# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S674
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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674 FINANCIAL MATTERS

These are the people whom our Lord called “these My
brethren.” Among them are many who are our brothers in the
faith. All of them are our brothers, humanly speaking, and
toward each we have a brother’s responsibility. That is what
Jesus meant. Love, when it is ripened in the redeeming faith,
understands that.

World Relief is a story of love in continuous action. Our tasks
are sometimes complex and difficult. The call of need far exceeds
our resources. We are heartened, however, by the ready response
of many of our Synod’s people and pastors and by the satisfaction
that has come to them in their supportive Good Samaritan role.
Many thousands of suffering people throughout the world have
been helped in their distress. To many of them it became very
clear that our Lord and Savior, who “went about doing good”
and in whose name we do our Good Samaritan work, still walks
down the lanes of sorrow and suffering with a beneficent hand,
and in Him they found “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

I, Administration

Our overseas shipments are channeled through existing regis-
tered agencies — Lutheran World Relief, Inc., and Church World
Service. A co-operative arrangement, especially with the former,
makes every normal advantage of a registered agency available
to us. As a result our operations to date have been conducted
by a skeleton staff (sometimes hard pressed) of two salaried
people —the director and his secretary.

II. Shipments

Because of the nature of our co-operative arrangements and
the failure of many of the congregations and individuals of our
Synod to mark their clothing shipments to the warehouses with
the identifying yellow Missouri Synod label, it is difficult to de-
termine precisely what percentage of clothing and commodities
received by Lutheran World Relief, Inc., originated with Missouri
Synod donors. The estimate of one third in the All-Lutheran Food
Appeal and one fourth of the total clothing received at the
warehouses will come very close.

The following figures represent shipments made by our Board
since the Houston Convention:

Actual Cost
Year Commodity Weight Value (oper.)
1953 Clothing —_ 1,000,000 Ibs. © $1,000,000
Food 3,663,271 lbs. 692,867
Cash Grants — 33,491
Total __.... 4,663,271 Ibs. $1,726,358 $146,000

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