# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S436
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS

natives there.

Medical Mission work witnessed quite
last three years, for instance in the doubli:
Ambur, India; in the establishment of clini
Mohammedans, at Wandoor and other pl
where a hospital is about completed
Dr. Hoopman and several nurses did a great deal of work already
before the hospital was set up, and where several other clinics
are in operation; in the Philippine Islands, through the work of
Mrs. Carino at Candon, of Mrs. Becker at Loo, of Mr. Baar through
his work for Lepers, and through help for tubercular patients at
Hong Kong and in Japan. The Wheat Ridge Foundation has come
to the aid of our medical missions in a very splendid fashion.

More than in other similar periods, however, health difficulties
and other upsets have plagued our mission. We need to record

a development in the
ng of our capacity at
es for work among the
aces; in New Guinea,
at Mambisanda, while

The last convention brought some changes in the personnel
of the Board of Foreign Missions, with Pastor M. J. Hartenberger
and Messrs. Ernest Balke and Walter E, Meyer elected to the
Board. As to the office force, Mr. Albert E. Erdmann, layman, was
added as a business manager on the home field.

The Executive Secretary of the Board made a trip of survey
and visitation in 1954 and 1955, covering every one of the fields
in which the Board for Foreign Missions is concerned and looking
into possibilities also in areas in which we are not yet at work.

Periodically the Board reviews the scale of salaries and allow-
ances in an endeavor to supply the material needs of the missionary
personnel. Recently a change was instituted in the furlough
schedules, the present system calling for a five-year term on the
field for every new missionary. After that,

years, after which he might be away from the fi
or to remain on the field sj

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