# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S312
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

800 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

till 3 4, M., and which drew approximately three hundred reception
reports from 258 cities in 84 States, also from various points in
Canada and from the Isle of Pines, Cuba. Our tenth-anniversary
week was also’ Letter Week, and we received approximately 2,500
pieces of mail. Another DX Program was broadcast March 2, 1 to
3 4.M., with coast-to-coast coverage. We intend to broadcast such
DX programs again next fall and winter.

Each week KFUO broadcasts 27 hours of religious, educational,
and cultural programs. The Gospel is sounded forth in English,
German, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Slovak, and Norwegian. Our de-
tailed schedule of programs, together with news of various kinds,
also a directory of Lutheran broadcasts, ig announced in the Gospel
Votce, our monthly bulletin, the annual subscription price of which
is 60 cents,

KFUO ig stil] fulfilling the Purpose for which it was dedicated
December 14, 1924, namely, to bring the Gospel to persons whom
we could not contact in any other way. Thousands of testimonials
regarding the blessed Missionary work of our station could be quoted.
May one suffice: “KFUO has brought many unchurched people into
the Church. It also consoles many sick and dying.”

Due to interference most of our Lutheran people cannot tune in
on the regular Programs of KFUO; however, we trust that an in-
creasingly large number of them will tune in on our DX programs
and that they will continue to pray for “the Missionary of the Air.”

a Synodical Radio Board for the purpose of establishing a regular
weekly coast-to-coast Lutheran broadcast, We trust Synod will take
favorable action on this overture. .

of KFUO 0 abundantly during the first ten years. of its existence,
We pray Him to continue to give free course to the preaching of
His. Word by. means of this most modern, marvelous, and effective.

instrument. ob. Respectfully submitted,

Herman H. Honenstem,
Secretary of EFUO. Radio Committee..