# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S130
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1186 ‘Proceedings of 'Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

a. To sanction the appointment of a deaconess ;

b. That the deaconess be retained in this mission in the future;

c. That the sum of $25,000 be granted next year for the Foreign-
tongue Missions;

d. That Synod encourage the Board for Foreign-tongue Missions
to enroll young men for this work and educate them ;

e. That students preparing themselves for work in our Foreign-
tongue Missions who are in need of support be supported from the
Indigent Students’ Fund of the particular District from which they
come instead of from the Mission Treasury.

All recommendations were adopted.

Deaf-Mute Missions.

Report of the Board. Condensed.
(German Report, p. 200.)

During the past three years the Lord has richly blessed our work
among the deaf-mutes. This mission-work of our Synod is the only one
of its kind in the Lutheran Church. At present 134 congregations and
preaching-stations are served by 17 ‘missionaries. The centers of the
various districts, in which the missionaries also reside, are: New
York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Duluth, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha; Spokane,
Seattle, Portland. We hope that California, which was temporarily
served by Rev. N. F. Jensen, will soon have its own missionary.
Fourteen of the 184 stations — an increase of 30 since the last con-
vention — are organized congregations. Those in Chicago, Mil-
waukee, Minneapolis, Seattle, and St. Paul have their own chapel
and parsonage. The Portland congregation recently dedicated its
chapel.... A blessed work is also carried on in the state institutions
for deaf-mutes, in some of which our missionaries often preach to
several hundred deaf-mute children and their teachers and even
instruct special classes for confirmation. Our missionaries have also
successfully instructed a number of blind deaf-mutes, and they are
now communicant members.

Expenses as well as the deficit in the treasury, amounting to 3

$26,337.04 at the end of March, have increased with the growth of the
mission. The minimum budget for the coming year amounts to
$33,000. We dare not curtail the work since urgent calls are coming
in from the West and the South.

Tt is unfortunate for organized congregations if they have not
their own house of: worship, where they can assemble at any time.
Since the chapels need not be large, in fact, ought never to exceed
a seating capacity of 100, chapels and parsonages under one roof have
proved serviceable, e. g., in Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and
Seattle. The Board of Directors appropriated annually $1,500 for