# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S724
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

T24 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Wheat Ridge Foundation

The Wheat Ridge Foundation, established by the Walther
League, operates the Wheat Ridge Sanatorium in Wheat Ridge,
Colo., conducts a program of Social Service specializing in aiding
in the recruitment and training of Lutheran social workers, and
participates through grants-in-aid to our medical missions.

Lutheran Deaconess Association

The Lutheran Deaconess Association, founded in 1919 by Asso-
ciated Lutheran Charities, conducts a program at Valparaiso Uni-
versity for the training of deaconesses for our church. In 1955
it had 77 deaconesses in active service and 55 students enrolled.

Co-operative Agencies

These are welfare agencies which carry on certain types of
welfare work co-operatively and in which there are members or
agencies of other Lutheran church bodies. There are two such
agencies.

Welfare Councils

Lutheran Welfare Councils are organizations, usually state-
wide, of Lutheran welfare agencies for the purpose of planning
and co-ordinating Lutheran welfare activities in their respective
areas. Our church’s welfare agencies are taking part in the work
of 11 welfare councils. The Department recognized the fact that,
first of all, up-to-date, accurate information must be gathered on
the structure and performance of these agencies. This is a never-
ending task. The Department has made a beginning by:

First, arranging for “orientation” visits by the social-work
consultant. Twenty-two visits to agencies have already been made.

Secondly, the Department is making statistical studies in an
effort to obtain uniform and really informative statistics from all
types of agencies. The necessary forms for this purpose are being
developed.

Thirdly, the Department has been active in giving “advisory”
Service to many of our Lutheran agencies. The details will be
reported under the heading of Directive No. 3.

The Department has responded to 15 such requests for service
since its establishment in 1953. Among these requests were 10
from synodical Districts, four from conferences or groups of con-
gregations, and one from an individual congregation. No record
was kept of the many calls for assistance made by individual

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