# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S692
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692 FINANCIAL MATTERS

pleasing relief work in Europe, Hong Kong, Formosa, India, Japan,
and New Guinea. “Building for Christ” funds have been used for
the care of refugees in Berlin, the majority of whom are of the
Lutheran faith; for emergency medical care of impoverished people
in East Germany and Poland, members, for the most part, of
Lutheran congregations; for medical care and food allowances to
Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, given under the direction of our
Hong Kong missionary staff; for assistance to St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, Naugatuck, Conn., whose property was completely ruined
by flood waters.

The Board of World Relief also plans to use a portion of the
“Building for Christ” money to cover nominal handling costs in
connection with the distribution of Government surplus com-
modities to the hungry abroad. Pastor Kuntz estimates: “We shall
be able to distribute 100 pounds of surplus American food at the
amazingly low cost of $1.00. This constitutes a providential
opportunity.”

The “Building for Christ” offering has also covered our church’s
share of the cost of Lutheran Refugee Service, established to help
implement the Refugee and Relief Act of 1953, which will admit
approximately 207,000 to our shores by the end of 1956.

Bethesda Lutheran Home

The share of Bethesda Lutheran Home, Watertown, Wis., in
the “Building for Christ” offering, the sum of $1,700,000, was
designated for the construction of four buildings: a large men’s
dormitory, together with a hospital unit, a physical-therapy unit,
and a parochial school unit.

Ground-breaking ceremonies of Bethesda Lutheran Home in
connection with the two-million-dollar building program took
place at 3:00 P.M. on the Home grounds on Sunday, June 10.
To be constructed is a two-hundred-twenty-two-bed dormitory
and infirmary for aged and adult patients, and a school for the
younger children being trained at this “House of Mercy.”

Valparaiso University

A substantial percentage of Valparaiso’s share of $2,500,000
in the “Building for Christ” offering was to be expended to place
the university on a solid financial footing, especially with reference
to the construction of its dormitories. Guild Hall and Memorial
Hall, residences for women, were already in use at the time of
the offering, while: Dau Memorial Hall and Kreinheder Memorial
Hall, dormitories for men, were dedicated on Sunday, May 13.

Valparaiso has also recently released sketches of its proposed
new chapel-auditorium, now being designed by Charles E. Stahde

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