# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S164
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, -and Other States. 1935. 158

to information submitted to your Committee the Brazil District, by
a Mission Forward Offering, raised about $4,000 for its Mission
Budget. The mission congregation in Rio de J aneiro, numbering
35 communicants, raised the handsome sum of 15:4748, which is ap-
proximately $1,100.

With respect to Memorial 18, which proposes to abolish the Board
for Missions in South America and to place the South American
Districts on an equal basis with other subsidized Districts, we recom-
mend that Synod decline this request.

Whereas two faithful members of the Board for Missions in
South America, namely, Pastor L. Schmidtke and Mr. C. G. Strieder,
have during this triennium been called to their eternal home, we
recommend that Synod instruct its Secretary to send a letter of con-
dolence to the bereaved families.

In conclusion we recommend that Synod extend a vote of thanks
to the Board for Missions in South America for its untiring labor.

Action of Synod.
This report with its recommendations was adopted.

Report of Board of Missions to Deaf and Blind.
(Memorial 207.)

Looking back on the work of the Lord among the deaf and blind
during the past triennium, we have reason to render thanks and
praise to the Lord for the many blessings bestowed upon these
missions. *

In spite of the drastic cuts made in our budget, which neces-
sitated two cuts in salary and the discontinuance of other allowances,
the actual work among the deaf has not been curtailed very noticeably.
Our missionaries had to cut down on trips here and there, but the
actual work did not necessarily suffer on that account. In fact, some
new stations have been opened by many of our missionaries.

Our work among the deaf extends from coast to coast, from Texas
into Canada, with centers in twenty large cities and about 150 other
stations, and the work takes our missionaries into various State and
county schools, State hospitals and asylums, and the only College for
the Deaf at Washington, D.C. Only seven stations have their own
chapels,

The annual reports show that a great amount of work has been
done in the past three years. During 1934 over 2,000 services were
conducted, 1,500 periods of instruction were given, and more than
7,000 calls were made. This is an increase over previous years. In
1933 there were 42 adult baptisms, 48 children were baptized, 117 were
confirmed, 41 gained by letter and 48 by confession of faith, as com-