# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S103
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 103

B. Abroad.

Heathen Mission in East India.

From the Commission's report:

In the year 1911 our mission counted 5 stations, 11 localities, 10 missionaries, 347 native Christians, 24 schools, and 960 pupils. Comparing these numbers with those recorded in the statistical table for 1913 (p. 108f.), one will recognize that the Lord has visibly acknowledged our work and has powerfully furthered the work of our hands.

The following is presently the roster of our missionaries: In the North Field, G. Naumann (Krishnagiri), R. Freche (Vaniyambadi), G. O. Kellerbauer (Bargur), G. Küchle (Ambur I), and H. Stallmann (Ambur II) are at work. The two new missionaries Ehlers and Williems have likewise been assigned to the North Field. In the South Field the following are at work: T. Gutknecht, A. Hübener, G. Hübener, A. Lutz (Nagercoil), J. Harms, H. Nau, F. Zucker (Trivandrum). The new missionary R. Görss has been assigned to the South Field. — Mr. P. H. Hamann in New York has accepted a call into our mission and is now preparing himself especially for school service in India.

The school system in our mission has expanded greatly in recent years. Unfortunately we still lack a sufficient number of Christian teachers. We must therefore make do at many places, out of necessity, with heathen teachers. This unsatisfactory state of affairs ought to be remedied as quickly as possible. Every possible effort is therefore being made to train gifted boys as Christian catechists, teachers, and evangelists. For this purpose an institute or seminary has been founded in the South Field, in which 58 boys are now being taught. Some of them have already served recently as assistants. In the North Field, nine boys are being trained for this purpose in our Lower Secondary School in Ambur. — In Mr. G. Jesudason we have had, since 1912, our first native evangelist in the South Field.

In July 1913 the General Commission resolved to take up the medical mission already approved by the last Synod. First, a trained nurse, Miss L. Ellermann, was chosen for this work. She is already in India. Further details of this work have already been reported in the Lutheraner. Let it only be briefly noted here: our medical mission will only be able to fully unfold its blessed work once the Lord has given us a capable Christian mission doctor. — The dear women and young women of our Synod have been asked to see to the support of the fund for Bergheim [Mountain Home] and the medical mission through their love-offerings.

The Bergheim is meant to serve not only as a place of recovery for the missionaries, but also as a school for the missionaries' school-age children.