# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S137
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ky. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 123

in Sunday-school, 25. Two services are held every Sunday, one in our
chapel, with an average attendance of 25, and another in the country
in a private residence, with 15 in attendance.

At its last convention at Fort Wayne in 1923 Synod resolved that

the Indian Mission Board should explore the Red Lake Indian Reser-
vation in the interest of our Indian Mission. Your Board delegated
two of its members to carry out this resolution of Synod and re-
quested three brethren of Minnesota to make a thorough investigation
of this field. The findings of this committee were that about 400 In-
dians are without the Gospel of Christ on the Ponemah Point. Efforts
were made to secure a building site there with the object in view of
establishing a mission among these Indians. Your Board has left
nothing undone in trying to secure a building site, but even the intro-
; duction of a bill in Congress at Washington, D. C., was unsuccessful.
. The Episcopal Church has a building site on the Point, not utilized
© for church purposes, which we are trying to purchase for our pro-
posed mission. We consider this a promising field and therefore be-
lieve that efforts to establish a mission there should be continued.
; The attention of your Board has been drawn to an effort made
by the Rev. Carl Rose, Lavalle, Wis., to establish a mission near Kil-
bourn, Wis., and at other places. He reports that he has had 4 bap-
tisms, that 6 are receiving instruction at the smaller stations, that
he has a Sunday-school of 75 Lutheran children and a class of 50 Lu-
theran children at the Industrial School for Indian Children at
Tomah, Wis., which is receiving religious instruction.. We have de-
frayed the expenses he incurred by serving these stations, but have
=: taken no further steps.

Arlington, Cal.; Sherman Institute. The Mission Board of the
California and Nevada District has asked us to set aside $3,500 for
the work at this institution.

In view of the increased number of pupils at our boarding-school
‘- for Indian children at Red Springs and the financial aid requested
> by brethren working among the Indians outside of Red Springs and
f Oneida, we recommend to Synod to increase the budget for Indian
; Missions to $18,000 per annum for current expenses.

Respectfully,
d Boarp ror Inpian Missions.

Resolved: — Action.

1. To. appropriate $18,000 annually for this mission;

2. To-appropriate $4,000 for the erection of a chapel near Sher-.
-man Institute, Arlington, Cal, where-18 Lutheran scholars coming
e from the Indian Mission of the Wisconsin Synod in Arizona are at-.
: tending school.