# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S675
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

FINANCIAL MATTERS

1954 Clothing ——. 1,171,823 Ibs. $1,109,958

Food 5,984,110 Ibs. 1,420,850

Medicines .. 24,044 Ibs. 38,049

Cash Grants — 58,511

Total —_—.. 7,179,977 lbs. $2,627,368 $193,763
1955 Clothing —.— 1,204,393 Ibs. $1,101,675

Food ———- _ 9,788,623 Ibs. 1,942,593

Medicines .. 43,461 1bs. - 61,578

Cash Grants — 84,496

Total —_- 11,036,477 lbs. $3,190,702 $175,439

Grand Total 22,879,725 lbs. $7,544,428 $515,202

‘In the providence of God our dollars multiplied themselves
many times in actual value given.

Ill. Clothing

Our congregations send clothing to the nearest of ten con-
veniently located warehouses, where it is carefully assorted,
wrapped in moisture-proof bales, and shipped according to our
instructions. These warehouses also handle clothing for other
church bodies. A record is made of all clothing received from
Missouri Synod sources, identified by our yellow shipping label,
and at the end of each month we are billed for the total at
approximately eight cents per pound. Congregations are urged
to reimburse our Detroit office for this handling expense or to
send an adequate contribution through regular synodical channels.

The failure of many congregations to use the yellow shipping
labels or to write “Missouri Synod” somewhere on their boxes
makes it impossible to determine the exact amount originating
with Missouri Synod donors. The unmarked Missouri Synod cloth-
ing is estimated at the end of the year and covered by a cash grant.

Clothing may be sent to the warehouses at any time of the
year. For the convenience of areas of dense Lutheran population,
a clothing appeal is given special emphasis at Easter and Thanks-
giving and, in co-operation with Lutheran World Relief, freight
cars made available locally. We pay freight costs — in carload lots.
Local committees, representing Lutherans of all Synods, have
charge of detailed arrangements. Missouri Synod congregations
in such areas have responded generously to this convenient and
economical co-operative project. Many of our pastors and laymen
served as area chairmen.

Increasing numbers of children in our parish and Sunday
schools have prepared “Kiddies’ Kits” for refugee children, and
many a refugee mother has been made happy with the gift of
a complete layette sewn by the loving hands of women within

our church.