# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S154
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1492 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Seamen’s Work.

(Report of the Metropolitan Inner Mission Society, February 1 to
December 31, 1984.)

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Communion services at Inner Mission ............cccucecsccacees 98
Office and telephone interviews at Inner Mission ...............4. . 748
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Relief — food and clothing ...... 0... ccc cece cece cece eee uence 540
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Baptisms 20... 6. cece eee eee ee nee ee bee tenaes 5
Weddings 2.0... 0. ccc cece cece eee ene e tent ee eneteebeeeenee 9
Funerals .. 0. ccc cece cee eee e ee case nenetneeeeetaneuae 43
Services at other churches .......... 0... cc ccecucececveveceuueune 3
Talks on Seamen’s Work .......... ccc cece rete ee cnet eeeeneeunes 2

Respectfully submitted,
Epwarp J. Kroncke, Executive Secretary.

The Immigrant and Seamen’s Missions have been conducted for
Synod by the Board of Directors of the Atlantic District through
the agency of the Metropolitan Inner Mission Society of New York
City since February 1, 1934. With the approval of Synod’s Board
of Directors the following resolutions passed by the Board of Directors
of the Atlantic District were carried out: —

1. That the Atlantic District conduct the Immigrant and Sea-
men’s Missions for Synod through the agency of the Metropolitan
Inner Mission Society.

2. That the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Lutheran
Immigrant Society, Inc., elected by Synod hereafter as heretofore,
shall include only the management of Synod’s property and not the
actual supervision of the mission-work, which has been transferred
by Synod to the Atlantic District.

3. That the Board of Trustees of the Lutheran Immigrant So-
ciety, Inc., be instructed to turn over the net income from invest-
ments and other sources to the Treasurer of the Atlantic District
for Immigrant work.

We wish to report that by means of this arrangement Immigrant
and Seamen’s Work is being done as effectively as can be done with
the available subsidy.

The Seamen’s Mission has cost the Synod $2,490 per annum.
The Immigrant budget of $1,800 per annum has been wholly sup-
plied out of the income received from the investments of the Lu-
theran Immigrant Society, Inc.