# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S677
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

FINANCIAL MATTERS 677

dollar contributed to our treasury we can, at the moment, deliver
one hundred pounds of food to the hungry. We are most eager to
receive supplementary contributions which will enable us to take
fuller advantage of this providential opportunity.

VI. Medical Supplies

We are indebted to the Medical and Surgical Relief Committee,
Inc., of New York, which made available to us, at a cost of
approximately five per cent of wholesale value, a large portion
of the $111,008 worth of medicines shipped by us through Lutheran
World Relief to various countries in the last three years.

Some medicines, however, were not available from this source
in the exact type oF quantity needed.. This is particularly true
of antibiotics needed in the treatment of tuberculosis, against
which undernourished bodies offer little resistence. Our Board
found it necessary to make additional cash grants for the purchase
of such medicines. These supplies were gratefully received, espe-
cially by the medical personnel attached to some of Synod’s
missionary staffs abroad.

In addition, direct shipments of medical supplies were made
to various Lutheran clinics and institutions abroad. A considerable
supply of medical samples was sent to our Lutheran Medical
Missions Society.

VII. Cash Grants

There are certain types of emergency needs which cannot be
adequately met with shipments of food, clothing, or medicines and
for the relief of which grants of money are required. In this
manner assistance was provided for suffering Lutherans in East
Germany, Poland, and Hungary; for refugees in various camps
of West Germany; for helping to maintain refugee centers in
Berlin for escapees (largely Lutheran) from behind the Iron
Curtain; for maintaining homes in West Germany where refugee
children, teen-agers separated from their families still behind the
Tron Curtain, and aged refugees are given shelter and care; for
critical relief needs in India, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, and
the United States; for establishing a new relief outlet in Beirut,
Lebanon; for assistance to our Canadian brethren in resettling
large numbers of refugees in Canada; for food and medical allow-
ances given to tubercular Chinese refugees receiving instruction
from our missionaries in Hong Kong; for a considerable number
of pastors in the U.S.A. or their widows confronted by an
emergency need.

Grants of money are often needed when disaster strikes. The
home of one of our missionaries in New Guinea burned to the