# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S723
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 723

hope to function effectively without the help of an auxiliary. Many
auxiliaries recruit volunteer workers to assist the agency or insti-
tution in its service to people, and all are active in gathering funds.

Specialized Services

For mentally handicapped children we had one home and
school in 1955: Bethesda, in Watertown, Wis. This Home gave
service to 450 children and adults.

Another home will be opened in 1956, the Good Shepherd
Home in Terra Bella, Calif. It will have a capacity of 36. This
agency also carries on a program of religious instruction for men-
tally handicapped children in several communities.

Deaf children are educated in two schools, the Lutheran In-
stitute for the Deaf in Detroit and Mill Neck Manor in Mill Neck,
N. Y. 162 children were enrolled in these two schools in 1955.

There is also one “Boys Ranch” for maladjusted children, which
is located in Tolley, N. Dak., and served nine boys in 1955.

Lutheran Convalescent Homes are homes in which chronically
ill patients, particularly older people, are cared for. There is one
in St. Louis, which sheltered 69 patients in 1955. There is another
home in Fort Wayne, Ind. A third home, established co-operatively
with Lutherans of other bodies, will open this year in Buffalo, N. Y.

Lutheran Refugee Service

Lutheran Refugee Service is by direction of the Board of
Directors carried on by the Department of Social Welfare jointly
with the Division of Welfare of the National Lutheran Council.
The national office is located in New York City, and there are
32 area offices located in almost all sections of the country. As of
March 10, 1955, it had gathered 7,318 “assurances,” promises made
by a member or a congregation of our church to “sponsor” a refugee
family for resettlement, and had actually resettled 4,783 people
in their American homes.

Lutheran Immigration Service

As a continuation of the resettlement services performed by
Lutheran Refugee Service, the Department is proposing to the
Twenty-eighth Delegate Synod the establishment of a service to
immigrants.

Lutheran World Relief

Lutheran World Relief is administered by the Board for World
Relief, of which the Executive Secretary of the Department is
a member. Its activities are reported in detail in a separate report.