one in Washington, D. C., who has charge of the
fields in the East; another in Cleveland who has the supervision
of the Great Lakes fields; a third in Jacksonville, Ill., for the
Dixie Region; a fourth in Omaha for the Midwest Region; the fifth
in Fargo for the North Central Region; and the sixth in Oakland
to supervise the fields on the West Coast. These are assistants
to the Executive Secretary and are the Visitors in their respective
regions. This arrangement has worked out very well.

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