# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S715
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 715

expanding basis: Over 40 students participated during the past
semester. Under the provisions of the arrangement, no student
is paid for his work. It is carried on solely to acquaint the student
with radio and television work so that he may be better equipped
to use these media of mass communication to more effective
advantage in the outreach of the Gospel during his parish ministry.

Preliminary discussions have been held with Rev. Herman A.
Mayer, Secretary of Missions for Synod, on possible uses of the
Synod-owned short-wave station on the KFUO premises. Sub-
sequent meetings have been held with qualified short-wave
operators to activate this equipment on a regular schedule, the
nature of which must yet be determined. Much is yet to be
done on this matter.

KFUO implemented a joint participation of the observance of
Lutheran Radio and Television Week in September of 1955, with
the following participating to get national publicity for our radio
and television missions:

The Lutheran Laymen’s League

The Audio-Visual Aids Department of Concordia Publishing
House

Lutheran Television Productions, Inc.

The Department of Public Relations

each paying its proportionate share of the cost of this project.
Heretofore it had been carried on solely by KFUO.

KFUO is currently working with the Board for Missions in
North and South America to develop a “portable” church service
on record or tape for our mission congregations and to be used
where congregations are without a pastor. Discussions and de-
velopment of the idea are being carried on in conversations with
Rev. Wm. H. Hillmer, the Executive Secretary for the above Board.

KFUO has offered its facilities to the Board for Missions in
Foreign Countries (Rev. H. H. Koppelmann, Assistant Executive
Secretary) to develop a tape or series of tapes to be recorded by
our missionaries on foreign fields, which tapes are to be made
into programs to be used on KFUO and for other stations and/or
congregations desiring them for their organizational meetings.

An area of co-ordination with the Audio-Visual Aids Depart~
ment of Concordia Publishing House has been worked out whereby
films, slides, and any other materials of the Audio-Visual Aids
Department can and will be made available to KFUO for its
Extension Service.

KFUO facilities have been used by the Walther League in
recording the narration for a colored filmstrip on Stewardship.

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