# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S162
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1935. 151

Argentina.

During the past three years three new men. have been sent into
this field, and Pastor G, O. Kramer returned from his furlough shortly
after the last convention of the General Body, which. he attended.

..During the course of the past year God has called one of our
young laborers to his eternal reward, Pastor. Gerhard: ‘Batz. Pastor
Batz was a faithful and untiring worker in the fleld, and: his removal
from among the active forces has created a problem. for: the Argentine
Mission Board, which is hard at work: trying,'to-find:a way to carry
on his work without making it necessary to.call.a man from the
United States.. Apparently they have succeeded. .They have called
Assistant Professor Lange from the college in. Crespo to be the suc-
cessor of Pastor Batz.

A class of two school-teachers was graduated from « our college i in
Crespo in 1934, and they are being assigned to their fields of activity.

According to the latest information received the statistics for
Argentina are as follows: —

Pastors in the field .......... 0... e cece eee ee sai, 29
Souls . 0... ccc ccc cc ete e eee eet enee 9,612
Families .. 0... ccc ce cece eee ee teens 1,548
Schools .... 0... c cece ce cee ee eee ene das 40
Pupils oo... cee cee eee ee eee enee 825

Four ministerial candidates have been graduated from the sem-
inary in Porto Alegre and have been assigned to congregations and
preaching-places. The graduating and placing of these men have
made it unnecessary for us to send more men from North America
into this field. What this means in a financial way can be seen from
the report of the Treasurer embodied in this report. No money was
expended for traveling expenses during the last fiscal year.

Conclusion.

Your Board regrets that it is not in a position to give a detailed
statistical report of the work in the field for the year 1934. This is
due to the fact that no such report has reached your Board at the
time of this writing. This, in turn, is due to physical conditions
beyond the control of your Board and also beyond the control of the
local mission boards. If we remember that it takes a letter from
South America approximately one month to reach your Board, it
can readily be seen that it is practically impossible to receive such
a detailed report by the beginning of March.

May the Lord of the Church grant His Holy Spirit to this con-
vention as it gathers to carry on the work of lifting up, and holding,
“a changeless Christ before a changing world.”

Rev. F. G. Miesster. Rev. E. V. Haseropt.
Rev. T. THIEME. Mr. H. F. Rourman.
Mr. E. W. Taree. Rev. THEO. Dorn.